No more "auto pilot": Using Alexander Technique for Mindful Movement

I recently began working with a student who has been living with Parkinson’s for 20+ years.

I remembered reading about John Pepper, who consciously retrained his movements to overcome foot drag and tremor, and became curious about how his conscious attending to his walking, typically an unconscious and habitual motor task, allowed him to perhaps create neural pathways that could compensate for or bypass the areas of his brain impacted by Parkinson’s.

Alexander Technique asks us to perform automatic tasks in a conscious and novel way.