Alexander Technique Lessons

Learn how to deal with undue stress and tension in your life by applying simple principle of the Alexander Technique

What is the Alexander Technique?

The Alexander Teachnique is a powerful means for learning to help ourselves. This requires waking up to what we are doing to ourselves while reacting to difficult situations and while we are going about our work related and daily activities .. It means taking responsibility for our thoughts and actions.

What you will learn by having Alexander Technique lessons is to:

• Discover how you habitually use yourself (mind & body as a unity) during your work related and daily activities.which interferie with the way you function and cause undue stress and tension.
• .Apply simple principles and givie yourself time to stop and think in order to prevent the undue stress and tension that you normally create, as opposed to "trying to do" the right thing. By preventing the undue stress and tension, your body will have a chance to sort itself out.
• Consciously choose how you want to respond to all kinds of situations rather than being a slave to your habits.

For most people this requires the help and tuition from a fully qualified (3yrs full-time training) Alexander Teacher. The Alexander Technique has nothing to do with exercises and is not a therapy.

 

It can help people from all walks of life and of all ages from 5 to 85
who are willing to learn to help themselves

What happens in an Alexander Lesson : The Alexander teacher, through careful observation, will help you recognise harmful patterns of movement, unnecessary tension and too quick reactions. The teacher will, with verbal instructions and the gentle guidance of his/her hands, direct you through some kind of movement that you do everyday, like gettting in and out of a chair, in such away that you will have the experience of preventing the harmful habits. The more you prevent the harmful habits the body will have a better chance to sort itself out.
During the lesson you may be asked to lie on a table, fully clothed, books will be put under your head and your knees bent. this is what we call semi-supine. The purpose of this it to show you how you can learn to stop and think to allow your body to unwind in a way that you are not harming yourself.

What to wear in a lesson: I prefer people to wear what they would normally wear during the day, as long as it's not tight jeans, because it is about applying principles in your work related and daily actiivites instead of excercises.

Andrea C. Beesley , Trainer & Teacher of the Alexander Technique since 1977 Now living in France.

For more information email Andrea spats@easy.com.au