Tips for Teaching Online-Part II

Previously – check my blog – I gave a detailed guide to an exercise to use online - or at workshops, with an individual or even at a party – that offers an “Alexander experience” to a newbie.

It was effective until I found a better way.

And what’s that?

It has a lot of moving parts – like anything simple and effective, it is complex. Think iPhone. Getting to simple is complicated.

What you need to do is show how thought influences movement – in a dramatic, unmistakably way. Martial Arts of various kinds have produced exercises that demonstrate this way. Mine exercise is based on two types of knowledge:

1. Human joints, muscles & ROM (Range Of Movement)
2. Alexander’s Discovery – head/spinal systemic calibration

We have been gathering information about our structural design for hundreds – even thousands of years. Although there are still debates - e.g. is the sacroiliac joint mobile or not? – generally speaking, anatomists agree on the fundamental arrangements of our joints, muscles and ranges of movement.

However, a vast majority of people are ignorant of this. Simple things. Look at the ubiquitous emoticons used in Facebook and text messages.

What’s wrong with them?

Can’t guess? There’s no brain.

The face is not the head – yet this is what most people believe. They think their head is situated around their neck. If you ask a group of people to walk around a room – and alternate in thinking:

- their head is where their brain is; or 
- their head is where their face is;

Just this simple thinking experiment will bring about a dramatic change in the quality of walking.

Try it. There’s a lot more to be said, and I’ll get to that next.

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Meanwhile, a fuller description of my presentation is available at the link below. BodyChance’s Golden Week Symposium on “How to Teach - & Learn – Alexander Online” starts on May 1st. You can read details about what else is on offer by clicking on the link below:

https://bodychance.mykajabi.com/how-to-teach-alexander-online