Performing WellCAST: Alexander Technique

[@ruthw1995]

This is the first Alexander technique video that hasn't made it seem like scientology for sitting down

[@nneisler]

Meditation and yoga is made up too

[@charliegedge5226]

@@nneisler what do you mean made up?

[@nneisler]

Charlie Gedge meaning is you think Alexander technique is like Scientology then you probably don’t appreciate yoga

[@russdewolf8705]

@@nneisler Nonsense. I've been practicing yoga for ten years and meditating for five. Yoga in particular can be a form of strenuous exercise in and of itself, depending on what kind is being practiced. Of course one could argue that claims of spiritual mumbo jumbo effects are "made up", but the mechanics of the practice can be intensely athletic.

[@nneisler]

@@russdewolf8705 thanks. It was dry sarcasm on my part as meditation and yoga have been shown to have many positive health effects

[@daveydoodle52]

I have watched many videos about Alexander Technique, and this is the first one that makes sense to me. I appreciate your concise explanation and practical demonstration. Jonathan's personal, unpretentious before-and-after illustration complements the theoretical outline. Good job. Thanks!

[@AlexanderTechniqueMadeEasy]

Check mine.

[@PeruvianTreeProductions]

Lovely little guidelines.

[@thebeasters]

It gives a flow

[@TheCampshade]

The negative responses on here amaze me. Why would anyone discourage a technique that obviously helps a musician? I am willing to try any new ideas to rid myself of the tension that constricts my art. Thank you for this video. I can't afford the classes, but I appreciate the advice.

[@creatureencounters3897]

Came for the asmr potential. Stayed for the Alexander lesson

[@AnthonyMonaghan]

What a beautiful instrument the Oboe is. Johnathan played it wonderfully. As an amateur musician I'd like to explore the Alexander Technique, classes however are very expensive in New Zealand. Thanks for this intro.

[@Roller_Ghoster]

It's all about the head neck balance

[@moegreene7940]

Effort. Less.

[@Kate-xj7ld]

Moe Greene lovely little guidelines.

[@michaeltilley8708]

You don’t move ME forward and up, I move YOU forward and up!

[@thebeasters]

Think of it like a Kite

[@drewprice8468]

It gives a flow…to the whole being

[@giorgiorosa4402]

This video is really very good and I think that I will watch it many times until I get the basics down. I find that with Alexander Technique it works best to take a few of the principles and work with them over a few weeks before going back for more. This was great.

[@AlexanderTechniqueMadeEasy]

Very well explained. Great video. We continue to create content that really helps people.

[@MrFirstdance2000]

Music was well chosen for this visual piece. Excellent ambience to both view and listen to.

[@melvinbrennaniii2355]

Quite quickly

[@MaiMai-eo7zk]

Melvin Brennan III lovely little guidelines

[@SuperBlazeomatic]

I hope Gita made it through law school ok....

[@popcornadvisor3193]

it gives a flow!

[@naziminterstingly2227]

Free neck

[@k.pacificnw02134]

Going for a swim or riding your bike? You better let that damn neck be free.

[@chevaova]

Thank you for the wonderful introduction. Although I attended acting school, I did not take this class. I am now curious and eager to learn more.

[@Doey135]

Allow the neck to be free

[@thebeasters]

Forward... And up

[@itsdaeyonglim]

Thank you for existing

[@waproducts5695]

Great video! I'm sure that I have a lot of the negative habits that Jonathan once had. However, I'm going to try and be more aware of my posture and balance. Thank you making this video!

[@benblessing]

I need more information like this for my beginner band students

[@adriataylor7534]

that is very interesting how we we carry our bodies can dictate how we perform our instruments

[@Poemsapennyeach]

Useful.Thanks. I need to be alert to 'head grabbing ' with my neck muscles.

[@JesseColton]

I'm so happy that literally all these comments are references to Diana Devvitt Dawson. I'm so proud of you all. Also, remember the lovely little guidelines

[@JesseColton]

@favored&graced Perhaps you need to allow your neck to be free

[@alanna4858]

I’ve just found this and I’m reading the comments out to my fiancé and we are pissing ourselves laughing. Absolute class. Hello Diana community, remember it can be very flexible!

[@JesseColton]

​@@alanna4858 That's hilarious I love it 😂

[@drewprice8468]

@@JesseColton….that’s understood

[@michaellawlor1267]

Brilliantly simple and effective

[@prithvishetty6938]

I enjoyed this, thank you so much

[@hadihadihadi]

This was very clear, thank you!

