tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32385633218627426072024-03-05T16:32:50.130-08:00News from Deborah BayardinoAlexander Technique LessonsDeborah Bayardinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08766862135881546364noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3238563321862742607.post-82358786835690841392016-11-22T18:16:00.000-08:002019-02-06T19:19:25.806-08:00MAKING DISCOVERIES - Goals for Alexander Technique Lessons -<div style="color: #878787; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;">
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<span style="color: #2a2a2a;"><span style="font-size: small;">The previous post, " How to Find an Alexander Technique (AT) Teacher", ended with the question of which goals one should have for AT lessons. <a href="http://www.deborahbayardino.com/f-m-alexander.html" target="_blank">Frederick Mathias Alexander</a>, the pioneer of the AT, had the goalof getting rid of his issue, a chronic hoarseness.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2a2a2a;"><span style="font-size: small;">Alexander went through a process of exploration in which he found the cornerstone of the AT. He realized that he caused his own issue. He describes this process of discovery on his third book, ‘</span><em style="position: relative;">The Use of the Self</em><span style="font-size: small;">’ (1932).</span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">During an Alexander Technique three year training course, students read and discuss Alexander’s four books: </span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #6193b5;"><a href="http://www.deborahbayardino.com/resources.html" target="_blank">Man’s Supreme Inheritance(1910), Constructive Conscious Control of the Individual (1923), The Use of the Self (1932) and The Universal Constant in Living (1941)</a></span>. This careful theoretical study and hands-on experience enable the future teachers to acquire competence with AT.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;">Besides Alexander’s books, there are many other books from a variety of practitioners, allowing the correlation of their ideas with AT’s concepts. In the book, </span><em style="position: relative;"><span style="color: #6193b5;"><a href="https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://t1.gstatic.com/images%3Fq%3Dtbn:ANd9GcSEcVjHdX10ykZNK62U4zsLUzLOr9uVWu_DyrnekNk5xjhvpYvj&imgrefurl=http://books.google.com/books/about/Spacious_Body.html%3Fid%3DC35OYv0eATMC%26source%3Dkp_cover&h=720&w=484&tbnid=YS-O6LZ5w0Kb_M:&vet=1&tbnh=160&tbnw=107&docid=WVath6rawkudQM&itg=1&usg=__v0CiFidSsgBiTRXNWgJ4IGiM8QM=&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi8172EnbPQAhViImMKHdGhBBgQ_B0IVzAK" target="_blank">,</a></span></em><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #6193b5;"><a href="https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://t1.gstatic.com/images%3Fq%3Dtbn:ANd9GcSEcVjHdX10ykZNK62U4zsLUzLOr9uVWu_DyrnekNk5xjhvpYvj&imgrefurl=http://books.google.com/books/about/Spacious_Body.html%3Fid%3DC35OYv0eATMC%26source%3Dkp_cover&h=720&w=484&tbnid=YS-O6LZ5w0Kb_M:&vet=1&tbnh=160&tbnw=107&docid=WVath6rawkudQM&itg=1&usg=__v0CiFidSsgBiTRXNWgJ4IGiM8QM=&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi8172EnbPQAhViImMKHdGhBBgQ_B0IVzAK" target="_blank">Spacious Body - Explorations in Somatic Ontology,Jeffrey Maitland</a></span><a href="https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://t1.gstatic.com/images%3Fq%3Dtbn:ANd9GcSEcVjHdX10ykZNK62U4zsLUzLOr9uVWu_DyrnekNk5xjhvpYvj&imgrefurl=http://books.google.com/books/about/Spacious_Body.html%3Fid%3DC35OYv0eATMC%26source%3Dkp_cover&h=720&w=484&tbnid=YS-O6LZ5w0Kb_M:&vet=1&tbnh=160&tbnw=107&docid=WVath6rawkudQM&itg=1&usg=__v0CiFidSsgBiTRXNWgJ4IGiM8QM=&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi8172EnbPQAhViImMKHdGhBBgQ_B0IVzAK" style="color: #6193b5; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"> </a>says, “At a very fundamental level, we </span><em style="position: relative;">are</em><span style="font-size: small;"> our bodies. The body is not a thing that we somehow mysteriously inhabit, like a ghost in a machine. The body is the living shape or form of the self”</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span><span style="font-size: small;">. Another good reference is from <a href="http://www.simonandschuster.com/authors/Carola-Speads/410047571" target="_blank">Carola Speads</a>. She says about her approach, “There are an educational and a therapeutic component on my method because ‘the effect of the work is on the total person - not just the person’s body’”</span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">2</span><span style="font-size: small;">. What Maitland and Speads describe is congruent with the <a href="http://www.deborahbayardino.com/concepts.html" target="_blank">AT concept</a> of ‘Unit of Self’, that is, understanding individuals as an integrated organism. The physical and mental entities are one and in correlation with each other.