Q: Then how to teach new pupils to stop?A: It is a brief reminder, a quick intention. You do get these people who are laboring and look as if they are laying an egg or something!I explain that they need to be still so that I am able to work with them – so that my hands can work on them. I ask them to keep their eyes looking out and seeing something – looking out but being still within….
Q: Not to overstate the obvious, but would you say that the Alexander Technique is more than just about posture?A: Oh, good heavens, [emphatically] yes! That’s the least important.Q: And the most important?A: It’s the change in the whole self, the whole outlook on life and being. Like a revolution – your whole world changes. And it’s like coming to a crossroads, and saying are you going on or are you going to run back, and knowing, really, that you…
Stillness is a state of awareness – leaving yourself alone – not doing anything to be still and not doing anything not to be still. Some people mistake stillness for collapse. Collapse is an act. Stillness is not.Peggy Williams (“Unsmudged. An Encounter with Peggy Williams” – p152)