tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32246421.post5734819766083263846..comments2023-10-10T01:03:46.375+12:00Comments on Food &Health Skeptic: jonjayrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13363092874281160320noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32246421.post-12804909604448102202008-08-22T17:03:00.000+11:302008-08-22T17:03:00.000+11:30I will mention that the Alexander Technique is a f...I will mention that the Alexander Technique is a form of truly scientific yoga. As Jim Morrison said: "The West is the Best." It speaks about clavicles and trapezoid muscles, and is a part of every great actor or singer's early training. No New Age (fossile hippie) chakras or "energy center" crap. Interactive too, unlike Yoga, which is the popular equivalent for non-professionals. It's basically a part of turning the human body back into both an animal (in movement) and a musical instrument (think of a female opera singer as a true analogy of a resonant cello). It's utterly anti-intuitive. One would think that voice lessons would involve learning to control musculature. No. It's all about letting it go and letting the BACK MUSCLES OF THE SPINE support your entire body as they were designed to do, so that literally down to your toes, your whole body resonates with the sound you make, and you learn to LOSE your conscious control of your breathing while performing. And against modern fashion, it's most about no longer holding your belly in (to look fit), nor, especially, slouching in chairs and supporting yourself (on the net just like copybook school days in a desk) by your arms or FRONT muscles. Those muscles must be allowed to vibrate with one's voice. The UNCONSCIOUS control of the diaphragm is taught (obviously indirectly in most devious fashion that actually improved one of my eyes by a full diopter while making the other one worse by half that) along with FULL letting *go* of control of everything in your body from diaphragm to lips. That's it. Everything in between is mere elastic. They even teach a form of Martial Art, which I used to stop a Spanish Harlem kid from mugging me of a $6K diamond ring: pointing your voice at a person. Little farker ran away, box cutter included.<BR/><BR/>-=DrNikFromNYC=-Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com