You Can Benefit !

You can experience effortlessly floating out of a chair with minimal effort ! That experience — of using the correct effort for any task — can be transfered to all your daily activities... music, fitness and sport, or just working at a computer.
Sometimes you work at a computer and find your shoulders becoming tight. Sometimes you play golf or tennis and know that bad habits prevent you from improving your game. Sometimes you practice music and find yourself becoming stiff, sore, tense, and your tone getting thinner. Often, muscular habits can interfere with our daily lives. When freedom and efficiency is needed, tension is sometimes created — tension that interferes with the way the body is used. Due to a phenomenon called “unreliable sensory awareness”, we become so accustomed to the tension we carry with us, that unless we are in pain, we don't notice it. Yet our inappropriate efforts have a powerful impact on every goal we set out to accomplish. Our internal feedback system, or kinesthetic sense, which would normally tell us when something is going wrong, becomes unreliable, and creates road-blocks to making changes in ourselves. People of all ages and occupations take Alexander Technique lessons. Whatever your activity level — amateur to professional — you can benefit. You can take Alexander Technique lessons!

What  is the Alexander Technique ?

The F.M. Alexander Technique is an educational method enabling people of any age or occupation to discover habitual, harmful patterns of "body usage". The Alexander Technique can help you use the appropriate amount of effort for a particular activity. In the process, your kinesthetic sense becomes a more accurate guide so that you can take on new activities, as well as old ones, with greater ease, freedom, and control. Your innate postural reflexes are re-educated and reinforced. Benefits can include greater ease in movement, more freedom of choice, improved coordination, a stronger back, and increased energy. After a series of lessons your internal feedback system (i.e., kinesthetic sense) becomes more accurate. Trouble can be avoided before pain sets in or performance is stunted. You gain a newfound, immensely practical skill in learning to identify and stop destructive patterns of behavior that interfere with how you move, learn, and respond to your environment.
The sitting to standing movement magnifies coordination problems. We have the capacity to be light and buoyant. Enjoy the guidance of a teacher to show you easier ways.

How is it Learned ?

It’s an educational method — not therapy. A lesson on the table feels great... And, you learn how to better relax and organize your efforts on your own!
The Alexander Technique is taught in one-on-one sessions lasting about forty minutes. Dressed in comfortable clothing, you are guided through simple movements with verbal instructions and subtle touch. During the lesson, you learn to observe and change habits that interfere with optimum functioning. Becoming aware of and changing the habits that interfere with these simple activities builds a foundation for tackling more complex problems. The effect is a pleasurable lightness and ease. Muscular habits can be resistant to change. Therefore, part of the lesson usually takes place lying on a table. The teacher can help a person change some of their habits without the interference that often happens during even the simplest acts. Rates for lessons range from $35-$45 per lesson. I can give you an opinion of how many lessons are needed at the first lesson.

The Significance of Skill & Poise

Every activity requires skill and poise. The Alexander Technique is a century-old method useful for absolutely everyone to improve functioning, skill, and poise. It is easy to see how performing artists, athletes, and craftspersons need to have a well-functioning and coordinated body. But we also need to “perform” the everyday activities of life with skill and poise. When our most mundane activities are performed with skill and poise, we prevent musculo-skeletal discomforts... AND, our performance at our favorite activities will also benefit. The Alexander Technique will improve our everyday activities: like sitting at a computer or washing a floor AND it will improve our favorite activities: like a craft, sport, fitness, or artistic endeavor > more for musicians (new window opens).http://www.mn-alexandertechnique.com/AT/Musicians.htmlshapeimage_17_link_0

Perform with greater skill and poise using the Alexander Technique

History of the Alexander Technique

Frederick Matthias Alexander (1869-1955) was a Shakespearean actor who had a chronic medical problem which affected his performance. After ten years of careful self-observation, he discovered that he was creating a pattern of tension that was interfering with the natural relationship between his head, neck, and back. He learned to enable himself to inhibit this tension, and then re-establish a correct relationship. These discoveries — which have since been confirmed by scientists — enabled Alexander to resume his career, and became the foundation of the Alexander Technique. The Alexander Technique has been taught in a wide variety of academic and health settings including the American Conservatory Theatre, the Juilliard School, the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, Northwestern University, the University of Michigan, and several other prominent educational and healthcare institutions.

F.M. Alexander teaching John Dewey, Education Philosopher

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