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🎥 Calm - VIDEO PLAYLIST 🎥
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3nUnbdrhRjyaTXBQhzgA7qI1AdQXJxai
What does “calm” mean to you?
This playlist highlights some ways to reconnect to your innate ease and vitality.
Calm doesn’t have to mean lying on the floor. It can simply mean noticing your current pace and choosing to pause in awareness.
This simple act of pausing and noticing shifts can shift your mood/sensation/intention, without you having to DO or FIX something.
The Alexander Technique offers an effective process for learning. By pausing and becoming aware of sensation and intention, you are priming your system for receiving new information.
When your system senses a threat, it will click over to survival mode. This mode is characterized by fear and anxiety. Physical manifestations could include contraction, tension, compression, constriction. In survival mode, your system is not in a receptive state to receive new information.
In short: when we are fearful/worried, anxious, we can’t learn.
In his book Body Learning: An Introduction to the Alexander Technique, Michael Gelb describes the ideal learning environment as one that is “free from comparison or competition.” With a focus on self-acceptance, the Alexander Technique inherently supports this type of learning environment.
The Alexander Technique teacher is highly skilled in presence, kinaesthetic listening, and holding space for self and other. So lessons can provide a container for safety, learning, and growth.
🎥 VIDEO 🎥
🐛 Come back to your innate wholeness by jiggling. In shaking and jiggling, we press ourselves away from the ground very quickly many times. In Alexander Technique we call this relationship opposition.
🐛 Jiggle with an awareness of releasing your joints: let the hips, knees, and ankles be free. Allow your head to be dynamically poised on top of the spine (not slack but continuously pointing forward and up).
🐛Jiggle with a sense of buoyancy through the pelvis, ribs, and arm structure. Not making these areas dead weight but feeling the springy nature of your torso as you bounce and jiggle and wiggle.
🐛 Add sounds. Sing a phrase. What do you notice?
