The Alexander Technique is an amazing learning tool for self-awareness, it allows you to take advantage of your fantastic body, which is especially designed to move with ease and freedom.
With this technique it is possible to learn to observe and understand how your body works, it will help you to avoid any extra tension created during your daily life activities. During the lessons you will learn to avoid unconscious habits and tension and, you will find the natural balance to move and live more freely.
You will find out that by learning to improve how you use your body (in easy tasks such as standing, sitting, walking, lying down) you will reach in the end a better understanding of yourself, physically and mentally. This deeper self awareness expansion and conscious control plays a key role when recovering from injuries, heeling repetitive strain injuries and improving your posture.
I will help you to find a new sense of well-being and at the end to be more relaxed and self confident.
Who was Alexander?
Frederik Matthias Alexander (1869-1955) actor and reciter, developed his technique through a process of self-examination with mirrors into his speaking habits, trying to determine the cause of his severe hoarseness after performing. One of his biggest findings was to prove how the head-neck-back relationship has a key role on our posture mechanism and tone regulation. He wrote many books but it is in The Use of the Self, in which he describes the evolution of the technique and how he could find a cure for himself.
How is an Alexander Technique lesson?
The first thing that you learn are the principle of the technique: inhibition-direction-primary control. By learning to apply these principles in your daily life activities, you’ll have a better understanding of how your body works, all together and integrated. How acknowledge the relationship between your head, neck, back and knees relationship give you the foundations for a more integrated way of being and will bring ease to the breathing mechanism.
To help you incorporate these principles in your daily life, we will use easy and known activities such as sitting and standing from a chair, walking, lying down on the floor, bending forward, squatting and any other activity that you want to improve.
Using the contact of my hands and the sound of my voice I will support and give you feedback in your learning process.
The goal of each lesson is to practice and apply these principles, helping you to restore your natural balance, avoid unnecessary tension and bring ease to the breathing; while maintaining and active interaction with your environment.
For whom is the Alexander Technique?
Are you experiencing recurring pain?
If you suffer from recurring pain that comes and goes and is closely related to specific activities—such as sitting at a computer, standing, walking, playing an instrument, or working—you can learn to improve the way you use your body during these activities and many others.
Do you often feel tense?
If you feel tense most of the time, experience headaches, or find yourself holding your breath or breathing shallowly, especially in relation to stress or anxiety, the Alexander Technique can help you become aware of unnecessary tension and learn how to release it. By changing the way you respond to stress, you can begin to break the feedback loop between mental and physical tension.
Would you like to improve your posture?
The Alexander Technique offers a way to develop a more balanced and natural use of your body. Rather than forcing yourself into a particular posture or working out harder, you learn to reduce unnecessary effort and allow your body to move with greater freedom, coordination, and ease.
The aim is not to do more, but to learn how to use yourself more effectively—so that ease and awareness can become part of your everyday life.
Fees and lessons
The lesson is of 45 minutes. Because this is a learning process, it needs practice and is advised to take more than 1 lesson. If you want to make a trial, because you’ve never have lessons before, the first lesson will be free of charge.
Fee: €62 per lesson.
