Expanding Awareness
About Expanding Awareness
The Alexander Technique is a mental skill, adjacent to meditation, that involves learning to recognise our habitual reactions as they arise and inhibit them, so as to gain increased freedom and space with which to respond to the world.
It was first taught as a technique to help actors deal with stage fright, and is widely associated with improving posture, but the intended scope of the practice is much wider than this.
Michael Ashcroft is a solopreneur and at present the most prolific online teacher of the Alexander Technique.
We met on twitter a few years back, we had many mutual acquaintances and I messaged him asking for business advice.
In the process, I showed him my website and he was really impressed with how it looked.
He asked me how I’d made it, and I told him that I’d used Ghost.
He then responded saying that he was planning on setting up a Ghost website himself and didn’t recognise the theme I was using.
I told him that this is because I made it myself.
And that’s the story of how I was hired to build Michael Ashcroft’s website Expanding Awareness.
Technology used
The Expanding Awareness Website was built using Ghost, which is also what I’m using for my website.
Writing a ghost theme is basically the same as building a static site with HTML, CSS and Javascript.
I used the precompiler Sass for the styling.