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! Remember this old joke? Patient: "Doctor, it hurts when I do THIS.” [Insert imaginary obviously-going-to-be-painful image of your choice.] Doctor: "Well, don't do that." It’s a silly reminder to treat ourselves better. Don’t do the thing that’s hurting you. Sound easier said than done? Sometimes we can't see other options. A client recently described what it was like to manage the everyday stresses of living in New York City. She said, "When I feel good, I'm up and energetic, moving easily, no problems. When I feel bad, I'm down and everything is an effort. Walking down the street is a battle." My advice? Flip that script. Change how you move and see how it makes you feel. Feeling bad? Invite more movement into your whole body and see what happens. Feeling good? Keep it up! Our beautiful underlying coordination is right there to support the possibility that things go well. When we defeat that possibility by pulling down, or scrunching, or getting small, we’re more likely to feel defeated. Right now, the world feels heavy, and as caring people, it’s natural to internalize that. Here’s the thing: The weight of the world is not on your actual shoulders. When we remind ourselves of the possibility of movement, we’re more able to actually process the world’s challenges. This is resilience. Be your full size. Have a good shrug. Let everything move that wants to move. Keep breathing. Rise up into possibility. And if you’re interested in learning a process that can help you move more easily so you can see all the choices you have available, well, that’s what I do with the Integrative Alexander Technique. Read on for three ways to work together in 2026, or just reply and say hi to get the conversation started. Here for you, Crispin
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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.
Hi Reader! Do you know the phrase, “People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones?” As a child, this was very serious instruction. My family lived in a house with large windows. On some level I knew the phrase included a teaching metaphor, but also, with a child's understanding, I thought the lesson was meant especially for us. We had to be very polite or our windows would break. It can be easy to take metaphors literally, because that's how metaphors work. This = that. Sometimes,...
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...
Hi Reader! Do you remember playing Simon Says? That game where "Simon" gives you permission to move but also tells you to move without permission and if you move without Simon saying so, you both lose and are humiliated at the same time? Was that game fun? You tell me. Maybe it taught self-control? Compliance? In my memory, it also added nervous system confusion. It’s no surprise, the things we experience as children become part of our very structure, and affect how we operate throughout our...