In our ongoing exploration of Alexander Technique and non-doing, last week I had my college students read and discuss Ross Gay’s essay...

The other day I was walking at Smith and Bybee Lakes next to my son. It was a gorgeous day—warm enough for a thick hoodie and scarf,...

We’re deep into the season when we are supposed to be joyful. Whether we like it or not. And coming to the end of yet another year of...

It is entirely possible (if inadvisable) for me to eat a meal while careening down the freeway at 65 miles per hour and simultaneously...

“Not only did [Alexander Technique] … calm me down, but it … brought me back to myself … and less into anxiety brain of like, ‘you're...

There is an old fable. I’m not sure of its origins, though I’m sure one could find out with a little internet digging. It’s the plot of...

Asking the right questions might be most life-affirming favor we can do for someone. Or for ourselves.

My ability to manage the HOW I do things is the difference between feeling steamrolled by my life and feeling like I can (just) manage it.

Changing my position, giving myself, quite literally, a different perspective, tends to rattle something free in my brain.

To do one thing at a time is so unusual in our culture that we may feel sheepish doing it. It’s downright counter-cultural. It’s radical.

A warm-up is a preparation. It may, quite literally, warm one up, but it also gets one in the right frame of mind to do whatever is next.

Isn’t it funny, I thought to myself, that I react to fatigue by doing things that make life harder for myself?

When I stop and really STAY in this moment, I realize the effort I was making to try to be in two places at once.

I am Inhibiting the habit of uselessly stressing myself out over everything else. Because there will be a season for those things too.

You know it’s a bad sign when you can’t remember how to turn off your computer. Evidence of the epic need for my newest undertaking: day OFF

As someone born and raised in the mountains and an Alexander Technique teacher to boot, I'm awarding myself temporary expert status.