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	<title>The Dodman Blog</title>
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	<description>All flesh is as grass</description>
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		<title>Lessons and learning</title>
		<link>http://blog.dodman.org/archives/32</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 22:05:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alexander Technique]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My main quibble with the traditional approach to teaching the Alexander Technique, which is predominantly hands on, is the dependence it appears to foster in students, which can make for a lengthy and problematic learning process. At least, it did with me; although not everyone responds in this way.
My overriding impression from the initial course [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alexandroid</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 10:01:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alexander Technique]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Inhibition]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve often wondered how to distinguish between &#8216;feeling things out&#8217;, an activity that bedevils Alexander enthusiasts, making them look, and probably feel, stiff and awkward, and &#8216;feeling the way to a better place&#8217; which , I believe, represents the best available way of learning the Technique.
The danger is of confusing misguided attempts to recreate a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE USE OF THE HIPS</title>
		<link>http://blog.dodman.org/archives/29</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2008 22:33:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dod</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Alexander Technique]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In spring 2007, I went surfing. The weather was wild, the water was cold, and although it was exhilarating being thrown about in the waves, it was also chastening to feel so helpless pitting my relatively puny body against the churning tide.
	At a certain point, turning one way but being propelled in the opposite direction [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bavarian encounters</title>
		<link>http://blog.dodman.org/archives/27</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:42:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dod</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Other]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Taking a bus from the relative tranquility of Las Palmas, in the north of Gran Canaria, to a place called Masapalomas, in the south, we discovered a weird subculture of sun worshippers living there, hundreds upon hundreds of them, who seemed to like nothing better than carving out hollows for themselves in the gritty sand, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Last bus</title>
		<link>http://blog.dodman.org/archives/28</link>
		<comments>http://blog.dodman.org/archives/28#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2007 18:42:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dod</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Other]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The other day, we visited the villages and citrus groves of the Lecrin Valley. To do this, we walked down to Orgiva, and got a bus to Talera. From there, we reckoned on a pleasant enough ten to fifteen kilometre stroll along little used roads and footpaths to take in three or four villages, before [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seychelles break</title>
		<link>http://blog.dodman.org/archives/25</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2007 07:35:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dod</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Other]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[At around 8pm, I slip away and take my evening shower. It’s an ecstatic moment, stepping beneath the tepid water and sluicing the congealed sweat off. I then slide into bed, taking care to tuck the sides of the mosquito net under the mattress, having first switched the bedside fan on. For the first week [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Heads up</title>
		<link>http://blog.dodman.org/archives/24</link>
		<comments>http://blog.dodman.org/archives/24#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Sep 2006 15:58:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dod</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Alexander Technique]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I recently visited India. Most of our time was spent in Goa, must of it on the beaches. Some were empty, others crowded. It was interesting to watch how differently people walked. Nationality seemed to have more of a bearing than age.   There were a lot of hawkers, selling everything from fruit, to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Self-help Alexander</title>
		<link>http://blog.dodman.org/archives/23</link>
		<comments>http://blog.dodman.org/archives/23#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Sep 2006 11:55:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dod</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Alexander Technique]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ 
This is a copy of a letter I received some time ago:
&#8220;I want to thank you very much for the information posted on your website, but specially for the &#8220;Self-help dialogue 2&#8243;
http://www.dodman.org/index.php/Writing/Alexander/Self-help
 
 
I got a very valuable insight by reading it. 
 
For many years my intellectual interest was shared between 2 completely [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conversations with a bluebottle</title>
		<link>http://blog.dodman.org/archives/26</link>
		<comments>http://blog.dodman.org/archives/26#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jun 2006 21:45:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dod</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Consciousness]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been reading a book about an animal psychic who converses with creatures as diverse as crickets and squirrels. All you have to do, she claims, if you want some animal or insect to do something, is &#8216;frame&#8217; it in pictures in your own mind first, and then, if you can, frame it again from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Crimson Petal and the White</title>
		<link>http://blog.dodman.org/archives/15</link>
		<comments>http://blog.dodman.org/archives/15#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 May 2006 10:36:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dod</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This exquisitely written, searingly graphic, often hilarious but fundamentally flawed portrayal of life and loves in Regency London, I had looked forward to reading for months. I would take it out of my bookshelf and sniff the pristine pages. It was a beautifully produced volume.
It proved to be a massive disappointment. There were three gigantic [...]]]></description>
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