“Every simple act must be approached as if we have never done it before. Then we can find things out.”
F.M Alexander
ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE allows for the optimum result with the minimum effort.
Through an exploratory process of unlearning restrictive mind-body habits, AT helps you to get out of your own way and respond in the moment with more freedom and ease.
It is based on the discoveries made by F.M Alexander (a Shakespeare reciter active in Sydney, London and New York over a century ago) concerning the relationship between the head, neck and back.
Origin
This image is of F.M. Alexander (1869-1955), originator of what came to be known as Alexander Technique, working with one of his pupils.
I am always struck by how present this student is. She is upright yet not rigidly so. Calm, alert, curious, engaged, receptive.
She’s doing something apparently ‘normal’ - sitting, yet what’s actually happening is that she is not sitting in her ‘normal’ way, not at all.
Guided by the principles of AT, with the encouragement of Alexander’s listening hands, she is exploring a new way of being, moment by moment.
“As soon as people come with the idea of unlearning instead of learning, you have them in the frame of mind you want.”
We all have our deeply-ingrained ways of doing things and of being in the world. So familiar are they, that we are often not aware of how they are impacting our embodied experience of life.
Just like this student, anyone engaging with AT can learn how to meet the stimuli of life in a non-habitual way.
To find out more about how AT lessons could benefit you, and what they consist of both in person and online, book a free 15 minute chat with me here.
“A correct position or posture indicates a fixed position, and a person held to a fixed position can not grow, as we understand growth.”
FM Alexander