Radiolab is an excellent program produced for NPR that features lively and entertaining explorations of scientific and philosophical topics. In 2006, they aired a show about the mind/body connection, and included a fascinating segment on a man who suddenly and permanently lost his kinesthetic/proprioceptive sense. You can hear the entire fascinating program here:
ByWitold Fitz-Simon
This was my first week back at Alexander school after three weeks of vacation. I am now a “2”! That is, I am now in my second term. It’s been wonderful to get back to it. I walked in on Monday and realized what a lovelygroup of people they all are, teachers and students both….
ByWitold Fitz-Simon
Placing your hands on another person is a big deal in AT. You have to be aware of your own habits, to inhibit them and to give yourself constructive directions and at the same time you have to be aware of what’s going on with the person you are placing your hands on as you…
ByWitold Fitz-Simon
A couple of weeks ago, my boyfriend Kris and I fled the cold and rainy streets of of New York City for the windswept shores of the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. We got a really awesome deal at a swanky, high-end resort in Playa del Carmen. It was the most wonderful place, one of those…
ByWitold Fitz-Simon
As a fletcher makes straight his arrow, a wise man makes straight his trembling and unsteady thought, which is difficult to guard, difficult to hold back. As a fish taken from his watery home and thrown on dry ground, our thought trembles all over in order to escape the dominion of Mara (the tempter). It…
ByWitold Fitz-Simon
There is a long tradition in both Western and Indian cultures that gives a person’s physical aspect, the body, a bad rap, branding it as somehow lazy, unclean, not to be trusted, and in need of whipping into shape. In his book, “Tree of Yoga,” yoga master B. K. S. Iyengar evocatively spells out the…
ByWitold Fitz-Simon
My Alexander Technique teacher training began at a run today. After a round of introductions, we grouped up and went straight to work. There was the main teacher, Brooke, and an assistant teacher, Ina, working with us. While the teachers laid hands on two of the groups, the third lay on the floor with their…
