Interesting article in the Economist, The Power of Posture: How you hold yourself affects how you view yourself’. Read the article online using link below:- http://www.economist.com/node/17899714 Depressed and unhappy people are recognisable by their collapsed demeanour. Happy children are upright and bouncy. My actor pupils certainly know that high status characters or ‘authority’ figures have […]
Recommended reading for pregnant women who know or want to know how the Alexander Technique can help with their back pain, sciatica, aching shoulders or neck: ‘Pregnancy and Birth: The Alexander Way’ by Ilana Machover. I’d bought the 1993 version to study when some of my clients became pregnant. Little did I think I would […]
Most of us think that fitness and good posture are two unrelated things. Not so and now science can tell us why. At the University of Michigan, reseachers explain why we swing our arms when we walk. Swinging the arms reduces the torques or twisting movements required to counter the inertia of our legs. In […]
Nothing ages you as much as a rounded posture, eyes fixed on the ground as you shuffle along. The opposite extreme where you hold your chin up, and pull your shoulders back like a soldier makes you look ridiculous. There is a middle ground. Think of a golden string going upwards from the crown of […]
Go to www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11223473 to see an interesting study of how to throw shapes on the dance floor. Of course it is all to do with alignment and posture. Now I know what my dance teacher had been trying to tell me all those years ago. She was trained by a pupil of Laban’s and has written […]