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Body Learning: The Alexander Technique

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Jun 25, 2022 • 16min

The Value of Alexander Technique Quotations Part 1: Examining a Quote by Margaret Goldie

Send us a text(This podcast is primarily for Alexander Technique teachers and students) Robert Rickover and Imogen Ragone discuss this quote by Margaret Goldie, one of the first teachers trained by F. Matthias Alexander: If I ask you not to do something, there is no way you can do it right. Margaret Goldie website: AlexanderTechnique.com/MargaretGoldie Imogen is an Alexander Technique teacher in Wilmington, Delaware. Imogen's website: ImogenRagone.com Robert is an Alexander Technique teacher in Omaha, Nebraska. Robert's website: AlexanderTechniqueNebraska.com Both Imogen and Robert teach primarily online. You can see and download a great many of these quotes here: AlexanderTechnique.com/IlustratedQuotes More information about the Alexander Technique: AlexanderTechnique.com You can learn how to support this and other Alexander Technique websites at PosturePage.com/supportOriginal video version: youtu.be/oHFJfK4I6qI 
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Jun 16, 2022 • 17min

How to Easily Enhance the Power and Longevity of Power Poses

Send us a textPower Poses, developed by Amy Cuddy and others, are postures associated with being powerful that help you feel and behave more assertively. This podcast shows how you can modify the the basic power poses to make them far more powerful and longer lasting by using basic bio-mechanical and Alexander Technique principles.  (You may find it helpful to view the original video version of this podcast: youtu.be/RE1b6WdxmUQ ) Cuddy's TED talk, which helped popularized Power Poses: tinyurl.com/2p8ck4a3 Imogen Ragone is an Alexander Technique teacher in Wilmington, Delaware. Imogen's website: ImogenRagone.com Robert Rickover is an Alexander Technique teacher in Omaha, Nebraska. Robert's website: AlexanderTechniqueNebraska.com Both Imogen and Robert teach primarily online. More information about the Alexander Technique: AlexanderTechnique.com You can learn how to support this and other Alexander Technique websites at PosturePage.com/support
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Jun 16, 2022 • 20min

How Self-Compassion Relates to the Alexander Technique

Send us a textImogen Ragone, an Alexander Technique teacher in Wilmington, Delaware, talks with Robert Rickover about her thoughts on self-compassion and how it relates to, can be enhanced by, and is even integral to the Alexander Technique. Imogen's ideas on self-compassion are inspired especially by the latest book by Kristin Neff,  Fierce Self-Compassion: How Women Can Harness Kindness to Speak Up, Claim Their Power, and Thrive". Imogen teaches in Wilmington, Delaware and online. Imogen's website: ImogenRagone.com  Robert Rickover is an Alexander Technique teacher in Omaha, Nebraska. Robert's website: AlexanderTechniqueNebraska.com Both Imogen and Robert teach primarily online. More information about the Alexander Technique: AlexanderTechnique.com You can learn how to support this and other Alexander Technique websites at https://PosturePage.com/supportOriginal video version of this podcast: youtu.be/Kzt7VxNaPVQ 
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Jun 16, 2022 • 27min

Alexander Technique Inhibition: An Efficient and Practical Form of Outsourcing

Send us a text(This podcast is primarily for Alexander Technique teachers, trainees and students.) Robert Rickover and Imogen Ragone, an Alexander Technique teacher in Wilmington, Delaware, talk about Alexander Technique Inhibition and how it can be thought of as "inner outsourcing." The importance of this was recognized by F. M. Alexander and many first-generation Alexander Technique teachers: BodyLearningBlog.com/not-even-a-teeny-weany-bit Imogen's website: ImogenRagone.com Robert teaches in Omaha, Nebraska and Toronto Canada. Website: AlexanderTechniqueNebraska.com Both Imogen and Robert also teach online. More information about the Alexander Technique: AlexanderTechnique.com You can learn how to support this and other Alexander Technique websites at posturepage.com/supportThe original video version of this podcast can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMgmGTGFzTg
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Apr 4, 2022 • 12min

The power of the word "notice" for Alexander Technique teaching and self-direction

