Alexander Technique
I am a teacher of the Alexander Technique and offer private lessons at my practice in South Hampstead, London.
What is the Alexander Technique?
The Alexander Technique is a way of re-educating the body towards natural balance and alignment. In individual lessons, a qualified teacher helps the student to recognise faulty muscular use and poor posture through gentle touch and guidance. There is an emphasis on lengthening and widening the back and freeing the spine to achieve a more co-ordinated movement. The Alexander Technique is a practical method to help restore the body's natural poise - a poise we all enjoyed as young children, but have lost due to years of bad physical habits and misuse.
What are the Benefits?
With the Alexander Technique you can improve your activity and performance, your health and your emotional well-being. Correcting your physical use will enhance every aspect of your self through improved ease of movement, focus and concentration, and more balanced use of your body.
With lessons in the Alexander Technique you will learn how to release tension and use your body in the most efficient and co-ordinated way possible. As well as enhancing all-round health, this can help to achieve specific goals, for example improving sports and creative performance, coping with pregnancy and childbirth and dealing with stress and anxiety.
The Technique helps improve:
What is the Alexander Technique?
The Alexander Technique is a way of re-educating the body towards natural balance and alignment. In individual lessons, a qualified teacher helps the student to recognise faulty muscular use and poor posture through gentle touch and guidance. There is an emphasis on lengthening and widening the back and freeing the spine to achieve a more co-ordinated movement. The Alexander Technique is a practical method to help restore the body's natural poise - a poise we all enjoyed as young children, but have lost due to years of bad physical habits and misuse.
What are the Benefits?
With the Alexander Technique you can improve your activity and performance, your health and your emotional well-being. Correcting your physical use will enhance every aspect of your self through improved ease of movement, focus and concentration, and more balanced use of your body.
With lessons in the Alexander Technique you will learn how to release tension and use your body in the most efficient and co-ordinated way possible. As well as enhancing all-round health, this can help to achieve specific goals, for example improving sports and creative performance, coping with pregnancy and childbirth and dealing with stress and anxiety.
The Technique helps improve:
- Stature and posture
- Agility and stamina
- Thinking and attention
- Confidence
- Co-ordination and efficiency of movement
- Creative performance, such as acting, singing and playing musical instruments
- Calmness
- Sports performance and reduces the likelihood of injury
- Public speaking
- Back, neck, shoulder and other muscular skeletal problems
- RSI and performance strain
- Migraines and headaches
- Asthma, breathing and vocal disorders
- Stress, depression and anxiety
- Problems with co-ordination or movement
- Rehabilitation after operations, injury or illness
- Stress related conditions, such as IBS
- Parkinson's disease
- Osteo-arthritis
- Sciatica
- Pregnancy related discomfort
How is it Taught?
The Alexander Technique is taught one to one, normally on a weekly basis over several months, and frequently longer. Often people find it useful to begin lessons twice-weekly when they want to tackle more ingrained and difficult problems.
With the aid of a teacher's hands, the student learns to release and lengthen muscles that have been shortened over time because of bad habits and misuse. Gradually students are able to recognise their own faulty habits and become more efficient in the way they use themselves. People normally report a feeling of lightness in body, freedom of movement, and a calmer state of mind.
Essentially the Alexander Technique is all about experience and I would encourage you to come along for a an initial consultation in order to learn how it could help you.
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Further Information
You can find more information on the Alexander Technique from the website of the Society of Teachers of the Alexander Technique.
You can find more information on the Alexander Technique from the website of the Society of Teachers of the Alexander Technique.
The Alexander Technique has been around now for over 100 years. It was 'discovered' by an Australian actor, Frederick Matthias Alexander, who suffered from persistent voice and breathing problems on stage, as well as general ill health.
Obtaining very little help from conventional medicine, an absolute determination to find the real root of his problems led him to discover certain fundamental truths about human activity, co-ordination and movement.
Over many years of observation of himself, he began to understand that habitual patterns of misuse involving the whole of his body and mind were the cause of his problems.
Over the years he discovered how to consciously change these patterns of use and developed a Technique which not only eliminated his vocal problems, but also brought about remarkable improvements in his general health.
He began teaching others and came to London in 1904, setting up a teacher training school thereafter.
Obtaining very little help from conventional medicine, an absolute determination to find the real root of his problems led him to discover certain fundamental truths about human activity, co-ordination and movement.
Over many years of observation of himself, he began to understand that habitual patterns of misuse involving the whole of his body and mind were the cause of his problems.
Over the years he discovered how to consciously change these patterns of use and developed a Technique which not only eliminated his vocal problems, but also brought about remarkable improvements in his general health.
He began teaching others and came to London in 1904, setting up a teacher training school thereafter.
F M Alexander 1869 - 1955
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