HELP SUPPORT THIS CHANNEL: buymeacoffee.com/anthonykingsley Your donation empowers us to expand our reach with invaluable teachings on the Alexander Technique - offering practical wisdom for better living, enhanced movement, and profound relaxation. Let's forge ahead together, nurturing a supportive environment where each contribution fuels a positive change. Your generosity today ensures that more individuals can discover the joy and freedom that comes from this powerful process.
The first time I had an Alexander Technique lesson I walked out of there feeling about 2 feet taller and much stronger, like my whole upper body was stronger and more supported. Incredible experience. I should go more often but even just having that 1 first lesson changed my life and how i view my body, and that was 10+ years ago!
It has been 10 years at least since my last Alexander Technique class and I still remember the feeling of release you get from these classes (with the right teacher). Miss these classes a lot.
The Alexander Technique is just like meditation! It is not about undoing or stopping the tension, but BEING AWARE OF TENSION. The aim is not to undue tension, that is the byproduct. The purpose is to be aware :)
Delightful to listen to during my yoga session. My son chose this to watch. We had a lovely giggle at the gently humorous rapport. Inspiring for my son who is fed up with me talking about posture. Great for him to hear it from Alex via Anthony :-).
This video is like a pure virgin I can’t believe my ASMR brothers and sisters haven’t found it yet. It’s only a matter of time. However created this video is in for a big surprise. Peace. Let the neck be free.
Thank you for uploading all of these. The only videos I had seen previously were quite short and I’m still trying to understand what the Alexander Technique is all about. It’s great to hear more and see it more in action.
I have watched 5-6 videos on “the Alexander technique” and still couldn’t really tell you what the hell it is. It’s a way to stand up? To correct your posture???
Think about your mother telling you to sit up straight. Telling you to stop slouching. It's good posture and proper lifting techniques so you don't hurt yourself. I would call it something better like "Smart Behavior." LOL
Watch more Alexander Technique Videos: Richard and Elisabeth Walker's Training School, 1989: ua-cam.com/video/tBcVKMXh45E/v-deo.html Alexander Technique, Muscle Pain & Computer Work: ua-cam.com/video/iriXg5uZ_oU/v-deo.html Alexander Technique & Relaxation, March 2019: ua-cam.com/video/lwPNooNtDhY/v-deo.html
here I just like these videos cause they are relaxing, but how someone has made a career out of "teaching" people how to stand and sit ill never know lolol
You're missing the point. Its not about getting people in and out of a chair. He's teaching a quality of movement, and just using chair work as a way of doing it.
The Alexander Technique is more than just getting in and out of a chair. Most people who have neck and back aches have them because they get into a habbit of bad posture, mainly tensing up muscles that don't need to be used. Like tensing up your neck and face muscles when you sit or stand. Alexander breaks these habbits by moving you in sertain ways where you don't use those muscles and your body picks that up.
Thanks. I will do some more over the next few weeks. In the meantime, if you want some more food for thought, I have just written a new introduction to Alexander’s republished (2018) classic text The Use of the Self, (1932), www.amazon.co.uk/Use-Self-F-M-Alexander/dp/1409182959/
It is indeed a very satisfying and pleasurable vocation. To enable others to achieve embodied mindfulness and move towards health and healing is wonderful gift. And if you are interested, you can train too! Visit ourTraining site at: www.alexanderteacher.co.uk/
Anthony Kingsley thank you. I still remember my first AT session, I felt much taller afterwards. I should have invested in myself then as I’ve shrunk back into myself since. In order to teach, you need to have lived the technique. At 59, and bent over a drawing board most days, I’m a bit long in the tooth to study for 3 years.
I am very interested in this. I suffer from repetitive pain in my back and hips as I am a housekeeper. Hoping I may benefit from your videos. Thank you.
I wish I had access to all these hokey things. I'm looking at you Alexander Technique, gem therapy, reiki and most definitely foot reflexology sessions. I'm not sure I believe a single thing from any of them, but they're definitely a relaxing way to spend some time. I think people can use this stuff because if nothing else, it gives one really good vibes.
