One Hour AT

An enjoyable hour spent on a Sunday morning introducing the Alexander Technique to a group of 25 participants of a summer workshop being conducted by Bangalore Little Theatre group.The best way to get people to appreciate the weight they are managing all the time without thinking about it is to get them to think about it!

A couple of sandbags weighing 5 kg each, and the participants had the task of balancing a bag on the head and experiencing what that did to their necks and backs. Of course, no one who was at all apprehensive about this did it.

Why is the sandbag balanced off centre? Because we often do funny things with our heads, (to the extent possible) and create problems for ourselves, only we're so entrenched in our habits that we don't notice it until the problems become acute!