Finding Ease
What is Ease and how can I increase it?
Ease is your innate un-worried, un-tense, free-flowing, effortlessly-coordinated natural being. You have it. It's just buried. Your natural ease has likely been covered up for years with the compressive forces on your posture that have now come to seem normal to you. Your innate ease has also been buried from years of repeated physical effects of worry and tension. These things pile up and you may think that your natural ease is gone - but it isn't. It's actually just under the surface waiting to be uncovered and noticed.
I want to share a practice with you that I've been using for myself and teaching to all my students. It will help you continue to gain new levels of ease on your own. I'm excited about this because I am amazed at the quick and surprising improvements that I see in my students that do this practice twice a day regularly.
The "Finding Ease" video below explains some of the ideas behind this practice and why it is effective. The second "Daily Practice" video teaches you the daily practice. I'll be leading you in doing it and also teaching you how to do the simple two-minute practice on your own. The practice is simple, quick and easy (pun intended), and is incredibly effective if you will do it yourself regularly twice a day. It only takes two minutes or less when you do it yourself. Please try it twice a day for at least a whole week and start noticing the benefits yourself.
Finding Ease
Finding Ease - Daily Practice
If you continue to do this regularly twice a day beyond the first week, you'll find your experience of ease will build. You'll continue to experience new and more refined senses of what you can recognize as an energy change towards ease. Not only will you lessen your habitual tension, but you'll also find that you'll become able to effectively throw in the "Where do I notice Ease?" question in the middle of doing anything that you are doing during your day and notice an immediate result in the ease and your effectiveness in whatever you're doing.
I hope you'll do this easy exercise regularly and experience the benefits for yourself. If you would like some help taking this even further in skill level and learning how to use this and apply the principles of Alexander Technique in anything you'd like to do better or feel better while doing, click here to book a session with me in my Encinitas studio - or if can't come to my studio in person, I can easily help you using live video online.
This daily exercise is based on work from Alexander Technique teacher, Mio Morales. He calls it The CyCle. It's the initial daily practice of his teaching system he calls Primal Alexander.