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;">When <a href="http://www.donhanlonjohnson.com/" target="_blank">Don Hanlon Johnson</a> and <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=CFO5QUCTIQ8C&pg=PA125&lpg=PA125&dq=Doug+Moorehead+somatics&source=bl&ots=IskBC2e-J4&sig=D3aEay-Kp7jjUblhUyWxsStooT0&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi-tNXCnrPQAhWkqVQKHTSWDjkQ6AEIJTAC#v=onepage&q=Doug%20Moorehead%20somatics&f=false" target="_blank">Doug Moorhead</a> describe embodiment practices and body-oriented psychotherapies in their books, they are describing something similar with the AT. According to them, “People find (in these practices) nurturance for the never-ending work of personal and social transformation”</span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">3</span><span style="font-size: small;">. This kind of therapeutic work is intended to bring deeper engagement, consciousness, presence and development to our physical-emotional-mental-spiritual states</span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">4</span><span style="font-size: small;">.</span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">People come to the Alexander Technique with different goals. Some seek to ameliorate their physical pain (e.g. neck, back, shoulder, hip); others come to resolve conflicts. Some seek to improve their posture; others come to make sense of losses.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;">The Alexander Technique is the action or process of discovering what we are doing with ourselves that is causing or contributing to our pain and state of mind. In this process, we get more responsible for our present conditions and more involved in finding out new possibilities of using ourselves in everyday activities.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;">Therefore, the primary goal should be openness to self-discovery, in order to have a specific result. However, you might be asking, “Will the AT process help me to get rid of my pain?” Yes, the AT will help you if you stick to the process. There is much scientific research supporting its benefits. If you would like to overcome personal challenges, the AT can help you as well. There are many accounts of successful personal attempts to deal with emotional and mental issues.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;">However, it is important to highlight that the AT is a long-term process ‘made by a continual treading’</span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">5</span><span style="font-size: small;">. It is not a fast-food service, i.e. ‘get what you need in 6 sessions’. The emphasis of the AT process is always on the learning process, rather than on the teaching technique. It ‘involves a dynamic tendency toward health and wholeness, encouraging autonomy and responsibility’</span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">6</span><span style="font-size: small;">.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;">Whatever your goal when you take AT lessons, the key is to remember that the Alexander Technique is not about making corrections, but about making discoveries. And these discoveries will lead you to the desired results.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2a2a2a;">1</span><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-size: small;"> Maitland, Jeffrey. Spacious Body-Explorations in Somatic Ontology. Page: 64</span><br />
<span style="color: #2a2a2a;">2</span><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-size: small;"> Speads, Carola. Coming to our Senses. Bone, Breath & Gesture-Practices of Embodiment. Page:28</span><br />
<span style="color: #2a2a2a;">3</span><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-size: small;"> Johnson, Don Hanlon. Body-Making. Groundworks-Narratives of Embodiment. Page:3</span><br />
<span style="color: #2a2a2a;">4</span><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-size: small;"> Moorhead, Doug. The Experience of Safety in Somatic Psychotherapy. The Body in Psychotherapy-Inquiries in Somatic Psychology. Page: 128</span><br />
<span style="color: #2a2a2a;">5</span><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-size: small;"> Google definition of Path</span><br />
<span style="color: #2a2a2a;">6</span><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-size: small;"> Behnke, Elizabeth A.. Piecing Together. Bone, Breath & Gesture-Practices of Embodiment. Page:325</span><br />
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Deborah Bayardinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08766862135881546364noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3238563321862742607.post-39434158759073688562016-02-20T19:48:00.002-08:002019-02-06T18:21:17.454-08:00FINDING AN ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE TEACHER<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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was late May 2003 in Rio, Brazil, where I am from. A friend of mine mentioned
this incredible experience he had with an Alexander Technique lesson. He was
excited and insisted that I should experience it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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that time, this friend and I were part of an experimental theater study group
that had a vision of creating a theater school. We were responsible for the
‘mind-body-movement’ field, because of our background. I had been dancing since
I was 4 years old, teaching different alternative movement techniques since
1992, studying physical therapy and also had completed a contemporary dance
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walked up a steep slope until we got to the Alexander Technique studio. I had
no physical pain yet I did have some emotional distress in my life.
