Unintentional ASMR - Alexander Technique Extended 1 hour

hello gaita I'm Diana would like to uh introduce some Alexander principles to you so would you show me how you would just sit down and stand up just in your way all right and then standing uph and are you at the computer quite a lot yes M over 8 hours a day eight hours a day okay and you're studying law okay then so you and it's full on for you not much reflection on perhaps how you're sitting at the computer just getting in and doing it perhaps getting what you have to do done that's great all right um just stand in front of the chair again where the Alexander uh re-education or pointers or the Alexander technique as a lesson is referred to it can help you pay attention to you during the act of whatever it is you're doing um sitting at a computer going for a swim riding your bike you are conscious of a particular area that brings into balance the whole organism and it really is the head neck back relationship so that sort of simplifies it if you like and the little guiding orders are let the neck be free to of unnecessary tension that's understood to let the head balance up on the neck the neck's not leaning forward so that the spine can lengthen during the act of whatever that you are doing and the shoulders can soften and widen out softening widening out across the whole torso widens now I'd like you to just sit down again as you did and then if you stand up again so in light of what I just was talking about then the head neck back relationship was very much jeopardized MH um our head weighs about 4.5 kilos that's a lot sitting on a little neck and we would rather it not go back and down when you sit down CU it just puts the spiral and the compression I should say rather than the spiral all the way down your back it also for women interferes with our pelvic balance and to not least of all the feet our feet are go not going to be grounded if the head is kept throwing back and disturbing the pelvic balance now I'm going to guide you into the chair this way with those principles so you can think about them during the act of actually using them if you like so you'll be doing the thinking and I'll be doing the moving of you just to in an General Act of sitting down we do it all day long sitting down standing up we don't pay attention to this now stand with a little your feet a little bit wider apart just to give you some grounding about hip width a little bit wider not much that's fine so now we think I'm going to sit down all you have to say to yourself is wait a minute not my old habit allow the neck to be free the head to balance up which it is and Alexander clarified that a little he said allow the neck to be free the head to balance forward and up during movement and you just bend your knees quite quickly and then we wait for a moment and then we just gently come back just sitting quietly y That's it so that during that act we're going to not put compression on this back so that you have you allow what those last words those little last guidelines say allow neck to be free the head to balance up the spine to have its length the Torso to widen which is certainly what it's doing now and then you've got a lovely Breath by a lovely breath I mean what Alexander called Full capacity breathing where natural breathing it's where the lungs are getting air down to the bases of the lungs it's not just upper respiratory panic attack type nervous situation we can always come back to the the inhibition of Alexander lessons learning to stop the automatic response to a stimulus and we have the guidelines lovely little guidelines allow neck to be free the head to balance up which it is your torso is lengthening softening and widening all that is taking place so why should that be disturbed simply because you bounce out of a chair we just do it unconsciously up goes the chin crunch goes the head and we stand up all day long terrible terrible compression unconsciously with this work you're not doing that so this becomes so strong and very flexible and you become free of a lot of harmful habits for me to help you or to to help you get that experience we we'll just stand up to allow now to before we stand up it's an idea to bring this feet underneath you just a little bit more and then we just wait come quiet not getting ready to push because I don't want the attention to the legs that's your stand it's already in the brain mechanisms that you're about to stand we don't have to do any more than that it's it's there what we do have to do is prevent the head The Habit allow neck to be free head to balance for beautiful and then I know watch the chin that's going to work little bit of arms coming forward but that's all right we gently let the head float up again yes yes yes yes and up you go lovely strengthening letting the back lengthen torso to soften and widen and widen beautiful just quiet yes nice see that's you're not trying to breathe there it's just happening quite naturally and quite deeply that's very nice to sit down it's not about sitting and standing really it's about looking after this neck is free head balancing up let me move you you're going to send the knees just that way free neck head balancing up what two seconds that was sort of going down I want you to think like a a kite your heads follow my direct little guiding Direction in my hands so I want you to like a kite to think up and your your spine is going to be the the tail of the kite floating up and not sticking the the bottom doesn't have to stick out it's the knees that float as they just bend but neck free head forward and then you just bend your knees quite quickly that's it and then to stand and we go no quiet neck free stay back in your back and up to go up and then we wait soft legs even we just flash on all the areas allowing neck to be free head balance up letting the Torso lengthen soften and widen and widen that's it and why so you can allow your neck to be free during the movement I want you to come into that hinge that's slofly and bend the knees quite quickly well done that was easier wasn't it yes lovely NE and then you stop so it's not about I'm not interested in the movement per se I'm interested in where your thinking is letting the neck be free I know the movement will be very much in Balance if the thinking is there that links that that links that it's just lovely go to get up no not my old way yes beautiful it's it it gives a flow to the whole being up you go and it's effortless you really didn't need much there at all and to think I've not seen you before in all of this new experience it's very good it's cool quiet because it's it's going into the unknown when we come along for an Alexander lesson you