It’s a Lot Like a Backpacking Tent

The functional properties of human upright posture, why they’re mostly absent in adults, why that is important, and what we can do to restore them.

James French 4-22-2023

In this session, we’ll discuss human posture with an eye to understanding it in terms of its functional properties. To aid understanding, we’ll draw analogies to man-made objects that share some of these properties. We’ll then compare pictures of children to adults, making the claim that in adults, these properties have tended to be compromised, but that it is possible, with knowledge and skill, to restore them to function. Then, based on knowledge of the functional properties we’d like to restore, we’ll talk through some strategies for doing so, and then implement some practical procedures with the goal of restoring these properties in ourselves.

James French is a teaching assistant at The Dimon Institute. He began studying Alexander Technique in 2011. Seeking to deepen his understanding of F.M. Alexander’s work, in 2013 he began training full-time with Dr. Ted Dimon in New York City. Given his teaching certificate by Dr. Dimon in 2016, James has continued to work, train, and teach at the Institute since then. James is also a member of the American Society for the Alexander Technique (AmSAT).

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