Micro-Resets: Using the Alexander Technique to Feel Light and Free

Feeling too busy or overwhelmed to take care of your body? You don’t need an hour or even ten minutes—just this moment.

Use a micro-reset to reconnect with your body gently and rediscover ease and fluidity in movement, right where you are.

Many of us—especially highly sensitive movers and dancers—feel that caring for our body requires an hour, a mat, or a full routine. And sometimes that's too much, so we don't do it. But real change can begin in just one moment.

In this short video, I'll guide you through a gentle, Alexander Technique-based micro-reset you can do anytime.

Discover how to:

• Shift from tension to ease in everyday movement

• Work with your body instead of trying to fix it

• Reconnect with your breath and natural coordination

• Feel lighter, calmer, and more fluid—in just a few moments

This practice is especially for highly sensitive dancers and movers who want to restore artistry, calm the nervous system, and feel at home in their body again.

I invite you to try it now and notice what changes when you let your body be where it is.

If you’d like to go deeper, I offer free consultations in which we can discuss what you need and how to apply this work to your body and your movement.

A transcript of the video is below if you’d prefer to read rather than watch and listen.

Hello, friend.

Do you ever feel like you don't have the time to take care of your body?

Wow. Just saying that out loud, something hit me that I had no idea would happen.

Sometimes your schedule is just too busy, or your schedule might even look like you have the time, but taking care of your body seems like you have to set aside at least an hour to care for it in the way it deserves or the way you think you need it.

And that time, even if it looks like you have it, it's just too much. It's too much.

You don't need an hour. You don't need a half an hour. All you really need is this moment to take care of your body.

You can reset what's happening in your body right now in what you're already doing, instead of trying to go for a huge shift that will dramatically change you.

Many of us think that's what we want. Then we end up wanting something that we never get, which is not a great feeling.

Instead, what you can do is focus on little changes in this moment and then trust that those changes begin to add up.

It's a little like making a painting. You add a brush stroke. You don't have to have the whole painting done in one go. You can add a brush stroke and then another one and then later on another one.

What's beautiful about these changes is when we make them in this moment, we can actually enjoy them as they're happening. Rather than trying to fix your body or caring for your body in this fixing way, trying to get somewhere else.

Let’s do a mini-reset together.

Right now I'm going to use the action of moving from sitting to standing.

You can do that with me or you can just listen to the process I'm using and apply that to any activity you would like. I'll talk through sitting to standing in case you would like to do this as well.

To do this little reset here I am sitting and first I'm going to bring out this idea of coming to standing.

I'm exaggerating a little bit but this is what my body starts to do: it starts to prepare to stand.

What's happening is I start to lean forward a little bit. My back starts to tighten up. My quads begin to tighten up a little bit. My body is preparing to stand.

That's a little misleading. It's not actually preparing to stand. It's preparing to do what I'm used to doing when standing.

Can you catch the difference between those two? It's not preparing to stand. It's preparing to do what I'm used to doing.

The beauty in the latter is that it means that that's what I'm used to. It doesn't mean that that's the only way or that's what has to happen.

You're sitting. You're about to stand. What happens in your legs? What happens in your back?

Now you can let go of that just in this moment. You can let go and allow yourself to sit instead. You come back to where you are.

Remember, you have a head. Yeah. It's so easy.

“I'm about to stand.” We start to do something.

It's like you forget you have a head. You forget you have a body a little bit or you start to look for your body doing the right thing or the wrong thing. You start to look at all the places in your body to see if they’re moving right and or if there's pain. If you're used to pain it's like, “is that pain going to show up?”

You don't need to do any of that. Let it go. You're just sitting

You have a head. Breath is moving. The chair is supporting you. These are things that are already happening.

I'm going to start to move to stand. I'm going to pause for a moment because I started to prepare to stand.

And if you're here with me, come back kinesesthetically. You don't have to move backward, but you come back to what's already happening.

You're actually still sitting. You still have a head. Oh, yeah. When I remembered that, I started to look around. Whereas before, my vision was a little dead. I was seeing something but I don't even know what it was. Oh yeah, I have a head. Okay. Feet are supported on the ground. Great. There they are.

Okay, now I’m just about to stand up. There’s the body preparing again.

You're actually still just sitting. You have a head and shoulders. These are the micro-resets: when you just come back to what's already happening right now in this moment. Not what you're about to do, not where you think you're going, but what's happening now.

You have a head. Seems so obvious, but you'll be amazed how easy it is to forget you have a body.

Not a body you're judging. If you're judging your body, that's not your body. Those are your judgments. It's about coming back to this body. Okay. Then moving.

I still have a head.

If you feel overwhelmed trying to set aside time to take care of your body, that can sound like another thing you have to put on your to-do list, a thing you have to get done.

Instead, take a moment just right now. Where's your body right now? Let it be there. That's the reset.

Let yourself enjoy being where you are. That makes this practice so much easier to do because it feels good.

Okay, that's it for today.

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Until we meet again, take care.