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- And Breathe
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- The Problem with Posture
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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!
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- Enough is Enough!
- The Opposite of Creativity is not Destruction, it’s Stagnation!
- Drinking Water with a Fork
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- 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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- The Giraffe
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- ‘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
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- The Naughty Step!
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Category Archives: Breathing
And Breathe
About a month ago my 83 year old mother announced to me – ‘I’ve been listening to the news. If you can hold your breath for twenty minutes you don’t have the virus, and I can hold mine that long!’ … 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
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To Earth We Return
To Earth We Return by Kirsten Harris It takes a long time for a tree to grow, but only a short time to chop one down! A friend from India told me that in her culture when a tree … Continue reading
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Messages from Trees
In Nature We find Ourselves, drawing by Kirsten Harris Messages from Trees Breathe deeply of me I am the lungs of the world, my health and yours are one Let your spine flow upwards and your limbs flow freely … Continue reading
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
Hard Cheese!
Hard Cheese! by Kirsten Harris Thirty three vertebrae Support the body through the day They’re your inner building bricks Stack them well, let’s not be thick! Disease, perhaps a lack of ease? A painful back and hips and … Continue reading
Friesans to be Cheerful!
‘I want to be a lovely cow Chewing on the cud Ruminating all that’s wow Even mucky mud!’ ‘The Alexander Technique is a way of transforming stress to joy!’ Juliet Binoche ‘Moo, moo, moo’ moo the cows.. Freeing … Continue reading
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