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Free your neck 4: Apply the tube principle to your neck.

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(What a face! You really wouldn’t want to know me if I were normally like this

Many people believe they can achieve good posture with an effort of will. In fact, this is impossible.

At least it’s impossible if you don’t know how to do it — and most people don’t know how to do it.

This first clip demonstrates the kind of thing that happens if someone with a bad stoop such as I was demonstrating makes a determined effort to straighten up.

Play the clip. Do you see how I end up very stiff and how my eyes go out of focus? I wouldn’t be any good for anything if that were how I straightened up.

In contrast, in this second clip, I’m doing it right.
Play the second clip now. Do you see how I’m just as straight (actually straighter)? But now, far from being stiff, I’m relaxed, at ease, fully focused and alert.

So what was I doing in the second clip? I was freeing my neck. How was I doing it? Find out here. This article also teaches you how to do it yourself.

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  2. Repoise is our membership site for people who are serious about improving themselves (and getting out of pain as they do that). When you join, you will:–
    1. Have daily access to me. Together we will work out what’s going wrong for you and how to fix it
    2. Learn from reading other Repoise members’ questions and following their progress as they work with me
    Find out more about joining Repoise here.
  3. I’m writing a book about my work. It will come out on the 1st December 2010. If you're getting the free weekly articles, I'll send out more details about the up-coming book as soon as the information is available.

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  1. I’m also running Friday lunchtime group lessons. Go here for details.
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If you’re further away and can’t get to Liverpool

  1. There’s still nothing better than individual lessons. Here’s where you can find a teacher near you in the UK or elsewhere
  2. I suggest you also do the things I listed above for everyone:–
    1. Read my weekly articles
    2. Get direct day-to-day guidance from me by joining Repoise.
    If you’re having plain Alexander Technique lessons from someone else, you still need to learn the Smiling Back Method of the Alexander Technique. You’ll get a lot more out of your lessons when you do.
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March 9th, 2009 in The Tube Principle directions

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