know we're going away from our habit and all of a sudden we're focusing on this instrument it's very important so when you're cycling when you're cooking which is what you also enjoy I believe very important that you um be very creative in in how you're using your head neck and your back and hopefully Alexander this tiny little introduction will give you the the sort of the the real conscious awareness that yes you can stop and say wait a minute that Preparatory work of looking after you just free neck just free shoulders when we hold the bicycle wheels we don't have to clench just just in Readiness just enough neck free shoulders free arms free hands just enough and then when we do need to pull weeds out of a garden or what have you you've got all the strength in the world because you've got a strong back as a result of letting neck be free your head bones up it's not a weak back because you're not compressing it when you move to sit down we go wait no I'd like to flow up I'm going to go up and just let the knees float beautiful free neck and even if we were to experiment very interestingly with this lanto occipital joint to look down at computers partic and that's another thing that you're doing all the time we contend to drag the neck forward to look down as in like that whereas you've got this hinge this atlanto occipital joint right between the ears if you put your index finger just below the ear lobe there's a little Hollow in there if you were to bore right through not a particularly nice thought but you'd you'd meet the top vertebrae of the neck and the head little Condes that the head floats on that and that's where you can rock from to look all the way down to your keyboard and to type and to look at your mobile phone as well if you just let that go and yeah so that's very viable to you a very viable joint without any compression on your sternum and pulling your arms down you know so it's allowing this lovely open chest free neck and then you can key when you are at your computer um I would like to recommend that either use the back entirely where you're resting up and against it but if you're not using it entirely please come away from it more than you are that you're more to the front of the chair the reason being you still got you know youve still got plenty of balance on that chair but it allows you to be there and allows your back to widen more efficiently than when if you were back further you'd be leaning in and it's that leaning in that allows the slump whereas here you're quite solid and you've got that solid base which is really important this sacral area and particularly for women with our gynecological organs this area must be must not be yanked in just yank that in for me very tight and it's restricting the pelvis so we we want to have pelvis beautifully balanced what balances the pelvis is not going directly to the pelvis but going to what's on top and it's the head neck back relationship which sits on top of the spine and when there's a lovely flow there the pelvis will swing into balance and it'll be beautiful you can bring your feet back maybe a wee bit or wherever they but that's that's that can be quite comfortable like that allowing neck to be free shoulders to be free just let me take this arm so no no don't give it quiet then we both stop to just think up free neck going up and looking around it's always very free hinge and quiet and when you go to move think wait a moment let the neck be free Feet Under underneath you a little bit more bit further bit further then you just wait and then stay in your back so you've got that lovely connection with your back and then you just flow over and you flow up and you continue that little thought all the way up but you grounded on your feet there too very solidly on Mother Earth because this head neck is beautiful neck and free under here so you're not including your voice box your larynx at all you've got that lovely and free beautiful Natural Balance and you can be flying along the beach or wherever in the Law Courts like that hello gaita I'm Diana would like to uh introduce some Alexander principles to you so would you show me how you would just sit down and stand up just in your way all right and then standing up mhm and are you at the computer quite a lot yes mhm over8 hours a day8 hours a day okay and you're studying law okay then so you and it's full on for you not much reflection on perhaps how you're sitting at the computer just getting in and doing it perhaps getting what you have to do done that's great all right um just stand in front of the chair again where the Alexander uh re-education or pointers or the Alexander technique as a lesson is referred to it can help you pay attention to you during the act of whatever it is you're doing um sitting at a computer going for a swim riding your bike you are conscious of a particular area that brings into balance the whole organism and it really is the head neck back relationship so that sort of simplifies it if you like and the little guiding orders are let the neck be free to of unnecessary tension that's understood to let the head balance up on the neck the neck's not leaning forward so that the spine can lengthen during the act of whatever you are doing and the shoulders can soften and widen out softening widening out across the whole torso widens now I'd like you to just sit down again as you did and then if you stand up again so in light of what I just was talking about then the head neck back relationship was very much jeopardized MH um our head weighs about 4.5 kilos that's a lot sitting on a little neck and we would rather it not go back and down when you sit down cuz it just puts the spiral and the compression I should say rather than the spiral all the way down your back it also for women interferes with our pelvic balance and to not least of all the feet our feet are going not going to be grounded if the head is kept throwing back and disturbing the pelvic balance now I'm going to guide you into the chair this way way with those principles so you can think about them during the act of actually using them if you like so you'll be doing the thinking and I'll be doing the moving of you just to in an General Act of sitting down we do it all day long sitting down standing up we don't pay attention to this now stand with a little your feet a little bit wider apart just to give you some grounding about hip width a little bit wider not much that's fine so now we think I'm going to sit down all you have to say to yourself is wait a minute not my old habit allow the neck to be free the head to balance up which it is and Alexander clarified that a little he said allow the neck to be free the head to balance