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I am an Austin-based Alexander Technique Teacher and Life-Skills Coach. To learn more, visit http://www.joanie-mercer.com/.
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Joanie Levine Mercer is an Austin-based Alexander Technique Teacher and Life-Skills Coach. Joanie has studied the Alexander Technique since 1976 and brought it to Austin, TX that same year. She is a Senior Teacher certified by the American Society for the Alexander Technique and has taught the Alexander Technique worldwide, including New York, San Francisco, Houston, Austin, India, as well as in m

any universities and colleges in the United States. Joanie has always been committed to learning and teaching everything that has made her life rich and fulfilling. In the late 1960s she was active in community building, working with women and men to teach life-skills to enhance communication and listening between people. As one of the first Hatha Yoga teachers in Texas, she began to examine other healing modalities including alternative medicine, nutrition, and stress-reduction techniques. This passion for learning and exploring expanded states of consciousness inspired her to study in both Paris and India for extended periods of time. After receiving a Bachelor of Science in Education from The University of Texas at Austin, Joanie did graduate work at the University of Michigan. She has studied psychophysical therapies including Gestalt, Bio-Energetics and Feldenkrais Method, as well as Hatha Yoga, Kinesiology, Reiki, and other complementary nutritional, relaxation and stress management techniques. She is also a Registered Somatic Movement therapist. She has studied Yoga and Meditation for over 40 years with many teachers including Swami Virajananda, Swami Muktananda Paramahansa, and Gurumayi Chidvilasanda, John Friend and Tibetan Meditation Teacher Anam Thubten. Joanie enjoys working with new and current clients and helping them discover their potential and happiness. For more information, visit http://www.joanie-mercer.com/

05/08/2024

Our tightest muscles need to be made stronger.

07/26/2023

yep... She's great

The second-highest job in the land has been shifting for decades, and some of those changes haven’t made things easier for Kamala Harris.

07/22/2023

"Love is still the only revenge. It grows each time the earth is set on fire."

I have been texting this poem by the extraordinary Ayisha Siddiqa to loved ones. I hope it will touch you — hold you — as it is touching and holding me. It is read by the also extraordinary Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, from my On Being conversation with her last year.

Blessings and love to all, wherever you are on our planet.

— Krista

Head to the link in our bio to listen to read ’s poem.

04/26/2023

Please read ALL directions before assembling your cat

03/16/2023

The Justice Department today announced the arrest of Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui, also known as Ho Wan Kwok and Miles Guo, charged with defrauding followers of more than $1 billion. The 12-count indictment for wire fraud, securities fraud, bank fraud, and money laundering says Guo and a co-conspi...

03/15/2023

READ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!YES!!!!!!!!

Two years ago, in the midst of the pandemic, I whipped off a quick and somewhat flippant letter about why March 15 is a crucially important day in American history. It became one of the most popular things I’ve ever written, so popular that when I was asked to write a book based on these letters, ...

06/09/2022

Authoritarianism or Democracy?

Today, the Washington Commanders defensive coordinator Jack Del Rio complained to reporters that there have been “two standards” in the way we have seen the vandalism at some of the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020 and the January 6 insurrection. “We have a dust-up at the Capitol, nothing b...

06/09/2022

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Eckhart describes the adventure in consciousness we all share.Subscribe to find greater fulfillment in life: http://bit.ly/EckhartYTWant to watch and hear mo...

06/08/2022

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Subscribe to the Live from Here channel and click the bell for notifications: https://bit.ly/2JCVkzdRachael Price and our band perform Blind Faith's "Can't F...

06/08/2022

Hello everyone! It's been a while!I'm sorry that I haven't been posting as much, but hopefully this makes up for lost time :)Josh and I have been buds for qu...

06/07/2022

In big and small ways, we all experience loss: whether it's the passing of a loved one, the close of a career or even the end of a dream. Explaining how to process many types of sorrow, marriage and family therapist Nina Westbrook highlights the importance of grief as a natural emotion and a powerfu...

06/07/2022

06/07/2022

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05/31/2022

Adopting a brain-healthy diet is a powerful tool in maximizing cognitive health and helping prevent dementia and Alzheimer’s disease, says neuroscientist and nutritionist Lisa Mosconi. What’s more,…

05/20/2022

10/07/2021

Big Thank you to Dr. Nathaniel Brickens who invited me to give a Master class to his Trombone Studio Class October 4th at The Butler School of Music, University of Texas. His students were so enthusiastic and open to hearing and experiencing the Alexander Techniqu so exciting to see and hear the transformation in their bodies and their performance!

08/09/2021

Being challenged with ATX's new situation stage five, hospitals overwhelmed, I began to contemplate what my teacher Marj Barstow would say to me at this time. Simply, it would be "watch your Self", "what are you doing with your Self"? These two phases bring me into present moment, gratitude and appreciation for all the lessons and vissititudes of life.

06/11/2021

Appreciating and having gratitude for my teacher, Marj Barstow, teacher of the Alexander Technique. She continues to inform and direct my thinking...taking me up.

05/21/2021

Simply put, the widening in the directions," allow the whole head to ease forward and up and the whole body to follow lengthening and widening all together one after the other," occurs because the ribcage is attached to the vertebrae. As the head eases up allowing that space between each vertabra the rib cage gets space between each rib.

05/13/2021

Keep it simple

04/10/2020

"The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn." - Gloria Steinem
I wonder if Ms. Steinem was familiar with F.M. Alexander's work...

01/07/2020

Where is your head in relationship to your spine? Right now?

12/08/2019

"The Alexander Technique is not a method of accumulating information nor the art of learning something new. It is, instead, the art of unlearning, which is much more subtle and, sometimes, a more difficult endeavor- unlearning that which is habitual instead of natural- letting go of old patterns and of those repetitious opinions arrived at in time and circumstances totally different from those of the present."
Laura Huxley-Author, Educator,Humanitarian

10/23/2019

Recently, I have been contemplating an event that happened to me about three years ago. I was walking very fast into The downtown Whole Foods( the Mothership as we say in ATX) and I tripped on the step leading onto the flastone path into the store. I was literally in the air. Time slowed down and I thought ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE!!! "allow your head to ease out and away from your spine,lenthen and widen!"
Instead of landing on both knees, I was able to let my toes connect with the path in a modified plank. One knee did hit and the pain was jarring. I then remembered I had Traumeel cream(arnica based pain relieving cream) in my purse which I immediately applied.
I asked my gf to go inside and get some arnica homeopathic pills #6. I experienced maybe 15 minutes of acute pain and then slight achy pain then nothing. My knee was red for a couple of days but never bruised.
Lesson: 1. There is always time to think and direct oneself.
2. Be prepared

10/11/2019

read Body Learning by Michael Gelb

06/28/2019

24/7 think about Alexander directions so that you are aware in all of your activities: eating, brushing teeth, grooming, driving, sitting, working out, walking, running, swimming, tennis, golf,watching movies, doing yoga, meditating, touring a museum, doing laundry, etc. you get the picture: neck free, whole head eases up, whole body follows.

06/04/2019

Excellent piece by Mark Josefsberg

The Alexander Technique for Stress Reduction Soft focus. A wider view. The bigger picture. Draw back. The Alexander Technique for stress reduction. Non-doing the Alexander Technique for stress reduction. Back off. Hold up. Pause, wait, stop, relax, ease up with the Alexander Technique. Breathe, chil...

06/01/2019

Beyond Excellent!!!

04/08/2019

Good Posture: Neck free, whole head eases up, whole body follows lengthening and widening

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