June 2018

26 Jun

The Clock is Ticking

by Jeremy Chance

The clock is ticking on an exclusive opportunity to add to your collection of classic Alexander videos for absolutely free.

To find out more - head over here and view my free BodyThinking webinar:

https://vimeo.com/276962925

In this video, I show how my bodymapping course - BodyThinking Online - is the basis of a teaching style that gives you entrance to working with all kinds of sophisticated and highly skilled activities.

It involves understanding three things:

25 Jun

Intelligent Pain Relief - BodyThinking Style

by Jeremy Chance

Years ago, I had a student who was a Manager of a Post Office in Japan.

He suffered from severe back pain, and his doctors advised he have a lumbar laminectomy to relieve his pain. It involves surgically removing some bone from his spine.

No-one likes a part of their body being removed.

24 Jun

Free BodyThinking Online Session with Jeremy

by Jeremy Chance

On Monday, I will be offering a free BodyThinking session.

I wrote Tuesday in an email earlier today - but that is in Japan!

In Europe and USA, it will still be Monday.

I am sending details to those who have registered.

24 Jun

Become Your Own Therapist

by Jeremy Chance

A Dentist does not have to explain what a Dentist does.

However, a teacher of Alexander's discovery is not widely understood. It can be like this:

If your tooth hurts, you go to a Dentist.

If your back hurts - who do you go to?

21 Jun

Dystonia Set Free

by Jeremy Chance

She was suffering from dystonia in her fingers.

Not good for a professional clarinettist. Fingers shaking uncontrollably - the pinkie refusing to obey her instructions to arrive where required. Musical mismatch.

Am I a dystonia fixer?

Good lord no.

20 Jun

Arrogant AT Teacher Gets His Own

by Jeremy Chance

One long-time reader wrote me a polite letter, explaining why he was unsubscribing.

It seemed my email yesterday - "The Alexander Technique is a Nonsense Concept" went a little too far in his opinion.

Too far how?

Ah, that's the puzzling part for me.

18 Jun

The Alexander Technique is A Nonsense Concept

by Jeremy Chance

There is no Alexander Technique. That's a kind of nonsense concept.

That's like saying that the reason light, matter and energy do what they do is because Einstein invented it. It's the Einstein Technique - which is a nonsense concept too.

But I jump ahead - let me start at the beginning…

15 Jun

Weird and Unnecessary Things

by Jeremy Chance

"I want to make this sound."

He's a flute player, and he's asking for help from me, the Alexscovery teacher.

CHANCER: Have you made this sound before?

"No."

14 Jun

A Student is A Cactus in a Flower Pot

by Jeremy Chance

In my apartment in Tokyo - outside the bedroom - I have a cactus growing. In 5 years, it hasn't grown much. It still looks the same.

A cactus is like that. It is extremely limited in growth protentional.

13 Jun

Climb Every Mountain, Follow Every Stream

by Jeremy Chance

I am not an anatomist or someone with a natural born interest in such matters.

It's a mountain of knowledge that I was never tempted to climb, sorry Julie Andrews.

As a boy, I didn't even tinker with my Meccano set - much to the chagrin of my dad. (Next he tried a cricket bat, but I wasn't much interested in that either. Poor dad.)

11 Jun

She Led Me Into An Unknown Place

by Jeremy Chance

Kie plays the flute, and beautifully too.

She is an attractive, bright student of Alexander's discovery at BodyChance, and yesterday she was asked me:

"I want to play more smoothly in this passage, can you help?"

08 Jun

Identity Confusion - Overcoming An Alexscovery Complex

by Jeremy Chance

Today I ran an assessment of a 2nd Stage trainees.

In BodyChance Pro - our training school for teachers - to "graduate" to your 3rd Stage of training, you must deliver an individual lesson to a beginner - that you find on your own - while one of your teachers observes the lesson. Today, I was the observing teacher!

07 Jun

Saying Yes to What is No

by Jeremy Chance

A lot of my teaching these days is about how to think.

For example, a student complained to me this morning that she was having trouble filling out her CV because of "pressure" in her hand.

I asked her to show me and - to any seasoned observer - it was immediately apparent why she was having problems. Downward pressure through head and spine as her preliminary act to writing. Obvious to me.

However - not apparent to her. Otherwise, why ask?

06 Jun

Smart Phone Mental Lock

by Jeremy Chance

Simon Cowell - the bitchy judge from Britain's Got Talent - recently announced he hadn't touched his Smart Phone for ten months. I guess it a lark of the elite NOT to HAVE a smart phone these days.

05 Jun

It's Not About Posture! Oh, but it is.

by Jeremy Chance

Alexscovery teachers love to diss the idea that our work is about "posture".

04 Jun

What's Better Than Having An Alexscovery Niche?

by Jeremy Chance

Along the way, many Alexscovery teachers have lamented to me about the ATSuccess 12-Step plan to building a niche community:

"But Jeremy, I don't have a niche. I love Alexander. WHAT DO I DO?"

01 Jun

What's a 2/98 Plan?

by Jeremy Chance

Have you ever heard of the Pareto Principle?

It's an interesting law that seems to hold true in multiple situations. It's known by another name - the 80|20 Principle - and the name is based on the discovery by Pareto that 20% of the people owned 80% of the land of Italy. That was a long time ago now.