I learned the "Alexander Technique" many years ago, but I never used it because I didn't want to think about what I was doing that much. LOL - TAV ♥️🇺🇸🌎👍
@@AlexanderTechnique33 I guess it's like playing the piano. At first it is so hard to do because there are so many things to think about e.g. notes, volume, speed, words, style, and pauses. Once you practice for ten years or 10,000 hours, you can do it all very skillfully without thinking about it. LOL
I’m all for functional training, but teach it correctly.. when you sit and stand, the position of the feet are very important. The way her feet were positioned from the seated position will primarily enable quad and knee/joint activation(which will lead to more knee pain and overcompensation in other areas due to an overactive quad).. if the feet are positioned out more so that a 90° angle is made with the legs , more glute/hamstring usage will be utilized. Please teach correctly so others can follow. Also, there is a pretty decent posterior hip position that needs to be addressed, this will enable more abdominal activation which will help the overall “standing up process”. If you do not understand “neutral”, how are you to teach neutral hip position? Anyone that views this, please take it with a “grain of salt”. Thanks.
Thanks a lot for your thoughtful feedback. The exciting thing about the Alexander Technique is that it is based on the premise that "the right thing will do itself" when we stop interfering with the natural functioning of the human organism. And so you are quite right. We do not teach functional training or any form of posture training or physiotherapy. The guidance from the Alexander Teachers hands helps to unravel habits of stress and distortion that prevent the body from healing and recovery. And it does really need to be experienced to truly "make sense". And crucially, we do not teach a correct "neutral" positions. We teach people to be free in a multitude of positions. I hope this doesn't add to the salt!
@@anthonykingsley4315 Can only wonder what expedient means and powers of inhibiition, or irony, lies behind "you are quite right," when CW got it so entirely and conspicuously wrong. If it were me, I would not have been able to resist telling CW (Corporeal Worker, Clever W...er?), to go take a running jump, except using fruitier language.
@Maddy Grayson I think what's happening here is not so much a bodywork session to do with feet positioning et cetera, as a lesson. In the lesson the teacher is teaching a new pupil the rudiments of a teaching whose central gist is not to do. The decision not to do is more a function of what is happening in the brain than exactly where the feet happen to be positioned, quad actiivty, et cetera, and so the thoughts involved in the "thoughtful feedback" of CW (Condescending Worm?) are all totally misguided thoughts. Itf you are sufficiently motivated, you could take a look in Alexander's own writings to check for yourself whether I am talking out of my hat. Somebody told me that Alexander called his work "the most mental thing there is."
@Maddy Grayson I have had lessons. It's a small point but why do you say sessions? it makes the work sound more like bodywork, and not so much about use of reason. I had one lesson with Alexander's niece Marjory Barlow that blew my mind, not because of any great sensory experience, but because she caused me to see how fundamental was the use of reason, like 2+2=4. I think you intervened out of good intentions to help me, so back at you.... foolish time wasters though we both may be. ;)
@Maddy Grayson It is the attitude of the Alexander body-worker which is inherently arrogant, because it involves belief that I know how to do it. CW's comment was a case in point. @AnthonyKingsley knew that perfectly well, but didn't dare to stick his head above the parapet, either out of professional acumen or spiritual cowardice.
HELP SUPPORT THIS CHANNEL:
buymeacoffee.com/anthonykingsley
Your donation empowers us to expand our reach with invaluable teachings on the Alexander Technique - offering practical wisdom for better living, enhanced movement, and profound relaxation. Let's forge ahead together, nurturing a supportive environment where each contribution fuels a positive change. Your generosity today ensures that more individuals can discover the joy and freedom that comes from this powerful process.
Allow the neck to be free, the head to balance up, the spine to have it's length, the torso to widen.
...to widen.
No, not in my old way.
Yes! Beautiful. It gives a flow....to the whole being.
Up you go
Lovely little guidelines
“Let the neck be free.” Diana Devitt Dawson
Diana is quite right!
Lovely little guidelines
quite quickly
All hail Diana!
and W O Y D E N
and W O Y D E N
Did they follow the guidelines? Those lovely little guidelines
Love the lovely little guidelines
Buhahahaha classic
Effort less
Lol I didn't know such a fanbase even existed!
Soy Boy Liberal and then you stop :)
I know a lot of people are here just from the asmr community, but there is a lot of value in practicing these techniques.
@@ludwwik good posture really does help your health, muscles, and mental health
i think it is silly to assume that the asmr community doesn’t see the value in the technique.
Some people are here just because of the Diana Devitt-Dawson video. She has the best Alexander Technique catch phrases.
Never heard of her, I found my way here via the Richard Walker video
Omg all the Diana quotes in the comments here are giving me life 😂
Hello Gita..
The first time I had an Alexander Technique lesson I walked out of there feeling about 2 feet taller and much stronger, like my whole upper body was stronger and more supported. Incredible experience. I should go more often but even just having that 1 first lesson changed my life and how i view my body, and that was 10+ years ago!
