Lessons in the Alexander Technique, also called ‘turns’ (‘turning the robot away’), use three of the most common and ubiquitous objects in our world – a chair, or a stool, or a table – on which to begin a series of discoveries through the guiding hands of a teacher with simple body and limb manipulations.
The student is invited to allow the tiniest extension of the spine (‘letting the head lead’), while not hollowing the back (‘acquiring width’). Freer breathing, new muscular connections, surprising releases of tension, new ways of moving away from accustomed and well-trodden paths, the disciplining of impulsiveness, and sharpened attention follow.
While all habits are comfortable, not all are beneficial. Some get in your way. The ‘good news’ is that you can observe those habits, and find your way. You can thereby gain freedom from acquired limitations and transform the energy that such negativities contain.
The Alexander Technique is an art, a craft, a new way of navigating habit.
The student is invited to allow the tiniest extension of the spine (‘letting the head lead’), while not hollowing the back (‘acquiring width’). Freer breathing, new muscular connections, surprising releases of tension, new ways of moving away from accustomed and well-trodden paths, the disciplining of impulsiveness, and sharpened attention follow.
While all habits are comfortable, not all are beneficial. Some get in your way. The ‘good news’ is that you can observe those habits, and find your way. You can thereby gain freedom from acquired limitations and transform the energy that such negativities contain.
The Alexander Technique is an art, a craft, a new way of navigating habit.
Simpler.
The lessons can apply to every aspect of use, and to every activity imaginable.
Allowing you also to be silent, and to will, and to dare, and to know.
It teaches that true force always acts without effort, that is, only if the awareness is not burdened by accumulated baggage.
It teaches a new sensory awareness.
Allowing you also to be silent, and to will, and to dare, and to know.
It teaches that true force always acts without effort, that is, only if the awareness is not burdened by accumulated baggage.
It teaches a new sensory awareness.
‘Condemnation without investigation is the highest form of ignorance' - Albert Einstein