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Michael Ashcroft@m_ashcroft• over 5 years ago

Alexander Technique is not about posture. Alexander Technique is not about posture. Call it wu-wei. Call it non-doing. Call it cultivating spontaneity. It's about learning how to unlearn and then to explore the space you discover beyond that unlearning.

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Michael Ashcroft@m_ashcroft• over 5 years ago
Replying to @m_ashcroft

"You come to learn to inhibit and to direct your activity. You learn, first, to inhibit the habitual reaction to certain classes of stimuli, and second...

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Michael Ashcroft@m_ashcroft• over 5 years ago
Replying to @m_ashcroft

... to direct yourself consciously in such a way as to affect certain muscular pulls, which processes bring a new reaction to these stimuli.

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Michael Ashcroft@m_ashcroft• over 5 years ago
Replying to @m_ashcroft

Boiled down, it all comes to inhibiting a particular reaction to a given stimulus. But no one will see it that way. They will all see it as getting in and out of the chair the right way. It is nothing of the kind. It is that a pupil decides what he will or will not consent to do.

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Michael Ashcroft@m_ashcroft• over 5 years ago
Replying to @m_ashcroft

They may teach you anatomy and physiology till they are black in the face – you will still have this to face, sticking to a decision against your habit of a life.” F.M. Alexander

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Michael Ashcroft@m_ashcroft• over 5 years ago
Replying to @m_ashcroft

Meta] If you've come across this thread in isolation and want to go deeper then you might be interested in my 'thread of threads' on the topic. https://t.co/pppidMHSzH

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Michael Ashcroft@m_ashcroft• over 5 years ago

1/ This is a thread on things I've written about Alexander Technique. I will expand it as I write more things. https://t.co/hq7gk6EBmB

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Michael Ashcroft@m_ashcroft• about 4 years ago
Replying to @m_ashcroft

Meta] Also, if you want to dive much deeper into this stuff, I have built what I believe is the only asynchronous online course that explores Alexander Technique from a first principles perspective. You can find out more and stay up to date by going here: https://t.co/GHzsyr4ILq

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