It has been 10 years at least since my last Alexander Technique class and I still remember the feeling of release you get from these classes (with the right teacher). Miss these classes a lot.
Hi Todd, Happy to hear about your good memories. All the best, Anthony
"Quite quickly "
Lovely little guidelines at work.
Where can I find that?
E F F O R T L E S S
The Alexander Technique is just like meditation! It is not about undoing or stopping the tension, but BEING AWARE OF TENSION. The aim is not to undue tension, that is the byproduct. The purpose is to be aware :)
Effort. Less.
I reckon it's full-on for you?
Thomas Vleminckx not a lot of reflection on how you do it. Just... getting in and
Thumbs up if you came here for ASMR.
The North will never bend the knee!
Ok Jon snow lol
It gives a flow!
To the whole being
Up you go!
Please keep posting these! You are a great instructor and your videos are very educational. Cheers from the States!
Thanks from London!
the head neck back relationship was very much
JEOPARDIZED
😂
Oh man that got me 😅
Holy mother of sandwich breath, this is good!
Ah thats gold. Great comment
"The thinking is there that links that... that links that".
Delightful to listen to during my yoga session. My son chose this to watch. We had a lovely giggle at the gently humorous rapport. Inspiring for my son who is fed up with me talking about posture. Great for him to hear it from Alex via Anthony :-).
I'm really struggling with intense stress and anxiety at the moment and your videos bring great relief to me. Thank you
That is really great to hear. Thank for sharing.
For the first time ever, the Alexander technique is less of a mystery to me.
That is really good to hear. Thanks for the feedback.
Nice to see that Tony Blair went on to do something useful.
That's a first!!
LOL!!!!
Haha, exactly what I thought.
Jajajajajajajajaj
Limbs can only get better.....
I had a migraine and I swear just listening to you made it go away
I think I will market this!! Seriously, though, the human voice can have a profound influence; as of course does music.
Fascinating how the instructor speaks seemingly as Alexander spoke and thought.
Satisfying and smooth. That's what she said.
I feel bad for anyone who has to sit at a computer for eight hours studying law. ; )
More because of the classes!
Pahahahahahahahaha.... this comment section is gold!
I’ve been cycling and cooking but now I’m ready to pull weed out of the garden :)
sometimes you just are "full on"
@@eugenglobetrotter3323 Genius comment
This video is like a pure virgin I can’t believe my ASMR brothers and sisters haven’t found it yet. It’s only a matter of time. However created this video is in for a big surprise.
Peace. Let the neck be free.
Beerfornothing found it!
I find these videos quite relaxing to watch
Had no idea there was an audience 🤩 how wonderful to witness this live!
At work put me to sleep at the 28 minute mark, perfect. So relaxing!
If you are sleeping at work, I just hope that you are not a bus driver, train engineer, nuclear power plant operator, or pilot. 😊
Eternal Tech You can hope 😮😉
Anyone else noticed that she got more and more relaxed while doing this?
yes she seemed nervous at the start but got more into it
Thank you for uploading all of these. The only videos I had seen previously were quite short and I’m still trying to understand what the Alexander Technique is all about. It’s great to hear more and see it more in action.
Come for the Alexander Technique, stay for the instructor’s lovely accent! :D
He knows Diana!! It feels like a nice little Alexander technique ASMR community is building here
#lettheneckbefree
You think 'Not my old way...'
No! Not my old way...
I wonder if he knows Diana?🤔🤔
Yes!
@@AlexanderTechnique33 That's so awesome!! You made my day 😊🌟
I love the clock bell chimes in the back ground....😀❤️👍 sounds like the start of an Inspector Morse episode!!! 😀
I have watched 5-6 videos on “the Alexander technique” and still couldn’t really tell you what the hell it is.
It’s a way to stand up? To correct your posture???
No-one know 😂😂😂
@I've seen the Twinkie and the damage done is that you in the corner?
Think about your mother telling you to sit up straight. Telling you to stop slouching. It's good posture and proper lifting techniques so you don't hurt yourself. I would call it something better like "Smart Behavior." LOL
My brain is having a holiday just seeing this process! (with some somatic empathy of course) 👍
I like the somatic empathy idea
q u i t e q u i c k l y
The torso needs to soften and widen up!
