Tag: arms
By Selma Gokcen October 17, 2013
Subjects Playing Healthy
Tags acrobatics, Alexander Technique, ankle, arms, cello, cello playing, cellobello, elbow, firm, foot, freedom of movement, Glenohumeral Joint, Gokcen, heavy lifting, hip, hunched shoulders, joints, knee, legs, Lumbar spine, mobility, muscles, pelvic structures, principles of stability and mobility, relationships, Scapula, Selma, shifting, shoulder girdle, Spine, stability, stable back, strong, Thoracic Spine, weight
By Selma Gokcen February 25, 2013
Subjects Playing Healthy
Tags Alexander Technique, arms, beauty, bend and extend, body at ease, bow strokes, Casals, cello, cello playing muscles, cellobello, challenges, collapse, contraction, dynamics, energy, fingers, flexible, function, Gokcen, Habits, importance of quietness, increased resistance, inner pitch, misguided effort and unease, nasal sound, neck, partnership, perspective, powerful accents, powerful arms, pressured sound, principle of opposition, process, pull and push, repeated sensory stimulation, Selma, sensitive gesture, sensory awareness, simple gesture, Six Part Series, teaching table, thinking in new ways, unwanted sound, volume, wrist
By Selma Gokcen February 3, 2013
Subjects Playing Healthy
Tags Alexander Technique, animate, arms, attention, automatic movement, back, behave, brain, cello, cellobello, collapse, doing, exploration, feet, fingers, force, Gokcen, Habits, hands, laying on the floor, learning, legs, manifest, mental messages, music, music-making, nature, neck, Observation, overcome deeply ingrained habits, Pablo Casals, Patrick Macdonald, perceive, powerful expressiveness, pressure, primary information, process, pushing, re-education, react, rediscovering, Selma, shortcuts, shoulders, strain, stretching, the value of quietness, thinking
