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👀 Alexander Technique for Resting the Eyes

👀 Our quality of seeing can determine our quality of being. Our daily tasks can create habituated ways of seeing, which may contribute to strain and fatigue not just in the eyes themselves, but throughout your whole coordination.

👀 Notice your eyes as you are reading this. Are they reaching out towards the screen? Notice your head and neck. How free is your neck as you read this?

👀 Try this experiment: Close your eyes. Take a break from visual stimuli. Allow the eyes to rest in their sockets. The eye sockets are deep - allow the eyes to rest.

👀 Consider this: visual processing happens at the back of the brain, not at the front of the face where the eyes are located. Allow your eyes to gently flutter open. Notice what it’s like to “see” from the back of your brain.

👀 Allow your visual field to widen, including your peripheral vision. Allow visual stimuli - the objects around you, this text/video - to come to you, rather than reaching out with your eyes. Notice what it’s like to receive the visual information.

👀 Now make some sound. Notice what it’s like to sing from this expanded, receptive visual field.

👀 Many thanks to Toronto AT teacher Susan Sinclair and the folks at Total Vocal Freedom for Singers for inspiring this exploration.

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