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Song For The Asking
Over the years many students have written to me asking me questions about the Alexander Technique: questions about body and being, about the sensory and the spiritual, about poise and peace. I’ve...
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Up On The Roof
Photo: B. Fertman Here’s a letter, an inquiry, from an Alexander Technique teacher, and professor of Architecture at Berkeley. Attempting to answer such good questions, as this one below, will help...
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Direction Unknown
Photo: B. Fertman, Coyote, New Mexico from Letters To A Young Student… How do I know when I am moving in the right direction? It’s simple questions, like this one, that lead us in the right direction....
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Neck And Neck
…from A Body Of Knowledge – Letters To A Young Student If the wrist is the “neck of the hand”, and the ankles the “neck of the feet”, (the literal translations in both Korean and Japanese for wrist...
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Tears Of Recognition
Photo: B. Fertman (from a collection of stories on teaching entitled, Openings). A woman wanted me to watch her teaching yoga. That’s part of what I do; watch people working and coach them as to how to...
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One Small Gesture Of Kindness
A mother, 70, has a son with cerebral palsy. He is now 40 years old. The mother is small and the son is not. For years the mother has lifted her son from his wheelchair to the toilet, and back...
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The Walker
At Crosslands, a Quaker retirement community, fifteen eager students, between the ages of 85 and 105, wait for the workshop to begin. After learning everyone’s name, and talking a bit about what will...
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Spill
Photo: B. Fertman Do not spill thyself; neither lean forward into appearances nor opinions. Receive the light as it shines directly down upon you and through you. Know that this lightness resides in...
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Every Step You Take
Photo: B. Fertman By Keiko Ishii* I had an operation on my right hip joint nearly three years ago. With a new artificial hip joint, my walking is fairly normal. Recently I learned that the cartilage...
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Ohanami
Photo: B. Fertman This life of ours would not cause you sorrow if you thought of it as like the mountain cherry blossoms which bloom and fade in a day. MURASAKI SHIKIBU (974-1031)
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Perceptions
Photo: B. Fertman Perception …a way of regarding, understanding, or interpreting something; intuitive understanding and insight. How are these two women feeling? Look closely. What do you actually see,...
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The Stampede
There’s nothing quite like real life. Helping people who come to our studio for lessons to become more physically and personally comfortable really does help. Sometimes a lot. It’s a beginning....
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On The Grounds Of Modesty
Photo: B. Fertman Bruce, Today I have a question for you. It’s about the center of the body. People often say the center of body is near the navel. But when I think about the navel as my center I tend...
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Backhope Telesummit. Free. A Real Opportunity.
http://backhope.com/ Yes I plan to do the whole course. Lower back pain visited all the men in my family as far back as i can trace. Whether it is genetic or learned or both I will probably never know....
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Neck And Neck
…from A Body Of Knowledge – Letters To A Young Student If the wrist is the “neck of the hand”, and the ankles the “neck of the feet”, (the literal translations in both Korean and Japanese for wrist...
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Moms
Photo: B. Fertman …from Where This Path Begins Renderings from the Tao Te Ching by Bruce Fertman Sphere within a Sphere. A child grows. Sphere within a Sphere. Without knowing this child, she loves...
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Life Is With People – Nov 2012 – Mar 2013 – Workshops in Japan
This video is in honor of all the bright, inquisitive, lively students who took my workshops. It’s a thank you present from me, to you. I’ll be returning to Japan, my second home, in the beginning of...
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Just Between Us
Photo: B. Fertman It’s crowded. The waitress finds us a corner table. I watch Erika quickly size up the situation. She sees there’s not a lot of room around the table and proceeds straight away to...
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A Little Lightness
Photo: B. Fertman Mr. Yamamoto has had a long day. Finally finished, he gets on his bicycle and winds his way through narrow streets lined with old, dusty shops and brown wood weathered houses. It’s...
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Beauty
A celebratory video honoring the artists coming this weekend to Santa Fe to grace us with their beauty. Photos and compilation by B. Fertman
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