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Life on Earth – Where Powerful Forces Collide

Body Learning Blog Posted on February 26, 2015 by Robert RickoverFebruary 16, 2017

Check out the little guy in this 30 second video below. Known as a pond skimmer, he spends most of his life perfectly poised on the water’s surface. In some ways his situation is not all that different from ours. … Continue reading →

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Change your Password – Change your Life

Body Learning Blog Posted on January 26, 2015 by Robert RickoverFebruary 16, 2017

When I teach new Alexander Technique students, I almost always give them “homework” based on experiments in thinking and moving that I’ve talked them through in their lessons.  These experiments typically involve using Alexander Technique directions (more on these below). … Continue reading →

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Zen and the Art of Self Maintenance

Body Learning Blog Posted on December 18, 2014 by Robert RickoverDecember 18, 2014

I read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig in the mid-1970s, shortly after it was published and achieved instant fame. It may be the most popular philosophy book ever written, with over five million copies sold. … Continue reading →

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Sex and the Alexander Technique – Part 2

Body Learning Blog Posted on October 20, 2014 by Robert RickoverNovember 16, 2014

In my previous post, Sex and the Alexander Technique – Part 1, I provided an overview of what was available on this topic 20 years ago. Slim pickings, to say the least! Fortunately for all of us, the situation is … Continue reading →

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Sex and the Alexander Technique – Part 1

Body Learning Blog Posted on October 13, 2014 by Robert RickoverNovember 16, 2014

About 20 years ago, I was somehow persuaded by Jeremy Chance to be the Guest Editor of the Sexuality Issue of Direction Journal. Why me?  I have no idea, but it did seem like an interesting challenge. The main problem … Continue reading →

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Switch it Up

Body Learning Blog Posted on October 6, 2014 by Robert RickoverJanuary 17, 2021

The trouble is none of my pupils will believe that all they need to do is to think and that wish for the neck to be free will do the trick…We are so brutalized by our belief in doing and … Continue reading →

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What would you do…

Body Learning Blog Posted on September 27, 2014 by Robert RickoverSeptember 27, 2014

…if Alexander came to spend some time with you? That’s F. Matthias Alexander, of course, developer of the Alexander Technique. Country music lovers may recognize the question as a variant of the profound query – one I actually thought about … Continue reading →

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Throw it Away!

Body Learning Blog Posted on September 21, 2014 by Robert RickoverFebruary 16, 2017

I love this quote* by F. Matthias Alexander! For me, it gets to the heart of a major obstacle faced by students as they begin to explore Alexander Technique directions – the strong temptation to hold on to the nice … Continue reading →

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Athens to Australia

Body Learning Blog Posted on September 15, 2014 by Robert RickoverSeptember 15, 2014

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. – Aristotle I stumbled upon this quote in a Toronto health magazine when I was teaching there recently, and I have been … Continue reading →

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Free for All

Body Learning Blog Posted on September 2, 2014 by Robert RickoverFebruary 16, 2017

I am free. That’s a simple example of an Alexander Technique Freedom Direction.* Freedom Directions are both amazingly simple, and amazingly powerful. Would you like to do a little experiment to test that claim, an experiment that could change your … Continue reading →

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