The Fear of the Wrong Note

I didn´t write for a while. Not about running and not about playing the cello. If I had you would have read something like: “I just don´t make…

„Whereby do I notice that I am alive?“ – A „Holy“-days´-thought

What ist he Alexander Technique about?  I repeatedly ask myself this question – hoping to have an answer, when someone asks me. This is my thought of today…

Alexander-Technik at the Berlinale 2013

As a faithful reader of my blog you allready know about my liking of the radio station “Deutschlandfunk”. Here is another reason for that: In the context of…

Alexander Technique and Cello Adventure!

Ten days of very intensive studies ly behind me! I gave myself – truly – into the hands of Vivien Mackie, a cellist, who studied three years with …

Alexander Technique and Rowing

Rowing is a phantastic sport – also for the observer. I really appriciate watching the rowers during their training on our river “Weser”.  And watching rowing is an…

Your feet are flexible – allow them to move!

My valued customers know it: The importance of the subject “feet” has increased in my lessons. One could say that feet became the basement of my teaching. Today…

Shout out for joy! Rejoice!

It sucks. Tomorrow is Christmas Eve. As every year. Commercials and shop windows shout: Buy! Buy! Give! Give! I call it the “commerce group”. Do you expect an…

From Misconception to body-blessing

Time and time again I am asked where all these misconceptions about our own bodies come from. I like to show pictures from advertising mostly. Advertisements from manufacturers…

7 good reasons for making peace with sitting!!

Sitting will kill you! Sitting is the new smoking! Let´s face it: The most dangerous threat to life is life itself! Erich Kästner My old biology book is…

Listening Christmas

Christmas is coming. All Commercials and shop displays shout: Buy! Buy! Give! Give! Don´t worry! I´m saving you the anti-commerce-speach”. Because the “More inhibition – time as gift…