-
Recent Posts
- New Website Under Construction
- There’s Magic in the Tissue
- Allowing Hands
- Breaking Free
- Chicken or Egg?
- The Flintstones Meets The Alexander Technique
- Hurry Up as a Marketing Tool!
- Conscious Slobbing
- On Taking Space – Creativity and the Alexander Technique
- Working on Your Self!
- Embracing the Hermit
- And Breathe
- I Let My Neck be Free! Notes from a Tree Trunk…
- Inhibition and a Cup of Tea
- Anatomy of a Dandelion Seed
- The Magic Stop
- Heave Awa’ Chaps I’m No Dead Yet!’
- I let my neck be free
- Art, Heart, Earth – Horizontal and Vertical Directions
- Procrastination
- 6 Words that Changed my Life
- The Power of No!
- Don’t Throw the Baby Out With the Bath Water!
- The Problem with Posture
- Injury, The Pentagram and The Alexander Technique
- Be Calmed
- Retirement and the Alexander Technique
- Injury and The Alexander Technique
- The Encyclopaedia of Ease – W – Z
- The Encyclopaedia of Ease T-V
- The Encyclopaedia of Ease – S
- The Encyclopaedia of Ease – R
- The Encyclopaedia of Ease P-Q
- The Encyclopaedia of Ease – N-O
- The Encylopaedia of Ease – M
- The Encyclopaedia of Ease – L
- The Encylopaedia of Ease I – K
- The Encyclopaedia of Ease E – H
- The Encyclopaedia of Ease A – E
- I Like Myself!
- The Magic is Now!
- The Happiness of Grass
- No Room For Doubt!
- BALLS!
- 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
- ‘Planet Long Neck’ – A Visual Blog
- Why the Alexander Technique can be Likened to Farting!
- If You Want to Set a Goal Don’t Tell The Devil!
- Alexander’s Story (a truly terrible verse)
- Lean on Me
- Is it useful learning Alexander Technique at School and if so, why?
- Alexander Technique Drawings
- Hard Cheese!
- It’s all about the words …
- The Giraffe
- Why an Alexander Technique Colouring Book?
- The Daily Ease – A Walk in the Woods
- The Really Random Magic Show
- Ki – How I Discovered Alexander Technique
- Mind the Gap!
- Tongues!
- Humphrey!
- Alexander Technique Is Like Harry Potter World!
- ‘Doing Alexander Technique at School is Legendary!’
- 101 Life Lessons from my Dog
- 101 Life Lessons from My Dog – Part 2 (66 – 101)
- A Stitch In Time Saves Nine
- ‘It’s the Jeremy Kyle Show Miss!’
- Horse Ease – Geeks, Gals and Gee Gee’s
- The Naughty Step!
- STOPPING – The Most Magical Gift of All!
Categories
- Ache – ease
- Alexander Books
- Anatom-ease
- Audio Downloads
- Awareness – ease
- Back Ache – Ease
- Body Magic
- Breathe
- Breathe Easy
- Breathing
- Cartoons
- CD Downloads
- Children and Teenagers
- Constructive Rest
- Daily Ease
- Diagrams
- Dis-Ease
- Dog Ease
- Habits
- Horse Ease
- Horses
- Kid Ease
- Letting Go
- Love Ease (Actors etc)
- Love-Ease
- Office Ease
- Pain – Ease
- Poems
- Poise
- Quotes
- Semi Supine
- Sketch Ease
- The Naughty Step
- Uncategorized
- Verse Ease
- Walk Ease
- Walking with your Horse
- Whoops-a-days-ease
Category Archives: Habits
Embracing the Hermit
Do we ever know where we are going? The world on the computer connecting for work or play, to teach or to learn, to party or to support, to fill time and stay busy, to fulfil roles and meet deadlines … Continue reading
The Magic Stop
The Magic Stop by Kirsten Harris Continue reading
Posted in Body Magic, Breathe, Daily Ease, Habits, Horse Ease, Poise
Tagged alexander technique, Pausing, stopping
Leave a comment
6 Words that Changed my Life
I was standing at the sink this morning thinking that a happy life is found by converting perceived negatives into positives. Simple as that sounds it can sometimes be a big challenge to change one’s mind. It then struck me … Continue reading
Posted in Ache - ease, Cartoons, Children and Teenagers, Daily Ease, Dis-Ease, Habits
Tagged alexander technique
Leave a comment
The Power of No!
I teach my students a class which I call ‘The Power of No!’ I have taught it to children and riders to date. This blog is not a demo of the class which is a live class, but more an … Continue reading
Posted in Anatom-ease, Awareness - ease, Body Magic, Cartoons, Daily Ease, Habits, Sketch Ease
Leave a comment
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
Leave a comment
No Room For Doubt!
