This e-book, Yoga and the Alexander Approach Rules of Good Physique Use, is revealed in a PDF format. It is rather detailed and sensible, and it will provide you with the bodily instruments you should take the boundaries off of your capability to do the asanas with nice poise, posture, ease, and launch.
This e-book can also be on the market on all AMAZON web sites in a KINDLE format.
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What’s the the Alexander Approach strategy to posture and doing issues when you’re injured?
WE TEACH THE INJURED PERSON TO NOT WITHDRAW, HUNKER DOWN, OR SHUFFLE IN WALKING?
What does this imply in the way you do what you do as you get better from bodily harm?
While you see somebody get round who has been injured, they nearly all the time hunker down, shuffle after they stroll, or favor an injured leg.
In the event that they’re in ache, they tense and lift they’re shoulders.
What’s it the injured particular person is doing with all of this shuffling, elevating of shoulders, and hunkering down?
I consider they need to go someplace and conceal and get better, and never take part on the planet, as a result of they’re hurting. What in the event that they should nonetheless take part, work and so forth., particularly if the harm goes to take a very long time to heal?
THEN, THE ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE TEACHES YOU NOT TO FEED THE INJURY.
What doesn’t feeding the harm imply?
It means you probably have a leg harm, you progress in a delicate variety method, as near regular as you possibly can. This isn’t strolling being robust and stoic and attempting to cover the harm, by forcing your self to maneuver as unhurt outwardly as you possibly can.
That is strolling as near unhurt Alexander Approach good use strolling as you possibly can. However there isn’t any drawback should you can’t.
What do I imply?
If the harm is not going to mean you can stroll, to make use of the injured leg the identical method because the unhurt leg, then YOU DON’T!
What do you do?
YOU TAKE A LOOK AT YOUR WHOLE BODY AND CHOOSE WHAT WORKS, HEAD TO TOE, THAT ALLOWS YOU NOT TO HUNKER DOWN, OR TENSE AND DRAG YOUR LEG OR EXACERBATE THE INJURY.
You do what you should do to maneuver with launched muscle groups all through the physique. After we’re injured we tense up head to toe to suppress the ache.
Does this work? NO!
Tensing up bodily is what we we do to suppress ache, bodily and/or emotional.
Once more, tensing up and hunkering down and locking your shoulders doesn’t work.
In actual fact it spreads the leg harm to your complete physique, and also you begin experiencing your complete physique as injured.
YOU ARE NOW INJURING YOUR WHOLE BODY!
Now, you do should compensate for an harm, however what the Alexander Approach teaches you to do just isn’t feed the harm, to not use postural and motion compensations that delay restoration.
Once I get injured it’s an act of will for me to not lock my physique all the way down to suppress the ache.
Most of us do that, as a result of it’s what we’ve executed our complete lives, and it appears to be what injured people are hardwired to do.
WHAT THE ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE OFFERS THE CLIENT IS A WAY TO CONSCIOUSLY ASSIST THEIR BODY IN RECOVERY BY NOT JUST RELYING ON TIME AND WISHFUL THINKING THAT YOU’LL GET BETTER.
You do have a option to get better extra shortly and kindly.