Wednesday, September 14, 2011

This is an experiential video of the Alexander Technique - there's a mosaic of voices speaking about the way they experience it, and what it's done for them. There's a musician, a politician, a computer professional, a retired person... a range of people who found that the the technique gave them a new freedom and ease.




What struck me was what one of them said - that he wasn't really used to going to a lesson to learn something, and then doing nothing much more than sitting and lying down.
It's a deceptive emptiness, of course, because what you learn in the sitting, standing and lying down can transform your life.
I always feel that what really attracted me to the Technique was this idea of the right thing doing itself - which seemed to imply, for me, that I didn't have to do very much.
Being incorrigibly lazy, that, of course, was one of the most delightful possibilities I could think of!

Saturday, September 3, 2011

Song and Dance

This isn't strictly about the Alexander Technique -




On the other hand, what isn't about the Technique?










The song and the dance, the freedom in the voice and the body, go together. That is the kind of freedom that is available to all of us -singers and dancers or not.


If only we'd refuse to settle for less.