Alexander Technique

A course of lessons in the Alexander Technique will help you achieve:

▪   Better balance and poise

▪   More freedom of movement

▪   Relief from stiffness and pain

▪   More efficient use of energy

You will:

▪   Look better

▪   Feel calmer

▪   Think more clearly

Those benefits are not achieved by a system of exercises, but through a process that encourages awareness of how your habits of posture and muscular tension can restrict activity and impair your general well-being.

Standing naturally, breathing easily and moving gracefully are activities that most healthy children take for granted. However, they often become more difficult as we face first the pressures of growing up and then the stresses of adult life.

What Happens in an Alexander Technique Lesson:

In a lesson, the Alexander teacher will explain and employ gentle hands-on guidance to give you the experience of freedom and lightness. You will gradually learn to apply these qualities to more and more areas of your life. This will enable you to stop what is stopping you from functioning as well as you could.

What can Alexander Technique Help with?

A course of Alexander lessons can lead to improvement in a wide range of problems and conditions: Back pain and other pain that does not respond to other forms of treatment. Respiratory and digestive problems. Performance-related problems for professional actors, dancers, musicians, sportsmen. RSI. Recovery from injury.

The Alexander technique can help women cope confidently with the great changes in pregnancy and childbirth. It can lead to release from the ill effects caused by being constantly wound up by the stresses and strains of life.

In the words of its founder, F. M. Alexander, who started teaching in London nearly 100 years ago, The Alexander Technique teaches you to make the “best use of yourself” – with mind, body and spirit working in harmony to restore and maintain optimal health.