*Space*
- This time's memo
The other day, Yoshihiro Inada from the Tokyo Alexander Center (TAC) came to Kyoto, so I went for a private lesson.
I read Mr. Inada's blog with great interest.
While reading it, I started to think that maybe I was drifting away from Alexander Technique lately. However, I couldn't tell if I was really drifting just from words alone, so I was able to experience it in the lesson.
I realized during the lesson with Mr. Inada that I was paying too much attention to one place (for example, my legs) and drifting away from wholeness!
When you pay too much attention to one place, you lose your wholeness. That is also a part of me, but it is not the whole.
The word "space" (yohaku) from Mr. Inada reached my ears many times this time. Perhaps even things I cannot grasp (the unknown) move back and forth from that "space" in the mind and body. The more of that "space" we have, the more the flow and connections within us are activated.
What I feel is like the particles becoming finer. Moving within that unity~
Ah, the primary control that Mr. Alexander spoke of is not something you can just grasp and say "this is it!", it is still overflowing with the unknown! It's interesting.
(I am writing this knowing that people might wonder what I am talking about, as it is something you cannot understand unless you experience it...^^;)
I also asked Mr. Inada a question I had been holding onto for a long time: "Why are emotions not in the realm of Alexander Technique even though they are a part of us?"
Based on my interpretation of what I heard, emotions are also just results that follow after a direct experience. Therefore, there is no need to judge them or chase after them.
Ah, so that's it. Both thoughts and emotions follow after an experience, and we are interpreting them. Even if we have the same experience, the thoughts, emotions, and interpretations that follow for each person will be different. It is true that there is no need to chase after them. They are just different. That is what is interesting.
Working with Mr. Inada makes me realize things that I had drifted away from without noticing. That is one thing, and I suppose exchanges between AT teachers are important. (After all, we are human)
While repeating corrections, let's keep moving forward.
Would you like to have a "lesson for your body and mind" based on the Alexander Technique?
2025/7/2/mayumi@kyoto