forward and up during movement and you just bend your knees quite quickly and then we wait for a moment and then we just gently come back just sitting quietly y That's it so that during that act we're going to not put compression on this back so that you have you allow what those last words those little last guidelines say allow neck to be free the head to balance up the spine to have its length the Torso to widen which is certainly what it's doing now and then you've got a lovely Breath by a lovely breath I mean what Alexander called Full capacity breathing where natural breathing is it's where the lungs are getting air down to the bases of the lungs it's not just upper respiratory panic attack type nervous situations we can always come back to the the inhibition of Alexander lessons learning to stop the automatic response to a stimulus and we have the guidelines lovely little guidelines allow neck to be free the head to balance up which it is your torso lengthening softening and widening all that is taking place so why should that be disturbed simply because you bounce out of a chair we just do it unconsciously up goes the chin crunch goes the head and we stand up all day long terrible terrible compression unconsciously with this work you're not doing that so this becomes so strong and very flexible and you become free of a lot of harmful habits for me to help you or to to help you get that experience we we'll just stand up to allow now to before we stand up it's an idea to bring the feet underneath you just a little bit more and then we just wait come quiet not getting ready to push because I don't want the attention to the legs that's your stand it's already in the brain mechanisms that you're about to stand we don't have to do any more than that it's it's there what we do have to do is prevent the head The Habit allow neck to be free head to balance for beautiful and then I know watch the chin that's going to work little bit of arms coming forward but that's all right we gently let the head float up again yes yes yes yes and up you go lovely strengthening letting the back lengthen torso to soften and widen and widen beautiful just quiet yes nice see that's you're not trying to breathe there it's just happening quite naturally and quite deeply that's very nice just sit down it's not about sitting in standing really it's about looking after this neck is free head balancing up let me move you you're going to send the knees just that way free neck head balancing up what two seconds that was sort of going down I want you to think like a a kite your heads follow my other direct little guiding Direction in my hands so I want you to like a kite to think up and your your spine is going to be the the tail of the kite floating up and not sticking the the bottom doesn't have to stick out it's the knees that float as they just bend but neck free head forward and then you just bend your knees quite quickly that's it and then to stand we go no quiet neck free stay back in your back and up to go up and then we wait soft legs even if we just flash on all the areas allowing neck to be free head to balance up letting the Torso lengthen soften and widen and widen that's it and why so you can allow your neck to be free during the movement I want you to come into that hinge that's lovely and bend the knees quite quickly well done that was easier wasn't it yes lovely and then you stop so it's not about I'm not interested in the movement per se I'm interested in where your thinking is letting the neck be free I know the movement will be very much in Balance if the thinking is there that links that that links that it's just lovely okay to get up no not my old way yes beautiful it's it it gives a flow to the whole being up you go and it's effortless you really didn't need much there at all at all and to think I've not seen you before in all of this new experience very good just quiet because it's it's going into the unknown when we come along for an Alexander lesson you know we're going away from our habit and all of a sudden we're focusing on this instrument it's very important so when you're cycling when you're cooking which is what you so enjoy I believe very important that you um be very creative in in how you're using your head neck and your back and hopefully Alexander this tiny little introduction will give you the the sort of the the real conscious awareness that yes you can stop and say wait a minute that Preparatory work of looking after you just into free neck just free shoulders when we hold the bicycle wheels we don't have to clench just just in Readiness just enough neck free shoulders free arms free hands just enough and then when we do need to pull weeds out of a garden or what have you you've got all the strength in the world because you've got a strong back as a result of letting neck be free your head balance up it's not a weak back because you're not compressing it when you move to sit down we go wait no I'd like to flow up going to go up and just let the knees float beautiful free neck and even if we were to experiment very interestingly with this atlanto occipital joint to look down at computers partic and that's another thing that you're doing all the time we contend to drag the neck forward to look down as in like that whereas you've got this hinge this at lanto oxital joint right between the ears if you put your index finger just below the ear lobe as a little Hollow in there if you were to B right through not a particularly nice thought but you'd you'd meet the top vertebrae of the neck and the head there little condil that the head floats on that and that's where you can rock from to look all the way down to your keyboard and to type and to look at your mobile phone as well if you just let that go and yeah so that's very viable to you a very viable joint without any compression on your sternum and pulling your arm arms down you know so it's allowing this lovely open chest free neck and then you can key when you are at your computer um I would like to recommend that either use the back entirely where you're resting up and against it but if you're not using it entirely please come away from it more than you are that you're more to the front of the chair the reason being you still got you know you've still got plenty of balance on that chair but it allows you to be there and allows your back to widen more efficiently than when if you were back further you'd be leaning in and it's that leaning in that allows the slump whereas here you're quite solid and you've got that solid base which is really important this sacral area and particularly for women without gynecological organs this area must be must not be yanked in just yank that in