The Alexander Technique
What is the Alexander Technique?
The Alexander Technique is a skill that anyone can learn and apply to their everyday life. It increases your awareness of how you move and how you respond to the world around you.
The Alexander Technique helps you to understand your movement patterns and move in the most efficient way to reduce tension and relieve pain.
As babies and toddlers we learn to move our bodies instinctively. Most children are extremely good at it. Their movements are graceful, effortless and painless. However, our instinctive movements become habitual. If we don't consider how we move gradual changes and tension sneak in and they become part of our habitual movements. This tension throws our bodies out of balance and results in more tension and effort being required to do even the most basic daily activities such as sitting and standing. The Alexander Technique teaches us to notice when our bodies are out of balance and how to change our poor postural and movement habits so that we can reduce the amount of tension and effort we put into living our lives. The Alexander Technique brings us back into balance and allows us to move with grace and ease just like we did when we were young.
The Alexander Technique is a skill that anyone can learn and apply to their everyday life. It increases your awareness of how you move and how you respond to the world around you.
The Alexander Technique helps you to understand your movement patterns and move in the most efficient way to reduce tension and relieve pain.
As babies and toddlers we learn to move our bodies instinctively. Most children are extremely good at it. Their movements are graceful, effortless and painless. However, our instinctive movements become habitual. If we don't consider how we move gradual changes and tension sneak in and they become part of our habitual movements. This tension throws our bodies out of balance and results in more tension and effort being required to do even the most basic daily activities such as sitting and standing. The Alexander Technique teaches us to notice when our bodies are out of balance and how to change our poor postural and movement habits so that we can reduce the amount of tension and effort we put into living our lives. The Alexander Technique brings us back into balance and allows us to move with grace and ease just like we did when we were young.
