Lilies of the Field
Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. This blog was inspired by a recent Facebook post … Continue reading →
Tag Archives: F. Matthias Alexander
What is the Alexander Technique? – Part 2
This is a question Alexander Technique teachers get all the time, and one I wrote about last January in What is the Alexander Technique? It’s something I keep coming back to. Teachers’ replies to this most basic of questions about … Continue reading →
Taking A Walk Down Easy Street
Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy. – Saadi As I was walking in my neighborhood yesterday evening, I experimented with some new Alexander Technique directions, based on an idea that originated with Alexander Technique teacher Imogen … Continue reading →
Lay Your Burden Down
The other day I was working with one of my Alexander Technique students, showing her how she could stand with ease. Like a great many people, she had a habit of pushing her upper torso back and her pelvis forward … Continue reading →
How the Alexander Technique helped me Overcome Terrible Customer Service and Useless Tech Support
This past week, I had to deal with two companies which, under the right circumstances, provide an excellent product but which have truly awful phone support systems. I’m sure you know what I’m talking about: Long hold times during which … Continue reading →
Striding Towards Freedom
I have always walked a lot. As a child, my parents were just about the only people in the neighborhood without a car so if I wanted to go somewhere, I had to walk or take the bus. It was … Continue reading →
The Plot Thickens: The Alexander Technique
The Alexander Technique has been around for over 125 years and so it’s not surprising that references to it, and to it’s founder F. Matthias Alexander, have appeared in works for fiction a number of times. Some of those references … Continue reading →
Change Your Tune
I once assisted the late Marjorie Barstow on a teaching trip to a large mid-western university where she gave classes in the Alexander Technique to Music Department faculty and students. In one class, a professor asked for help playing the … Continue reading →
What is Our Supreme Inheritance?
Answer #1: It’s the title – almost! – of F. Matthias Alexander’s first book, Man’s Supreme Inheritance – originally published in 1910 and republished in an expanded version in 1918 with an added sub-title, Conscious Guidance and Control in Relation … Continue reading →
The Posture of Power – Part 2
In my last blog, The Posture of Power, I wrote about politicians and televangelists – two of my favorite groups to observe. I love to watch them because they generally have pretty good posture and use of their their bodies. … Continue reading →