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- The Magic is Now!
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- Prayer to my Horse
- The Perfect Circle – A Lesson from Art History to Apply to Riding
- Disillusionment and Creativity
- Spaced Out!
- In Our Hands
- A Flicker of Light – Playing Horse and Rider
- Enjoy A Breather
- To Earth We Return
- Messages from Trees
- Is Your Head Screwed On Right?
- Once Upon a Time …
- You’ve Got It Already!
- How to get a sore neck!
- Enthusiasm
- Trust! A Door to Ease and Creativity…
- How to Be a Flop!
- Where’s Your Birdie?
- Please Your Self!
- Happy Hibernating
- Good Morning Here I Am …
- The Daily Ease
- Enough is Enough!
- The Opposite of Creativity is not Destruction, it’s Stagnation!
- Drinking Water with a Fork
- Stuff and Nonsense!
- Finding my Inner FUP IT!
- The Weird Wonderful World of Alexander Technique
- From Gratitude to Grrr-Attitude!
- Rampage of Appreciation – Training to be an Alexander Technique Teacher
- On Being Wiggly – part 2
- On Being Wiggly
- How do you make decisions?
- What is the Alexander Technique? 12 – 14 Year Olds Answer
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being a Horse
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- Alexander’s Story (a truly terrible verse)
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- Is it useful learning Alexander Technique at School and if so, why?
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- The Daily Ease – A Walk in the Woods
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- Ki – How I Discovered Alexander Technique
- Mind the Gap!
- Tongues!
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- ‘Doing Alexander Technique at School is Legendary!’
- 101 Life Lessons from my Dog
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Category Archives: Letting Go
Chicken or Egg?
With lockdown I chose to allow myself to embrace the opportunity to switch off rather than zoom in. A conscious decision to see if allowing space and stopping really does allow balance and something extraordinary to happen, as we teach … Continue reading
Posted in Ache - ease, Awareness - ease, Cartoons, Daily Ease, Letting Go, Sketch Ease
Tagged alexander technique, Chicken Wisdom, Incubation, Isolation
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Conscious Slobbing
I love a good turn of phrase and a friend came out with this one last week, slightly regretfully, in that he felt he hadn’t done enough during lockdown. ‘Thats brilliant! Conscious slobbing, I love it! That is enough. Thats … Continue reading
Posted in Ache - ease, Anatom-ease, Body Magic, Cartoons, Daily Ease, Letting Go, Semi Supine
Tagged alexander technique, constructive rest, letting go, semi supine
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On Taking Space – Creativity and the Alexander Technique
Nineteen Corvids by Kirsten Harris Continue reading
Anatomy of a Dandelion Seed
Seeds of Love by Kirsten Harris
Available as a print Continue reading
Posted in Audio Downloads, Body Magic, Cartoons, Constructive Rest, Daily Ease, Letting Go
Tagged change, letting go, Trust
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Injury, The Pentagram and The Alexander Technique
Points of Balance by Kirsten Harris Continue reading
I Like Myself!
I taught Alexander Technique to university students on a drama degree course for about ten years. One day I was teaching how our thinking affects the way we feel and therefore move and act and how this happens instantly. I … Continue reading
Posted in Awareness - ease, Cartoons, Habits, Letting Go, Love Ease (Actors etc)
Tagged alexander technique, I lIke myself, Self Image, Self Talk
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The Magic is Now!
Every moment in every place in every country, every being has access to a portal to the magic kingdom (or magic queendom, if you prefer!) There is no other place in which to find magic apart from right here, or there, … Continue reading
The Happiness of Grass
I have been thinking a lot about grass! As you do! Under a powerful microscope grass looks like it is smiling. Grass is amazing stuff. Grass is happy and it sure has tenacity. No matter how trampled and muddy, parched … Continue reading
In Our Hands
(I shared this originally as a facebook post on my art page Kirsten Harris Art. I wanted to write something to go with the drawing and to write from my heart about horses. I thought I should post as a … Continue reading
Once Upon a Time …
The Old Horse Chestnut Tree by Kirsten Harris, Pen on paper Once upon a time, a long time ago, in the frozen lands of Scotland, a young woman found herself trapped in a dark and terrifyingly lonely forest. Sharp, … Continue reading
Posted in Ache - ease, Cartoons, Letting Go
Tagged alexander technique, Back Ache, self help
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Trust! A Door to Ease and Creativity…
The Unused Door by Kirsten Harris Trust! How do you do that? I believe trust is one of the many skills that the Alexander Technique teaches. A life skill that is as precious as it can be potentially challenging … Continue reading
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How to Be a Flop!
