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Summer Intensive: Tutoring vs Rewiring
Imagine, if you will, watering your garden with a tangled hose. Yes, it's possible to attach it to the water source, and it's possible...
judypanning
4 days ago3 min read
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Summer Intensive: Improve Your Timing . . . Improve Your Life!
When our timing is off, we can feel it. The sluggishness, tiredness, slowness. Or the out-of-control hyperactivity of body or mind.
judypanning
Mar 113 min read
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Summer Intensive • Building Better Focus through Reflex Integration
Today I planned my Summer Intensive to help people who have ADHD. It will run June 9 through August 2 and consists of 2-3 weekly...
judypanning
Jan 193 min read
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Stress 101: What is it?
Stress. What is it? Awareness is the first step to making a different choice.
judypanning
Nov 11, 20243 min read
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New Spaces . . . New Faces
It's been awhile, and there's news. Waiting area I'm grateful for the new families I'm working with and for the support of the Small...
judypanning
Aug 30, 20241 min read
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Whatcha Thinkin'?
The Alexander Technique is a new concept for west central Iowa. For a century it's helped people live with less tension and more ease.
judypanning
Mar 30, 20243 min read
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Happy Backs • Moving with the Alexander Technique
It's been a bit of a wild ride transitioning home from Illinois. Moving everything back to my Lake City residence was like combining two...
judypanning
Jan 10, 20242 min read
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Are you paying attention?
Hasn't everyone heard that question at least once? Spouses ask each other. Parents ask children. Teachers ask students. It's getting more...
judypanning
Dec 16, 20232 min read
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Pass & Bounce Club
I discovered Bal-A-Vis-X on FaceBook when a reflex integration friend mentioned a colleague's training workshop. It intrigued me enough...
judypanning
Dec 4, 20232 min read
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World Music Drumming . . . builds Better Focus
Imagine a circle that fosters respect for all ages and abilities playing together! Imagine a circle of musicians playing the same rhythm...
judypanning
Nov 27, 20232 min read
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Piano Lessons . . . Why Groups??
Well, the short answer is because it's more fun! Actually, I believe children learn the basics of music best through play. Most of what...
judypanning
Nov 18, 20232 min read
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Let's Start at the very Beginning
This is the first in a series of blog posts about my upcoming studio work. I will begin teaching in late January 2024 at the First United...
judypanning
Nov 13, 20232 min read
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Thinking Ahead . . .
I’ve never been a countdown person. Whenever someone asked how many days until the end of the school year, I would think more than 10,...
judypanning
Apr 16, 20232 min read
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Always Learning
The Spring Term is starting! It’s hard to believe I have only three terms left before I’ll be finished and graduating. And moving home!!...
judypanning
Mar 22, 20232 min read
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Appropriate Notice
I first encountered this concept in a music education workshop many years ago. The idea then was that in teaching young children,...
judypanning
Jan 31, 20232 min read
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Have a Lesson, Change Your Life
Notes: 1 This post was written a year ago when I was still studying. I've now graduated and I'm taking students. 2 The Developing...
judypanning
Jan 21, 20233 min read
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Not to “Do”
As I enjoyed my Christmas break in snowy, COLD western Iowa, I read a diary of Fiona Robb called Not to “Do”. She trained as an Alexander...
judypanning
Jan 18, 20233 min read
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Coming Home
Since I’ve been in Champaign I’ve been warmly welcomed into the singing and bell choirs at St. John Lutheran. I’ve also played recorder...
judypanning
Dec 11, 20223 min read
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Habits of Body, Habits of Mind (and Spirals!)
Reflections on reading and writing papers in the fall term
judypanning
Nov 26, 20222 min read
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More than a Buzz Word
The idea of developing a personal Alexander Technique practice has been a goal for many months, though it’s not actually becoming...
judypanning
Oct 9, 20222 min read
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