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Where thought is the Active Ingredient, by Elyse Shafarman
Today, a student asked me if the Alexander Technique was a spiritual practice, if in effect, it was preparing us for death. My immediate response was that the Alexander Technique prepares us for life. But I also get where she’s going. The technique boils...

The beautiful decaying grandeur of Raices Profundas dance studio. Yes, that’s cement.
When I travel, I almost always bring a yoga mat – a rectangular island of plushness to gently coax a jet-lagged body back to coherence. But when I travelled to Cuba to study dance, I wanted to travel light. I reasoned that I could practice on any wood...

Let your pelvis float and roll around the round femur heads.
By Henry Vandyke Carter – Henry Gray (1918) Anatomy of the Human Body
How many angles of rotation are possible between the two sides?

BodyProject Blog ~ where thought is the Active Ingredient, by Elyse Shafarman
Like a bird, I walked into a glass door this morning, right before my first class of the year at American Conservatory Theater, where I teach Alexander Technique to MFA actors. My aim was to arrive early, but *events* conspired against me. The outfit...