Thursday, June 15, 1978

Judy tells people it takes from 10 to 15 lessons to start to understand, and 30 to become facile and familiar.

Walking:

Your spine is the axis around which you rotate.

As the knee bends, it's coming from the small of the back.

We are doing all of these things with the context of a center.

We are dealing with the total lengthening of the spine and the poise of the head.

On releasing the legs on the table: we are trying to get a leg that we can stand on.

Judith: "The technique allows genius to flower."

Idelle Packer, MS, PT, mAmSAT, certified teacher of the Alexander Technique, has been creatively exploring its broad application for over 35 years. In her private practice, Body Sense, in Asheville, NC, she teaches the Alexander Technique in context of physical therapy assessment and rehabilitation. She authored the chapter on the Alexander Technique in Springer Publishers’ Encyclopedia of Complementary Health Practices (1999). Her current passion is Contact Improvisation, a somatic and athletic improvisation form, to which she has been joyfully integrating the principles of the Technique over the past fifteen+ years.