The Alexander Technique
The Alexander Technique (named after founder Frederick Mathias Alexander) teaches how to undo unnecessary muscular and mental tension. It is a learning process that enables you to have more ease and freedom in everything you do, which enables improved mobility, posture, performance and alertness along with relief of chronic stiffness, tension and stress.
People study the Alexander Technique for a variety of reasons, the most common being to relieve pain and to improve performance. Musicians, athletes, and dancers use the Technique to improve breathing, sound production, and speed and accuracy of movement.
“The Alexander Technique doesn’t teach you something new to do. It teaches you how to bring more practical intelligence into whatever you are already doing; how to eliminate stereotyped responses; how to deal with habit and change. It leaves you free to choose your own goal but gives you a better use of yourself while you work toward it.”