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Actually, It’s OK to Care About Good Posture

Beth Linker of the University of Pennsylvania recently published an article in Time Magazine entitled, "Actually, It's OK to Slouch."  This harmful article is an excerpt from Professor Linker's newly published book, "Slouch." I haven't read the book itself, but the excerpt published in Time demands a rebuttal. The biggest problem with Linker's piece is right there in the title: she essentially urges readers to slouch.  Most people already spend their days hunched, collapsed and compressed over their devices, [...]

By |2024-05-21T18:07:32-04:005/21/2024|Categories: Alexander Technique, Improve Posture, Personal growth|0 Comments

Body and mind, together at last

I'm currently re-reading Dr. Oliver Sacks's famous book "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat."  Chapter 3, "The Disembodied Lady," tells the fascinating tale of a woman who lost her ability to sense her own body.  Christina went overnight from a state of vigorous health and youthful activity to one in which she could not function at all.  Without her 6th sense (her proprioception as Charles Sherrington named it in the 1890s), Christina could not even [...]

Freedom and the Alexander Technique

Today, the United States celebrates the 241st anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Our Declaration famously asserted that people are endowed "with certain unalienable Rights, [and] that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."  Because the 13 colonies were being denied those rights, the colonies declared themselves to be "Free and Independent States." Although we remain free and independent as a country today, Americans are deeply divided in their opinions and priorities.  Politicians, [...]

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