IV · Coming into Ourselves

Words 22 · RF@80 Series. Keynote Accompanying Notes Part 4 of 7 – Alexander Technique Congress. August 4th. 2025. Dublin.

We’ve come into the space, come into the room, and now we come into ourselves. We engage our free attention and move inside our bodies. Let’s say, into the right hand.

Coming into the Right Hand. May we bring part of our attention:

Into the bones of the right hand - the thumb, first finger, the second finger, the third finger, the little finger.
Now into the muscles of the right hand.
Now the flesh of the right hand.
Now the skin of the right hand.
Now the surface of the right hand, noticing the movement and temperature of the air meeting the hand.
Now into the whole of the right hand, noticing the sensation within the right hand, this buzzing electricity of life, the pulse and the flow of blood.
Now into the atmosphere surrounding the right hand.

While maintaining our sense of contact, of sensation, within the right hand, we bring part of attention into the left hand. Is our experience of the left hand different to that of the right hand in this moment? Yes! Of course it is. Returning part of our attention to the right hand, we move the energy we find there into the left hand.

Does Anyone Have a Problem Counting to Five? A question: does anyone here have a problem counting to five? While we are counting to five, we’ll clap our hands on 1 and 4. A question: does anyone have a problem counting to seven? While counting to seven, we’ll clap our hands on 1, 4 and 6.

This simple exercise of playing in two groups, one in 5 and the other in 7, is called THRAKKING in Guitar Craft. It was initially introduced as an exercise of health and vigour, and a binding exercise to bring together participants on Guitar Craft courses.

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