for me very tight and it's restricting the pelvis so we we want to have the pelvis beautifully balanced what balances the pelvis is not going directly to the pelvis but going to what's on top and it's the head neck back relationship which sits on top of the spine and when there's a lovely flow there there the pelvis will swing into balance and it'll be beautiful you can bring your feet back maybe a wee bit or wherever they but that's that's that can be quite comfortable like that L neck to be free shoulders to be free just let me take this arm so no no don't give it quiet then we both stop to just think up free neck going up looking around it's always very free hinged and quiet and when you go to move think wait a moment let the neck be free feet underneath you a little bit more bit further bit further then you just wait and then stay in your back so you've got that lovely connection with your back and then you just flow over and you flow up and you continue that little thought all the way up but you ground it on your feet there too to very solidly on Mother Earth because this head neck is beautiful neck and free under here so you're not including your voice box your larynx at all you've got that lovely and free beautiful Natural Balance and you can be flying along the beach or wherever in the Law Courts like that hello GA I'm Diana would like to uh introduce some Alexander principles to you so would you show me how you would just sit down and stand up just in your way all right and then standing up MH and are you at the computer quite a lot yes MH over 8 hours a day eight hours a day okay and you're studying law okay then so you and it's full on for you not much reflection on perhaps how you're sitting at the computer just get getting in and doing it perhaps getting what you have to do done that's great all right um just stand in front of the chair again where the Alexander uh re-education or pointers or the Alexander technique as a lesson is referred to it can help you pay attention to you during the act of whatever it is you're doing um sitting at a computer going for a swim riding your bike you are conscious of a particular area that brings into balance the whole organism and it really is the head neck back relationship so that sort of simplifies it if you like and the little guiding orders are let the neck be free to of unnecessary tension that's understood to let the head balance up on the neck the neck's not leaning forward so that the spine can lengthen during the act of whatever that you you are doing and the shoulders can soften and widen out softening widening out across the whole torso widens now I'd like you to just sit down again as you did and then if you stand up again so in light of what I just was talking about then the head neck back relationship was very much jeopardized mhm um our head weighs about 4.5 kilos that's a lot sitting on a little neck and we would rather it not go back and down when you sit down cuz it just puts the spiral and the compression I should say rather than the spiral all the way down your back it also for women interferes with our pelvic balance and to not least of all the feet our feet are going are not going to be grounded if their head is kept throwing back and disturbing the pelvic balance now I'm going to guide you into the chair this way with those principles so you can think about them during the act of actually using them if you like so you'll be doing the thinking and I'll be doing the moving of you just to in general Act of sitting down we do it all day long sitting down standing up we don't pay attention to this now stand with a little your feet a little bit wider apart just to give you some grounding about hip width a little bit wider not much that's fine so now we think I'm going to sit down all you have to say to yourself is wait a minute not my old habit allow the neck to be free the head to balance up which it is and Alexander clarified that a little he said allow the neck to be free the head to balance forward and up during movement and you just bend your knees quite quickly and then we wait for a moment and then we just gently come back just sitting quietly y That's it so that during that act we're going to not put compression on this back so that you have you allow what those last words those little last guidelines say allow neck to be free the head to balance up the spine to have its length the Torso to widen which is certainly what doing now and then you've got a lovely Breath by a lovely breath I mean what Alexander called Full capacity breathing where natural breathing it's where the lungs are getting air down to the bases of the lungs it's not just upper respiratory panic attack type nervous situations we can always come back to the the inhibition of Alexander lessons learning to stop the automatic response to a stimulus and we have the guidelines lovely little guidelines allow neck to be free the head to balance up which it is your torso lengthening softening and widening all that is taking place so why should that be disturbed simply because you bounce out of a chair we just do it unconsciously up goes the chin crunch goes the head and we stand up all day long terrible terrible compression unconsciously with this work you're not doing that so this becomes so strong and very flexible and you become free of a lot of harmful habits for me to help you or to to help you get that experience we we'll just stand up to allow now to before we stand up it's an idea to bring the feet underneath you just a little bit more and then we just wait come quiet not getting ready to push because I don't want the the attention to their legs that's your stand it's already in the brain mechanisms that you're about to stand we don't have to do any more than that it's it's there what we do have to do is prevent the head The Habit allow neck to be free head to balance for beautiful and then I know watch the chin that's going to work little bit of arms coming forward but that's all right we gently let the head float up again yes yes yes yes yes and up you go lovely strengthening letting the back lengthen torso to soften and widen and widen beautiful just quiet yes nice see that's you're not trying to breathe there it's just happening quite naturally and quite deeply that's very nice to sit down it's not about sitting and standing really it's about looking after this neck is free head balancing up let me move you you're going to send the knees just that way free neck head balancing up what two seconds that was sort of going down I want you to think like a a kite your head's follow my the there's little guiding Direction in my hands so I want you to like a kite to think oh and your your spine