Mind your Body - Alexander Technique with Ayelet Karni

The organisation ATI, Alexander Technique International, offers an Alexander Technique Awareness Week that started today and lasts until Saturday. There are many interesting online workshops, and all of them are for free!
Register in the link below and discover new things about the Alexander Technique and yourself :)

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Summer seems to be slowly coming to an end, but I wanted to share a little memory from last June. ☀️
We organised an Alexander Technique workshop for kids in Basel — and it was a great success! ✨

Through games, stories and playful exploration, the children were introduced to some of the key principles of the Alexander Technique: pausing and stopping habitual behaviours, reasoning, learning to use our bodies in the way they are naturally designed to work — and more.

It was wonderful to see their curiosity, creativity and enthusiasm throughout the workshop. 💛

A big thank you to my wonderful colleagues Filine Precht, Amrei Kellner, Iris Boldewin, Sigrid Clasen and Thomas Stebler for making it possible — and to all the parents for their trust!

This photo may seem more at home on my musician profile, Ayelet Karni, but I would like to share a few words here about personal growth — and about how much the Alexander Technique has changed my life.

Before I knew the Alexander Technique, I couldn’t play at the level I play at today. My playing was good, but it was much more tense, and always felt a little on the edge: Will it succeed this time, or not?

The Alexander Technique opened up new possibilities. I added another instrument to my palette: the baroque oboe. I started learning it alongside my Alexander Technique studies, and the support of the Technique helped me overcome the particular challenges of beginning such a demanding instrument as an adult.

And there is so much more to it than playing.

Before I knew the Alexander Technique, I could never have imagined creating a project as ambitious as the one we are doing now — where we do almost everything by ourselves. Renting and driving the car. Carrying equipment. Building the castle. Setting up the lights. Solving the unexpected problems that inevitably arise. Communicating with each other. Navigating interpersonal difficulties. Facing fears and worries — and, despite all of that, stepping in and doing the job.

This photo was taken towards the end of a weekend that was, in many ways, a weekend of personal growth.

I started it in a very different place, with quite a few questions and fears:
Will the organisation work?
Can I actually book and drive this car?
Will I manage to put up the lights, as my colleague Rachel always did, and who is now on maternity leave?

And it worked.

Not because everything went according to plan, but because I was able to meet each situation as it came, think, adapt, communicate, and act.

I am now in a place where I feel deeply thankful for this palette of skills, learning and wisdom that the Alexander Technique has given me.

It has been truly life-changing — and continues to be a never-ending source of learning, curiosity and growth.

הייתי היום אצל אמיר פלד בכפר שמריהו, במה שהרגיש לי כמו אלכסנדר- לנד. אמיר הוא מורה לשיטת אלכסנדר שאצלו נפגשים אנשים סקרנים אוהבי שיטת אלכסנדר, מתאמנים, מעבירים זה לזה שיעורים. לימדתי וקיבלתי שיעורים, וחבל שהיה צריך ללכת הביתה...
תודה לנדב עובדיה, שלומד ללמד את שיטת אלכסנדר אצל מאיר עמית, והזמין אותי למפגש.

Today I visited Amir Peled in Kfar Shmaryahu, in what felt to me like an “Alexander-land.”
Amir is an Alexander Technique teacher who brings together curious people who love the Alexander Technique. They practice, exchange lessons, and learn from one another. I taught and received lessons, and pity that at some point I had to leave.
Many thanks to Nadav Ovadia, who is training to teach the Alexander Technique with Meir Amit, for inviting me to the gathering.

Enjoying your Yoga practice? 🧘‍♀️✨

If you're finding benefit and joy in Yoga, the Alexander Technique can help deepen your experience even further.

By bringing more awareness to unnecessary strain, habitual tension, and the way you move, the Alexander Technique can support a deeper sense of ease, balance, and freedom—both in your yoga practice and in daily activities.

Discover how releasing excess effort can create more space for comfort, breath, and mindful movement.

Curious to learn more? Feel free to get in touch. 🌿

I am so happy and grateful that I could help — remotely — a mother give birth.

By combining my experience as an Alexander Technique teacher with my own experience of giving birth naturally twice, I could guide you toward greater presence, ease, and trust during childbirth.

I can support you in reconnecting with your body, your breath, and your natural ability to give birth with awareness and confidence.

Feel free to contact me for more information ✨

A small laundry experiment

Do you also ignore the laundry pile until it becomes… unavoidable?

This morning I finally faced mine. Lots of sheets and duvet covers—my least favorite things to fold.

At some point I picked one up and wondered:
How long does it actually take to fold a duvet cover?

So I tried it.
Less than a minute.

In my mind, “folding the laundry” feels like a huge, exhausting task. But when I looked at the actual action, it was just one minute.

That simple question changed something.
Ten minutes = about ten pieces. Suddenly the whole thing felt manageable.

I ended up folding much more than I expected, and without the usual dread.

It reminded me of something I often see in the Alexander Technique:
when we pause and look at what an action actually requires, it’s often much simpler than the story we’ve built around it.

Sometimes the hardest part of a task isn’t the task itself.
It’s the mental weight we attach to it.

I’m curious—
is there a small task in your life that feels bigger than it actually is?