What is the Alexander Technique?
The Alexander Technique is a practical method of centering and connecting that can help you feel more integrated and whole. Your disconnection may manifest itself physically as back or neck pain, undue tension, or poor posture. Or it may manifest itself emotionally as lack of confidence, stage fright, or a creative block. By making you more aware of your coordination and how you move, think, react, and hold yourself, the Alexander Technique can trigger profound, long-lasting change in all aspects of your life.
Why do we need it?
As children we were connected: poised, alert, and flexible. As adults, we are disconnected: hurried, inattentive, and stiff of mind and body.
What happened?
In the course of our busy lives, we developed some shortcuts of movement, posture, attitude, and thinking. Soon, these habits started feeling natural. We could hardly imagine ourselves any other way, and we began to believe that our aching joints, stiff muscles, and other discomforts must be a normal and inevitable consequence of stress and aging.
The Alexander Technique helps you dismantle these shortcuts and access your inntate poise and freedom once again.
Change your habits and...
Videos:
See the many applications of the Alexander Technique in this short video by New York-based teacher Mark Josefsberg (www.markjosefsberg.com):
Below, an important video highlighting the break-through study by the British Medical Journal on Alexander Technique and its usefulness for easing back pain:
In this video, teacher Mary McCann encourages us to become more aware as we work at our desks:
And finally, creativity coach Michael Gelb talks about "learning how to learn" as applied to juggling. A trained Alexander Technque teacher, Gelb touches on the Alexandrian principle of non-endgaining (not trying too hard) and relaxed centeredness:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eadUexYLG1Q