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“Let There be Light”
What can we learn from God's choice of words as He commands the creation of the earth? This article explores this question, with a special emphasis on posture improvement.
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“Strengthen Ye the Weak Hands”
The connection between hands and healing, which many of us today take for granted, has not always been well understood or utilized. Some aspects of their relationship are explored in this article.
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Aging Well with the Alexander Technique
The Alexander Technique can make a huge difference in the lives of older adults. This article explains how.
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Be Here Now!
You only truly live in the present moment. And the Alexander Technique one of the best ways to truly appreciate this fact.
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Common Misconceptions about the Alexander Technqiue
People who have heard about the Alexander Technique sometimes have serious misconceptions about what it is. This article explores several of the most common of these.
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Fear of Falling - How the Alexander Technique can Help
The risk of falling is a serious issue for many older people. The Alexander Technique can often lessen that risk.
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Feeling, Seeing and Effective Self-Improvement
This article explores the dangers of relying in an uncritical way on our feelings when we decide to make changes in our lives.
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Feeling, Seeing, and Right Political Action
The danger of relying on our feelings to make political decisions is explored in this article.
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Get Out of (Your Own!) Way
Our exercises and fitness programs can actually make things worse for us when we fail to address our harmful habits of posture and movement. The insights of the Alexander Technique can help us avoid that trap.
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How Children Develop Harmful Posture and Movement Habits
Ways in which we acquire harmful habits of posture and movement are explored.
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Improve Your Posture by Doing Less
We tend to think that posture improvement requires us to work harder. In fact, nothing could be farther from the truth.
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The Alexander Technique - A Resource for Reversing Back Pain and Continued Self-Care
A Physical Therapist and teacher of the Alexander Technique gives some advice for backpain sufferers.
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The Alexander Technique and Focusing
A teacher trained in both methods explains how they can complement each other in helping clients shed unwanted habits.
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The Pitfalls of High Heels
Wearing high heels can cause all sorts of problems with your balance and coordination, not to mention pain and discomfort. Here are the reasons for this, and some practical alternatives
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Yoga, Posture and the Alexander Technique
"This is a story of how I found a Yoga study guide to compliment my learning of the Alexander Technique." - Mary Albro
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The Alexander Technique and Early Childhood Education
How children acquire harmful habits of posture and movement in the classroom
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The Alexander Technique and Me - One Student's Experience
How lessons in the Alexander Technique helped an accident victim with her recovery and with her fybromalgia.
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Madame Alexander Dolls
Doll collectors love her quality toys, but the marketing savvy of this Russian-Jewish immigrant entrepreneur put Scarlett O'Hara into the arms of millions of girls.
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The Alexander Technique and Psychological Growth
Through the Alexander Technique, we can learn to face the inevitable stresses of life without adding to the stress and tension in our body.
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Alexander Calder: Artist Biography
All the rage in the 1950's the mobile is a staple in art class. But this type of sculpture was only invented in the 1930's by an American son of the European avant-garde.
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Alexander Graham Bell
The life, times and and many achievements of one of the world's greatest inventors.
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Alexander Technique Basics
The Alexander Technique may be the best kept secret of singers, actors, musicians, athletes, and dancers to enhance performance and feel great.
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Alexander The Great
The life and times of one of the greatest military conquerors that ever lived.
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Alexander Calder: Father of the Mobile
"When everything goes right, a mobile is a piece of poetry that dances with the joy of life and surprises."
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Description of Alexander Solzhenitsyn, his life and works under the Soviet Regime.
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Alexander the Great
Alexander the Great as one of the greatest warrior/statesmen in history.
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Of Alexander Crummell
The next scheduled essay from W.E.B. Du Bois collection of essays The Souls of Black Folks; "Of Alexander Crummell" the details of an opportunity that presented a lasting impression on future generations.
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Sir Alexander Fleming - The Gift of Pencillin
Sir Alexander Fleming was one of many scientists whose work gave the world pencillin. In a serendipitous turn of events, the changing temperatures and a errant spore that landed in a culture dish produced a blue mold that filled the rest of the dish and created what Fleming described as a halo around the staphylococcus bacteria. Fleming corrected theorized that the substance had slowed the growth of the bacteria.
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Byrd vs Povetkin
Four top heavyweights battle for the chance to take Vladimir Klitschko's IBF belt.
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Megasthenes
Contact between the Greek Selucid world and the INdian Mauryan one was deepened by the man who wrote the Indica.
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Ovechkin for MVP?
The Washington Capitals' Alexander Ovechkin is perhaps the greatest hockey player currently in the game, but the distinction means little without a playoff resume.
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Pushkin: Father of Russian Lit
Alexander Pushkin's importance to Russian literature and history can not be underestimated. He is still revered in Russia as Russia's greatest poet.
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St. Petersburg Winter Palace
The architecturally minded can revel in the magnificence of the St. Petersburg Winter Palace, built between 1754 and 1762.
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The Real Cleopatra
Cleopatra knew what she wanted, and how to get it. Her legendary status as one of the most notorious leaders in ancient history is well deserved.
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A History Written in Stone
A short introduction to the history of the Ancient Greeks.
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Antebellum Political Characters: Claiborne and Porter
Short bios of two figures in 19th century Louisiana politics - the first governor, William C. C. Claiborne, and a United States Senator and Whig party leader, Alexander Porter. Both of these men came to Louisiana by way of Tennessee.
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Bibliotheca Alexandrina: Part I
A recent project in the Middle East which has captured world attention is the Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Alexandria, Egypt. Borne out of the desire to recreate the famous library founded by the succesor to Alexander the Great the library is an ambitious project for both the city of Alexandria and the country of Egypt...
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When is a Pirate not a Pirate?
How many different synonyms can you think of for pirate? Buccaneer, corsair, marooner, swashbuckler. These are just a few, but do they really mean the same thing as pirate?
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Greek Art Special Exhibitions
Four museum special exhibitions describe the development of Greek art from the Neolithic Cycladic Islands through the origins of the modern Hellenic state in 1830 A.D.
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Spinks vs Phillips Fight
Thursday, March 27, Cory Spinks lost his IBF junior middleweight title by split decision to Verno Phillips at the Scottrade Center in St. Louis Missouri.
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We’ve Come A Long Way Mr. Bell
Can you imagine what it would be like for telephone inventor Alexander Graham Bell to visit the world today and see how his invention has grown? Would he be shocked, happy, appalled or horrified?
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Cirque Calder
Combining sculpture, toys, engineering, whimsy, movement and performance, this miniature circus was a crucible for Calder's ideas and aesthetic, and inspired his mobiles.
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Emperor Bonaparte Exiled
The later years, demise and death of France's greatest emperor.
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Good Drugs, Bad Drugs
Is there such a thing as a 'good' drug vs. a 'bad' one from a spiritual perspective, or is the interpretation primarily political?
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Handprint on Jail Cell 17 Wall
Molly Maguire Alexander Campbell, convicted of murder, was executed. He maintained his innocence, leaving his handprint as proof in the Carbon County Prison.
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Lucrezia Borgia: Myth Or Truth?
A look at the legend and elusive truth surrounding the life and times of one of the most colorful women of the Italian Renaissance.
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Medieval Outlaw Heroes of Scotland
This week's outlaws, William Wallace and Robert the Bruce, come from late 13th and early 14th century Scotland.
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