The Mindfulness in Motion Blog

by Alan Bowers

You and your instrument

You and your musical instrument have a relationship. We all know about it. It summons you. You respond. It challenges you. You rise to meet it. You change it, set...

Breath is enlightenment

Breath is enlightenment, a light you can shine into any part of your body.  When I walk, I tend to ruminate, think upon things past or future. When I do so,...
Alexander Technique for musicians, exercises to improve your play.

Minded body Embodied mind

How often can you prove today, that you, all we humans, are not ungovernable minds in disobedient bodies, but a harmonious, conversing whole, minded body and embodied mind. That is...
Overcome stiffness : Tips for musicians

Tips for musicians: Overcome stiffness, open and expand.

We are born to open and expand. At the perimeters of our universe waves rush outwardly, echoing the first great stroke of creation, the big bang. Opening and outward expansion...

Alexander Technique for musicians, exercises to improve your play.

You are a musician, but maybe you have reached a plateau, you want to discover more ease and economy in your performance, you may experience pain or tension when playing....

Skilled hands

You have skilled hands, keys to the advancement of humanity and to your technical development as a musician. Your hands are marvelously endowed in ways you may unwittingly witness every...

Attention must be paid

Marvels Our bodies are marvels. They demand little of us yet floursh in our attention. Attention must be paid. Our bodes are vehicles of conveyance, intelligence gatherers, mills of foodstuffs,...

It’s all in your wrists

It's all in your wrists? Perhaps. A nodding wrist in midair was the particular expression of my grandfather's caring. It was his call to attention. Our wrists add finesse to...

Living Alexander Technique

Living Alexander Technique implies several truths: 1. That Alexander Technique is very much alive. I see that. I hear it and feel it in classes I've recently taught in colleges...
Quote Marks
"Beating the drum, rolling the ball, rising from the chair,
union with the thing being done, are the gifts of both Zen
and Alexander Technique."

Living Alexander Technique

“Attention is the world’s most precious commodity.
Pay it forward.“