Waking Up Your Feet in Walking -- Postural Aphorisms #1

Описание: With this periodical series, I’m going to attempt to speak to the feeling sense, with concepts and imagery, in order to produce a desired effect. In this first episode, we look at how to get the feet to be more engaged, particularly in walking. Many people habitually allow their feet to be smashed this way and that as they walk, and thereby lose the benefit or their fascia, tendons, and ligaments. Can that change in a moment with a concept? Let's find out...


If you try these ideas out, please leave a comment about your experience. I would love to hear your feedback.



I offer lessons in the Initial Alexander Technique, which are conducted one-on-one with a teacher over Zoom. They are designed to help you gain conscious control over how you move your body. Most people have no idea what they’re doing with their body, and as they misuse their body, they end up with discomfort, pain, and other issues that they may not even realize are caused by what they’re doing to themselves. But how do you figure out what you’re doing wrong? And how do you change what you're doing and overcome lifelong habits?

In an Initial Alexander Technique lesson, you will record yourself through Zoom, so you will be able to see and understand what you are doing when you stand, sit, walk, and perform other simple gestures. With the assistance of your teacher, you will come to understand how you are misusing the mechanisms of your body, and you will gain the ability to choose to use yourself in a more sensible way. You can learn how to use your body without pain. You can break free from long held habits. All you need is a system that works.

For more information or to book a lesson, please visit my website: https://mechanicsofpoise.com/

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“The usual procedure is to instruct the pupil [...] to relax, or to do what he or she understands by relaxing. The result is invariably collapse. For relaxation really means a due tension of the parts of the muscular system intended by nature to be constantly more or less tensed, together with a relaxation of those parts intended by nature to be more or less relaxed, a condition which is readily secured in practice by adopting what I have called in my other writings the position of mechanical advantage."

F.M. Alexander