The Alexander Technique | Liza Hawkins

What is the Alexander Technique?

The Alexander Technique teaches us how to become more aware of the way we move, sit and stand. The technique shows us how to use this awareness to reverse our old habits and to move in a balanced and poised way.

This changes the forces that pass through the body and the way our weight is distributed as we move. This relieves areas where we have created uneven pressures or tension and tones areas that have become ineffective because other muscles were over working.

A recently published scientific study in the British Medical Journal shows that, “One-to-one lessons in the Alexander technique from registered teachers have long term benefits for patients with chronic back pain.”

Watch a video about this study

*Video:bmj study of alexander technique

How the Alexander Technique can help you

• Ease Pain • Reduce Stress • Improve Posture • Increase Performance

Alexander Technique Eases Pain

The Alexander Technique is famous for helping people with back and neck pain, but it also helps people with many other health issues. These include migraine, RSI (Repetitive Strain Injury), pregnancy discomfort, breathing difficulties such as asthma, and rehabilitation after illness, surgery or injury.

The mind and the body are inter-connected and changes in one will make changes in the other. By removing undue tension in the body we can help to calm the mind. The Alexander technique also teaches us how to become less reactive in the way we think, more measured in our responses to others and more in control.

The technique can help you to change your posture, teaching you how to become co-ordinated, balanced and poised. This can alter your body language so that you appear more confident and at ease.

Many Actors, Musicians and Sports people use the Alexander Technique to improve their performance. It is considered invaluable by many academies and is taught as part of their core curriculum. By becoming more aware of what you do, you too can make subtle changes, which make significant differences.