Alexander Technique with Ada Hajaj

02/02/2025

Plantar Faciitis, balance, foot health, confident movement- become friends with your feet!

If you're struggling with Plantar Fasciitis then try the exact routine that I did to fix my plantar fasciitis in less than a month. This routine addresses no...

11/02/2024

The first step is the underststanding.
Then we can take action.

This cohort study examines the health outcomes associated with prolonged occupational sitting and assesses the additional amount of physical activity that may be needed to attenuate it.

07/26/2024

Gertrude Ederle was the first woman to cross the English channel, in 1926. She had to have incredibly efficient use of her mind- body, to swim around 36 miles in freezing waters. This photo of her gait reminded me of another photo, of FM.
Do you see the full expansion of the muscles, the head forward and up, the open hip movement? And the hand with fully directed fingers?

11/12/2022

Did you know? The position looks very uncomfortable, but demonstrates the dermatomes in an unforgettable way

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Having trouble memorizing the dermatomes? Thinking about them from an evolutionary perspective may help!?
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‪This picture shows a great way to define a dermatome!‬
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Medical definition of a dermatome: “A dermatome is an area of skin that is mainly supplied by a single spinal nerve. There are 8 cervical nerves (C1 being an exception with no dermatome), 12 thoracic nerves, 5 lumbar nerves and 5 sacral nerves. Each of these nerves relays sensation (including pain) from a particular region of skin to the brain.
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A dermatome also refers to the part of an embryonic somite.
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Along the thorax and abdomen the dermatomes are like a stack of discs forming a human, each supplied by a different spinal nerve. Along the arms and the legs, the pattern is different: the dermatomes run longitudinally along the limbs. Although the general pattern is similar in all people, the precise areas of innervation are as unique to an individual as fingerprints.
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A similar area innervated by peripheral nerves is called a peripheral nerve field.”
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06/24/2022

06/19/2022

For everyone who thinks we should learn to breathe, focus on breathing, control the breathing and all such nonsense. We breathe like the ocean and the only thing we achieve by interfering is just that.

11/25/2021

I bet you did not know this:
https://uk.touchpoint.dk/news.asp?ID=26985

11/12/2021

F.M. Alexander founded a school for children, where his ideas were implemented. Below is a radio interview with a man who as a child was a student of Alexander in the Little School.
Notice the photo and the way the children are sitting..
https://alexandertrust.org.uk/aiovg_videos/john-best-interview/

John Best in conversation with Ruth Patterson John Best (9 mins) John remembers his time in the 1930s and 1940s at the Alexander little school at Penhill and later at Stowe in Massachusetts. image of FM Alexander teaching at the little school This is one of three interviews about the Alexander Techn...

03/27/2021

May we be springy!

Happy Passover tonight! May we be free in our thinking and in our body, grow our wisdom and the capacity to maintain our balance and stability while curiously responding to the swirl of information blowing around. May we all be springy!

09/10/2020

Thinking about my body direction in simple form has always worked for me.

09/09/2020

https://youtu.be/OyyaQebrQgc

June 12 (Bloomberg) -- Karen Krueger, nationally certified teacher of the Alexander Technique, talks with Bloomberg Law's Spencer Mazyck about her transition...

09/01/2020

https://www.nextavenue.org/the-alexander-technique/

Musicians and actors have long embraced this route to ease of movement