Lessons from the Chair
Dialogue and learning through movement and action. Blog posts concerning the Alexander Technique.
Wednesday, 17 July 2013 19:37
The Alexander Technique: Inhibition and Direction
A Technical Blog Formally, the Alexander Technique has two parts to it: inhibition and direction. Understanding the two and how they are different…
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Friday, 05 July 2013 15:35
Relax Can Equal Collapse
Relax Can Equal Collapse It is holiday time and people are heading off for what they are hoping to be a relaxing break.…
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Friday, 21 June 2013 18:47
Hearing Yourself Think
Stopping to the still point where everything is releasing, lengthening, poised, with balance achieved, is primary to the Alexander Technique. It means ceasing…
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Friday, 07 June 2013 11:25
Alexander Technique and Gardening
Alexander Technique and Gardening The weather in Edinburgh has finally turned into Summer, the grass is just starting to grow and it is…
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Friday, 24 May 2013 10:48
Snagging 2
As I continually remind people, the Alexander Technique is a technique for developing constructive conscious control. This is rarely why people come for…
Friday, 03 May 2013 17:41
Snagging
In the process of developing and extending constructive conscious control, one of the things that sometimes happens is that people can start to…
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Friday, 19 April 2013 07:01
Being Free In Your Tensions
There is a common misconception about Alexander Technique that it is about standing up straight. This is often associated with the common misconception…
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Saturday, 23 March 2013 15:09
You have to make a picture!
So said the caption in the exhibition* explaining how to explore the nano world which has been opening up wonderfully strange landscapes of…
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Friday, 01 March 2013 20:08
Going Up
I have been excitedly showing pupils the image below on my iPad for the last week. It comes from a trip made by…
Friday, 01 February 2013 18:44
Poise in the Act of Living
The continuing radical nature of Alexander's thought and work has been brought home to me, as I prepare to write an article next…
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Friday, 25 January 2013 20:03
Posture – A Radical Change
Old solutions to problems that persist, reappear, rebranded, as wholesome technology. The promise is of effortless relief, with little or no demands on…
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Friday, 18 January 2013 08:30
Physical Literacy in Schools
The Telegraph yesterday reports that Baroness Campbell, chairwoman of UK Sport, has complained that eleven-year olds in Britain ‘can hardly move’. Indeed apparently…
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