What your brain believes about pain (and why it’s sometimes wrong)
Current neuroscience tells us that chronic pain is not a life sentence: it’s a pattern learned by the brain, and what’s learned can be unlearned. In this post I explore how these findings connect directly with the Alexander Technique.
Let’s (not) talk about sex.
Hello everyone. I suppose you have never been so puzzled/excited to open one of my blog posts. Because I do not talk about sex at work unless I am talking about how to avoid sexual harassment and other forms of power abuse. To those of you who have attended one of my professional conduct trainings…
I am not training to become an Alexander Technique “therapist”, but an AT teacher.
I am neither convinced that our scientific methods are all-mighty (we’re only humans, with limited cognitive and perceptive abilities, so…) nor am I a believer in “supernatural” forces. I believe in the scientific consensus, with an awareness that even scientists bring their unconscious bias and sometimes stubborn ambitions to work, which makes for suboptimal science.Retired…