What is the Alexander Technique?

Alexander Technique views the body as a whole system. When a student has an issue in one part of their body (back, knees or neck), it is often related to how they do something with another part of themselves (hips, legs, and feet).

AT is mindfulness for your body. We learn to build in a pause to find more balance inside ourselves and our connection with the ground. The teacher invites the student to find more balance by example and by using gentle touch and verbal cues.

Alexander Technique is an awareness-building process that cultivates an internal flow by creating space to integrate body and mind by studying "the how" of any activity.

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Alexander Technique helps with:

 

  • increasing mindfulness practices

  • managing chronic pain

  • improving posture

  • walking with ease

  • learning to run more efficiently

  • ending bad habits

  • finding more body awareness

  • cultivating freedom onstage

  • breathing more easily

  • awareness of body in space

  • finding increased ease in movement

  • developing a free and easy practice routine

  • resonating in singing or speaking

  • exploring efficient sleeping techniques

  • fixing TMJ

  • reducing stress in body

  • easing migraines and jaw tension

  • gaining balance in life and body

  • overcoming stage fright

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Alexander (Technique) in Education helps children to learn more happily and effectively. It helps classroom teachers to more effectively manage themselves in the classroom and beyond. This helps to reduce, manage and even eliminate stressful situations.”

— The Developing Self

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The process changed my perspective on how I held tension in my body, which is something acupuncture, massage, etc. hadn’t addressed.”

— Beth Callen; Broadway Guitarist and singer