Your Hand Belongs to Your Back—And It Changes How You Move | Alexander Technique

✨ Back Support: The Principle That Quietly Organizes Action What changes when your grasp belongs to your back? In this class excerpt from the Alexander Technique Teacher Training Course in Boston, Massachusetts (USA), Tommy Thompson explores back support through something as ordinary as a handshake. Rather than squeezing only from the wrist and fingers, he invites the trainees to recognize a larger connection: the hand belongs to the arm, the arm belongs to the back, and the back supports uprightness. From this whole-person support, we can reach toward another person without leaving ourselves. Tommy describes this connection as a sense of inspansion and expansion between two people. 🧠 The Hand Belongs to the Back Back support means that the hand does not act as an isolated part. The hand, arm, back, and whole person participate in one coordinated action. Tommy extends this principle to scooters, cellphones, keyboards, bicycles, and ergonomic chairs. Changing the object does not automatically change how we use ourselves—we bring our habitual pattern of use into every activity. When feedback creates frustration, it does not have to become a dead end. It can become the inhibited moment—the moment in which we work with ourselves and begin the real exploration. “When you shake hands with someone, you don’t leave yourself. You shake from where you are, rather than where you’re going.” 📍 Filmed in Boston, MA (USA) 🎓 From Tommy Thompson’s Alexander Technique Teacher Training Class 96 👉 Read the full summary on the Resonance Flow Blog Back Support: The Principle That Quietly Organizes Action in the Alexander Technique | Tommy Thompson Class 96 https://theresonanceflow.com/alexande... This video is part of Tommy Thompson’s U.S.-based class series, where presence, perception, inhibition, and conscious touch come together to support meaningful change. 🔗 Follow Resonance Flow Instagram –   / resonance_flow   Website – https://theresonanceflow.com Blog – https://theresonanceflow.com/blog #AlexanderTechnique #BackSupport #UseOfTheSelf #Inspansion #Inhibition #ConsciousTouch #SomaticEducation #ResonanceFlow #AlexanderTechniqueBoston #TommyThompson #Arikim