New way of standing – is it still me?
Posted by joegrohens on July 24, 2009 · Leave a Comment
It is funny where our sense of self resides. In our stance, for one thing.
Standing with my weight more on my heels than usual, and with my chest a bit more open […] feels quite nice, but it does not feel like ME. I can’t do that, I think, it wouldn’t be honest. I would be pretending to be someone else.
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Tendinitis threatened my dissertation
Posted by joegrohens on July 24, 2009 · 2 Comments
I decided to seek out Alexander lessons to help with “tendonitis”–significant, debilitating, chronic pain I’d been having in my hands, wrists, and forearms after a summer of excessive typing. Because my job was to write, I was extremely concerned about this worsening pain.
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