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Alexander Technique And The Nobel Prize
In 1973, Nicholas Tinbergen and two others won the Nobel prize for Physiology-Medicine. He dedicated a good portion of his acceptance speech to F.M. Alexander, the Alexander Technique and it's benefits. He was an Alexander Technique student, as was his wife and daughter. They all took Alexander Technique lessons with different Alexander Technique teachers. What follows is the beginning of the portion of the speech relating to the Alexander Technique: …My second example of the usefulness of an ethological approach to Medicine has quite a different history. It concerns the work of a very remarkable man, the late F. M. Alexander. His research started some fifty years before the revival of Ethology for which we are now being honoured, yet his procedure was very similar to modern observational methods, and we believe that his achievements and those of his pupils deserve close attention...
Alexander Technique And Bike Riding
Alexander Technique in New York City is a challenge. Applying the Alexander Technique to bike riding in New York City is a bigger challenge! For my first bike (bicycle) ride I chose to be near NYC. This was my first ride in quite a few years. It's funny how once you've learned this skill, it stays with you forever. It's kind of like riding a bike...anyway it was great to be riding again; supplying my own power, the wind rustling through where my hair used to be...
Alexander Technique NYC
It's hard to know how fast and crazy everything around a large city can be, until you leave it. I think it's comparable to people at the beginning of Alexander Technique lessons not realizing how much they're tensing themselves, until they release that tension... It also made me realize that I want to take some of that calm energy back with me as I teach my Alexander Technique lessons in NYC.
Alexander Technique And Force of Habit
Force of habit is an interesting expression, and for some reason I've been hearing it a lot lately. The 'habit' part is something Alexander Technique teachers deal with every day. One of the 5000 descriptions of the Alexander Technique is that it helps you break unwanted habits. The 'force' part makes it seem like we're powerless to resist; or that we have to resist at all... With the Alexander Technique we form new and more beneficial habits while sitting at the computer, standing, walking, bending... Pretty soon these new ways become second nature to us...
