What is the Alexander Technique?
The Alexander Technique is a somatic practice designed by Frederick Matthias Alexander to help improve how people sit, stand, and move by increasing body awareness, leading to better posture and less tension that would eventually lead to chronic pain. Alexander Technique is used by musicians, dancers and actors, as well as many people with chronic conditions such as neck and back pain, Parkinsons Disease and Ehlers-Danos Syndrome, and many others seeking greater coordination and balance in their everyday lives to help students connect the mind and body, helping individuals identify habits that can cause discomfort, physical limitations, and chronic pain.
In guided lessons with a trained Alexander Technique teacher, students learn:
To heighten awareness of themselves within the space around them.
To discover for themselves how our postural and movement habits interfere with our natural upright poise and how these habits create tension and long-term chronic pain in their own bodies.
To identify their postural habits and adjust their movements in everyday life based on their direct experiences in each lesson.
To learn how to replace these old habits with new ones using a constructive approach to movement and being.
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“With the best intentions, the job of acting can become a display of accumulated bad habits, trapped instincts and blocked energies. Working with the Alexander Technique has given me sightings of another way... Mind and body, work and life together. Real imaginative freedom.”
— Alan Rickman
"I find the Alexander Technique very helpful in my work. Things happen without you trying. They get to be light and relaxed. You must get an Alexander teacher to show it to you".
-Hugh Jackman
"It gives us all the things we have been looking for in a system of physical education: relief from strain due to maladjustment, and consequent improvement in physical and mental health, increased consciousness of the physical means employed to gain the ends proposed by the will and, along with this, a general heightening of consciousness on all levels… We cannot ask more from any system of physical education; nor, if we seriously desire to alter human beings in a desirable direction, can we ask any less."
— Aldous Huxley