Meditations On The Sensory World
DaVinci’s Sensus Communis There are three senses most of us know little about. They’re rarely acknowledged or consciously cultivated. They’re vital to us and we could not live without them. They’re...
View ArticleThe Physiology Of The Human Spirit
Last week, in Seoul, Korea, my workshop theme was, The Physiology Of The Human Spirit. Leonardo daVinci set out to discover the seat of the soul. No small task. He explored an area of the body known,...
View ArticleThe World In A Dewdrop
Photo: B. Fertman It’s uncanny. You start working with a person doing some simple activity, like eating an apple. You slow it all down. You give someone a chance to sense how they’re doing what...
View ArticleMasters of Gravity – Kan Sensei and Michael Sensei
Rabbi Abraham Heschel said, “You cannot know one religion unless you know two.” I’d say the same when it comes to somatically-based practices as well. I forged a career as an Alexander Technique...
View ArticleThe Alexander Alliance Post Graduate Training – Switzerland 2018/2019 – With...
Photo: B. Fertman Alexander Alliance Post Graduate Training Program In Europe, Asia, and America, classically trained Alexander teachers are asking me to teach them how I work. They seem especially...
View ArticleJust A Hunch
photo: Bruce Fertman Just A Hunch Through the pressure generated between the growing head and the growing heart, the face is sculpted. Three ridges. One will become the brow, one the nose, one the...
View ArticleFrom Here To Really Here – A Workshop For Alexander Teachers and Trainees –...
Inhibition and Direction go together like Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire, like Abbott and Costello, like Batman and Robin, like Tonto and the Lone Ranger. Like Yin and Yang. Actually a lot like yin...
View ArticleSalmon Rising/Water Falling – Understanding Alexandrian Directionality – For...
Alexander’s sequence of verbal directions, let the neck be free, etc., I see as a shorthand that, when deeply understood, triggers a directional weave of inherent support that pervades and frees...
View ArticleA Reading: The Lost Procedure – The Gift of Rotation and Spiraling In Walking
“So we saunter toward the Holy Land, till one day the sun shall shine more brightly than ever he has done, shall perchance shine into our minds and hearts, and light up our whole lives with a great...
View ArticleA Grace of Sense – Where Our Inner World and Outer World Meet – Part I – A 10...
Already people have registered to partake in, A Grace of Sense – Where Our Inner World and Outer World Meet, from Scotland, England, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Iran, Australia, New Zealand,...
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