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[Daryl @AlexTechRich]

Walk tall with #alexandertechnique

[Daryl @AlexTechRich]

Alexander Technique: Learning to defer reflex habituated responses, and supplanting them with conscious choices arrived at via reasoned processes. Then repeat. #AlexanderTechnique

[Daryl @AlexTechRich]

Alexander Technique assists in the acquisition of skill & the honing of method. Retune, recalibrate, then start all over again. Be an lifelong student, of yourself. #AlexanderTechnique

[Daryl @AlexTechRich]

Alexander Technique assists in the acquisition of skill & the honing of method. Retune, recalibrate, then start all over again. Be an lifelong student, of yourself. #AlexanderTechnique

[Daryl @AlexTechRich]

"Pull your shoulders back" is terrible advice. Arms & hands are better deployed from a wide, released frame.

[Daryl @AlexTechRich]

Alexander Technique lessons involve the abandonment of what movement "should feel like". Sensation can be so misleading.

[Comic Tropes @CTropes]

Frank Quitely’s work on All-Star Superman was sincerely masterful:

[Daryl @AlexTechRich]

@robertprice1969 Yeah, seems to. But perhaps with less assistance from gravity.

[Daryl @AlexTechRich]

Alexander Technique Fundamental No 1:

Use Affects Functioning.

How you utilise the entire framework that is you, influences outcomes.

[Daryl @AlexTechRich]

Alexander Technique: Restore Factory Settings.

[Charles McNulty @CharlesMcNulty]

"Slow is smooth and smooth is fast."

An Alexander technique teacher I used to work with in New York taught me this. She learned it from working with Navy Seals, who received this mantra as part of their training.

It's a piece of wisdom I'm continually forgetting and needing.

[Christopher Carignan @carignan_c]

Friday Fun Film! Let's take a look inside my vocal tract...

[Daryl @AlexTechRich]

Alexander Technique is immensely practical. John Dewey stated it was "scientific in the strictest sense of the word" & "satisfies the most exacting demands of scientific method". It stands up to scrutiny.

[Daryl @AlexTechRich]

@QiaochuYuan If your knees are falling outward, move the feet away from each other a little. If the knees are falling together, move the feet a little closer. Also, feet not too close to the bottom.

[Daryl @AlexTechRich]

There is no muscle memory in Alexander Technique. That moment? It's gone. But don't fret, there'll be another along, in a moment.

[Daryl @AlexTechRich]

Alexander Technique. Stopping the interference, effortlessly resisting habitual reflex responses to the onslaught of modern living.

[Daryl @AlexTechRich]

Release into movement. #AlexanderTechnique

[Daryl @AlexTechRich]

@m_ashcroft Even more impressive when viewed from above

[Daryl @AlexTechRich]

@lesleyanngreen There's a teacher in Ambleside, and there is/was a Teacher Training School in Cumbria (I think). Here's a Walking with the Alexander Technique Workshop: https://t.co/fkqiglI4Oq

[Daryl @AlexTechRich]

In the Alexander Technique, we do not accept deterioration as the default setting for humans. Good Use of the Self promotes continued efficiency. #AlexanderTechnique

[Daryl @AlexTechRich]

@suzemargar Hah, yes! Seen the same, a bucket of cement with a wooden pole (slightly off centre) sticking out, about 5-6Kg. When grasping the wooden pole, you realise just how amazing it is that we are upright at all.

[Daryl @AlexTechRich]

The poise of the head at the top of the spine affects the utility of the framework beneath.