by Mari Hodges | Jun 24, 2024 | English, Posts English, Uncategorized
When the pain comes it grabs my attention. It keeps me from thinking, from interacting with people. It’s invisible except for the grimace or the sadness or fear on my face. I am afraid it will last anywhere from 2 to 10 days like it does when this happens randomly...
by Mari Hodges | Jun 21, 2024 | English, Posts English, Uncategorized
I am walking. I am walking over the beautiful desert through breathtakingly beautiful rock formations, I am walking under a wide sky with intriguing clouds. I am walking inside the house. I am walking with my whole body. I am walking on the outside and the inside....
by Mari Hodges | Jun 20, 2024 | English, Posts English, Uncategorized
Artwork by Rosemary Meza-Despias As part of my retreat, today we have come to Santa Fe, out of the wide open countryside to the picturesque city. I am practicing a couple things. One is paying attention to myself and what I am doing amid the greater stimuli in an...
by Mari Hodges | Jun 17, 2024 | English, Posts English, Uncategorized
You may know that I am away at a retreat with a theme of walking with a teacher of mine, way out in the New Mexican countryside. The landscape is gorgeous. I love the colorful rock formations that are eons old. We have free time every day and I’m writing down some of...
by Mari Hodges | Jun 12, 2024 | English, Posts English, Uncategorized
Listen to Mari talk about Alexander Technique on All Things Vagus...
by Mari Hodges | Jan 26, 2024 | English, Posts English, Videos in English
Native American actress Lily Gladstone describes how she uses Alexander Technique to feel balanced, centered and grounded and with a home for her psyche in her body. Here’s a link to her PBS interview on...
by Mari Hodges | Jan 1, 2024 | Uncategorized
The values that imbue my practice are also the values that I seek to embody and encourage in my clients. The combination of lifelong learning, cultivation of compassionate curiosity and continued development of self-awareness underlie the process I use for myself and...
by Mari Hodges | Dec 26, 2023 | English, Uncategorized, Videos in English
The Alexander Technique is an educational method for changing long-standing habits of tension. Research suggests it results in improved movement, balance and overall wellbeing, and that it has significant benefits for people with back pain, neck pain and those living...
by Mari Hodges | Dec 26, 2023 | English, Uncategorized
As many of you know, I am a pain science nerd in addition to my fascination with Alexander Technique. As you may also know, I like to use my own pain experiences as a learning experience for us all! Every person and every pain experience is unique, but my reflections...
by Mari Hodges | Dec 26, 2023 | English, Uncategorized
Hello all! This month I decided to write about posture. What’s “correct” posture? Well, the short answer is that there isn’t one. Appropriate posture is very unique to each individual and to what you want to do. The end. Just kidding....
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