ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE is the best answer I know to the problem in the recent article about the ill effect of too much sitting and the reason I started OFF THE MAT YOGA with Cecile and my offthematyoga blog! Off The Mat Yoga is based on my decades of Alexander work, my professional experience as a Thai Yoga Therapist, and my decades of experience with meditation. Basically it is applied AT work to movements ranging from those in daily basic activities to those used in yoga. I decided we needed OTM Yoga centers that include teachings on HOW to move prior to making people move in any format they signed up for. And the best way is to make it an integral part of any movement class. Too many articles have been written pointing to the fact that stretching your muscles in a weekly yoga class or exercise class may be somewhat helpful but unless people address how they move or sit the rest of the time, the exercise class is only a band-aid solution because people sit way too much and in a way that destroys their health as the article indicates! Although the AT can be helpful to anyone in our modern way of life, the traditional way to teach AT work attracts those who are sophisticated enough to enjoy it and benefit from it yet it turns off a great number of people who find the format and language disconcerting. Have always had a very practical way of teaching but am going further into reaching more people by meeting them where they want to be, in an exercise class designed to stretch, strengthen and relax. Only I teach them to activate their postural reflexes to release into stretching, release into strengthening and meditate without holding themselves up nor leaning back against a chair. Over the years, I have developed a way to trigger the postural reflexes in various ways and a way to teach people to do so on their own to bypass the intellect that is always in the way of effortlessness. Even when using traditional AT, there is a tendency to always assess, analyze, and judge every movement and sometimes every stage of movements that is counter productive to effortlessness. I hope you pass this on to anyone who could be interested. Reading and following my blog can already offer newcomers a different perspective and if my vision happen, at east in my neck of the woods, I will have a center with OTM Yoga offering classes from Yoga to Tai Chi to Dance and Yoga, all based on basic AT principles as manifested when one knows how to trigger ones own postural reflexes. Cecile:) offthematyogablog/
Posted on: Sat, 25 Jan 2014 15:44:12 +0000
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