This week in the training program we have talked about the hip joint in both practical classes and in our introductory anatomy course. Mapping (accurately locating) the joint in your body-sense will help you to cooperate with the movements required...
The Alexander Technique is often compared to meditation and other activities that involve ongoing self-observation, or ‘mindfulness’. In fact the Technique can be described as a type of mindfulness in activity....
My first blog on this topic looked at the first puzzle people face when attempting to improve posture and coordination – often the cause of difficulties are hidden from awareness. This is simply due to the power of habit…...
People generally come to the Alexander technique with a wish to improve the way they function: either to relieve some difficulty or discomfort in action, to rehabilitate from injury, or to improve performance in an activity they love to do and want to master. In...
In my earlier post on core-stability, I pointed to research questioning the relationship between abdominal bracing and reduced lower back pain (1). Now, another article published in the same forum (BodyInMind) has further questioned the sensibleness of this way of addressing low back pain....
There is a very wide-spread belief in the importance and healing properties of “core stability”. It is a view that I have often heard in connection with Physiotherapy, Yoga, Pilates and gym training… all suggesting that a deliberate training of ‘core musculature’ is an essential...