is going to be the the tail of the kite floating up and not sticking the the bottom doesn't have to stick out it's the knees that float as they just bend but neck free head forward and then you just bend your knees quite quickly that's it and then to stand we go no quiet neck free stay back in your back and up to go up and then we wait soft legs even we just flash on all the areas allowing that to be free head to balance up letting the Torso lengthen soften and widen and widen that's it and wide so you can allow your neck to be free during the movement I want you to come into that hinge that slofly and bend the knees quite quickly well done that was easier wasn't it yes lovely and then you stop so it's not about I'm not interested in the movement per se I'm interested in where your thinking is letting the neck be free I know the movement will be very much in Balance if the thinking is there that links that that links that it's just lovely go to get up no not my old way yes beautiful it's it it gives a flow to the whole being up you go and it's effortless you really didn't need much there at all and to think I've not seen you before in all of this new experience it's very good just quiet cuz it's it's going into the unknown when we come along for an Alexander lesson you know we're going away from our habit and all of a sudden we're focusing on this instrument it's very important so when you're cycling when you're cooking which is what you also enjoy I believe very important that you um be very creative in in how you're using your head neck and your back and hopefully Alexander this tiny little introduction will give you the the sort of the the real conscious awareness that yes you can stop and say wait a minute that Preparatory work of looking after you just into free neck just free shoulders when we hold the bicycle wheels we don't have to clench just just in Readiness just enough neck free shoulders free arms free hands just enough and then when we do need to pull weeds out of a garden or what have you you've got all the strength in the world because you've got a strong back as a result thought of letting neck be free your head balance up it's not a weak back because you're not compressing it when you move to sit down we go wait no I'd like to flow up I'm going to go up and just let the knees float beautiful free neck and even if we were to experiment very interestingly with this atlanto occipital joint to look down at computers partic and that's another thing that you're doing all the time we contend to drag the neck forward to look down as in like that whereas you've got this hinge this lanto oxital joint right between the ears if you put your index finger just below the ear lobe there's a little Hollow in there if you were to B right through not a particularly nice thought but you'd you'd meet the top vertebrae of the neck and the head little condil that the head floats on that and that's where you can rock from to look all the way down to your keyboard and to type and to look at your mobile phone as well if you just let that go and yeah so that's very viable to you a very viable joint without any compression on your sternum and pulling your arms down you know so it's allowing this lovely open chest free neck and then you can key when you are at your computer um I would like to recommend that either use the back entirely where you're resting up and again against it but if you're not using it entirely please come away from it more than you are that you're more to the front of the chair the reason being you still got you know you've still got plenty of balance on that chair but it allows you to be there and allows your back to widen more efficiently than when if you were back further you'd be leaning in and it's that leaning in that allows the slump whereas here you're quite solid and you've got that solid base which is really important this sacral area and particularly for women with our gynecological organs this area must be must not be yanked in just yank that in for me very tight and it's restricting the pelvis so we we want to have the pelvis beautifully balanced what balances the pelvis is not going directly to the pelvis but going to what's on top and it's the head neck back relationship which sits on top of the spine and when there's a lovely flow there the pelvis will swing into balance and it'll be beautiful you can bring your feet back maybe a wee bit or wherever they but that's that's that can be quite comfortable like that allowing neck to be free shoulders to be free just let me take this arm so no no don't give it quiet then we you both stop to just think up free neck going up and looking around it's always very free hinge and quiet and when you go to move think wait a moment let the neck be free feet underneath you a little bit more bit further bit further then you just wait and then stay in your back so you got that lovely connection with your back and then you just flow over and you flow up and you continue that little thought all the way up but you grounded on your feet there too very solidly on Mother Earth because this head neck is beautiful neck and free under here so you're not including your voice box your larynx at all you've got that lovely and free beautiful Natural Balance and you can be flying along the beach or wherever in the LW courts like that hello gaita I'm Diana would like to uh introduce some Alexander principles to you so would you show me how you would just sit down and stand up just in your way all right and then standing up MH and are you at the computer quite a lot yes MH over eight hours a day eight hours a day okay and you're studying law okay then so you and it's full on for you not much reflection on perhaps how you're sitting at the computer just getting in and doing it perhaps getting what you have to do done that's great all right um just stand in front of the chair again where the Alexander uh re-education or pointers or the Alexander technique as a lesson is referred to it can help you pay attention to you during the act of whatever it is you're doing um sitting at a computer going for a swim riding your bike you are conscious of a particular area that brings into balance the whole organism and it really is the head neck back relationship so that sort of simplifies it if you like and the little guiding orders are let the neck be free to of unnecessary tension that's understood to let let the head balance up on the neck the neck's not leaning forward so that the spine can lengthen during the act of whatever you are doing and the shoulders can soften and widen out softening widening out across the whole torso widens now I'd like you to just sit down again as you did and then if you stand