The Alexander Technique
The Alexander Technique (AT) is something you learn to apply to yourself. It is a codified educational approach. Lessons in it teach a unique way of looking at your patterns of habitual tension and how they affect you in activity, while giving you common sense tools so you can make change on your own while you live Life.
It is not:
🦴physical therapy
🦴a treatment (like massage, chiropractics, or accupuncture)
🦴a cure
🦴a form of exercise (like yoga, Pilates, etc.)
🦴meditation/ relaxation
🦴psychotherapy
Now 130 years old, the Technique provides a sensorimotor method that addresses prevention, pain relief, self-care, vocal production, learning, and skill improvement. People from a vast range of ages and diverse walks of life use Alexander Technique to help themselves, including: computer users and anyone with back pain or neck pain; musicians with R.S.I. or tendinitis; hypermobile people; people with asthma; mindfulness / awareness practitioners; those living with M.S. or auto-immune diseases; as well as public speakers, actors, and athletes who want to prevent injury while improving endurance and performance.