Why Good Posture Matters
Aging Gracefully is a Choice
The Alexander Technique is a holistic approach to improving posture, movement, and overall well-being. Developed by F.M. Alexander, it focuses on reeducating the mind and body to release tension and achieve more efficient movement patterns. By becoming aware of harmful habits and learning to redirect them, individuals can experience improved balance, coordination, and freedom of movement. The Alexander Technique benefits people of all ages and backgrounds, including performers, athletes, and those seeking relief from chronic pain or stress. Discover the transformative power of the Alexander Technique and unlock your body's potential for optimal functioning.
Better Posture, Better You!
Reduce Your Stress, Move with Ease, and Take Your Performance to the Next Level.
Are you tired of dealing with poor posture and constant neck or back discomfort from sitting at your computer? Does stress and anxiety impact your daily life and performance? The Alexander Technique teaches you how to improve your overall well-being, enhance your everyday movement patterns and elevate your abilities as an actor, singer, or musician. Embrace this opportunity to learn how the Alexander Technique can positively influence your life and career.
What is the Alexander Technique and How It Helps
The Alexander Technique is a proven method that focuses on improving body awareness, alignment, and overall movement patterns. By learning to 'let go' of your habits of tension and by inhibiting your knee-jerk reactions, you will experience better posture, balance, and overall physical, mental, and emotional conditions. The technique encourages a natural and effortless way of moving, promoting a sense of lightness and ease in everyday activities.
Reduce Stress and Anxiety
In today's fast-paced world, stress and anxiety have become pervasive issues that hinder our performance and well-being. Through the Alexander Technique, you'll learn to let go of unnecessary muscular tension and stress patterns that have been weighing you down. By embracing better posture and movement habits, you'll transition from the sympathetic nervous system (fight-or-flight) to the parasympathetic nervous system (rest-and-digest), resulting in reduced stress levels and a sense of calmness in your daily life.
Enhance Sleep Quality
Improved stress management leads to better sleep quality. By incorporating the Alexander Technique into your routine, you can bid farewell to sleeplessness and restlessness. Experience deeper and more restorative sleep as your mind and body find harmony and relaxation, paving the way for a refreshed and energized start to your day.
Elevate Your Performance as an Artist
Your body is your instrument as an actor, singer, or musician; how you use yourself is critical. The Alexander Technique equips you with invaluable tools to enhance your artistic performance. By cultivating a poised and balanced body, you'll free yourself from unnecessary physical constraints, allowing your artistic expression to flow effortlessly. Experience improved breath control, vocal resonance, and greater stage presence that will captivate your audience.
Unleash Your True Potential
The Alexander Technique is not a quick fix – it's a lifelong skill that empowers you to reach your full potential personally and professionally. By becoming aware of your body and its natural alignment, you'll carry yourself with grace and confidence, exuding charisma and self-assurance in all aspects of life.
Book an Initial Lesson
Embark on a journey of self-discovery with your first Alexander Technique lesson. Guided by gentle and skilled hands, this initial session invites you to explore your body's natural alignment, release tension, and enhance your body-mind connection. Through mindful movement and personalized guidance, you'll gain insights into postural habits and cultivate a newfound sense of ease and balance in both your body/mind.
Embark on a journey of self-discovery with your first Alexander Technique lesson. Guided by gentle and skilled hands, this initial session invites you to explore your body's natural alignment, release tension, and enhance your body-mind connection. Through mindful movement and personalized guidance, you'll gain insights into postural habits and cultivate a newfound sense of ease and balance in both your body/mind.
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Series of Five Lessons
Unlock the full potential of your well-being by enrolling in a series of five Alexander Technique lessons. Consistency is reinforcing positive changes and deepening your mind-body awareness as each session builds upon the last. By committing to this series, you'll empower yourself with the tools to create lasting postural improvements, enhance relaxation, and experience the profound benefits of consistent practice in your daily life.
Unlock the full potential of your well-being by enrolling in a series of five Alexander Technique lessons. Consistency is reinforcing positive changes and deepening your mind-body awareness as each session builds upon the last. By committing to this series, you'll empower yourself with the tools to create lasting postural improvements, enhance relaxation, and experience the profound benefits of consistent practice in your daily life.
Series of Ten Lessons
Like anything we want to learn, the more we study, the better we understand and allow it to become part of us. Learning the Alexander Technique is an un-learning of our habits. It takes Awareness, Attention, Intention, and a bit of Curiosity to make changes that become a part of us. Plus, time. With each session, you'll cultivate a relationship between body and mind and, through dedication, witness the transformative power of steady practice in embodying balance, grace, and vitality.
Like anything we want to learn, the more we study, the better we understand and allow it to become part of us. Learning the Alexander Technique is an un-learning of our habits. It takes Awareness, Attention, Intention, and a bit of Curiosity to make changes that become a part of us. Plus, time. With each session, you'll cultivate a relationship between body and mind and, through dedication, witness the transformative power of steady practice in embodying balance, grace, and vitality.
Seven Key Principles Inherent within the Alexander Technique.
"I need to see that what is lacking is a connection with my body. Without a connection, I am caught in thoughts or changing emotions that give way to fantasy." - Jeanne de Salzmann.
Principles
1. Use and Functioning:
What we are doing in our daily life will affect everything we do. Metaphorically speaking, "If your guitar is out of tune, then the music you play will be out of tune...no matter how skilled you are at guitar playing”. The way you "use yourself" dictates, "you’re functioning.
2. The Whole Person:
We function as one total unit with a 'central nervous system' ... change can only occur when we approach the human being from "the whole to the part" ... not the other way around.
3. Primary Coordination:
The coordination of the Head, Neck, and Back relationship in movement.
4. Unreliable Sensory Appreciation:
Our sensory perception is conditioned by our "habits of movement.” Sometimes a new approach to learning might not ‘feel’ right in the beginning.
5. Inhibition:
The biological definition of this word is our ability to say 'No' to a stimulus...creating a space between the stimulus and our response...i.e., stopping at a curb to "stop, look and listen" before crossing the road.
6. Direction:
A process of coming back into "postural balance" through the process of saying 'No' or inhibiting the patterns that are preventing the balance from occurring. This can be applied to any movement activity...athletics, walking, sitting and standing, working at the computer, or performance of any kind.
7. Ends and Means:
You gain your end result by an 'unfolding of the moment-to-moment process' within this present moment. However, when you primarily focus on the end result by using unnecessary force and pushing, this is called End Gaining and ultimately leads to failure. Everything is a ‘process’ creating a Means-Whereby leading to the end result. In sports, this is what is meant by playing in The Zone. This process calls on us to understand and be present within the process, and each intermediary step, required to achieve an aim. To put it most succinctly, “to conquer a problem, you don’t work on the problem; you work on yourself as you face the problem."
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