I tried recently to translate negative directions into positive directions, and just couldn’t come up with easy equivalents. It was obvious to me immediately after I started saying “I’m not tightening my neck,” to say “I am not tightening my … Continue reading →
I’m a little bit leery about discussing these outside a lesson but I think they are important and it’s worth the chance. Besides, it’s Halloween! I think each deserves a separate posting, but here’s a tentative list. The first one … Continue reading →
Aedh’s been telling me for years to bend at the hips, that’s one reason I do the wall squat–it requires this to be successful. For the past year or so he has been talking about as the hips go back … Continue reading →
Aedh has always said the only way to successfully do this is open the hips. It combines strength and flexibility with feet together requiring far more strength, and feet wide apart requiring more flexibility in the hips. He compromised at … Continue reading →
“I can’t believe I did not show you this in the beginning!” Aedh. It’s a simple, and central to the every day practice of tai chi, exercise that goes, big toe, little toe, heel and then the other foot the … Continue reading →
Aedh said perseverance and tenacity are two uniquely human traits, that these are what define us. We were doing a push hands drill involving folding at the hips and sinking the tailbone. He commented that this was just like in … Continue reading →
Having practiced the wall squat daily for almost 9 months, I find that I am not progressing in my squat, as marked on the wall. So, I quit. It is not just the lack of progress that causes me to … Continue reading →
This morning was the shortest time I have had to get ready in many years. And I still got minimum practices in, 8 min each tai chi and Alexander. The tai chi has evolved into 2 min of the CMC … Continue reading →
End gaining is going for a goal at any cost, without regard to how we get there. It is obviously one of the purposes of the Alexander Technique to improve our means of getting to our goals more efficiently and … Continue reading →
Last Saturday was World Tai Chi Day and at 10 AM about 40 of us from 3 different schools all did our tai chi, or qi gung as had all the time zones before us. It was a very pleasant … Continue reading →