No Room for Doubt! ‘There is no room for doubt in art!’ Sean Scully The opposite of the word doubt is confidence. Other words to describe the opposite of doubt include belief, conviction, trust, definiteness, faith, ease, truthfulness, solution, calm, … Continue reading
Posted in Awareness - ease, Habits
Tagged alexander technique, Doubt and Creativity, Goethe, Lao Tzu, Sean Scully
Leave a comment
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
Enjoy A Breather
I am interested in how language changes things. I have been thinking about this in relationship to resistance and time. I noticed recently a feeling of resistance to appointments. Instead of feeling flaky and dragging my heels, I have been wondering … Continue reading
Posted in Body Magic, Breathe, Breathe Easy, Breathing, Constructive Rest, Daily Ease, Habits, Semi Supine
Tagged alexander technique, Body Magic, Breathe, Breathing
Leave a comment
Is Your Head Screwed On Right?
Anatomy and Art, Cartoon by Kirsten Harris Is your head screwed on right? I love the way our language and the phases we use reveal so much on closer inspection! We might say ‘so and so hasn’t got their … Continue reading
Posted in Ache - ease, Anatom-ease, Back Ache - Ease, Body Magic, Cartoons, CD Downloads, Constructive Rest, Dis-Ease, Habits, Pain - Ease
Tagged alexander technique, Anxiety, Habits
Leave a comment
You’ve Got It Already!
‘Unhelpful Thinking Habits!’ Cartoon by Kirsten Harris Whatever this ‘thing’ is that Alexander Technique teachers get so passionate about and want to teach you – you’ve got it already! You know IT! This is the premise that I work … Continue reading
Posted in Ache - ease, Audio Downloads, Body Magic, Breathe, Cartoons, Daily Ease, Habits, Semi Supine
Tagged Alexander Technique lessons
Leave a comment
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
Posted in Daily Ease, Habits, Letting Go
Leave a comment
Where’s Your Birdie?
Where’s your Birdie? This is the question I am going into the New Year with! No, I haven’t suddenly landed in an episode of Wacky Races with Dastardly and Muttley trying to ‘catch the pigeon’ nor have I … 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
Leave a comment
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
Leave a comment
The Opposite of Creativity is not Destruction, it’s Stagnation!
The opposite of creativity is not destruction, it’s stagnation. This thought came to me yesterday as helpful. Creativity is defined as the use of the imagination or original ideas to create something: inventiveness. Destruction is defined as … Continue reading
Posted in Alexander Books, Daily Ease, Habits
Tagged Alexander Technique Book, change, Creativity, Habits
Leave a comment
Drinking Water with a Fork
Am I drinking water with a fork? This is my new transformational question, a holy grail kind of question, a forking great question! Drinking water with a fork is obviously a difficult, inefficient, unsustainable, energy dripping thing to … Continue reading
Posted in Awareness - ease, Body Magic, Habits
Tagged alexander technique, awareness, Habits, Kirsten Harris
Leave a comment
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
Leave a comment
From Gratitude to Grrr-Attitude!
From Gratitude to Grrr – attitude! Inhibition in the Alexander Technique sense doesn’t mean not reacting but pausing before reacting habitually to take a moment to decide how you want to react. For many of us that can be … 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
Lean on Me
‘Lean on me …. We all need somebody to lean on’ – A lyric! A truth? What happens if someone leans on you? Can you look after yourself? Or will that leaning push you over, cause you to crumple, … Continue reading
Posted in Audio Downloads, Body Magic, Daily Ease, Habits, Pain - Ease
Tagged alexander technique, psycho-physcial unity
Leave a comment
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
Tongues!
Tongue Tied by Kirsten Harris Here’s a funny little question That left unchecked will cause congestion Let me ask you, ‘Where’s your tongue?’ Clamped to mouth’s roof you’ll be high strung! It’s best to let your tongue go … Continue reading
Posted in Anatom-ease, Cartoons, Children and Teenagers, Daily Ease, Habits, Poems, Verse Ease
Tagged alexander technique, Alexander Technique at High School, Alexander Technique at school, alexander technique for children, children and alexander technique, children and teenagers, Habits, Life Lessons
Leave a comment
101 Life Lessons from My Dog – Part 2 (66 – 101)
66. Dogs are keenly aware if something different is going to happen … Putting shoes on to go out is a very exciting life event! 67. Watching the behaviours of others is interesting and gives insight! Your dog is … Continue reading
Posted in Cartoons, Daily Ease, Dog Ease, Habits, Horse Ease
Tagged alexander technique, Dogs, Horses, Life Lessons
Leave a comment
HELP! I’m a phone addict!
HELP! I’m a phone addict! by Kirsten Harris Calling mobile addicts anonymous…… I am an addict! It’s my phone – it’s got a hold of me, and I can’t let it go! Is it just me? I … Continue reading
Posted in Habits, Semi Supine
Leave a comment
Why is it so EASY….?
Here is an experiment for you to easily activate right now…. Ask yourself questions starting with – Why is it so easy…. Why is it so easy for my to be organised? Why is it so easy for me to … Continue reading
Posted in Daily Ease, Habits
Leave a comment
Sometimes Life’s a Bit Complicated
Take it easy… Sometimes life is just a bit complicated… No need to get yourself in a tangle, in a pickle, worried… You can figure it out… Breathe….. Moo if necessary!!!
Posted in Breathe, Cartoons, Habits
Leave a comment