How To Be A Flop, Cartoon by Kirsten Harris Instead of a ‘how to be a success’ blog I thought I would write one about how to be a flop! Let’s take some pressure off and hopefully make life … Continue reading
Please Your Self!
Cartoon ‘Zoned and Boned’ by Kirsten Harris Please Your Self! ‘Oh just please your self!’ Have you ever had that said to you in anger or annoyance, or in judgement of your behaviour? Or perhaps you’ve said it … Continue reading
Posted in Body Magic, Daily Ease, Habits, Letting Go, Semi Supine
Tagged Habits, people pleaser, psycho physical
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Happy Hibernating
Polar Bears, Watercolour by Kirsten Harris ‘Winter, a time for hibernation.’ The familiar warm tones of David Attenborough’s voice over … an idea begins to form. Teaching Alexander Technique at school, as we approach the shortest day of the … Continue reading
The Daily Ease
I gave my blog the title The Daily Ease as a reminder to make time for a daily ease. What does a daily ease mean to you? lying down in consecutive rest aka semi supine going for a … Continue reading
Enough is Enough!
Do you read ‘enough is enough’ as a positive or a negative? An affirmation or a telling off? A plenty abundance or a never again? A good enough or a not good enough? If enough is a negative, is it … Continue reading
Posted in Back Ache - Ease, Habits, Letting Go
Tagged alexander technique, Body Magic, constructive rest, semi supine
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Stuff and Nonsense!
I am sorting out my wardrobe and discovering in the process that my favourite childhood book has morphed into ‘The Try On, The Bitch and The Wardrobe!’ My closet is bursting at the seams with fantasy versions of an … Continue reading
Posted in Anatom-ease, Body Magic, Constructive Rest, Daily Ease, Habits, Letting Go
Tagged alexander technique, decluttering, Habits, letting go
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Rampage of Appreciation – Training to be an Alexander Technique Teacher
RAMPAGE OF APPRECIATION – TRAINING TO BE AN ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE TEACHER At the age of 24 the Alexander Technique changed my life! That first hands-on lesson with it’s gently encouraging profound words from my first teacher, Astrid Cox, are … Continue reading
On Being Wiggly
On Being Wiggly (Notes from teaching 12 – 14 year olds) ‘Is anything in you body straight?’ ‘Er … No!?’ ‘That’s right your body wiggles and spirals, curves and flows, it is living and isn’t straight. Is anything in … Continue reading
Is it useful learning Alexander Technique at School and if so, why?
Every now and then I check in with the school children I teach to find out what they are learning from Alexander Technique. Here are some answers from class – ‘It is useful learning Alexander Technique at school because … Continue reading
Ki – How I Discovered Alexander Technique
Ki Here’s a girl, nick-name Ki Yup, a verse, all about me A teenager who slumped and slouched Growled and groaned, and then BIG OUCH! My back packed up, could take no more Age 24, in pain on the … Continue reading
Mind the Gap!
Mind the gap! What does that mean to you? I have been thinking about the gap, that space between one phase and another. A place to fall or a place to float? Actors call it ‘resting’ or ‘taking time … Continue reading
The Naughty Step!
I had to share this insight from a teenager ….. Yesterday, during a constructive rest session requested by one of the teenage boys at the high school where I teach Alexander Technique, 17 year old Harry quipped- … Continue reading
Posted in Back Ache - Ease, Body Magic, Breathe, Cartoons, Children and Teenagers, Constructive Rest, Daily Ease, Letting Go, Semi Supine, The Naughty Step
Tagged alexander technique, Alexander Technique at High School, Alexander Technique audio for Semi Supine, alexander technique for children, constructive rest, letting go, the naughty step
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Semi Supine – Quite Simply Divine!
Semi Supine – Quite Simply Divine by Kirsten Harris Taking the time To lie in semi supine Is good for the spine And helps me feel fine 17 minutes of time On the floor is sublime Let go … Continue reading
Posted in Daily Ease, Letting Go, Poems, Semi Supine, Verse Ease
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I Feel Like I am Floating
Taking the time To lie in semi supine Is good for my spine And helps me feel fine 17 minutes of time On the floor is sublime Let go to align My bodies design Think into my … Continue reading