Beginning (again)
On continually refreshing
Living the Alexander Technique means constantly restarting, renewing, refreshing the process and my conscious directions. In a way, it is always the first time I allow my neck to release, so that my head can aim forward and up, and my back can lengthen and widen…
The process of writing about the technique – especially getting this substack going – has had this quality of starting again. This is not the first time I’ve written this post (read: she doesn’t really know how substack works and has accidentally written, rewritten, published, unpublished, deleted). The post has been slightly different each time. But this is perhaps the first time anyone will actually read it.
I’ve previously written about the Alexander Technique on a shared blog (Here and Now) and for a movement-based publication (Indent), while training. Now, a few months since graduating and starting to work as a teacher of the technique, it feels a fitting time to revisit my written explorations.
What I write is always a product of practical investigations rather than partly or purely theoretical. It is usually a summary or snippet of my experience. In publishing my writing, I offer a peek into my personal experience of the technique and life. I recognise that in living the Alexander Technique, people have unique processes and results, which may not always match mine. Still, I hope that there’s something you, reading this, might resonate with.
As I wish for people to have a practical understanding of the technique, which may or may not be similar to mine, I plan to fill the Experience tab with talk-throughs and ideas for how to work on yourself. Since the Here and Now blog did not take off quite as I had envisioned – yet is home to some nice work – I might republish some of the posts here.
All this to say: stay tuned. I hope you find inspiration somewhere on this substack or in your life. And I hope you return again and again and again…