The key to its extraordinary success is that the Alexander Technique does not just release acute tensions, pains and ailments but also initiates a release of tension patterns. It encourages our physical body to function as a harmonious unit, clearing harmful postural habits and unhelpful default physical or emotional responses.
Quick & easy tools help to keep this newfound physical & emotional freedom flowing in everyday life - offering an ever-increasing capacity for choice. You will be surprised at how easy it can be to 'drop' and not tense, strain, push or pull and move beyond harmful physical (or other) habits.
We do not diagnose or focus on isolated areas.
Rather than just working with the painful area alone, the Alexander Technique works with the entire body-mind unit, encouraging efficient body connection and physical ease from inside out.
During a session we guide the body back into its natural flow and we will undo harmful physical tensions and misalignments that interfere and cause physical restrictions and muscular-skeletal pressures.
As the postural muscles gently lengthen out, a ripple effect translates into other muscle areas and the skeletal system can fall back into its optimum alignment. People usually feel the unique Alexander sense of tallness, lightness and openness.
Our bodies have a natural drive to reach optimum alignment & functioning.
If only we would let it.
Neglected parts of the physical organism start communicating and working together again, creating a long forgotten sense of ease that affects all parts of the human being.
It's all about flow! Everything inside our body moves and flows - our blood, our nervous system, spinal fluids, meridians, chi, inter-cellular communications, oxygen, and our posture.
At every one moment, our entire organism is busy communicating, re-organising and adjusting to internal & external changes and triggers.
As we tense, we inhibit this continuous flow of life-that gives inter-body communications. When we truly release tension we welcome this flow back into its vibrant potential and the body's natural healing capacity awakens.
As we bring the body back into a harmonized unit we may focus on the muscular-skeletal system, the organs, the endocrine or nervous system or any other area that needs a reminder to work in sync with the entire physcial organism.
We re-introduce the body to function as the well-designed, interconnected and amazingly efficient whole that it is. We develop simple on-the-spot tools that restore the use of the body as it was designed to.
It’s all about enlivening our natural flowing posture & physical systems whilst dropping our tendency to use unnecessary physical pressure & tension throughout daily activities. From complex movement, like dancing, to mundane chores like vacuuming, lifting, sitting at the computer or even just lying down restfully... it's all about allowing the body to follow its natural ease.
And for those interested, we explore the magic of how your easy-flowing physical body automatically translates into easy-flowing thoughts, emotions, spiritual & soul dimensions & vice versa!
The Alexander Technique is particularly useful for:
- joint, neck, back & shoulder pain
- chronic conditions and physical ailments
- muscle tension
- physical alignment
- breathing and respiratory ailments
- relaxation
- sleep
- stamina
- anxiety
- depression & transforming the effects of trauma
- and so much more...
