Postural Directions

Blog post added October 15, 2026

The classic Alexander directions, ‘let the neck be free to let the head go forward up to the back length and widen’, should ideally be a description or affirmation of what is happening under the teachers hands, rather than the request to the pupil to achieve it.

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