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Alexander Technique: Learning to defer reflex habituated responses, and supplanting them with conscious choices arrived at via reasoned processes. Then repeat. #AlexanderTechnique
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Alexander Technique assists in the acquisition of skill & the honing of method. Retune, recalibrate, then start all over again. Be an lifelong student, of yourself. #AlexanderTechnique
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Alexander Technique assists in the acquisition of skill & the honing of method. Retune, recalibrate, then start all over again. Be an lifelong student, of yourself. #AlexanderTechnique
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"Pull your shoulders back" is terrible advice. Arms & hands are better deployed from a wide, released frame.
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Alexander Technique lessons involve the abandonment of what movement "should feel like". Sensation can be so misleading.
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Frank Quitely’s work on All-Star Superman was sincerely masterful:
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Alexander Technique Fundamental No 1: Use Affects Functioning. How you utilise the entire framework that is you, influences outcomes.
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Alexander Technique: Restore Factory Settings.
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"Slow is smooth and smooth is fast." An Alexander technique teacher I used to work with in New York taught me this. She learned it from working with Navy Seals, who received this mantra as part of their training. It's a piece of wisdom I'm continually forgetting and needing.
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Friday Fun Film! Let's take a look inside my vocal tract...
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Alexander Technique is immensely practical. John Dewey stated it was "scientific in the strictest sense of the word" & "satisfies the most exacting demands of scientific method". It stands up to scrutiny.
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There is no muscle memory in Alexander Technique. That moment? It's gone. But don't fret, there'll be another along, in a moment.
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Alexander Technique. Stopping the interference, effortlessly resisting habitual reflex responses to the onslaught of modern living.
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In the Alexander Technique, we do not accept deterioration as the default setting for humans. Good Use of the Self promotes continued efficiency. #AlexanderTechnique
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The poise of the head at the top of the spine affects the utility of the framework beneath.
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The Alexander Technique, the acquisition of skill, learning how to learn. Who do you trust?
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Alexander Technique directions emanate to others. People can see them, but they don't necessarily know what they're looking at.
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Relaxation should not involve collapsing.
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Gravity provides opposition so that the efficient mechanics of human structure can exert resistance to this downward pull, and go up against it. Effortlessly.
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