How are you supposed to sit on a chair? Most of us have never learned a thing about how sit. We’ve done it since we were children based entirely on what feels comfortable. Yet most people can’t sit comfortably on a flat chair, supporting themselves, for even a few minutes. To change how you sit, you have to have a conception of how to best sit. If you don’t even know what would be a good way to sit, nothing you do will improve your sitting. This video will hit some of the basics of sitting, so you can begin to implement a rational plan to improve how you sit. I offer lessons in the Initial Alexander Technique, which are conducted one-on-one with a teacher over Zoom. They are designed to help you gain conscious control over how you move your body. Most people have no idea what they’re doing with their body, and as they misuse their body, they end up with discomfort, pain, and other issues that they may not even realize are caused by what they’re doing to themselves. But how do you figure out what you’re doing wrong? And how do you change what you're doing and overcome lifelong habits? In an Initial Alexander Technique lesson, you will record yourself through Zoom, so you will be able to see and understand what you are doing when you stand, sit, walk, and perform other simple gestures. With the assistance of your teacher, you will come to understand how you are misusing the mechanisms of your body, and you will gain the ability to choose to use yourself in a more sensible way. You can learn how to use your body without pain. You can break free from long held habits. All you need is a system that works. For more information or to book a lesson, please visit my website: https://mechanicsofpoise.com/ You can contact me at: Delsartelessons@protonmail.com "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." F.M. Alexander

Join me in examining a speech given by Jeando Masoero, the creator of the Initial Alexander Technique. In this video, we look at the basic conception of muscular contraction, which is widely misunderstood. We also look at the broader understanding of the process of equilibrium control, which is much less instinctive and much more conscious than most people assume. You can view or download the full speech by Masoero here: https://www.academia.edu/28664459/A_technique_for_learning_to_think_to_develop_intelligent_physical_behavior_The_Particular_position_of_the_translator_GLOBAL_THINKING_IN_THEORY Initial Alexander Technique lessons are conducted one-on-one with a teacher over Zoom. They are designed to cultivate your ability to apply your rational mind to how you move. For more information about lessons you can visit my website or go straight to the creator of iAT, Jeando Masoero. My website: https://www.thegreatdupe.com/ Masoero's website: https://www.initial-alexandertechnique.org/ You can contact Masoero to set up lessons at: jeandomasoero.iat@gmail.com You can contact me at: DelsarteAlexanderMasoeroYou@protonmail.com “A technique is a cognitive way of carrying out a particular task depending on the context, it’s a set of intellectual rules and metacognitive rules that can command the execution of a procedure.” Jeando Masoero Credits for mages used in this video are listed below. The images have been repeatedly altered and annotated for use in this video. Muscular Contractions comparison image: Access for free at https://openstax.org/books/anatomy-and-physiology/pages/1-introduction © Sep 11, 2020 OpenStax. Textbook content produced by OpenStax is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 license. Latissimus Dorsi image: This image was made out of, or made from, content published in a BodyParts3D/Anatomography web site. The content of their website is published under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.1 Japan license. The author and licenser of the contents is • "BodyParts3D, © The Database Center for Life Science licensed under CC Attribution-Share Alike 2.1 Japan." http://lifesciencedb.jp/bp3d/?lng=en

The placement of the feet is one of the few things that Jeando Masoero disagrees with F.M. Alexander about. The debate would be a bit more lively had Alexander ever given much reasoning for his position. Nevertheless, we will look at the argument, and as the title should tell you, we will explore why Masoero’s position makes more sense. Featuring diagrams made by Jeando Masoero. BodyParts3D, © The Database Center for Life Science licensed under CC Attribution-Share Alike 2.1 Japan. I offer lessons in the Initial Alexander Technique, which are conducted one-on-one with a teacher over Zoom. They are designed to help you gain conscious control over how you move your body. Most people have no idea what they’re doing with their body, and as they misuse their body, they end up with discomfort, pain, and other issues that they may not even realize are caused by what they’re doing to themselves. But how do you figure out what you’re doing wrong? And how do you change what you're doing and overcome lifelong habits? In an Initial Alexander Technique lesson, you will record yourself through Zoom, so you will be able to see and understand what you are doing when you stand, sit, walk, and perform other simple gestures. With the assistance of your teacher, you will come to understand how you are misusing the mechanisms of your body, and you will gain the ability to choose to use yourself in a more sensible way. You can learn how to use your body without pain. You can break free from long held habits. All you need is a system that works. For more information or to book a lesson, please visit my website: https://mechanicsofpoise.com/ You can contact me at: Delsartelessons@protonmail.com "I must again impress upon the reader that these new sensory experiences will at first feel wrong." F.M. Alexander

After giving specific definitions for the possible directions of movement, we learn the basic setup for how to perform a rationally guided postural adjustment. Initial Alexander Technique lessons are conducted one-on-one with a teacher over Zoom. They are designed to cultivate your ability to apply your rational mind to how you move. For more information about lessons you can visit my website or go straight to the creator of iAT, Jeando Masoero. My website: https://www.thegreatdupe.com/ Masoero's website: https://www.initial-alexandertechnique.org/ You can contact Masoero to set up lessons at: jeandomasoero.iat@gmail.com You can contact me at: DelsarteAlexanderMasoeroYou@protonmail.com "Let me make myself clear by explaining that the man who breathes incorrectly and inadequately, does so as an immediate and inevitable consequence of abnormal and harmful conditions of certain parts of his body. The man who breathes correctly and adequately does so as an immediate and inevitable consequence of normal and salubrious conditions of the same parts. It therefore follows that if the conditions present in the second man can be induced in the first, he will then, but not otherwise, be a correct and adequate breather. And the process by which this is achieved is simply a readjustment of the parts of the body by a new and correct use of the muscular mechanisms through the directive agent of the sphere of consciousness." F.M. Alexander