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"Lester is the picture of calm and dynamic stillness. His head is balanced on top of his spine, his shoulders, arms and back are wide and relaxed. He is sitting in easy, upright balance. Even his fingers seem to move ever so softly and lightly. He’s tapping his feet in time, but doing it with no strain. Sort of like dancing with the music." Bill Plake
Esther Tuttle, age 99 How to be confident: Treasure your health every day. "Your body is your instrument, and you have to take beautiful care of it. I do one hour of yoga and walk for 30 minutes every day. You really enjoy life a lot more if you're healthy. And I never leave home without putting on lipstick—it makes me feel pretty!"
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Avoid bringing your whole body down in order to reach the next higher step. Instead, just keep driving your moving leg toward the step and you will go up. Leland Vall.
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Ted Hallman, textile artist and Alexander Technique teacher, at his loom.
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Aoki,Tetsuo The family resemblance in our posture is often eerie.
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Eyes on the prize, eyes leading, head and back aligned and an upwards direction - fluid and graceful, yet strong and powerful at the same time.
There's always a good direction, rarely a good fixed position
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Longwood Gardens, where a Beech helped me to stretch.(Wayne Stratz) photo by Margaret Almon
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Michaela Hauser-Wagner collage 2010 Forward and Up
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Michaela Hauser-Wagner "Apoxy" sculpture, 2011 "Encouraged by an Alexander student and sculptor to use my anantomical knowledge in the creation of figurative pieces, I began to sculpt in 2009. Since then I use images in my teaching more frequently. . . Seeing balance, proportion and organization in great objects of art and looking for those definitions of beauty and good body use in my own pieces is mutually enriching - for my creation of figures and my teaching."
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Vermeer, The Astronomer Neck free, Head forward and Up, Back lengthening and widening via Michaela Hauser-Wagner
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Bowl with human feet. Red polished ware, Egyptian, Predynastic, c. 3750-3550 B.C. MMA Hips back, a freely balanced pelvis via Michaela Hauser-Wagner
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"I Use My Hands to Teach the Alexander Technique" 2007, Media: Cut Paper, Media: Pen, Process: From Life, Style: Contour Lines, Subject: Alexander Technique, Subject: Hands and Feet, Where: San Francisco (Florida St.) JULIA KAY
Robertson Davies “With all its demands,” Robertson Davies wrote, “the Alexander Technique is worth every moment it asks for, and those once committed to it may well find that they cannot do without it. It is an enlargement of whatever life may be yours.” www.canstat.ca/...
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The first cervical vertebra is also called the atlas. Atlas was one of the Titans in Greek mythology. After a fight with Perseus, Atlas was turned to stone and had to carry the weight of the Earth and heavens on his shoulders. Therefore, the first cervical vertebra was named the atlas because it carries the weight of the head.
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Maggie Barnes, 2009. Spine spoon, unglazed porcelain. Photography by David Chalmers Limited
Carl Larsson, self-portrait, born May 28, 1853, Sweden
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Progress has little to do with speed but much to do with direction.
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Robert Doisneau We learn our postures as children
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Alexander Technique description by Nikolaas Tinbergen, Nobel Laureate via Sara Chatwin
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Robert Downey Jr has excellent use. This is noticeable in the above photo and beyond any silly content in the Sherlock Holmes movies. Notice his upright torso. I wonder if he takes Alexander lessons.
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From “The Eloquent Surma of Ethiopia,” National Geographic, February 1991, Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher. This was passed on to me by a fellow Alexander Technique teacher. This is a beautiful example of what we call a "widening back" with "arms freeing away"....
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The Moai “heads” on Easter Island have bodies. Because some of the statues are set deep into the ground, and because the heads are disproportionately large, many people tend to think of them as just big heads. But the bodies are there — in many cases, underground. What’s even more interesting — there are petroglyphs (rock markings) that have been preserved below the soil level, where they have been protected from erosion. Michael Massaro
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