I have been told, by Tom my trainer, about various famous teachers of the Alexander Technique who were short in stature like me. None of them were as slight as me…just to set the record straight. Well anyway I think about them as Tom and I explore together what I need to do to successfully lift… Read more »
Posts Tagged: position of mechanical advantage aka monkey
La rentrée
“The best results are gained when a pupil can disassociate himself from what is happening, as if he were standing on one side watching someone else being taught. If he can do this for a time he will find himself taking his proper part in the process, with an awareness that is quite different and… Read more »
Luxurious…
The combination of asthma plus bronchitis is not fun. And then when followed up by pleurisy well…sigh…breathing becomes really painful. But I am happy to report, that since I’ve been taking Alexander Technique lessons, and especially since I’ve been training to become an Alexander Technique teacher myself, my bouts of this stuff happening to me… Read more »
Smiling in the rain…
“La vie ce n’est pas d’attendre que les orages passent, c’est d’apprendre comment danser sous la pluie.” Sénèque “Life isn’t about waiting for the storms to pass, it’s about learning how to dance in the rain.” Seneca So I’m learning how to dance in the rain with my recuperating knee. I’ve come through my first… Read more »
Monkey! Bring it on!
Position of mechanical advantage aka monkey. Bring it on! Over and over and over again in many of its permutations. Monkey with hands on table palms up, palms down, monkey with back against a wall, monkey facing a wall, monkey with hands on back of chair, squats, monkey, monkey, monkey… Some instructions for yours truly… Read more »
I had forgotten…
So here we have it: my Alexander Technique teacher training journal/blog. I wish I could say that I am feeling good in my skin…bien dans ma peau…but that is not quite happening yet. Well you know…I had forgotten all about the fatigue factor of starting to train. My body feels slammed. I am so, so… Read more »
Ongoing process…
“We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.” Marcel Proust Butterflies in the stomach are abating…still waiting for my comfort zone to really set in…however I can say that it is best that I took that fork in… Read more »
Lesson!
Let me make this clear: I obfuscate. When I talk about “my teacher” — well “my teacher” is more than one person. “My teacher” is a conglomeration. So…to keep things vague…I will continue, at this moment in time, to obfuscate. One to few; few to one. But yay! I did have a lesson with my… Read more »
Delivery from the seltzer man…
This blog was supposed to be a journal of my training to be a teacher of the Alexander Technique. However, my training is on hold. At this time I am not even taking lessons. So now I’ll have to write about how I am using my AT experience to help me get through the greatly… Read more »
Bags of frozen peas…
The inevitable has been accomplished: after two months of medical testing to make sure things were copacetic, I finally had the surgery for my torn left meniscus. I’ve had a bunch of surgeries in my life; this was the first one really where I have the comfort of my Alexander Technique lessons and training to… Read more »