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A Fork in the Road

Body Learning Blog Posted on February 6, 2023 by Robert RickoverFebruary 6, 2023

Suppose a man starts out to reach a certain destination and comes to a place where the road branches into two. Not knowing the way, he takes the wrong road of the two and gets lost. He asks the way … Continue reading →

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What are you saying when you don’t say anything at all?

Body Learning Blog Posted on June 18, 2020 by Robert RickoverJune 18, 2020

What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist and poet We humans do a lot of things while upright. This video provides a unique and clear view of a … Continue reading →

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There and Back Again, My Journey through Neck Surgery – Part 2

Body Learning Blog Posted on June 6, 2020 by Robert RickoverJune 6, 2020

In a previous post about my neck surgery in early March of this year, There and Back Again, My Journey through Neck Surgery, I expressed some concern about my ability to teach the Alexander Technique while my left arm was … Continue reading →

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The Veep’s Speech

Body Learning Blog Posted on April 20, 2020 by Robert RickoverApril 20, 2020

  You may remember The King’s Speech, a 2010 movie about King George VI who, after his brother abdicated the throne in 1936, needed to be able to speak effectively in public despite the stammer he had since childhood. He … Continue reading →

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There and Back Again – My Alexander Technique Journey through Neck Surgery

Body Learning Blog Posted on April 13, 2020 by Robert RickoverApril 13, 2020

It was a Monday evening in mid-February of 2020.  Our four year old grandson had just spent a couple of days with us, and my wife Anne was relaxing after the excitement and extra activity. A couple of days earlier, … Continue reading →

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Gravity’s Sad Story – Part 2

Body Learning Blog Posted on March 11, 2020 by Robert RickoverMarch 11, 2020

Eight years ago I managed to arrange an interview with Gravity, Gravity’s Sad Story, during which he expressed a great deal of unhappiness about his negative image in the popular imagination, and the blame he so unfairly receives. I thought … Continue reading →

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The Burden of Shame

Body Learning Blog Posted on February 10, 2020 by Robert RickoverFebruary 10, 2020

I’m thinking about how, sometimes, when we look at our history, we have a visceral response of shame. It’s no wonder we don’t want to look at it. Shame begins in the body. Shame’s first language is the body, and … Continue reading →

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What’s So Special About The Alexander Technique?

Body Learning Blog Posted on January 7, 2020 by Robert RickoverJanuary 7, 2020

How am I functioning now? How can I improve the way I’m functioning? Those two projects, not necessarily in that order, could provide a 5 second description of what a student of the Alexander Technique learns. They could be the … Continue reading →

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Is A Picture Worth A Thousand Slurs?

Body Learning Blog Posted on December 27, 2019 by Robert RickoverDecember 27, 2019

The use of imagery to teach or learn the Alexander Technique is, to put it mildly, a controversial topic. The diverse views were on full display in recent exchanges on the Alexander Technique Forum Facebook Page(1) include everything from general … Continue reading →

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It’s a Rushin’ Plot!

Body Learning Blog Posted on December 17, 2019 by Robert RickoverFebruary 6, 2023

I’ve been somewhat obsessed with my walking patterns over the past couple of months, ever since I realized that for for most of my life, I’d been pushing my torso a forward a bit when I walked. As I wrote … Continue reading →

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