Move more easily through your world! Access your natural coordination, build confidence, and connect the dots between thought and action using the ideas of Integrative Alexander Technique.
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Hi Reader! How are you doing? An answer I've been hearing recently is "scattered." Back in my office admin days, every so often the computer would get slow, and in the 90’s, that was reeeeally sloooooow. The IT guy would come to my desk, open up a secret window and type in "defrag C:"– system defragmentation – to gather all the little bits of information that were cluttering the system. My very non-technical interpretation of what was happening is that the defrag tidied little remnants of inefficient code or straggling info from interrupted actions. All those little stray bits that had been slowing the system down got sifted neatly together to create more open space on the drive. More bandwidth. More capacity for the next great thing. You probably know where this is going… This is part of the magic of Integrative Alexander Technique. Yes, it makes things more efficient by offering clearer paths of movement. It helps clean up the messages we give ourselves. It allows us to do what is useful now, in our today body. And that creates more bandwidth, more space for what comes next. Could you use a little more capacity? Your own personal system defragmentation? Come to a Lab, book a Private Session, or book a call to share what’s going on for you and how Integrative Alexander Technique can probably help. No computer beep beep boop. Just you, being a human. Here for you, Crispin To sum it up, with links:
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Hey Vertebrate!
Move more easily through your world! Access your natural coordination, build confidence, and connect the dots between thought and action using the ideas of Integrative Alexander Technique.
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