In one of my Friday Harbor “online” residentials,
A game emerged
of literally sprinkling ourselves with kindness.
The challenges people are experiencing during the pandemic heightened the need to emphasize kindness in daily life for ourselves and others. The game was a playful way to emphasize care for ourselves.
My conscious inclusion of kindness and its relationship to the Alexander Technique emerged from teaching an individual and a group who were using the
Alexander process to be mean to themselves
With combinations of judgment, assuming they were always wrong,
And most alarming to me – giving up their own agency!
After a night of contemplation, the first line of what I call my
Fancy definition of Alexander’s process appeared -
Constructive conscious kindness to ourselves
Although I have used this phrase for many years now,
With the pandemic heightening the needs surrounding kindness,
The implications of centering kindness
in coordinating ourselves, and how we coordinate to relate to others,
are blossoming.
At the International Congress of the Alexander Technique in Berlin,
My Radical Kindness Workshop offered a playful process –
Yes, the sprinkles are back –
To Center our work in Kindness.
During the month of September
For 20 minutes on Monday,
At 8 a.m. PDT on Zoom,
I’ll be hosting an Integrative Alexander Technique -facilitated kindness warm-up.
If you’d like the link, please email me at [email protected]
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