up again so in light of what I just was talking about then the head neck back relationship was very much jeopardized mhm um our head weighs about 4.5 kilos that's a lot sitting on a little neck and we would rather it not go back and down when you sit down cuz it just puts the spiral and the compression I should say right rather than the spiral all the way down your back it also for women interferes with our pelvic balance and to not least of all the feet our feet are go not going to be grounded if the head is kept throwing back and disturbing the pelvic balance now I'm going to guide you into the chair this way with those principles so you can think about them during the act of actually using them if you like so you be doing the thinking and I'll be doing the moving of you just to in an General Act of sitting down we do it all day long sitting down standing up we don't pay attention to this now stand with a little your feet a little bit wider apart just to give you some grounding about hip width a little bit wider not much that's fine so now we think I'm going to sit down all you have to say to yourself is wait a minute not my old habit allow the neck to be free the head to balance up which it is and Alexander clarified that a little he said allow the neck to be free the head to balance forward and up during movement and you just bend your knees quite quickly and then we wait for a moment and then we just gently come back just sitting quietly yeah that's it so that during that act we're going to not put compression on this back so that you have you allow what those last words those little last guidelines and say allow neck to be free the head to balance up the spine to have a length the Torso to widen which is certainly what it's doing now and then you've got a lovely Breath by a lovely breath I mean what Alexander called Full capacity breathing where natural breathing it's where the lungs are getting air down to the bases of the lungs it's not just upper respiratory panic attack type nervous situations we can always come back to the the inhibition of Alexander lessons learning to stop the automatic response to a stimulus and we have the guidelines lovely little guidelines allow neck to be free the head to balance up which it is your torso lengthening softening and widening all that is taking place so why should that be disturbed simply because you bounce out of a chair we just do it unconsciously up goes the chin crunch goes the head and we stand up all day long terrible terrible compression unconsciously with this work you're not doing that so this becomes so strong and very flexible and you become free of a lot of harmful habits for me to help you or to to help you get that experience we will'll just stand up to allow now to before we stand up it's an idea to bring the feet underneath you just a little bit more and then we just wait come quiet not getting ready to push because I don't want the attention to the legs that's your stand it's already in the brain mechanisms that you're about to stand we don't have to do any more than that it's it's there what we do have to do is prevent the head The Habit allow neck to be free head to balance for beautiful and then I know watch the chin that's going to work little bit of arms coming forward but that's all right we gently let the head float up again yes yes yes yes and up you go lovely strengthening letting the back lengthen torso to soften and widen and widen beautiful just quiet yes nice see that's you're not trying to breathe there it's just happening quite naturally and quite deeply that's very nice to sit down it's not about sitting in standing really it's about looking after this neck is free head balancing up let me move you you're going to send the knees just that way free neck head balancing up what two seconds that was sort of going down I want you to think like a a kite your heads follow my other direct little guiding Direction in my hands so I want you to like a kite to think up and your your spine is going to be the the tail of the kite floating up and not sticking them the bottom doesn't have to stick out it's the knees that float as they just bend but neck free head forward and then you just bend your knees quite very quickly that's it and then to stand we go no quiet neck free stay back in your back and up to go up and then we wait soft legs even we just flash on all the areas allowing neck to be free head to balance up letting the Torso lengthen soften and widen and widen that's it and wide so you can allow your neck to be free during the movement I want you to come into that hinge that's slofly and bend the knees quite quickly well done that was easier wasn't it yes Lely and then you stop so it's not about I'm not interested in the movement per se I'm interested in where your thinking is letting the neck be free I know the movement will be very much in Balance if the thinking is there that links that that links that it's just lovely go to get up no not my old way yes beautiful it's it it gives a flow to the whole being up you go and it's effortless you really didn't need much there at all I think I've not seen you before in all of this new experience very good just quiet because it's it's going into the unknown when we come along for an Alexander lesson you know we're going away from our habit and all of a sudden we're focusing on this instrument it's very important so when you're cycling when you're cooking which is what you also enjoy I believe very important that you um be very creative in in how you're using your head neck and your back back and hopefully Alexander this tiny little introduction will give you the the sort of the the real conscious awareness that yes you can stop and say wait a minute that Preparatory work of looking after you just into free neck just free shoulders when we hold the bicycle wheels we don't have to clench just just in Readiness just enough neck free shoulders free arms free hands just enough and then when we do need to pull weeds out of a garden or what have you you've got all the strength in the world because you've got a strong back as a result of letting neck be free your head balance up it's not a weak back because you're not compressing it when you move to sit down we go wait no I'd like to flow up I'm going to go up and just let the knees float beautiful free neck and even if we were to experiment very interestingly with this atlanto occipital joint to look down at computers partic and that's another thing that you're doing all the time we can tend to drag the neck forward to look down as in like that whereas you've got this hinge this atlanto oipal joint right between the ears if you put your index finger just below the earlobe