Posture as a Spiritual Practice

The conventional notion of posture is an unreachable ideal reserved only for a few uptight specimens. You know, schoolmarms and military types. But posture has been a spiritual practice for me as long as I’ve known the Alexander Technique.

While my posture has objectively improved, and with it my health and state of mind, what must be declared is that posture isa spiritual practice because there’s no way to really “master” or reach some permanent, ultimate state. Everything is always changing.

So we apply the Alexander Technique but, at the same time, give up hope of some everlasting fruition, or becoming perfect. And that also helps us fully live and not spend all our time straining to be better.