Teachers Who Speak Nonsense
Nov 01, 2019What do you do when a teacher you admire speaks nonsense?
Things Like:
- keep your spine straight
- keep your shoulders down as you raise your arms
- imagine a string from the top of your head
- tuck in your pelvis to stabilize your stance
- send your back, back
- breath into your belly
ALL innocent nonsense.
Like a 5 year old wandering about in a dream world - it is meant well enough. There is no harm indented, even if the results produce distress.
What do you do?
You need a translation service.
Your teacher may know what they want, they just don’t always know how to get there. Their ignorance is based on an ignorance of Alexander's discovery, and how that knowledge can inform their understanding of your movement.
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