there's a little Hollow in there if you were to B right through not a particularly nice thought but you'd you'd meet the top vertebrae of the neck and the head there little condil that the head floats on that and that's where you can rock from to look all the way down to your keyboard and to type and to look at your mobile phone as well if you just let that go and yeah so that's very viable to you a very viable joint without any compression on your sternum and pulling your arms down you know so it's allowing this lovely open chest free neck and then you can key when you are at your computer um I would like to recommend that either use the back entirely where you're resting up and against it but if you're not using it entirely please come away from it more than you are that you're more to the front of the chair the reason being you still got you know youve still got plenty of balance on that chair but it allows you to be there and allows your back to widen more efficiently than when if you were back further you'd be leaning in and it's that leaning in that allows the slump whereas here you're quite solid and you've got that solid base which is really important this sacral area and particularly for women with our gynecological organs this area must be must not be yanked in just yank that in for me very tight and it's restrict restricting the pelvis so we we want to have the pelvis beautifully balanced what balances the pelvis is not going directly to the pelvis but going to what's on top and it's the head neck back relationship which sits on top of the spine and when there's a lovely flow there the pelvis will swing into balance and it'll be beautiful you can bring your feet back maybe a wee bit or wherever they but that's that's that can be quite comfortable like that L neck to be free shoulders to be free just let me take this arm so no no don't give it quiet then we both stop to just think up free neck going up and looking around it's always very free hinge and quiet and when you go to move think wait a moment let the neck be free feet underneath you a little bit more bit further bit further then you just wait and then stay in your back so you've got that lovely connection with your back and then you just flow over and you flow up and you continue that little thought all the way up but you ground it on your feet there too very solidly on Mother Earth because this head neck is beautiful neck and free under here so you're not including your voice box your larynx at all you've got that lovely and free beautiful Natural Balance and you can be flying along the beach or wherever in the Law Courts like that hello GA I'm Diana would like to uh introduce some Alexander principles to you so would you show me how you would just sit down and stand up just in your way all right and then standing up MH and are you at the computer quite a lot yes MH I eight hours a day eight hours a day okay and you're studying law okay then so you and it's full on for you not much reflection on perhaps how you're sitting at the computer just getting in and doing it perhaps getting what you have to do done that's great all right um just stand in front of the chair again where the Alexander uh re-education or pointers or the Alexander technique as a lesson is referred to it can help you pay attention to you during the act of whatever it is you're doing um sitting at a computer going for a swim riding your bike you are conscious of a particular area that brings into balance the whole organism and it really is the head neck back relationship ship so that sort of simplifies it if you like and the little guiding orders are let the neck be free to of unnecessary tension that's understood to let the head balance up on the neck the neck's not leaning forward so that the spine can lengthen during the act of whatever you are doing and the shoulders can soften and widen out softening WI widening out across the whole torso widens now I'd like you to just sit down again as you did and then if you stand up again so in light of what I just was talking about then the head neck back relationship was very much jeopardized MH um our head weighs about 4.5 kilos that's a lot sitting on a Little Neck and we would rather it not go back and down when you sit down because it just puts the spiral and the compression I should say rather than the spiral all the way down your back it also for women interferes with our pelvic balance and to not least of all the feet our feet are going not going to be grounded if the head is kept throwing back and disturbing the pelvic balance now I'm going to guide you into the chair this way with those principles so you can think about them during the act of actually using them if you like so you'll be doing the thinking and I'll be doing the moving of you just to in general Act of sitting down we do it all day long sitting down standing up we don't pay attention to this now stand with a little your feet a little bit wider apart just to give you some grounding about hip width a little bit wider not much that's fine fine so now we think I'm going to sit down all you have to say to yourself is wait a minute not my old habit allow the neck to be free the head to balance up which it is and Alexander clarified that a little he said allow the neck to be free the head to balance forward and up during movement and you just bend your knees quite quickly and then we wait for a moment and then we just gently come back just sitting quietly yep that's it so that during that act we're going to not put compression on this back so that you have you allow what those last words those little last guidelines say allow neck to be free the head to balance up the spine to have its length the Torso to widen which is certainly what it's doing now and then you've got a lovely Breath by a lovely breath I mean what Alexander called Full capacity breathing breathing where natural breathing it's where the lungs are getting air down to the bases of the lungs it's not just upper respiratory panic attack type nervous situations we can always come back to the the inhibition of Alexander lessons learning to stop the automatic response to a stimulus and we have the guidelines lovely little guidelines allow neck to be free the head to balance up which it is your torso lengthening softening and widening all that is taking place so why should that be disturbed simply because you bounce out of a chair we just do it unconsciously up goes the chin crunch goes the head and we stand up all day long terrible terrible compression unconsciously with this work you're not doing that so this becomes so strong and very flexible and you become free of a lot of harmful habits for me to help you or to to help