EP 127 — Eileen Troberman: The Alexander Technique For Body-Mind Freedom

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Mar 9, 2021

In this engaging conversation, Eileen Troberman, a master teacher of the Alexander Technique, shares insights on how to achieve body-mind freedom. She explains how this technique can ease tension and improve movement efficiency. Eileen's journey includes fascinating coincidences leading her to this practice. Listeners discover practical exercises to reduce anxiety and enhance relaxation, alongside the importance of self-awareness and letting go of tension. Discover how the Alexander Technique can transform not just physical health but emotional well-being too.

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INSIGHT

Alexander Technique as Sensory Awareness

Alexander Technique is a sensory experience hard to define with words.
It teaches you to recognize self-interference and undo habits to restore natural, efficient movement.

ANECDOTE

Eileen's Unexpected Path to Alexander

Eileen Troberman discovered the Alexander Technique through a chance meeting at a laundromat and initial reluctance.
After experiencing relief from chronic pain and tension, she committed intensively to learning and teaching Alexander Technique.

INSIGHT

Inhibition Unlocks New Movement Patterns

Alexander Technique works by consciously canceling habitual movement signals, not layering new ones.
This inhibition immediately modifies sensory feedback, creating lasting changes in coordination.

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Are you having trouble overcoming tensions that get in the way of living a more stress-free life?

Master Practitioner Eileen Troberman describes the Alexander Technique and shares some simple techniques that combine movement and consciousness to ease tension in your body in this relaxing Living 4D conversation.

Learn more about Eileen’s work on her website and YouTube.

Show Notes

Learning yoga from an unskilled practitioner could be fatal. (9:52)
The Alexander Technique is a sensory experience. (12:59)
Eileen’s journey to becoming an Alexander instructor was fueled by massive coincidences around doing laundry. (23:27)
Eileen studied under Marjorie Barstow, the first graduate of F.M. Alexander’s first training course in 1933. (32:41)
How the Alexander Technique works by undoing signals and making movement more efficient. (40:19)
Using the Alexander Technique to work with your emotions and relationships. (52:12)
Treating breathing problems with the Alexander Technique. (1:10:43)
Do habits and good intentions work together to create positive change? (1:17:30)
Eileen shares some quick and easy exercises you can do on your own. (1:34:12)
Focusing on your ease to lessen anxiety. (1:56:35)
The healthy, relaxing release of non-doing and letting go. (2:13:14)
“If you think, just don’t tighten first, you’re already tightening but you don’t know it yet.” (2:21:25)
Does concentration promote tension? (2:28:43)

Resources

The Use of The Self by F.M. Alexander
The Feldenkrais Method
The work of Charles Keeling and Capt. Gerald Coffee
Aldous Huxley, Consciousness and the Alexander Technique
Emotional Anatomy: The Structure of Experience by Stanley Keleman
Paul’s Living 4D Evolve series

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