title: About this Garden
About this Digital Garden
What you’ll find here
This digital garden explores enactive pedagogy and the Alexander Technique from a phenomenological and embodied cognition perspective. It’s a work-in-progress research space where theoretical concepts grow and interconnect over time. =⇒ actually, a big jumble
Main themes
- Enactive pedagogy (pédagogie énactive) - integrating Varela’s enactive cognition with somatic practices
- Alexander Technique - coordination, inhibition, and kinesthetic awareness
- Embodied cognition - H.Godard, R.Zahn, biotensegrity, fascial approaches
- Phenomenology - middle voice (voix médiane), lived experience
- Gestosphère - a theoretical framework for understanding coordination as distributed agency
- Neurophenomenology:
- First-person perspective - lived experience, phenomenology (what I experience)
- Second-person perspective - intersubjective relationship (what WE share, empathy)
- Third-person perspective - objective observation, measurements (what is observed externally)
Key thinkers
Francisco Varela • Hubert Godard • Tim Ingold • Nikolai Bernstein • Maurice Merleau-Ponty • Emma Bigé • N.Depraz •
Language note
Most content is in French, reflecting the nuanced theoretical work around concepts that don’t always translate cleanly:
- Voix médiane (middle voice)
- Geste fondateur (foundational gesture)
- Gestosphère (gestosphere)
- Emulation (emulation practices)
Feel free to engage even if you don’t read French - the concepts and wikilink networks might still resonate across language barriers.
About me
I’m Matthieu Gaudeau, a researcher and practitioner of the Alexander Technique based in Limoges, France. This garden documents my theoretical exploration of embodied learning.
How to navigate
- Follow the wikilinks to explore connected concepts
- Check the graph view to see conceptual relationships
What I’m working on now
- Developing the theoretical framework of gestosphère
- Exploring connections between Godard’s work and biotensegrity
- Investigating the concept of voix médiane in coordination
- Building this garden as part of the Agora network Updated: December 2025
Connect
This garden is part of the Agora - a federated network of digital gardens. You’ll find my notes in conversation with other perspectives on similar themes.
Inspired by digital gardens and federated knowledge sharing.
Last tended: 13-12-2025