Unlock Your Mind and Body

Here is my online diary of all my Alexander Technique learnings and discoveries as a student and teacher. Learn the benefits of the Alexander Technique and the pitfalls to avoid when learning it yourself...

Friday, April 20, 2007

Amazing!

I have a number of students that have been coming for a while and they continue to amaze me on how much they are improving. Back problems have gone away, they feel lighter and find it easier to move and exercise.

The thing I love is that they get excited about what is possible now compared to before they learnt Alexander Technique. And what amazes me is in the course of one lesson how something that was impossible at the beginning within 10-20mins becomes possible.

For example, one student was struggling with a particular exercise that she did in her exercise class. She could do it easily on her left leg but not on her right. After some good old thinking and analysis we worked out what she needed to do and suddenly she was able to do it whereas 10 mins before it hurt and ached when she tried. Great stuff!

Monday, April 02, 2007

What do you hate doing?!

My pet hate is doing the washing up, it is one of those acitivites that always needs doing but I never feel particularly enthusiastic about doing it. It is also one of the few remaining activities where I get my old familiar ache between the shoulder blades.

The other day I was doing the washing up and I ended up getting an ache in my upper back, this time, rather than just ignoring it or stopping the washing up until later I decided to apply some Alexander Technique thinking to it (an original thought or what!).

Well, that was a bit of a break through!

Why, I hear you ask?

Simple, I realised because I disliked the activity so much I had been ignoring it and leaving it as a "have to" activity rather than an activity that I could improve. What this has meant up to this point is that I hadn't tried to improve it - I'd just moaned about it and not done anything about it (sound familiar?). This time I was actually proactive enough to apply some Alexander Technique to it and guess what happened. I completely changed how I was performing the activity and my upper back stopped aching. All in a couple of minutes.

All I ask myself now is why did it take me so long to do it!!!

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