So, lets take a Circle from the Body Circles and make another more detailed circle from it.
How about Alexander Technique as a way into knowing ourself and our whole body.
First here is some information about F.M. Alexander and the Alexander Technique:
Every single thing we are doing in the work is exactly what is being done in Nature where the conditions are right, the difference being that we are learning to do it consciously...”~F.M. Alexander
Frederick Matthias Alexander was born in 1869 in Tasmania, and moved to Australia as a young man to pursue a career in Shakespearean recitation. When he encountered difficulties with his voice that threatened to end his new career, he consulted doctors and speech experts to find a cure for his troubles. Not finding any lasting relief from their suggestions, he decided to take matters into his own hands. He reasoned that the cause of his ailment must lie in something he was doing to himself, since there was no disease in his body.
Setting about to discover what he was doing, F.M. Alexander carefully observed himself with mirrors, undertaking a scientific process of observation and experimentation which he continued for over a decade. Besides solving his vocal problem, this process ultimately led him to make many startling discoveries dealing with how an individual’s use of mind and body affects general functioning.
Because he felt that his discoveries were of a vital importance to humanity, Alexander decided to give up his acting career, which had become quite successful as soon as he cured his vocal problems, in order to devote himself to what is now known as the Alexander Technique. He began to teach others through the use of his hands and words, how to improve their own use and functioning. In 1904, Alexander moved to England in order to make his Technique better known.
In addition to teaching, Alexander wrote four important books, my favorite is The Use of The Self, about his discoveries. Alexander started a school for children, where he hoped to make the most impact by preventing misuse of habits at a young age. At the start of World War I, Alexander brought his Technique to the United States and divided the next ten years between teaching there and in London, taking on an assistant teacher in each place. In the last years of his life and until he died in 1955, he ran a training course for teachers in London. The Alexander Technique is now taught by qualified teachers all over the world.
What is the Alexander Technique?
How we talk about the Technique is rather important. It sets our thinking in certain ways, for better or worse. ... the objective of our work is neither health nor posture, but lightness and freedom of movement... ~ Walter Carrington
Alexander Technique is a hundred-year old educational method, Neuromuscular re-education, given in lessons, that increases understanding of our balance, coordination, poise and freedom of movement for the whole self. Just by living we can develop physical and emotional habits that create stress and tension in our body. By enlivening our awareness we can choose to free ourselves from these habits. Alexander lessons will help to re-educate the full potential of your whole self and discover a “lightness and freedom of movement”, an expressive ease of organic movement. An Alexander teacher will facilitate your process through hands-on guidance as well as verbal instruction to enhance your overall awareness.
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