you get that experience we we'll just stand up to allow now to before we stand up it's an idea to bring the feet underneath you just a little bit more and then we just wait come quiet not getting ready to push because I don't want the attention to the legs that's your stand it's already in the brain mechanisms that you're about to stand we don't have to do any more than that it's it's there what we do have to do is prevent the H The Habit allow neck to be free head to balance for beautiful and then I know watch the chin that's going to work little bit of arms coming forward but that's all right we gently let the head float up again yes yes yes yes and up you go lovely strengthening letting the back lengthen torso to soften and wide widen and widen beautiful just quiet yes nice see that's you're not trying to breathe there it's just happening quite naturally and quite deeply that's very nice to sit down it's not about sitting and standing really it's about looking after this neck is free head balancing up let me move you you're going to send the knees just that way free neck head balancing up what two seconds that was sort of going down I want you to think like a a kite your head's follow my the there's little guiding Direction in my hands so I want you to like a kite to think up and your your spine is going to be the the tail of the kite floating up and not sticking the the bottom doesn't have to stick out it's the knees that float as they just bend but neck free head forward and then you just bend your knees quite quickly that's it and then to stand we go no quiet neck free stay back in your back and up to go up and then we wait soft legs even if we just flash on all the areas allowing neck to be free head to balance up letting the Torso lengthen soften and widen and widen that's it and why so you can allow your neck to be free during the movement I want you to come into that hinge that's lovely and bend the knees quite quickly well done that was easier wasn't it yes lovely and then you stop so it's not about I'm not interested in the movement per se I'm interested in where your thinking is letting the neck be free I know the movement will be very much in Balance if the thinking is there that links that that links that it's just lovely okay to get up no not my old way yes beautiful it's it it gives a flow to the whole being up you go and it's effort less you really didn't need much there at all and to think I've not seen you before in all of this new experience it's very good just quiet because it's it's going into the unknown when we come along for an Alexander lesson you know we're going away from our habit and all of a sudden we're focusing on this instrument it's very important so when you're cycling when you're cooking which is what you also enjoy I believe very important that you um be very creative in in how you're using your head neck and your back and hopefully Alexander this tiny little introduction will give you the the sort of the the real conscious awareness that yes you can stop and say wait a minute that Preparatory work of looking after you just into free neck just free shoulders when we hold the bicycle wheels we don't have to clench just just in Readiness just enough neck free shoulders free arms free hands just enough and then when we do need to pull weeds out of a garden or what have you you've got all the strength in the world because you've got a strong back as a result of letting neck be free your head balance up it's not a weak back because you're not compressing it when you move to sit down we go wait no I'd like to flow up I'm going to go up and just let the knees float beautiful free neck and even if we were to experiment very interestingly with this atlanto occipital joint to look down at computers partic and that's another thing that you're doing all the time we can tend to drag the neck forward to look down as in like that whereas you've got this hinge this at lanto oipal joint right between the ears if you put your index finger just below the earlobe there's a little Hollow in there if you were to bore right through not a particularly nice thought but you'd you'd meet the top vertebrae of the neck and the head little condil that the head floats on that and that's where you can rock from to look all the way down to your keyboard and to type and to look at your mobile phone as well if you just let that go and yeah so that's very viable to you a very viable joint with without any compression on your sternum and pulling your arms down you know so it's allowing this lovely open chest free neck and then you can key when you are at your computer um I would like to recommend that either use the back entirely where you're resting up and against it but if you're not using it entirely please come away from it more than you are that you more to the front of the chair the reason being you still got you know youve still got plenty of balance on that chair but it allows you to be there and allows your back to widen more efficiently than when if you were back further you'd be leaning in and it's that leaning in that allows the slump whereas here you're quite solid and you've got that solid base which is really important this sacral area and particularly for women with our gynecological organs this area must be must not be yanked in just yank that in for me very tight and it's restricting the pelvis so we we want to have the pelvis beautifully balanced what balances the pelvis is not going directly to the pelvis but going to what's on top and it's the head neck back relationship which sits on top top of the spine and when there's a lovely flow there the pelvis will swing into balance and it'll be beautiful you can bring your feet back maybe a wee bit or wherever they but that's that's that can be quite comfortable like that allowing neck to be free shoulders to be free just let me take this arm so no no don't give it quiet then we do both stop to just think up free neck going up and looking around it's always very free hinge and quiet and when you go to move think wait a moment let the neck be free feet underneath you a little bit more bit further bit further then you just wait and then stay in your back so you've got that lovely connection with your back and then you just flow over and you flow up and you continue that little thought all way up but you're grounded on your feet there too very solidly on Mother Earth because this head neck is beautiful neck and free under here so you're not including your voice box your larynx at all you've got that lovely and free beautiful Natural Balance and you can be flying along the beach or wherever in the LW courts like that

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