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If you would embrace change, the Alexander Technique will be your partmer in that

The Alexander Technique works from the whole to the part, not just fingers, hand, wrist, elbow, shoulder, but the means of those mechanisms, our disciplined thinking.

09/15/2025

"The notion is the motion", part of my creative writing at Meansofthemechanisms.com. Helpful stuff? You be the judge.

01/14/2025

A religious founder of the19th century had some very modern ideas. She said: "Delineate thoughts of health on your body." She is not far from a somewhat later founder who said: "Let your neck be free in order for your head to go forward and up, and your back to lengthen and widen." They invited us to attend to our marvelous, elegant, exquisitely designed bodies, and to be mindful of their functions. What about the lowliest, vital functions of elimination? Abuse them, neglect them, overwork them, deny them at your risk. Delineate thoughts of health on them equal to your limbs, your flexible and curvaceous spine, your head's resting upon your atlanto-occipital joint. They'll all reward you, "the high and the low, the low and the high. All I, I, I, I itself, I" Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

01/05/2025

Your posture is telling your story, predicting your future, lifting you up or pulling you down. It supports your words, your aspirations, or contradicts them. The most vital way, the most productive way of taking a look at your posture is Alexander Technique. If some say the Alexander Technique is not about posture, I agree. It is not ABOUT posture, it is posture itself, your very bearing. Come in, we'll have look and if you do not sense change, your fee, $75.00 for a 45 minute lesson will be graciously refunded. You've nothing to loose but your habits and fixations. We've all got some of those.

10/06/2024

Music to a practitioner's ears from a former ballet dancer and now writer, a familiar tune to most every teacher of Alexander Technique: "Alan is tremendously skilled at what he does! He works in such a subtle and attuned way, truly listening to my body and what it needs. Where the resistance is, where the invitations lie. Even a few sessions has already made a marked positive impact in helping me release and rewire habitual neck tension that has bothered me for many years. I walk out of sessions feeling like I'm floating, so light and effortless! Alexander Technique with Alan is helping more than any other body work modality I have tried (and I've tried a good number for this issue over the years). I highly recommend working with him if you have any chronic tension or pain."

05/02/2024

Walking can be medicinal. Walk as though your feet were kissing the earth, says Thich Nhat Hanh, as though your feet were turning the world, I'd add, and again, as though each foot were painting a full image of its self, heel to toe, upon the sidewalk or the Earth itself. Rush, and you diminish your wholesome contact with the Earth, a terrible waste.

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Whatever it is that you do, whatever it is that you're doing, there is a sweet spot to be found, a position of mechanical advantage, F. M. Alexander called it. Helping you find that sweet spot in in everything you do is the purpose of the Alexander Technique. Not misuse, which is too much, or disuse which is too little, but your own sweet economy in everything you do, your best use in any given moment. That's our purpose here.