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- Disillusionment and Creativity
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- Rampage of Appreciation – Training to be an Alexander Technique Teacher
- On Being Wiggly – part 2
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Category Archives: Awareness – ease
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
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Tagged alexander technique, Chicken Wisdom, Incubation, Isolation
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On Taking Space – Creativity and the Alexander Technique
Nineteen Corvids by Kirsten Harris Continue reading
I Let My Neck be Free! Notes from a Tree Trunk…
Walking my dog Maisie yesterday I sat exhaustedly on the trunk of a fallen beech tree and put my hands on my head and prayed ‘what would you have me say, think or do next?’ To my amazement the breakdown … Continue reading
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Tagged alexander technique, Freedom, inspiration, Sore Neck
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I let my neck be free
‘I let my neck be free!’ It is a powerful thought, A very powerful thought! If you don’t know what to think right now try this one thought, over and over again. ‘I let my neck be free!’ You … Continue reading
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Art, Heart, Earth – Horizontal and Vertical Directions
I dreamt about Don Burton last night. Walter Carrington and some other teachers were there too. Don gave me an AT turn. It started seated, my head dropped forward onto a table in front. I was full of grief. He gently … Continue reading
Procrastination
I have been procrastinating! I know this because my beat-myself-up-with-a-great-big-mental-stick-you-lazy-useless-so-and-so ego was telling me so. Bad habit that particular form of self torture! The more the days of procrastination rolled by the more I started to notice that I was … Continue reading
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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
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The Problem with Posture
The word posture roots in the word post. A fixed place. A post in the ground! It also means to ‘take up an artificial mental position.’ Words are obviously useful to help us understand our living condition but can also get … Continue reading
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Tagged alexander technique, Posture
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Be Calmed
There is no wind in my sails I am becalmed I’ve dropped anchor To take stock and recover from past voyages Resting, I dangle a damaged toe into the deep I’m tired of blowing at sails Nothing happens anyway Huffing … Continue reading
Retirement and the Alexander Technique
How do you retire if you have been self employed all your life? Truth is I’ve never thought about retirement. Never ever! Artists don’t retire and neither do Alexander Technique teachers. They just get better at their job! I’ve never … Continue reading
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Injury and The Alexander Technique
Five months ago I tore the plantar plate on my 4th toe. The toe seems to be floating like a bit of seaweed. Oh joy! Frustrating as being lame is, I notice that I’m not suffering any aches and pains … Continue reading
The Encyclopaedia of Ease – W – Z
And lastly, W,X,Y,Z – and you may be asking why? I’m asking myself that too. Why have I spent two weeks writing an Encyclopaedia of Ease? I don’t really know, apart from the fact that I’ve enjoyed it and it’s … Continue reading
The Encyclopaedia of Ease T-V
T Trees, Trees Trees Trees Trees – Tree planting is a no brainer way to ease ourselves out of the mess we have got the planet into. We need to plant millions of them! They are the guardians. I am … Continue reading
The Encyclopaedia of Ease – S
The Encyclopaedia of Ease – Finding ease in everyday words for the fun of it, and because is ease is easier… Strategease – Not needing to have one, instead going with the flow and trusting your intuition. Succesease – Finding … Continue reading
The Encyclopaedia of Ease – R
The Encyclopaedia of Ease – finding ease in everyday words. Ease that you probably didn’t know was there. And now r… Roll your Rrrrrr’s in speech and movement. R R – or ah, or argh! Variations of Alexander Technique ‘whispered … Continue reading
The Encyclopaedia of Ease P-Q
The Encylopeadia of Ease – Messing about with words to find new ease meanings in everyday things, because ease is easier and who doesn’t want an easier life!? Today we are minding our P’s ‘n’ Q’s. There are all sorts … Continue reading
The Encylopaedia of Ease I – K
I Idiocease – ‘Aha’ moments, when you realise you’ve been making things hard for yourself. Often accompanied by insights which cause the hand to be held to the forehead and the making of strange noises such as ‘Doh!’ Ignoramusease – … Continue reading
The Encyclopaedia of Ease E – H
Part 2 of the Encyclopaedia of Ease. My easy peasy lemon squeasy encyclopaedia for an easier life! Written for anyone who likes messing about with words, Alexander Technique, meditation, law of attraction, mindfulness, the power of the mind and all … Continue reading
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The Encyclopaedia of Ease A – E
Do you know your a, b, c’ease? Welcome to the Encyclopaedia of Ease… A Anatomease – An easier way to live in your body by knowing the bones and joints and having a clear understanding of how you co-ordinate and … 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
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Tagged alexander technique, I lIke myself, Self Image, Self Talk
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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
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
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Tagged alexander technique, Doubt and Creativity, Goethe, Lao Tzu, Sean Scully
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The Perfect Circle – A Lesson from Art History to Apply to Riding
Four Winds Medicine Wheel. Print available at www.kirstenharrisart.co.uk In his book Lives of the Artists, Georgio Vasari (1511 – 1574) recounts a story about the artist Giotto (1267 – 1337). He tells how the Pope was commissioning art and sent messengers … Continue reading
Disillusionment and Creativity
‘Seeing and Seeding’ Photograph by Kirsten Harris The etymology of the word illusion comes from the word luminare or lumen meaning to light up, too illuminate, to shine brightly. The words illusion and disillusionment are ones that I believe have … Continue reading
Good Morning Here I Am …
There are many ideas for morning meditations and rituals to set up your day. I love this simple idea that was given to me by an Omani student, taught to him by his grandfather. On waking sit for two minutes … Continue reading
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Tagged Morning Appreciation, Morning Meditation, morning rituals
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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
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
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Tagged alexander technique, awareness, Habits, Kirsten Harris
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Finding my Inner FUP IT!
Sometimes life is challenging to say the least. People behave in ways that surprise and bewilder … our bodies alter and falter …. loved ones die … loneliness and anxiety can descend upon us like a cloud… to name a … 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
On Being Wiggly – part 2
I’m wiggly You’re wiggly It’s wiggly! Thinking about what is wiggly and what is straight has really been influencing my relationship with the world around me and my thinking. I guess one of the great joys of teaching is … Continue reading
How do you make decisions?
How do you make decisions? Ever since I started working with the Alexander Technique as a stressed out ex art student, I realised that this technique is an amazing tool for decision making. It is a tool that I … Continue reading
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Tagged alexander technique, Decision making, Kirsten Harris Art
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Why the Alexander Technique can be Likened to Farting!
OMG!’ Oil on Canvas, by Kirsten Harris Apologies to the easily offended, but I am likening the Alexander Technique to farting in this blog. Call it British humour or bad humour, but a girls gotta amuse herself somehow! Anyway, I … Continue reading
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Tagged alexander technique, Kirsten Harris Art, Poise
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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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Mystical Creatures
The Unicorn by Kirsten Harris In Ancient Myth lived a beautiful Unicorn A fabulous horse with a pointing uni-horn What is the symbol of this mysterious feature? Forward and Up points the mystical creature! ************ My … Continue reading
The Girl with Two Necks
I have two necks. No really I have, and so have you! No need to pat your under-chin and worry if you’re developing a wattle. I’m not being insulting! Me? Well maybe I do have little extra chin or two, … Continue reading
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