[@MagnumDB]

So… FM Alexander was NOT a doctor or medical professional of any kind? He was an actor? And you say he “determined” it was his posture that made him lose his voice? Did he ever seek out any guidance or help or get any sort of input from any medical professional about why he may have lost his voice? Did he get any other opinion from any source other than his own non-medical “determination”? I agree that anxiety can manifest physically. When you’re anxious your body does get physically tense. I understand and accept that posture can help you in many ways, and I understand and accept that if your body feels better, your mind will feel a little better. But I have a hard time accepting that Alexander “determined“ his posture lead to a loss of voice. Are there any recordings of him speaking with a clear voice and recordings of him not being able to speak?

[@krm634]

Yes, F. M. Alexander sought help from medical professionals and it was because their advice did not lead to improvements he began the journey of self exploration and from the discoveries he made about his use of the self gradually a method today known as Alexander Technique was born. I do not know if there are recordings of him speaking since it was at the end of 19th century that his voice problems started and recording ones voice was not a common thing but according to his and his contemporaries accounts he literally lost his voice while performing. There are numerous web pages that talk more thoroughly about his journey should you be more interested and he himself has written several books. "Use of the Self" is a book where he very precisely describes his self-observation and discoveries.

[@akforge]

Love that you made this video and performed the demonstration barefoot.

[@ThePaul1010]

3:40

[@cl1xor]

“You need a bigger chair.. that’ll be 50$ please”

[@randy7068]

It's a series of triangles I call triangles.

[@MaiMai-eo7zk]

The esoteric healing video!

[@rafaelrosal.]

8:58 so it’s ok to slightly spread the legs.

[@aidaspinilla732]

Mr. Dugger is cool

[@ScarDreamz]

cool

[@stefansalaices5592]

what a cool man

[@teddy-ku9rf]

very cool

[@etp7393]

Truely a true

[@marq_8976]

Is he breathing through his mouth???

[@tomyates2901]

The chair is not "way too short for Jonathan", and he doesn't need a stool in order to find his sit bones, breathe, etc. If our highest positive value in the Alexander Technique is flexibility, in order that we can adapt ourselves to the ever-changing circumstances of life, why spend so much time on finding correct positions and correct furniture? Let's see what F.M Alexander himself had to say about our search for the "the ideal chair". From chapter 7 of his first book, Man's Supreme Inheritance: I am continually being asked, both by friends and unknown correspondents, for my opinion concerning the correct type of chair, stool, desk or table to be used in order to prevent the bad habits which these pieces of furniture are supposed to have caused in schools. In my replies I have tried to demonstrate that the problem is being attacked from the wrong standpoint. Let us consider the problem in the light of common sense. Suppose, for example, that there is an ideal chair, some wonderful arrangement of perfect angles, hollows, and supports that will almost magically rectify or prevent every fault in the child’s physical mechanism. Suppose further that the child finds great ease and repose when seated in this ideal chair. How then can he avoid suffering the tortures of all that is uncomfortable, when he rides in the cars, or sits down in his own home, or visits a friend, or goes for a picnic on the river or in the woods? I see nothing else for it; when that ideal chair has been found, our child will have to carry it about with him wherever he goes. In the second place, how is it possible for this ideal chair to be miraculously adaptable to every age and type of child? Are we to treat children as plastic lumps of clay to be fitted to the model insisted upon by the lines of our ideal chair; or are we to study and measure each individual and have a chair built to his measure, once a year, say, until he is adult? No, what we need to do is not to educate our school furniture, but to educate our children. Give a child the ability to adapt himself within reasonable limits to his environment, and he will not suffer discomfort, nor develop bad physical habits, whatever chair or form you give him to sit upon. Let us waste no valuable time, thought, or invention in designing furniture, when by a smaller expenditure of those three gifts we may train the child to win its own conscious control, and rise superior to any probable limitations imposed by ordinary school fittings.

[@pinakibhome3075]

this guy is high. too high

[@tomyates2901]

@@pinakibhome3075 for what?

[@moegreene7940]

@@pinakibhome3075 “sir, this is a Wendy’s”

[@giorgiorosa4402]

This is amazing thanks.

[@tomyates2901]

@@giorgiorosa4402 terrific. How did it help you?

[@jmoz]

This is the most dramatic sitting video I’ve ever seen

[@naziminterstingly2227]

Free neck

[@TheMeJustMe75]

Yesssssssss

[@neilcarroll4579]

I didn't even know you could hire stools

[@bradlabree6480]

I don’t think she’s using a teleprompter. Impressive.

[@danwright169]

Yeah believe that was his speech

[@poetikandy]

Stay back in yer back

[@chrisd530]

Not enough law being studied.

[@shyamfootprints972]

somehow this whole video felt a bit sad…

[@xgalarion8659]

that old lady is scary. And something is wrong with jonathan. But i'll listen cause maybe there is some sense underneath all this cultistry

[@lynnmorgenstern6629]

3

[@chrisloukes424]

Emperor's new clothes. Nonsense.

[@darek_kosinski]

🧢🧢🧢

[@danday3741]

She is a bully.