Nevertheless, that wasn’t the reason for taking the lessons. The only motive I
had was my longing for new experiences that would enhance my personal and
professional quest. <span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">I wanted to better understand
the relationship between thought, emotion and action in everyday life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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had no more specific idea what I was going for. I didn’t even follow the
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Nonetheless,
my first lesson was remarkable and life-changing! I have never felt such
integration of my mind and body working together while performing activities
before in that way. I was lucky to find one of the best teachers I have ever
met so far! <o:p></o:p></div>
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After
that powerful first meeting, I felt I had to learn more, so I continued to
study for the next 3 years with this extraordinary teacher. During the first
year, having lessons twice a week, I decided that I wanted to become an
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learned from the lessons that my life-experience was based on how I carried
myself. In other words, my daily personal and professional relationships were
influenced by my own body-mind tendencies such as holding my breath, tensing my
legs and contracting my shoulders. The Alexander Technique lessons also taught
me about the importance of giving time for myself to become aware of all my
body, mind and emotional habits.<o:p></o:p></div>
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learned very quickly that the lessons weren’t about corrections, but about
discoveries. It was about finding new ways to change old patterns.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Today,
after 13 years, I am still benefiting from Alexander Technique’s physical,
mental and emotional improvements. I continue to distill the depth and meanings
of its <a href="http://www.deborahbayardino.com/concepts.html" target="_blank">concepts</a>. These discoveries and benefits to living is what move me
forward to share this technique with others! <o:p></o:p></div>
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As
for my first teacher, <a href="http://www.tecnicadealexander.com/index_engl.php">Roberto</a>, I owe a debt of gratitude and I always reconnect
with him to advance my skills when I go to Brazil.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Before
experiencing an Alexander Technique lesson, I would suggest getting as much
information as possible. In my opinion, finding out which ‘lineage’ or ‘school’
the teacher is coming from is crucial. Frederick Mathias Alexander, the founder
of this technique, trained Walter Carrington, Marjory Barlow, Marjorie Barstow
and Patrick Macdonald, among others,<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>in
the 1930s.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>This first generation of
students later had their own training courses. Each one has his/her own style
of teaching and perhaps own understanding about the Alexander Technique<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">. <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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I
currently teach the Alexander Technique and have a strong influence from Walter
Carrington’s ‘school’. Not only because my Brazilian teacher graduated with him
in 1992, but also because Walter was an inspiration at my 3-year teacher training
course at <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="http://www.oregonalexander.com/Home.html">Oregon Center for the AlexanderTechnique</a></i> in Portland, Oregon. Because I believe that expanded
understanding of other schools is useful to the work, I learn from and embrace
other styles of teaching the Alexander Technique as my career evolves.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">He came without knowing what the Alexander Technique was and he seemed very ascetic in the beginning.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">One of his first questions to me was, “Are you a Physical Therapist? While I don’t think it is necessary to be a Physical Therapist to understand anatomy, physiology or neuroanatomy, luckily, I had studied physical therapy in Brazil for 2 years, which I told him. Nonetheless, this didn’t seem to alleviate his discomfort and distrust.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">He was in severe pain because of a protrusion of a herniated disc and his body was quite contracted, with a very high level of muscle tension. His head was dropped down to his chest and left shoulder. Nonetheless, we proceeded with the Alexander lesson. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">* help him to better cope with pain and reduce it by guiding his attention on the unnecessary amount of muscle effort and on his breath;</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">* help to reeducate his posture by figuring out what might be causing pain in the way he uses himself in all activities of daily living. (For example: the way he walks or works at the computer)</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The Alexander Technique is a long-term education process that requires from the student the acceptance of the principle of prevention instead of ‘cure’, even in cases of protrusion of herniated discs. Students learn, within the context of support and increasing awareness, how to prevent habitual unhealthy patterns which ultimately can lead to pain and injury. </span></span><br />
