This e book, An Alexander Approach Method to Meditation (Sitting or Meditating), is revealed in a PDF format. It is rather detailed and sensible. It gives you the bodily instruments it is advisable take the bounds off of your capacity to create the meditating approach you need with out sacrificing your physique.
This e book can be on the market on all AMAZON web sites in a KINDLE format.
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PLAYING A MUSICAL INSTRUMENT OR SINGING ARE PURELY PHYSICAL ACTS.
What do I imply?
I’m working with a guitarist proper now who’s fairly good, however a lot of his approach and posture have restricted what he can do on the guitar.
As an Alexander Approach trainer and guitarist who has detailed info on posture and approach, I’ve been displaying this scholar guitarist find out how to play the guitar with out put on and tear, and the way to not make simple issues onerous, and find out how to not make onerous passages more durable to play.
Ideally, the nice musical performer is aware of what she desires to do within the interpretation of a chunk, and that is pushed by nice inspiration.
BUT WHAT IF THE PERFORMER CANNOT DO THIS ON HIS INSTRUMENT OR IN SINGING, BECAUSE OF POOR POSTURE AND LIMITING TECHNIQUE?
THIS is a purely bodily downside limiting the performer, regardless of how grand the interpretation is in his head.
GREAT TECHNIQUE BACKED UP WITH POOR POSTURE LIMITS A PERFORMER’S ABILITY TO PLAY OR SING AT HER GREATEST POTENTIAL.
Why?
If the performer hunkers down very time he performs, then the stress spreading by his physique compromises nice approach by poor physique alignment and extreme rigidity coursing by the entire physique.
In different phrases you can’t have an amazing approach that isn’t finally compromised by poor posture, that doesn’t finally restrict your approach and will get you into bodily bother – doing injury to your your physique.
The whole lot I’ve simply written about is PHYSICAL, which means how properly you play your instrument or sing is made doable by the purely bodily act of the way you play your instrument or sing.
THE ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE DOES AN EXTRAORDINARY THING. IT MAKES YOU AWARE THAT MAKING MUSIC IS A PURELY PHYSICAL ACT OF PLAYING AN INSTRUMENT OR SINGING, AND AT THE SAME TIME REMOVES THE EXCESSIVE PHYSICAL WORK OF A POOR POSTURE AND POOR TECHNIQUE IN PRACTICING OR PERFORMING.
What I discovered so wonderful after I went to my first really licensed Alexander Approach Trainer, is that she completely gently dismantled my classical guitar approach. Then she confirmed me find out how to do bodily what wanted to be finished to play the instrument, with out utilizing esoteric or simply plain flawed explanations in regards to the mechanics of enjoying.
As I bought used to a method and posture that was bodily clear and legitimate, I in a short time may start to do what the music was asking of me, since I now performed the piece athletically precisely.
AS A PERFORMING MUSICIAN, RUN TO A CERTIFIED ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE TEACHER, AND LEARN HOW YOUR INSTRUMENT COULD REALLY PHYSICALLY BE PLAYED OR HOW YOU COULD SING. THEN YOU WILL BE ABLE TO DO ON YOUR INSTRUMENT WHAT YOU HEAR IN YOUR HEAD.