Jeremy's Blog

24 Apr

You’re Getting too Close!

by Jeremy Chance

Have you ever had that feeling of being disturbed by someone in a ZOOM session – and not knowing why?

It happened to me recently with a translator of my session. He was appearing as a head only, even occasioning missing a neck. But his head was close, his eyes looming large at me.

23 Apr

An Academic Who Dances

by Jeremy Chance

Your academic friends all behave similarly right?

The love books. They want to debate you - they have strong opinions, write essays and hang out with their intellectual friends.

Scary almost. So what do you make of this person…

22 Apr

How to Get Out of Your ZOOM Cocoon

by Jeremy Chance

When the share market crashed in March 2020, I looked at some share prices on my iPhone. Everything was in red, except one. It stood out in green – which meant its price was going up, not down.

“What is that stock?!” I wondered.

A closer look revealed it to be ZOOM.

21 Apr

Teaching Online – Golden Week Symposium

by Jeremy Chance

I hope you are enjoying my series of emails about my experiences with Marjorie Barstow?

For the next two weeks I am going pause that, and instead write about teaching online. This can be for anyone who is teaching online. If that’s not you, you can safely ignore these emails.

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17 Apr

Cold Dagger Eyes of Enlightenment

by Jeremy Chance

We all knew about that look.

Marj saved it for the best of us. Marjorie Barstow (1899-1995) was the first teacher to qualify and leave FM Alexander’s training school in London. All the other trainees were told to stay another year, but FM let Marj free.

And there was a reason for that.

16 Apr

Remarkable Discoveries About Frozen “50-Year Old” Shoulders

by Jeremy Chance

It happened about two hours after my unprecedented 40-minute lesson with Marj.

Marjorie Barstow (1899-1995) – my precious teacher - had never previously given me a direct touch lesson longer than 5 mins! Even so, at its immediate end, I could not say the sun was shinning out of my primary control (head/spine relationship).

15 Apr

How I Fixed My Frozen "50-Year" Shoulder

by Jeremy Chance

"I'm no arm-fixer!" Marj declared.

We were sitting in two chairs as she worked with my aching arm.

14 Apr

My Arm Dislocates My Life

by Jeremy Chance

Marjorie Barstow (1899~1995) debuted in Europe at the 1988 Alexander Congress in Brighton in the UK.

This trip to London was not long after my father died – which regular readers of the Posture Daily know threw me into an existential crisis vis-à-vis my Alexander work. I lost all urgency and direction, which was a strange form for grieving to appear.

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