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A person’s voice is like an MRI that reveals immediately how much of her body is available to the breath—and so, too, how much of her being is available to the Present. When the body is liberated from its divisions, it becomes a fluid medium through the entirety of which the breath travels like a wave. Like a living graph, the voice reveals the pro

systematic changes in neural structure

How we learn to habituate movement is a process called ‘body mapping’. Anything we do regularly will become ‘mapped’ in the somatosensory part of the brain (a process that has been understood with the help of the advent of FMRI imaging of the brain over the last twenty years). It is useful to remember this when we practise yoga – that when we repea

Schleip recommends an attitudinal shift that is clearly beneficial to both manual and movement practitioners. It errs towards fostering self-regulation as the purpose of any intervention, rather than creating dependency upon the teacher.

Wie ist es möglich, dass ein Hörer schon nach wenigen Takten eine Sinfonie von Gustav Mahler erkennt, selbst wenn er das Stück nie zuvor gehört hat?

The Alexander Technique isn’t humanity’s next evolutionary step, but it really could make an enormous difference if more people applied its principles. The world doesn’t need better posture – as I said, poor posture is a very First World problem. The world needs more people who can inhibit, can pause and reconsider before acting. People who are fre