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June 8, 2004
Learning To Walk Again
Following the automobile accident in 1991 that got me interested in bodywork, I took a series of Alexander Technique classes. So it is with amused delight that I found this article, because students of the technique truly do learn to walk again with intention and ease.
But in 1991, when I was 37, I began - with some scepticism and for reasons quite unrelated to my shoulder problem - to learn how to walk again.
More specifically, I started taking weekly lessons in the Alexander Technique. Within a couple of months, the shoulders had leveled out and a myriad of health problems I suffered from began, somewhat mysteriously, to resolve itself. Indeed, they were the types of problems most of us suffer from but few realise stem from our posture.
The Alexander Technique is not easy to describe; it needs to be experienced. Its purpose is to help us identify and overcome the bad habits in posture which most of us develop, and which account for much that goes wrong with us. We are usually unaware of these habits - the way we sit, stand and walk - for what we are familiar with feels right, even though it is often wrong. The technique helps us to distinguish the difference. It trains us to stop doing the wrong - then the correct posture happens by itself.
Posted by linda at June 8, 2004 9:07 AM
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