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Tag Archives: ease

One-Minute Practice: Cloud Shoulders

Alexander Technique with Constance Clare-Newman Posted on April 22, 2022 by ConstanceApril 22, 2022

Bring your awareness to your shoulders as you read this. Just notice how they feel right now and bookmark it for yourself. Give your shoulders three big shrugs—by lifting and squeezing them as far as you can, up by your … Continue reading →

Posted in ONE-MINUTE PRACTICES | Tagged Alexander, awareness, balance, carpal tunnel, ease, ONE-MINUTE PRACTICES, postural, practice, RSI, shoulder, tension, thoracic outlet syndrome TOS | Leave a reply

Pleasure, not Perfection

Alexander Technique with Constance Clare-Newman Posted on December 27, 2016 by ConstanceDecember 27, 2016

We are all dealing with the fight/flight /freeze pattern to some extent every day. Whether it comes from deadlines, traffic, noisy neighbors or from internal expectations of perfection, this contractive pattern is human. If we can bring our habitual reaction … Continue reading →

Posted in ONE-MINUTE PRACTICES | Tagged Alexander, attention, awareness, balance, conscious, ease, effort, fight-or-flight, freeze, grace, head, ONE-MINUTE PRACTICES, perfection, pleasure, sensation, spaciousness, spine, stress, Technique, tension | Leave a reply

Texting in Balance

Alexander Technique with Constance Clare-Newman Posted on August 31, 2015 by ConstanceAugust 31, 2015

Take a moment to pick up and look at your phone. Notice what you did with your head, face, neck, shoulders. No judgment, just awareness. Put it down, and this time, as you pick it up, think of letting your … Continue reading →

Posted in ONE-MINUTE PRACTICES | Tagged Alexander, attention, awareness, back, conscious, depth, ease, energy, head, length, movement, neck, ONE-MINUTE PRACTICES, pain, postural, posture, presence, sense, spine, Technique, tense, tension, text, texting, width | Leave a reply

One-Practice: Being Present In Your Body

Alexander Technique with Constance Clare-Newman Posted on October 7, 2014 by ConstanceOctober 7, 2014

Bring your awareness to your feet. Let them rest on the ground and feel the soles of your feet widen into the floor. Sense the many bones in the feet and think of allowing a little space between those bones. … Continue reading →

Posted in ONE-MINUTE PRACTICES | Tagged Alexander, attention, awareness, back, balance, breath, breathe, conscious, core, disc, ease, mindful, notice, observe, ONE-MINUTE PRACTICES, presence, sensation, space, spaciousness, spine, vertebrae

One-Minute Practice: Gentle Head/Neck Balance

Alexander Technique with Constance Clare-Newman Posted on November 20, 2012 by ConstanceNovember 20, 2012

A gentle balance of your head on top of your spine can be an ongoing practice anywhere, anytime. A gentle balance suggests that it is not necessary to hold the head in position with neck muscles. The skull is meant … Continue reading →

Posted in ONE-MINUTE PRACTICES | Tagged Alexander, atlas, attention, awareness, balance, compression, conscious, ease, gravity, head, mindful, muscles, neck, ONE-MINUTE PRACTICES, pain, postural, posture, presence, skull, spine, Technique, tension, vertebrae

One-Minute Practice: Standing into Length

Alexander Technique with Constance Clare-Newman Posted on September 5, 2012 by ConstanceSeptember 5, 2012

From childhood we are admonished to “stand up straight.” We learned to pull our shoulders back, lift our chests, and then try to hold that position.  But this position is unsustainable! Because it is hugely inefficient. So we drop down, … Continue reading →

Posted in ONE-MINUTE PRACTICES | Tagged Alexander, back, balance, compression, ease, gravity, mindful, mobility, muscular, ONE-MINUTE PRACTICES, patterns, postural, posture, re-balance, sense, standing, tension, upright

One-Minute Practice: Sitting in Balance

Alexander Technique with Constance Clare-Newman Posted on January 3, 2012 by ConstanceJanuary 3, 2012

In the Alexander Technique, there is no “perfect posture” into which you should “sit up straight.” Instead, you learn how to use your sense of balance to stop holding too much tension or not enough tone. You learn to access … Continue reading →

Posted in ONE-MINUTE PRACTICES | Tagged attention, awareness, balance, compression, conscious, dynamic, ease, injury, mindful, muscular, ONE-MINUTE PRACTICES, patterns, postural, posture, sensation, sitting, spine, Technique, tension, upright

One Minute Practice: Cultivate Peace Within

Alexander Technique with Constance Clare-Newman Posted on September 6, 2011 by ConstanceSeptember 6, 2011

Being kind even in the face of mistakes other people make is something many of us strive for. But how many of us can be that kind to ourselves? Being kind to oneself is not only good for emotional health, … Continue reading →

Posted in ONE-MINUTE PRACTICES | Tagged Alexander, attention, awareness, balance, breath, breathe, compassion, conscious, critical, ease, health, kindness, ONE-MINUTE PRACTICES, peace, poise, presence, release', sensation, sense, stress

One-Minute Practice: Doing the Dishes with More Ease

Alexander Technique with Constance Clare-Newman Posted on June 24, 2011 by ConstanceJune 24, 2011

Even a task as simple as doing the dishes can mean bunched up muscles, raised shoulders, and tight legs. Or you could do the dishes with softer musculature, free joints, and balanced mobility. The former contributes to a state of … Continue reading →

Posted in ONE-MINUTE PRACTICES | Tagged Alexander, awareness, back, breath, compression, conscious, ease, gravity, jaw, mindful, mobility, neck, pain, patterns, postural, posture, presence, sensation, standing, strain, stress, Technique

Less Effort, More Ease

Alexander Technique with Constance Clare-Newman Posted on July 21, 2009 by ConstanceJuly 21, 2009

When you re-train yourself to use the minimum amount of effort that is necessary in an activity, you experience the activity and yourself as much easier than before. Even something as simple as doing the dishes can be done with … Continue reading →

Posted in ONE-MINUTE PRACTICES | Tagged Alexander, balance, ease, effort, intention, muscular, posture, Technique, tension

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