Send us a text(This podcast is primarily for Alexander Technique teachers, trainees and students.) Robert Rickover and Imogen Ragone, an Alexander Technique teacher in Wilmington, Delaware, have a discussion about the unique power and usefulness of the word "notice" for Alexander Technique teachers and students. Imogen's website: https://ImogenRagone.com Robert teaches in Omaha, Nebraska and Toronto Canada. Website: https://AlexanderTechniqueNebraska.com More information about the Alexander Technique: https://AlexanderTechnique.com You can learn how to support this and other Alexander Technique websites at https://posturepage.com/supportYou can view the video version of this conversation here: https://youtu.be/Isqp9rtFF08 
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Apr 4, 2022 • 26min

Alexander Technique: How can we learn to inhibit? - Part 3

Send us a text(This podcast is primarily for Alexander Technique teachers, trainees and students.) Robert Rickover and Imogen Ragone, an Alexander Technique teacher in Wilmington, Delaware, have a third follow up talk about an inhibitory self directions and how they show just how significant and complex our unconscious response to those directions. There is also a preliminary discussion of the link between inhibition and outsourcing. Imogen's website: https://ImogenRagone.com Robert teaches in Omaha, Nebraska and Toronto Canada. Website: https://AlexanderTechniqueNebraska.com More information about the Alexander Technique: https://AlexanderTechnique.com You can learn how to support this and other Alexander Technique websites at https://posturepage.comPart 1: https://youtu.be/xs01srO3E9M Part 2: https://youtu.be/U17XPuq8QzQ Inhibition and outsourcing: https://youtu.be/7Tf-wcyZNeA
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Feb 25, 2022 • 23min

The Alexander Technique origin story and how it affects Alexander teachers and students Today

Send us a text(This podcast is primarily for Alexander Technique teachers, trainees and students.) Robert Rickover and Imogen Ragone, an Alexander Technique teacher in Wilmington, Delaware, have a wide-ranging conversation about Alexander's discoveries, the outside influences that made them possible, and their implications for Alexander teaching today. Imogen's website: ImogenRagone.com Robert teaches in Omaha, Nebraska and Toronto Canada. Website: AlexanderTechniqueNebraska.com More information about the Alexander Technique: AlexanderTechnique.com You can learn how to support this and other Alexander Technique websites at posturepage.com/supportOriginal video version of this conversation:  https://youtu.be/0bo0nD5uL10 
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Feb 25, 2022 • 27min

Alexander Technique: How Can We Learn To Inhibit? Part 2

Send us a text(This podcast is primarily for Alexander Technique teachers, trainees and students.) Robert Rickover and Imogen Ragone, an Alexander Technique teacher in Wilmington, Delaware, have a follow up talk about an inhibitory self direction that, among other advantages, addresses a major pitfall of self-directing itself. Imogen's website: ImogenRagone.com Robert teaches in Omaha, Nebraska and Toronto Canada. Website: AlexanderTechniqueNebraska.com More information about the Alexander Technique: AlexanderTechnique.com You can learn how to support this and other Alexander Technique websites at posturepage.com/supportOriginal video version of this interview:  https://youtu.be/U17XPuq8QzQ 
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Jan 31, 2022 • 40min

Alexander Technique: How Can We Learn To Inhibit?

Send us a text(This podcast is primarily for Alexander Technique teachers, trainees and students.) Robert Rickover and Imogen Ragone, an Alexander Technique teacher in Wilmington, Delaware, have a wide-ranging conversation about some ways we can use to help us learn how to inhibit. Imogen's website: ImogenRagone.com Robert teaches in Omaha, Nebraska and Toronto Canada. Website: AlexanderTechniqueNebraska.com More information about the Alexander Technique: AlexanderTechnique.com You can learn how to support this and other Alexander Technique websites at PosturePage.com/supportWatch the original video version of this talk here: https://youtu.be/5-u8sJQ91DE
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Jan 31, 2022 • 6min

F. M. Alexander: The "Breathing Man" - and perhaps also The "Torso Man"

Send us a text(This podcast is primarily for Alexander Technique teachers, trainees and students.) Robert Rickover talks with Imogen Ragone, an Alexander Technique teacher in Wilmington, Delaware, about the broader implications of F. Mathias Alexander's work with breathing. More information about Alexander Technique directions: BodyLearningcast.com/teachers/directions Information about Jeando Masoero's work: Initial-AlexanderTechnique.org Imogen's website: ImogenRagone.com Robert teaches in Omaha, Nebraska and Toronto Canada. Website: AlexanderTechniqueNebraska.com More information about the Alexander Technique: AlexanderTechnique.com You can learn how to support this and other Alexander Technique websites at PosturePage.com/supportYou can watch the original video version of this talk here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-u8sJQ91DE

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