What is the Alexander Technique?

Excerpt from a history of F.M. Alexander, by by Marian Goldberg

.....Basically, Alexander had evolved a method for learning how to consciously change maladaptive habits of coordination. (Coordination includes movement, posture, breathing, and tension patterns.) He had come to the understanding that the mind and body function as an integrated entity, a rather unusual realization for that time. Alexander found that habits, whether "physical" habits or "mental" habits, are all psychophysical in nature. He observed that how we think about our activities determines how we coordinate ourselves to do those activities, and, equally, how long-held habits of excessive tension and inefficient coordination affect how we feel and think. In a relatively short period of time, Alexander evolved his technique from a method of vocal training into a method of breathing reeducation and then into a comprehensive technique of psychophysical reeducation. His technique deals with the psychophysical coordination of the whole person, or what he termed more concisely as "the use of the self."......

Applying the technique regularly will enable you to:

• Increasing your self-esteem and sense of well being
• Improving body posture.
• Enjoying a new world of 3-D perception
• Increasing mental clarity
• Increasing attention and presence naturally
• Developing your creative imagination and visualization
• Initiating positive character changes emotionally, physically, mentally and spiritually
• Improving overall health and coordination