Just been watching ‘Gareth Malone goes to Glyndebourne’ on BBC2. He takes an untrained teenage chorus to perform a new opera, ‘Night Crew’. At one point he observes that untrained singers often force their voices in the mistaken belief that they will make themselves heard more effectively. it doesn’t work and they can even damage their [...]
You’ve blown your entire budget on a pair of killer heels. As you walk past the shop window you wonder, “Who is that with the roundy shoulders and the humpy back?…..Oh my god, it’s me!”
Follow the link below to find out how it should be done.
www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1270829/My-heels-crippling-So-I-avoid-ending-stooping-old-crone.html
Click on these links for information on the reports published by the British Medical Journal (BMJ).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GbwzqT9piU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXmimtk381U
Using the Alexander Technique is like finding the manual for your body. It can be hard to get a new gadget working when the instructions are missing. Same for your self. Children do it by trial and errror but when something goes wrong, there’s no substitute for expert help.
Go to www.postureage.com if you want to find out how old your posture makes you look. It’s a bit simplistic but it offers some tips. Slouching comfortably in your chair might be making you old before your time.
One of the first things that you lose as you grow older is your ability to balance on one leg. I recently gave a talk to a class of 12 year olds and all of them except one were really good at balancing. It was such a contrast to when I introduce the Alexander Technique [...]
If you don’t maintain good ‘form’ or technique when doing exercises at the gym, you won’t be exercising the muscles you are supposed to. Worse you may even be pulling yourself further ‘out of shape’. For instance, as one arm is usually stronger than the other, it will do more of the work. This, in [...]
On a regular basis a client will turn up who complains that writing for a long time makes their thumb, hand or neck sore. One of the first things I ask them to do is to write their name. Then I check the underside of the page. Usually it is quite easy to read what they [...]
New paper published online in Family Practice (Oxford University Press) on the 23rd December 2009:
“Patients’ views of receiving lessons in the Alexander Technique and an exercise prescription for managing back pain in the ATEAM trial.”
The results showed that “attitudes to both interventions were positive at baseline but became more positive at follow-up only in those [...]