Watch more Alexander Technique Videos:
Richard and Elisabeth Walker's Training School, 1989:
ua-cam.com/video/tBcVKMXh45E/v-deo.html
Alexander Technique, Muscle Pain & Computer Work:
ua-cam.com/video/iriXg5uZ_oU/v-deo.html
Alexander Technique & Relaxation, March 2019:
ua-cam.com/video/lwPNooNtDhY/v-deo.html
Came here looking for Diana Devitt Dawson references. Was not disappointed
Anthony: everything gets grabby
Diana: no need to clench
So when your cycling when your cooking your aware of this instrument
So when you understand the difference between "Your and you're" come back to us and then comment.
here I just like these videos cause they are relaxing, but how someone has made a career out of "teaching" people how to stand and sit ill never know lolol
You're missing the point. Its not about getting people in and out of a chair. He's teaching a quality of movement, and just using chair work as a way of doing it.
The Alexander Technique is more than just getting in and out of a chair.
Most people who have neck and back aches have them because they get into a habbit of bad posture, mainly tensing up muscles that don't need to be used.
Like tensing up your neck and face muscles when you sit or stand.
Alexander breaks these habbits by moving you in sertain ways where you don't use those muscles and your body picks that up.
Ruben Manssens you cant even spell certain
@@jackdish6633 yeah english isn't my mothertongue, tends to happen when you know 3 languages
Ruben Manssens Alexander technique and three languages, clever boy
"Staying with not doing anything" great motto
Glad you like these words
Lengthening, and widening.... And widening...
random tall person What lovely little guidelines
So you heal from the heels?
Love the Clock sounding off...I think its 5 pm in London!
Slightly confused but I thoroughly enjoyed this.
6:00 “bend the knee!!”
_I used to be an Alexanderer like you, but then I GoT a bend to the knee_
when my other special interest videos (thames mudlarking) have chimes in the distance, and i wonder if Anthony is teaching Alexander somewhere nearby.
Our old Studio was in Balderton Street, opposite Selfridges, and the Selfridges chiming clock.
The sound in this is so much better. I sadly can't watch the old vidoes because the sound is so terrible or noisy.
Agreed. From now on, I am using better audio equipment.
Head and neck RELATIONSHIP 😁
True relationship goals.
Between Alexander and Diana
More vids! This was great!
Thanks. I will do some more over the next few weeks. In the meantime, if you want some more food for thought, I have just written a new introduction to Alexander’s republished (2018) classic text The Use of the Self, (1932), www.amazon.co.uk/Use-Self-F-M-Alexander/dp/1409182959/
A year later still watching these now we all work in front of computer 8 hours a day! Keep it up!
I tell you what, those lovely little guidelines are rather moreish
Can someone perform this technique on themselves?
Watching this video was “effort-less”.
Came here for the Diana references 😅
'Floating up like a kite'
Great videos. Any chance you are making any more?
Hi Chris, yes, some more will be posted soon.
"so I want you to know only I can do something wrong" *sandwich breath intensifies*
More sessions please!
Not a bad way to make a lucrative living!
It is indeed a very satisfying and pleasurable vocation. To enable others to achieve embodied mindfulness and move towards health and healing is wonderful gift. And if you are interested, you can train too! Visit ourTraining site at: www.alexanderteacher.co.uk/
Anthony Kingsley thank you. I still remember my first AT session, I felt much taller afterwards. I should have invested in myself then as I’ve shrunk back into myself since. In order to teach, you need to have lived the technique. At 59, and bent over a drawing board most days, I’m a bit long in the tooth to study for 3 years.
"Brain is on Holiday" -this is the perfect way to describe cannabis
The church bells at 3:47 ❤️
I am very interested in this. I suffer from repetitive pain in my back and hips as I am a housekeeper. Hoping I may benefit from your videos. Thank you.
Thanks Sherry. I hope that these videos might inspire you to have a practical Alexander experience too. Be well,
"heels. . And bend the knees"
Who is here because of Diana inatead of Alexander ?
Can someone do this techniques alone or another person should do these to him?
Always advisable to do to an Alexander Teacher for guidance
I wish I had access to all these hokey things. I'm looking at you Alexander Technique, gem therapy, reiki and most definitely foot reflexology sessions. I'm not sure I believe a single thing from any of them, but they're definitely a relaxing way to spend some time. I think people can use this stuff because if nothing else, it gives one really good vibes.
Yes instead of pushing up and off with your upper legs and hands and rear end you uae your heels and feet
I need this where can I get it done I want to see a doctor?
Hi Hikkrz, If you send me a private message via the form on the website, www. alexander-technique-london.co.uk and I will reply to you.
