Body Use, Well-Being, and You

• Is your back or neck pain necessary?
• Isn't it high time your tennis game improved?
• Does sitting at a computer have to be tension-producing?
• Do public presentations need to be so nerve wracking?

The Alexander Technique helps you improve posture, ease, balance, movement, and presentation. Efficient use of your body and mind makes more energy available to you.

The lessons teach you to be more aware, enabling you to make calm choices in trying situations. For life’s challenges one can draw on the principles of the Alexander Technique to maintain poise, clear-headedness, and pleasure in the daily demands of work and home.

What Happens During a Lesson?

During a lesson you are guided in simple everyday actions – sitting, standing, resting, walking – and other activities of special interest to you. Skillful hands-on and verbal coaching free and realign your neck, head, and trunk. This allows you the experience of letting go of unneeded tension, and teaches you the skill to continue that in your life.

You will experience a release in the neck, back and limbs, and a lengthening and widening of the whole torso, which will be integrated with improved alignment, coordination, and ease in your own use of yourself.

Special attention can be given to improving your use of yourself during a specific activity, such as playing a musical instrument, your work, sport, or performance art.

Who Can Benefit from Alexander Technique?

Alexander Technique enhances the quality and performance level of any activity, including using the computer, public speaking, driving, dancing, doing your workout, using a cane or walker, playing music, yoga, golf swing, martial art, cycling, running, horseback riding, etc.

People take Alexander lessons to learn how to use their bodies with greater awareness for many purposes, such as:

• postural improvement
• to feel lighter and taller
• better body mechanics
• to reduce stress
• increased comfort at work stations
• improved breathing, focus, flexibility
• more graceful movement
• better speaking voice
• better singing voice
• to get more out of any exercise routine
• improved balance
• general health and longevity
• more poise
• self rehabilitation
• freedom to choose rather than to react

Questions?