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The Buddha, F. M. Alexander, and the Art of Alexander Technique Directing

Body Learning Blog Posted on January 4, 2025 by Robert RickoverJanuary 8, 2025

Every few months, I enjoy using ChatGPT, or one of the other free AI programs, to come up with the answer to an Alexander Technique question, or to imagine a meeting between F. Mathias Alexander and a famous historical character.  … Continue reading →

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Walking the Floor with Alexander – Part 2

Body Learning Blog Posted on November 17, 2024 by Robert RickoverJanuary 7, 2025

If you’re experimenting with Alexander Technique directions, walking is an excellent activity to use for those experiments, and equally important, to test whether a direction is actually useful.  Hard surfaces such as wooden floors make that process far easier than, … 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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Smile!

Body Learning Blog Posted on November 19, 2019 by Robert RickoverNovember 19, 2019

OK, I’m going to confess.  I was seduced by a clever bit of click bait titled: Neuroscience Says Doing This 1 Thing Makes You Just as Happy as Eating 2,000 Chocolate Bars. 2000 chocolate bars!  I do love chocolate, especially … Continue reading →

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Power Up: Extend and Amplify Your Alexander Technique Directions

Body Learning Blog Posted on April 8, 2019 by Robert RickoverApril 8, 2019

Learning how to usefully self-direct yourself in an effective way is one of the most important skills an Alexander Technique student acquires from lessons in the Technique.  It is, to use the title of F. M. Alexander’s second book, truly … Continue reading →

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Pause Power

Body Learning Blog Posted on February 25, 2019 by Robert RickoverFebruary 25, 2019

I’ve just started reading Eckart Tolle’s book, The Power of Now.  It’s somewhat of a spiritual classic and has been recommended to me by several people over the years. This is not a book review, but let me begin by … Continue reading →

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Taming Your Inner Constrictor

Body Learning Blog Posted on December 20, 2018 by Robert RickoverDecember 21, 2018

I’m always experimenting with new Alexander Technique self-directions and the other day I came up with this one: “I am not constricting myself” – a variant of the more frequently used “I am not compressing myself”.  Both of these are … Continue reading →

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When You’re Your Own Worst Enemy

Body Learning Blog Posted on November 27, 2018 by Robert RickoverJune 1, 2022

Emmet Fox was was a New Thought spiritual leader of the early 20th century and is well known for the insightful stories he told to illustrate important spiritual concepts. Here’s one that resonates nicely with basic Alexander Technique principles: A … Continue reading →

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The Alexander Antidote to Terror

Body Learning Blog Posted on September 4, 2018 by Robert RickoverSeptember 4, 2018

I was having an Alexander Technique lesson with the late Walter Carrington, a well-known and highly respected teacher in London in the early 1980s and somehow the subject of the civil war then raging in Lebanon came up. I had … Continue reading →

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Moses and Alexander – Between a Rock and a Soft Place

Body Learning Blog Posted on June 25, 2018 by Robert RickoverApril 3, 2022

In Numbers 20, verses 2-12, The people are thirsty and Moses asks God to help.  God gives Moses a staff and tells him to command a rock to supply the water. The pattern established over many years was Moses conveying … Continue reading →

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