I can help you find a Teacher. Maybe send me a pm from the website: www.alexander-technique-london.co.uk
been trying to figure out her accent whole video; my guess is one of the Scandinavian countries?
I think she’s German. Her accent and she mentions “German efficiency “ 13:05
What exactly is the Alexander technique ?
"It gives a flowww"
Geeta: Hmmmm!
Interesting concept.
I learned the "Alexander Technique" many years ago, but I never used it because I didn't want to think about what I was doing that much. LOL - TAV ♥️🇺🇸🌎👍
You really don't need to think about anything if you are taught well!
@@AlexanderTechnique33 I guess it's like playing the piano. At first it is so hard to do because there are so many things to think about e.g. notes, volume, speed, words, style, and pauses. Once you practice for ten years or 10,000 hours, you can do it all very skillfully without thinking about it. LOL
There was an audience this whole time?
Sometimes there is an audience. But the main audience in mind is the video audience.
Up you go
Oh yes ❤️
Clicked out of curiosity. Stayed for the sandwich breath.
Where do you book in for something like this?
contact us via the website: www.alexanderstudio.co.uk, and I will help you find someone near you.
Do you have many studios in the states?
Prevent. The head. The habit.
I love it.
Actually I just came for a little unintentional asmr quite quickly rather
Allow the neck to be free
After the session her neck was never to be seen again. Free as a bird.
If only we didn't lose the supreme poise which the toddler in the poster( left ) presents
I’m all for functional training, but teach it correctly.. when you sit and stand, the position of the feet are very important. The way her feet were positioned from the seated position will primarily enable quad and knee/joint activation(which will lead to more knee pain and overcompensation in other areas due to an overactive quad).. if the feet are positioned out more so that a 90° angle is made with the legs , more glute/hamstring usage will be utilized. Please teach correctly so others can follow. Also, there is a pretty decent posterior hip position that needs to be addressed, this will enable more abdominal activation which will help the overall “standing up process”. If you do not understand “neutral”, how are you to teach neutral hip position?
Anyone that views this, please take it with a “grain of salt”. Thanks.
Thanks a lot for your thoughtful feedback. The exciting thing about the Alexander Technique is that it is based on the premise that "the right thing will do itself" when we stop interfering with the natural functioning of the human organism. And so you are quite right. We do not teach functional training or any form of posture training or physiotherapy. The guidance from the Alexander Teachers hands helps to unravel habits of stress and distortion that prevent the body from healing and recovery. And it does really need to be experienced to truly "make sense". And crucially, we do not teach a correct "neutral" positions. We teach people to be free in a multitude of positions. I hope this doesn't add to the salt!
@@anthonykingsley4315 Can only wonder what expedient means and powers of inhibiition, or irony, lies behind "you are quite right," when CW got it so entirely and conspicuously wrong. If it were me, I would not have been able to resist telling CW (Corporeal Worker, Clever W...er?), to go take a running jump, except using fruitier language.
@Maddy Grayson I think what's happening here is not so much a bodywork session to do with feet positioning et cetera, as a lesson. In the lesson the teacher is teaching a new pupil the rudiments of a teaching whose central gist is not to do. The decision not to do is more a function of what is happening in the brain than exactly where the feet happen to be positioned, quad actiivty, et cetera, and so the thoughts involved in the "thoughtful feedback" of CW (Condescending Worm?) are all totally misguided thoughts. Itf you are sufficiently motivated, you could take a look in Alexander's own writings to check for yourself whether I am talking out of my hat. Somebody told me that Alexander called his work "the most mental thing there is."
@Maddy Grayson I have had lessons. It's a small point but why do you say sessions? it makes the work sound more like bodywork, and not so much about use of reason. I had one lesson with Alexander's niece Marjory Barlow that blew my mind, not because of any great sensory experience, but because she caused me to see how fundamental was the use of reason, like 2+2=4. I think you intervened out of good intentions to help me, so back at you.... foolish time wasters though we both may be. ;)
@Maddy Grayson It is the attitude of the Alexander body-worker which is inherently arrogant, because it involves belief that I know how to do it. CW's comment was a case in point. @AnthonyKingsley knew that perfectly well, but didn't dare to stick his head above the parapet, either out of professional acumen or spiritual cowardice.
Head to balance up
always ASMR vibes
and here's me, I even 'hold' my flippin' eyebrows...
I believe Alexander was Tasmanian.
the devil :)
In this situation no one got red in the face.
"cuz gravity exists!" :)
Because your weight exist
You've got a lovely breath.
head neck back relationship.