What I can do for you
The Alexander Technique is a way to feel better, and move in a more relaxed and comfortable way... the way nature intended. Your natural balance is inherent to you, you just need to learn how to unveil it. I can help you to identify and lose the harmful habits you have built up over a lifetime of stress and learn to move more freely. I can help you to feel more comfortable in your own body. Aches and pains are not part of growing old, we can avoid all those aches and pains very simply.
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A Practical approach
The Alexander Technique is a practical method of re-education and I will suggest simple procedures for you to practice at home to reinforce the benefit of your lessons. You will find you want to put the Technique into practice in your daily life. Many people experience increased vitality as their use improves because energy that was being expended in strain becomes available for their enjoyment. Read what my students say...
Good Posture or Good Use?
For many people, the Alexander Technique is closely associated with cultivating good posture. However the term posture is inadequate to convey what it is the Alexander Technique aims to improve. When it comes to posture, it is generally assumed that more uprightness is better and crooked is bad. There is relative truth in this. But striving for uprightness only brings about misuse in another guise: the straining sergeant-major on parade, the rigid achiever, the dancer or model ‘bent’ on maintaining a certain ‘look’, for example. Posture is merely a reflection of our use in general in so far as bad use produces bad posture. Correspondingly, when we use ourselves well, our posture gets better. ‘Posture’ is something static concerning the shape or mishape of the physical body. ‘Use’ on the other hand is something dynamic, fluid and alive, and concerns the organism as a whole.
The Alexander Technique therefore does not address faulty posture directly – although restoring proper functioning of the postural mechanisms is part of it – it is concerned with promoting a state of poise as a basis for all activity: at rest as well as in motion, mentally and emotionally as well as bodily. When poise is regained, posture takes care of itself. When we exercise, or do yoga, or meditate, or play sport or musical instruments without poise, we are only ironing in the harmful effects of the way we have become accustomed to doing things.
The Alexander Technique therefore does not address faulty posture directly – although restoring proper functioning of the postural mechanisms is part of it – it is concerned with promoting a state of poise as a basis for all activity: at rest as well as in motion, mentally and emotionally as well as bodily. When poise is regained, posture takes care of itself. When we exercise, or do yoga, or meditate, or play sport or musical instruments without poise, we are only ironing in the harmful effects of the way we have become accustomed to doing things.
