Who benefits from the Alexander Technique? Anyone who:
- Struggles with fatigue
- Has chronic neck and/or back pain
- Is stiff or sore
- Feels burned out
- Is worried about her posture
- Feels limited by stiffness and tension
- Loves all things body-mind
- Wants to explore holistic concepts
- Questions conventional assumptions
- Likes feeling relaxed and centered
- Is intellectually engaged and voraciously curious
- Wants to feel more enjoyably embodied
Potential Benefits (of committed study of the Technique)
- Improve coordination, which helps to prevent wear on joints, ligaments, tendons, and muscles.
- Develop spatial thinking, which sharpens cognitive function, boosts creativity, and improves performance.
- Allow overused muscles to return to their resting length, enabling healing and restoring elasticity.
- Prevent postural degeneration, which comes from unconscious patterns of malcoordination.
- Learn how to modulate muscular effort, which improves muscle health, reduces pain, fatigue and soreness, and increases economy of motion.
- Achieve clearer body-mind integration: feel more embodied, centered, and grounded.
- grace and poise, elegant stature, and look and feel good!
- Learn how evolutionary and anatomical factors can be taken advantage of, improving structural function.
- Learn how to use your life as a laboratory for self improvement