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Deborah Bayardinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08766862135881546364noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3238563321862742607.post-13171242376868822682013-09-08T23:14:00.000-07:002019-02-06T18:21:57.291-08:00ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE AND SUSTAINABILITY<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">09/08/13</span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">I laughed, and sincerely told him that it might be challenging to give a brief and precise definition. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">I tried to explain to him that The Alexander Technique helps you develop the ability to react more consciously.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">The handsome boy looked at me quizzically and reminded of many faces I had seen before, after attempting to explain the Alexander Technique.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Suddenly, my 2 year old son entered the room and magically pulled our attention to him. Before long, we were sitting outdoors at the dinner table. It was there that I had the opportunity to clarify more about the AT.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">This time a friendly and interested adult asked me: “What is the Alexander Technique, anyway?” Before answering him, I stopped and I thought to myself: ‘I have time. I remembered that I wanted my breath to be free, neck to be free, my head goes forward and up, my back to lengthen and widen.’ Feeling pleased, I realized right here, at that moment, was a perfect example of applying the AT in real life. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">After using the AT, I told him that it has been a good practice for me to try to explain the AT from different perspectives each time a new person asks me about it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Then, I told him that it is common for people to work at a computer for many hours a day. They often put all their attention on emails and decisions to be made, and not until the end of the day do they notice tension or pain in the neck, back, or arms.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">During Alexander Technique lessons the student learns to maintain attention and awareness of himself while he works and, through that attention, to stop what is causing many strains to the body.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">I thought I did a good job explaining this time, and he seemed satisfied. However I felt very sad when he lifted his arm and showed me his wrist brace. I knew then he must spend long hours at a computer, and was experiencing injuries to his body from this, just as I had explained.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">I wish I have told him that the wrist brace seems like the solution that F.M Alexander’s doctor gave for his hoarseness. Which was: stop talking for a while and your voice will be back. Of course he lost his voice again right after using it again. If you immobilize your hand/wrist, it will get better. However, as soon as you start using it again, the problem will most likely appear again. Luckily, Alexander discovered that “changing his use” was the key, and I felt that could be a solution for this man as well.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">For me the Alexander Technique is integrated with all the proposals of a sustainable life. </span></span></div>
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">the capacity to endure against the gravity with poise;</span></li>
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</span>Deborah Bayardinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08766862135881546364noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3238563321862742607.post-77295841468554021352013-08-16T19:25:00.001-07:002019-02-06T18:22:05.725-08:00ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE AND PILATES<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "helvetica";">08/16/13</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Alexander Technique has no age limit or contraindications for practicing it. It is also applicable and beneficial when active; such as running, swimming, playing soccer, biking and doing Pilates.</span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The AT is a practice that allows you to move more mindfully, therefore, it can help you remove what is impeding you and enhance performance.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Having taught Pilates for more than 10 years, I know that Pilates Instructors spend the majority of their time in movement, showing exercises and at times using weights. Because of this, instructors sometimes strain themselves. This is another example of where AT could be a great preventative to injury. Pilates instructors could benefit greatly from learning the AT concepts for themselves and for teaching Pilates. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">It is a real possibility to engage your mind while you are doing any physical activity. I would call this, in more Alexandrian terms, ‘expansion field of awareness’.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">This enhances performance and decreases strains because you are moving mindfully. I would say as an Alexander Teacher that this is ‘thinking in activity’, and one of the great benefits of learning the Alexander Techniques.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Taking Alexander Technique lessons teaches a constant call to expand your field of awareness and to think in activity in order to catch yourself repeating maladaptive patterns, stopping them and choosing a better way to engage yourself in an activity. This process can bring fewer injuries, improved performance and also more joy in the experience of movement. </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">In the late 1960s and early 1070s the psychologist Walter Mischel led the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3S0xS2hdi4">Stanford marshmallow experiment</a><b>.</b> In this study, a child was offered a choice between one small marshmallow, provided immediately, or two small rewards if he or she waited until the experimenter returned (after an absence of approximately 15 minutes). In follow-up studies, the researchers found that children who were able to wait longer for the preferred rewards tended to have better educational attainment, body mass index (BMI</span><span style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px;">), </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">and other life measures.