Somatic Primer Podcast Jeando Masoero: Initial Alexander Technique
On this episode I had the pleasure to discuss the Alexander Technique with Jeando Masoero. Jeando is a master teacher and translator of F.M. Alexander's work, having translated all of Alexander's books into French. While working on these translations Jeando discovered that Alexander had studied and was a teacher of the Delsarte Method of Movement which is remarkably similar to Alexander's early approach to his Technique. Realizing this connection Jeando focused on this early work and created his own version of the Alexander Technique the Initial Alexander Technique.
His special interests are:
1.teaching Conscious Control of the postural mechanism,
2.studying self-speech (instructions or orders) as a means to develop the executive functions and the higher mental functions,
3.experimenting how using a conception (a psycho-mechanical representation) can change the use of the self.
If you’d like to find about Jeando you can visit https://www.initial-alexandertechnique.org
In this episode we discuss
- Why his method is challenging for new practitioners
- How habits play a role in the use of the self
- A new way of moving through directing the bones
- Creating experiments to discover new movements
- How the hyoid bone affects breathing and the use of the thorax
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