• Noam Renen teaches a student the procedure that is commonly referred as "getting in or out of a chair".

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    "It is not important which activity...
    the important thing is the means-whereby"

     

    "Don't do it with the muscles, allow it to happen, don't try to feel"

    "You are so busy trying to do something right,
    instead of direct(ing)"

    "Forget about getting up and sitting down, 
    it is a by product and not an end"

     

     

    "Dont try to overcome the resistence of the body, 
    allow it to happen"

    "I don't move you, I move my hands"

     

    "Give yourself the orders,
    I will give you the experience"

     

    "Decide to drop the arms, but DON'T DO it"

     

     

  • Noam Renen teaches a student the procedure that is commonly referred as "hands on back of chair".

 

This clip is an example of the "phenomena" that Renen refers in his article "A Personal View  of the Personal View  of Moishe Magidov..."

Noam Renen says in that article:
"This phenomenon is not expected, not anticipated, not wished and does not happen to all of my pupils. When it comes I watch it, observe it - while continuing to direct - and don't ask the person to "inhibit" it; because stopping it by will is not "inhibition" - it is resumption of the habitual blocks !...

...Moishe Magidov in his lecture says: "I know someone who claims that the Alexander Technique is to shake, tremble, kneeling on one's knees and jumping backwards and forwards!".

Notice that Renen does not claim that, M.Magidov says that Renen claims that!