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This ebook, An Alexander Technique Approach to Walking Effortlessly, is published on this website in a PDF format. It is very detailed and practical, and it will give you the physical tools you need to take the limits off of your ability to create the walking technique you want without sacrificing your body.
This ebook is also for sale on all AMAZON websites in a KINDLE format.
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Primary Control is the basis of organized coordinated walking in the Alexander Technique. When a walker is walking with the most organized posture and movements possible, then the head is leading the walker’s spine upward, as the torso expands on the inhale with a decompressed, vertically balanced, and aligned spine.

This means that all of the nerves that radiate from the spinal cord have no pressure on them. So, the nerves can send the signals from the brain for movement and/or muscular support, as you walk, without being slowed down by the vertebrae and muscles pinching the nerves.

The brain and spinal cord always organize the movement that the body produces, but when the Primary Control is interfered with by muscular tension, compression, and poor posture, then that organization is poor organization. THE ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE IS ALL ABOUT THE QUALITY OF A WALKER’S POSTURE AND TECHNIQUE.

The Alexander Technique recognizes that a huge amount of wear and tear and physical pain to the walker is caused by how you walk, not by how fast and/or how long you walk.

The assumption in the Alexander Technique is that we are born with an innate ability to move with beautiful Primary Control, and that babies crawl with the head leading a lengthening spine naturally, given that the baby is healthy in a healthy environment.

If you were to observe a 1,000 walkers walking, you’d be hard put to see one walker walking with beautiful Primary Control (given that none of them had done any Alexander Technique work). What does walking without a compromised Primary Control look like?

The walker walks fully upright with free knees with a completely mobile body (not trying to stand straight). The walker’s neck is free and the walker is aware that the head is leading a lengthening spine upward, which means that the walker is able to see ahead and peripherally, as the head continues to lead a lengthening spine upward.

This means that the walker is completely engaged in walking without hunkering down, trying to get to the goal by collapsing downward. This fully upward lengthening mobile posture balancing on free legs and knees on grounded feet, gives the shoulders and arms of the walker a balanced torso to be supported by, so that the walker can effortlessly spiral the arms and the torso without compression.

When the walker’s body is organized by the Primary Control, then the walker is free to place all of his or her awareness on a walking technique that isn’t being compromised by a compromised Primary Control. In other words, if the walker’s body is collapsed or over-tense with poor head/neck/spine organization, then the pure specific walking technique of the walker can never be what it would be, since it is not backed up by a balanced body.

WHEN THE FOUNDATION, PRIMARY CONTROL, OF COORDINATED ELEGANT HUMAN MOVEMENT IS COMPROMISED IN WALKING, THEN YOU WILL PROBABLY NEVER WALK AS EFFORTLESSLY AS YOU COULD.