This is the first part of several posts stimulated by questions from AT teacher Regina Stratil of Graz, Austria. Some of her questions revolved around the ways in which FM describes giving lessons in his books. This reminded me of … Continue reading →
This is a way of practicing HoBoC which I find very useful for myself as it can be very energising, and experienced AT people I’ve shown it to have usually also found it quite dynamic and helpful. Describing an experiential … Continue reading →
Head, neck, back relationship: when your spine supports your head and your rib cage (thorax) you no longer need to grip your head and your ribs to support your spine.
Continue reading →Regarding training procedures for hands on work, I was of course around the Carringtons as one of their everyday assistants for many years and so observed the development of their training procedures. When I began directing a training course myself … Continue reading →
A friend and colleague, Paolo Frigoli from Coccaglio, Italy asked me to set down anything I know about this subject as there seem to be so many different assertions about it floating around in the online world. So here are … Continue reading →
This is something I’ve been talking about for many years in workshops and in training courses, but I recently realised I hadn’t actually put it in writing anywhere except in my chapter for the book Ageing with Poise* ed. by … Continue reading →
This was written in response to a teacher asking for advice dealing with a student who says they never feel anything change either during or after a lesson. The first thing I’d say about this is that when I began … Continue reading →
Margaret Goldie told me that FM sometimes said to people “Choose to be quiet throughout your whole body, with particular attention to your neck and head.” Sitting quietly in balance with that kind of inhibitory attention while maintaining overall length … Continue reading →
(Answering a question from a teacher as to whether the “order of the order” forward and up is essential, i.e. forward before up.) I remember Walter Carrington one day in a talk to his training course (probably in the late … Continue reading →
This post was stimulated by questions about “the intent of directing upwards” from Cindi Kim in New York and Lira Fernández-Davila in Madrid. My thanks to both. One relevant conversation I recall having with Walter around this kind of subject … Continue reading →