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Alexander Technique for Killalea Strings

July 5, 2026 Bradley Newman

Bundanon July 2026 The Basics We all develop our own habitual ways of sitting, standing, playing an instrument. Over time we grow into a posture that reflects these habits. Eventually, we may grow into a posture which begins to affect our performance, or cause discomfort or pain. Alexander Technique is a way of learning to use your body efficiently, and over time this leads to better functioning throughout your body. What You Are Learning Awareness: To improve your use, become…

130. A Difficulty with Computers

July 3, 2026 Walter Carrington

“I also believe that with powerful modern computers which possess elaborate and sophisticated colour displays…it’s all too easy to enter into a ‘virtual reality’. Instead of using your eyes and sensors to monitor your actual whereabouts in space, you get sucked into the ‘reality’ of the screen where, of course, gravitation isn’t active.”(Taken from “Explaining the Alexander Technique” with Sean Carey – p149)

114. Right

December 1, 2023 FM Alexander

“Everyone wants to be right, but no one stops to consider if their idea of right is right.”(Taken from “Articles and Lectures” – Teaching Aphorisms p194)

100. Two Feet and Four Feet

April 24, 2023 Walter Carrington

“Let me point out to you in parentheses, that erect posture – this stance that the human race has chosen and adopted – can have nothing whatsoever to recommend it, when compared to the horizontal stance of the four-footed animals, unless in its achievement we also achieve and maintain an efficient, near-perfect balance. Four-footed creatures balance on their four feet pretty adequately; we balance on our two, for the most part, very precariously. This is a more serious matter than…