Alexander Technique
What is the Alexander Technique?
- It is learning to unlearn or undo habit patterns that interfere with balance, poise, body alignment and ease of movement
- A simple, practical process for releasing and redirecting unnecessary tension into useful energy
- Learning to redirect the use of your body in a thinking way: away from restrictive habits toward freer movement and better coordination
- ‘Constructive Conscious Control of the Individual’, (the title of Alexander’s second book)
What it is not:
- The Alexander Technique is not a specific form of exercise, a movement routine or a meditative practice
Learning the Alexander Technique may benefit you by:
- Re-educating habits that are the cause of physical misuse
- Restoring natural breathing
- Developing processes that organise your coordination for daily or specialised activities
- Finding and sustaining greater freedom in movement
- Offering strategies to manage pain and injury recovery
- Creating more presence in performance
- Realising more choice in how you respond and move
- increasing body awareness
- Applying various practices that manage stress
- Redeveloping postural support and stamina