UWM News
November 2, 2012
By Nicole Sweeney Etter
Do you dip your head when pushing up your glasses? Stoop while brushing your teeth? Slouch when grabbing the phone?
The 100-year-old Alexander Technique helps you become more aware of psycho-physical habits that can waste energy in everyday activities. Increasing awareness, theoretically, can help you learn how to retrain your body to move more naturally and efficiently.
But how does that newfound awareness affect the brain? That’s one of the questions being explored by Luc Vanier, associate professor of dance in the Peck School of the Arts, and Wendy Huddleston, assistant professor of kinesiology in the College of Health Sciences. The pair are collaborating on a project titled “Intention and Attention: Transmodernism and Integration in Human Movement Studies,” which is funded by a $50,000 Center for 21st Century Studies Interdisciplinary Challenge Award.
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