WHAT IS THE ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE?

We are designed for movement. Inherent in this design is an incredible capacity for ease, flexibility, power and expressiveness, whether we are dancing, hammering a nail, working at the computer, singing or simply walking. All too often we unwittingly interfere with this design as we perform our daily activities. Energy, delight and grace give way to effort, tension and fatigue.
The Alexander Technique offers a joyful, systematic look into the underlying principles that govern human movement.
When applied, these principles guide us to a dynamic experience of kinesthetic lightness, wherein thinking becomes clearer,feelings accessible, sensations livelier, and movement more pleasurable.
Within this fluid, more conscious condition, we find our actions strengthened and refined, our sense of  time expanded,
and our rapport with the environment restored.

WHO STUDIES ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE?

Anyone who is physically uncomfortable due to stress, postural habits, movement problems, old injuries, or poor self-image.
Performing artists and teachers of performing arts. Athletes and martial artists. Movement educators, dance therapists,
physical therapists, occupational therapists, counselors and psychologists. Women in pregnancy and childbirth.
Anyone who wishes to regain more of their ease, flexibility, tone, breath, fluidity, strength, expressiveness and grace.

WHERE THE TECHNIQUE CAME FROM?

F.M.ALEXANDER, (1869-1955). Born in Tasmania. He was a successful actor and reciter whose carrier was cut short
by loss of voice during performances. with no help forthcoming from medical from the medical profession, Alexander
undertook an intensive examination of himself in action, convinced that the source of his voice problem lay in the way
He used his body. A long period of research led him to discover certain principles affecting mind/body co-ordination
applicable to every kind of physical activity.
With this knowledge he went on to cure his voice problem and found that he could also help others. It was at this
point that teaching his method became the main focus of his life.
Alexander arrived in England in 1904 and during the next 25 years built up a practice in London and the USA.
In 1931 he began training others to teach the Technique and continued to do so until his death at the age 86.
Today the importance of the Alexander's discoveries is confirmed by the international existence of a rapidly growing body of teachers of his method.

What the Alexander Technique can do for you:

*Reduce tension and stress in everyday activities (walking, cooking, sitting at a computer, driving a car).

*Deepen awareness in specialized activities such as Yoga, Pilates and Martial Arts.

*Enhance presentational skills by overcoming fear and stage fright.

*Improve skills in sports (golf, tennis, running, swimming, horse riding) and performing arts
(dancing, singing, playing a musical instrument, acting).

*Learn to relieve chronic pain from lower back syndrome, neck and shoulder tension, runner's knee,
Tennis elbow.

*Prevent future injuries.

*Improve posture, coordination, and self-awareness.

*Increase energy and mental clarity.

Alert Balanced Relaxed Focused Effective Confident

With the Alexander Technique you can...

*be poised, without stiffness.
*move gracefully, with less effort.
*be alert and focused, with less strain

Improve how you move, perform, look and feel

 

 

ALLOW YOUR NECK TO BE FREE SO THAT THE HEAD CAN MOVE FORWARD AND UP IN SUCH A WAY THAT THE BACK CAN LENGTHEN AND WIDEN AND THE KNEES GO FORWARD AND AWAY.
THE HEAD LEADS AND THE BODY FOLLOWS.