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">This experiment reminds Alexander Technique teachers of an important principle from this technique: Inhibition. This term doesn’t mean in any way suppression or censorship. It means to wait some time before acting after faced with a stimulus.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">It is part of the human condition to react to almost everything automatically and unconsciously. However, it is possible to stop before acting and this is exactly the ability that is developed during AT lessons.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">There are innumerable benefits coming from this practice of delaying your answer after a stimulus. Just remember the situations that we regretted after saying something. Usually we think afterwards: “ If I just had waited a little bit more before saying that”.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">We often sit in ways that cause ourselves pain and discomfort. If we try to ‘correct’ it soon we are back to that same way we were used to. These are postural-behavioral patterns, which means: we express in our body our emotional and mental states (e.g. boredom, worry, stress etc). In other words, when facing stimuli such as emotions and thoughts, we react through our body language.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">With the recurrence of these stimuli, the repeated answers get inscribed in our brain. This, in its turn, sends these answers to the muscles through the nervous system. That is, a fixed and chronic neuromuscular pattern is established. These postural-behavioral patterns are investigated during the AT lessons and the first step in this direction is the practice to stop before the stimuli.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Alexander Technique is an individualized educational process. So regardless of the reason that brings you to explore the Alexander Technique (back pain, neck pain, anxiety, depression, stress, bad posture, curiosity, self-knowledge), you are going to enter to an educational process.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Energy is in everything and everywhere. However, this is not specifically what we do as Alexander Technique teachers.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">We can’t expect that through the Alexander Technique lessons you are going to regenerate a bone, to reattach a fractured bone or to suddenly heal your acute tendinitis.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"It is notoriously difficul to describe the Alexander Technique: to attempt to do so has been likened to trying to describe a colour o a blind man. Even writers of great talent who were among its followers, such as the American philosopher John Dewey and the English novelist Aldous Huxley, struggled to express it in words. In essence, it is based on the notion that we develop bad habits in our posture which we are often quite unaware of, but which account for much of what goes wrong with us in every department. The Technique provides a practical method of identifying and overcoming these habits." </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It has been in this past year of major life transitions that I truly came to understand the full power and support of this practice and way of approaching life.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">On June 17, 2010 I became a first-time mother at age 38 and three months later I became a step-mother of a 9 year old. Life transitions such as these have a way of revealing what most deeply supports us and guides us.</span></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The Alexander Technique is a very powerful tool for getting through challenging times and difficult situations. During my pregnancy, I had no lower back pain and I was able to maintain good posture most of the time.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I had a natural, vaginal, no-pain killer, drug-free delivery. The entire process lasted almost 24-hours, during which I could at times remember to use the Alexander Technique, grounding me in who I am! This past year I dealt with constant demands and changes. I confess, I got tired, stressed and at times I cried. Definitely, giving birth and becoming a mother is a most incredible rite of passage. By the time my son turned 1-year old I had recovered from the challenging</span></span></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> adaptations to motherhood, to be fully able to appreciate motherhood's joys.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Some benefits attained from this Technique are similar to other self-help techniques, such as: expanded awareness (thoughts, feelings, attitudes, or habits of living); control over unwanted reactions (pause between stimulus and response); better posture, decrease of tension, relief of pain/discomfort and general well-being.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The difference from other methods is that the Alexander technique works on the relationship among body, thoughts and feelings simultaneously</span></span></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">. Whether for healing or enhanced well-being this deep and multi-layered approach is a subtle yet profound experience. Through Alexander Technique lessons the student is the active agent of his or her changes, becoming increasingly free and self-sufficient, no longer requiring the "external" teacher to practice effectively.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I invite you to take this opportunity to explore the Alexander Technique and its benefits. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Through this practice you will know yourself better and be able to achieve major improvements, as you make new choices for yourself. Your life skills, on all levels will continuously improve through making use of the Alexander Technique.</span></span></span></div>
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