![]() Alexander Technique proposes some strategies to make posture optimal for our chosen activity. Attending to posture is attending to our activity. In our lives, every action is done from some kind of posture. To maintain posture is to have the right state of mind. In this tradition, there is no division between meditation being a mental act, or a physical one. It is written that to sit zazen (seated meditation) is to attend to posture. Writings on Zen highlight the import of posture not only as creating a healthy and sustainable position for meditation, but equate a compromise on posture with reduced mental clarity. The Soto style Zen training (as I have understood it) calls for the meditator to sit and maintain three aspects of form: posture, hand position and vision.Īttention to posture is considered essential. ![]() The principles below might offer some guidance for establishing a healthy practice. The process used to address mis-coordination is the same process which cultivates awareness. When the awareness of something ineffective arises, we can address it. A hallmark of Alexander Technique is that it integrates coordination into our actions.Īs we practice, we attain more sensitivity to excess tension, ineffective habits, dis-coordination and other interferences. ![]() It is intended to help us to fully engage in what we are doing in any one moment. Alexander Technique is about removing interference with coordinated activity. Such attention would create an interference with our ability to act. Sometimes students think Alexander Technique is asking us to be attentive to how we act one hundred percent of the time. ![]()
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