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- 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
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- 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
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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
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- What is the Alexander Technique? 12 – 14 Year Olds Answer
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being a Horse
- ‘Planet Long Neck’ – A Visual Blog
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- If You Want to Set a Goal Don’t Tell The Devil!
- Alexander’s Story (a truly terrible verse)
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- The Giraffe
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- ‘Doing Alexander Technique at School is Legendary!’
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- 101 Life Lessons from My Dog – Part 2 (66 – 101)
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Tag Archives: semi supine
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
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Tagged alexander technique, constructive rest, letting go, semi supine
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The Encyclopaedia of Ease – L
The Encyclopaedia of Ease by Kirsten Harris – making up easy meanings for old words, because it seemed like a good idea at the time. Hope you enjoy my romp through the English language looking for ease….. Part 4 Welcome … Continue reading
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Tagged alexander technique, Alexander Technique cartoons, Ease, Kirsten Harris Art, semi supine
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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
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
How to get a sore neck!
Slump a lot Let your head poke forward so your neck has to work really hard all the time Sit cross legged Slump even more Get angry and stressed Worry a lot, definitely sweat the small stuff Hold onto ‘stuff’ … Continue reading
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Tagged neck ache, semi supine, slumping, sore backs, stress
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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
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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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
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
Alexander Technique Is Like Harry Potter World!
‘Forward and Up Witch’ Today at school one of the children announced – ‘Alexander Technique is fun! You’re like a teacher from Harry Potter world Miss! Alexander Technique is Magic.’ (Funny how an image of the fuzzy … Continue reading
Permission to Stop
I took Maisie my crazy cockerpoo for a walk past the Stopping Permitted sign again today and couldn’t resit another lie down. Big blue skies, cold ground, whacky windmills! The weight of a surprised alert dog. A mad magic moment… … Continue reading
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Don’t just slump there – Ease out!
Don’t just slump there – Ease out! Don’t just do something – Stop! If you are reading this you may well be slumping, crouched over your phone or computer Ease out a bit Lie down in semi supine for a … Continue reading
Stopping Permitted!
Stopping Permitted! You might think that it’s easy to stop! How difficult can it be to just lie down and stop for a few minutes. All those juicy benefits should make it most appealing… – a … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Technique audio for Semi Supine, CD, letting go, semi supine
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Semi-supine – As easy as falling off a log!
Semi-supine as easy as falling off a log! Just arrange your body, your skeleton, into this easy position and let gravity do the rest. Easy peasy… Taking 17 minutes out for you to just ease out….well that may be a … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Technique audio for Semi Supine, back pain, letting go, semi supine
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Semi Supine… A daft poem by me!
Semi Supine by Kirsten Harris Taking 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 … Continue reading
Good for the Old Body
‘I wish I had known semi-supine was good for the old body sooner!’ Body Magic audio link here
A little verse
Taking Time To Lie in Semi Supine Is Good for the Spine And Helps you feel Fine! (Check out my media downloads for semi supine on the home page)