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Riding Between Heaven & Earth: a moment, with Marj

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Riding Between Heaven and Earth. Equitation, Aikido, Alexander Technique. Saturday, February 9, 2008. A moment, with Marj. So what is the Alexander Technique and how do you begin to learn it? Favorite first books: Body Learning. By Michael Gelb, Body Awareness in Action. Re-published as Freedom to Change) by Frank Pierce Jones. See the sidebar link list for other resources. Has achieved the same kind of palpable connection to my thinking process. We often hear the phrase “capture the moment&#46...As a 5t...

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Riding Between Heaven & Earth: embodying a dream

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Riding Between Heaven and Earth. Equitation, Aikido, Alexander Technique. Monday, December 10, 2007. I guess that is what I am trying to do … we use the vehicle of our physical form to realize our dreams - by refining and clarifying ourselves. More than ten years ago I first read a book called The Intuitive Body. By an aikidoist named Wendy Palmer. The photo shows my Swedish friend, Annelie Andersson-Beck partaking of the awesome power of her Swedish warmblood gelding, Sober, at a Susan Harris. American ...

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Maya's Arrival: Glitter and Be Gay

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Friday, April 22, 2011. Glitter and Be Gay. Glitter and be gay,. That's the part I play;. Here I am in Paris, France,. Forced to bend my soul. To a sordid role,. Victimized by bitter, bitter circumstance. Beside my lady mother,. My virtue had remained unstained. Until my maiden hand was gained. By some Grand Duke or other. Ah, 'twas not to be;. Brought me to this gilded cage. Born to higher things,. Here I droop my wings,. Singing of a sorrow nothing can assuage. And yet of course I rather like to revel,.

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Maya's Arrival: Caro Nome

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Friday, April 22, 2011. Gilda's Aria from Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto. Caro nome che il mio cor. Festi primo palpitar,. Mi dêi sempre rammentar! Col pensiero il mio desir. A te ognora volerà,. E pur l' ultimo sospir,. Caro nome, tuo sarà. Sweet name, you who made my heart. Throb for the first time,. You must always remind me. The pleasures of love! My desire will fly to you. On the wings of thought. And my last breath. Will be yours, my beloved. Listen to her sing, now! Glitter and Be Gay.

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Riding Between Heaven & Earth: tally ho with Balimo™

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Riding Between Heaven and Earth. Equitation, Aikido, Alexander Technique. Thursday, August 21, 2008. Tally ho with Balimo™. What a great opportunity I thought when I noticed the clinic announcement on the Equestrian Education Systems (EES) website early last spring – and it was! For the past week or so I have been digesting some of the rich experience of attending the “Seat Symposium” which was held at Gleneden Dressage in Bedford, New York and conducted by Eckart Meyners. Having now experienced Mr. ...

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Riding Between Heaven & Earth: fascinating rhythm

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Riding Between Heaven and Earth. Equitation, Aikido, Alexander Technique. Thursday, December 31, 2009. The giant metronome in the sky – that’s how I came to think of the incessant and precisely regular sound. It would have been maddening, except for the fact that it seemed to pulse at a tempo perfectly suited to the trotting gait of the horse I was riding that evening - another lovely autumn night in the outdoor ring. I found it impossible to keep from posting the trot to the beat of the metronome. I sta...

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Riding Between Heaven & Earth: fitness without stress

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Riding Between Heaven and Earth. Equitation, Aikido, Alexander Technique. Thursday, February 14, 2008. My reminiscence in the last post, of lessons with Marj Barstow, re-connected me to the author of another very useful book on the Alexander Technique. Robert Rickover started visiting Lincoln and studying with Marj soon after I moved to New York – our paths have not crossed very often, but we certainly share many common colleagues and the benefit of Marj’s unique perspective. Falling). Yet doesn&#821...

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Riding Between Heaven & Earth: nothing doing

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Riding Between Heaven and Earth. Equitation, Aikido, Alexander Technique. Monday, November 16, 2009. As soon as I finished telling my student that the Alexander Technique does not prescribe specific exercises, I realized that he might be very interested in something called “constructive rest.” Sometimes called an “Alexander Lie-Down” and often used by AT teachers, it came originally from the world of Ideokinesis. Turns out, my catchy title is also the name of the last book of poetry by Cid Corman. New Yo...

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Riding Between Heaven & Earth: April 2011

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Riding Between Heaven and Earth. Equitation, Aikido, Alexander Technique. Friday, April 22, 2011. Springtime is bringing many riding opportunities, Centered Riding. Clinics, study groups, a new Finding Harmony with your Horse. Session at Lord Stirling. And I are attending Feldenkrais. Workshops, and spending time together pursuing our many common interests. and I’m fully back on the aikido. Mat and doing a lot more Alexander Technique. Teaching. My daughter and her husband have moved to New York! Alexand...

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Riding Between Heaven & Earth: the maestro

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Riding Between Heaven and Earth. Equitation, Aikido, Alexander Technique. Sunday, December 13, 2009. Equestrian art is the perfect understanding and harmony between horse and rider.". Enraptured, I watched in amazement, and could only feel that this must be the epitome, the ultimate expression of equestrian artistry - its complete embodiment. Nuno Oliviera. The caption of the video “travail d'un cheval”. Or “work with a horse”. How is he able to do this? The riding is really just too exquisite – I ...