Today, after a century of continuous growth, the Alexander Technique has proven to be an extraordinarily effective way of managing stress and improving your natural poise and flexibility by increasing self awareness and dissolving the chronic muscle tension that interferes with your ability to function with ease.

As a re-educational process based upon body mind integration, the Alexander Technique is well suited to people of all ages and walks of life. The Technique helps to alleviate the effects of stress contributing a increased sense of health and well being throughout your daily activities—at home, at work and at play.

The Alexander Technique is taught experientially, one-on-one, in private half-hour lessons. It is not a system of exercise that teaches you something to ‘do’, but a means to deal with stress and bring more practical intelligence and pleasure into what you are already doing.

Dressed in comfortable clothing, you are guided through a variety of simple activities such as standing, sitting and lying down. With the direction of an experienced teacher, you learn to recognize and redirect patterns of unnecessary muscular tension that may result in bad posture, chronic back, neck or shoulder pain, thereby indirectly reactivating the natural anti-gravity response that co-ordinates and sustains us with ease throughout daily activities.

Preventive in scope, the Alexander Technique has gained recent popularity in addressing the effects of stress from ‘civilized’ living. Through self awareness and choice, this process of self-discovery changes the kinesthetic ‘tone’ of your reaction patterns, showing how to relieve stress and integrate a new refinement in thought and sensation including:

Greater Self Awareness
Muscle Tension Relief
Correct Posture
Improved Alertness & Attention
Greater Sense of Health & Well Being

The Alexander Technique remains unique in approach by promoting body mind integration that enhances an individual's general co-ordination as an indirect and lasting means for counteracting the effects of stress expressed by chronic back pain, repetitive strain injury, stress-induced breathing problems, neck, jaw and shoulder stiffness and related conditions of mis-use.

A series of thirty lessons is recommended as a beginning study in the Alexander Technique. Your first fifteen lessons are best taken as closely together as possible. These initial lessons work to address the lifelong response patterns we repeat unconsciously many times daily. After the first fifteen lessons most people maintain Alexander Technique lessons on a weekly basis as continuing refinement.

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