Alexander and the Groove Armada

I’ve been having Alexander Technique lessons for the past month – and the effect has been low key and yet quite amazing. Like most folk who’ve reached 47 after a fairly active and perhaps careless physical existence, I've a gammy knee, dodgy back and a right foot that someone stood on with stiletto heels when I was 19. It hurts! But after the gentlest of repeated re-direction – so undemanding you can hardly believe there could be a benefit – I’ve started carrying myself differently and had the most wonderful moments of tweak/crick/painfree movement.

It’s also just very interesting – my teacher gave me a book by Pedro de Alcantara on the technique. And keen to find out more, I hit Glasgow Borders trying to find more on AT.  5 books were apparently available but I couldn’t find any of them in the un-staffed Health and Sports department. Hey ho. Off to Amazon.  Meantime Chris and I were the oldest swingers at the Groove Armada gig in the Barrowlands on Saturday night. And the grumpiest! I know their music relies heavily on machines and sampling etc but why didn’t the singers -- who were present -- do live versions of “I see you baby”? The lightshow was great but I was left a bit unmoved. Which is a famous first cos the Barrowlands has got to be Scotland’s best live venue

Comments

[Neil MacLean]

Hi Lesley
Sounds really interesting to somebody else who would like a crick-free back.
If it's not too nosy, who is your teacher? Is there a web address? And could he/she move to Renfrewshire tomorrow please?
thanks
N.