Comments on: Tip 81 – Video: What Is “Direction” in the Alexander Technique?

By: Leland Vall

Leland Vall — Tue, 28 Jul 2015 01:01:19 +0000

In reply to ROBERT.

Hi Robert,

In short, your suggestion is exactly correct. However, once you are Inhibiting walking (not walking), you are not limited by the one Direction you describe (“placing one foot on the ground and lifting the other”). Once you choose not to engage in the habit of walking, you have many new choices available to you as you explore the action of walking. First, one should start with the classic Alexander directions which are applicable in all activities:

Allow the neck to be free.
To allow the head to go forward and up.
To allow the back to lengthen and widen.

Along with that you can add, “place one foot on the ground and lift the other”, and/or some other ideas you might discover on your own or learn in Alexander lessons. It is through this process that the Alexander Technique suggests you can explore, change, and improve the way you walk. By choosing not to walk (Inhibition) you have the option of choosing a new way to walk through your conscious thought (Direction).

Thanks for your comment, a really good one.

Leland

By: ROBERT

ROBERT — Sun, 26 Jul 2015 13:15:25 +0000

Hi Leland,
Thanks for your tips.
Put in the context of walking, would the tip sound like:
“I’m not walking, I’m placing one foot on the ground and lifting the other.” ?
Thanks again.
Robert

By: Chinnari

Chinnari — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 17:52:33 +0000

Exploring f.m direction ,
‘that to lengthen i must put the head forward and up’?
Ans@ that to the spine lengthen
OR
to DO that spine(cervical,thoratic,lumbar,sacrum) natural cures he has to put the head forward and up direction while he was standing for reciting, which takes his total spine very far and far to back and up,
and the hips goes back with the spine, and the knees goes very far forward from the hips(hip joints),
and shoulders widens away from the spine,
and the limbs releases very far away from the torso.

By: Chinnari

Chinnari — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 16:43:51 +0000

‘Prevention is better than cure’.

What is f.m technique?
Ans@ f.m discovered the head compressing the spine with out awareness is vicious cycle which compresses the total body.
2. He noticed the nearest part neck is responsible for this.
3. He noticed the freeing the neck not possible directly , and it possible only indirectly freeing the total body.
4. He developed ,
neck
head
back(torso)
legs
arms
directions to reduce the head compression to the neck.
5. He declared we have no sense and dont know what is good use.
6. To get sense he told think of his directions in the daily (selected) activites for identifying the bad use, with out giving too much importance to the feeling.
7. He suggests a teacher for training.
8. Not thinking too much technical with a commensense,

free the neck indirectly by keeping the head forward and up ,
which helps lengthening the spine and widening the shoulders which makes the shoulders not going towards ears and away from each other,
and the arms not raises means the arms not takes the shoulders towards ears,
and the knees goes forward and hips back,
feet pushes the ground ‘one after the other alltogether’ with sit,stand.

F.m hints and statements to the students@

‘that to lengthen i must put the head forward and up’.

‘i must put the head forward and up in such a way prevented the lifting of the chest simultaneously brought about widening of the back’ .

The above points may works for me.

By: Chinnari

Chinnari — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 06:09:36 +0000

What is alexander technique?
Ans@
1. Is worlds best conscious tool which acts on both mind and body for the prevention of bad habits.
2.alexander technique is a technique of discovering the alexander technique.
3. A tweak and cracking the mind for knowing the body.

By: Chinnari

Chinnari — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 17:46:39 +0000

.Why we need to respect the alexander neck head back(torso) limbs, a sequence ‘one after the other alltogether’ with stimulus of sit,stand WHOLE DIRECTION?
ans@
1.that process is the alexander technique.
2. Even though the student not progressing rapidly he always respects that WHOLE DIRECTION.
3.the student does PARTIAL DIRECTIONS leaving some parts, for gaining reasoning processes.
But the student knew, that with out f.m WHOLE DIRECTION the PARTIAL DIRECTIONS just becomes DOING.
4. Now The WHOLE DIRECTION feeling may be not good. But the student believes one day it becomes good
5. The student does partial directions and f.m whole directions parallely.
And he notices f.m whole directions are reliable in the long term.
6.the student knows the PARTIAL DIRECTIONS leads to ‘end-gain’ .
So, he not forgets the f.m whole concept and does with sit stand stimulus daily even though that feeling is not good.

By: Chinnari

Chinnari — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 18:18:32 +0000

If you ask different people about their physcophysical problems, they will explain you different flavours of problems.

Then, what is alexander technique?
Ans@ ‘ the alexander technique is not a solution for problem’ .

But, it makes to exactly pin point where the real problem is.
Then, we can direct our energy towards that problem and we can nutralize that energy infavour of us, in different daily activities by ‘non doing’ and remembering that problem.

By: Chinnari

Chinnari — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 02:13:40 +0000

What is direction?
Ans@ the conscious release of energy, against the bad unconscious habitual direction .

By: Chinnari

Chinnari — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 06:52:48 +0000

Wether thinking of posture alone with static lengths and widths, with out alexander directions leads to DOING?

Wether thinking of posture with dynamic lengths and widths of the body parts, with allowing the alexander directions of good use leads to NONDOING?

By: Chinnari

Chinnari — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 15:30:18 +0000

Wether,
‘SIT ON THE SIT BONES’
command leads to doing?

‘use the sit bones while moving forward and backward while rocking on them on the chair’ , while other directions are in their satisfactory directions, how this command works?