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Presentation Handout
Presentation Handout
My mentor
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The actor who lost his voice and became the Father of
‘Good Posture’
• Born in Tasmania
• As an actor, untreatable voice loss
• Self observation of misuse
• Developed a series of techniques for re-establishing our natural
ease of movement we had as children
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HABITS
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Copied behaviour
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WE’RE
SLUMPING
BECAUSE
WE’RE SAD,
BUT WE ARE
SAD BECAUSE
WE’RE
SLUMPING
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WE’RE
RUNNING
BECAUSE WE
ARE STRESSED,
BUT WE ARE
STRESSED
BECAUSE WE
ARE RUNNING
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Demo Time
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Simple postural
changes
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Stand up
more, feet
together
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Put your
feet
straight,
stand and
walk tall
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Semi
supine
tech time
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Positive Negative
• Has backbone • Spineless individual
• Walking tall • No backbone
• Upstanding citizen • Weak kneed
• Standing proud • In a slump (depression)
• Thinking on my feet • Bent out of shape
• Spring in my step • Pain in the neck
• Head held high • Leading with the chin
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‘The joints of the bones obeys the nerve, and the nerve the muscle,
and the muscle the tendon, and the tendon the Common Sense. And
the Common Sense is the seat of the soul, and the memory its
ammunition.’
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