Studying the Alexander Method is like forging a brand new path via a wooden. It’s a must to depart behind your previous, routine means of transferring, stepping off a well-trodden observe you’ve identified for years.
Your physique can comply with the acquainted path with out pondering, your thoughts elsewhere. You then begin having some classes. The trainer invitations you to let go of what you already know. Now you need to get up and begin pondering for your self, taking tentative steps into unknown territory.
This early stage of getting classes can really feel complicated and disconcerting. You’ve come to the Alexander Method as a result of one thing’s not fairly proper and also you’ve discovered time or vitality to deal with it – perhaps posture, ache or mobility. You need the trainer to ‘repair’ you or inform you methods to resolve your downside. However that doesn’t appear to be what’s taking place.
As an alternative you start to note you haven’t been transferring as freely as you thought. You had no thought you’d been holding all that stress. Your sense of your physique is altering and you need to re-evaluate what you already know. The whole lot that felt proper now appears improper, however you don’t know methods to appropriate it.
At this level it’s tempting to surrender. Like Hansel and Gretel dropping breadcrumbs within the forest, you’ll be able to all the time flip spherical and return to the place you began. However there was a motive you began within the first place. In case your sense that one thing wants to alter is robust sufficient, you then’ll proceed. Let go of the lifeless wooden and the trail forward will quickly open out.