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Alexander Technique
As replacement parts are hard to get, it’s a good idea to look after ourselves now, before things deteriorate.
✓ Calmness and resilience
✓ Improved poise and good posture
✓ Movement with grace and ease
✓ Greater mobility and stamina
✓ Clear thinking and effective communication
✓ Natural confidence and enjoyment of life
✓ Performance in any sphere: sports, artists, musical, presentation
It’s a simple and practical method to understand how our bodies can work more freely and easily.
We know that when we don’t use our bodies well, we don’t feel so lively generally. The way we think about what we are doing has a direct effect on how well we coordinate ourselves and how we move mirrors how we feel too.
During our lives, most of us develop postural habits that affect how we feel and our ability to perform well at any activity.
Slumping on comfy chairs, stooping over the washing up and everyday activities such as driving and sitting at the computer can set up a pattern that plays out with sore shoulders, stiff joints and head and back aches, to begin with. Where injuries and stress come our way the recovery time can be longer if we do not use ourselves in good coordination.
Benefits of the Alexander Technique
- Chronic pain conditions
- Back pain and sciatica
- Headaches and neck strain
- Posture problems
- Breathing problems
- Osteoarthritis
- Discomfort in pregnancy
- Parkinson's Disease symptoms
- Reactions to stress
- Performance anxiety
- High blood pressure
- Repetitive strain injury
- anxiety disorders
- Rehabilitation after operations, injury or illness
Children and the Alexander Technique
Prevention is better than cure
If they have awareness of unhelpful bad habits, children and teenagers can catch and change early patterns of physical misuse that are leading to tension, pain and injuries.
At an early age children are required to sit at small desks and quickly develop a slumped position to concentrate on reading and writing. Sitting still, cross legged on the floor for long periods also induces a slump. Added to this, reprimands or other emotional charged situations can often lead to them tightening their bodies.
I am passionate that the Alexander Technique can and should be part of our regular education system to benefit all children. Why not see if I could come in to school and encourage the children to play with the principles of good balance, coordination and general enjoyment of they way me move and think?
These habits then are carried into their activities that involve repetitive movements such as sports, music and art-making. This makes them vulnerable to injury as well as set up a pattern of restriction of movement, breathing and thinking.
How can children benefit from AT?
The Alexander Technique can enhance their coordination and breathing as well as their ability to run faster, aim a ball more accurately, stretch further and target strength building correctly. Our brains can work more efficiently and our creativity is more available to us when we have less tension and can breathe more naturally.
It would be wonderful if we could learn to use ourselves well as children, so that we can enjoy a better relationship with our bodies as adults and move well in all sorts of activities with less pain.
Scientific Trial Results
Clinical Trial finds the Alexander Technique is beneficial to people with back pain
The British Medical Journal recently published a clinical trial into the Alexander Technique. This was a randomised controlled trial designed to examine the effectiveness of the Alexander Technique, massage, exercise advice, and behavioural counselling for chronic and recurrent low back pain.
The study showed the Technique can substantially reduce the number of days people suffer from back pain.
The study showed that of the 579 people who took part, the average number of days they suffered pain was reduced from 21 days to 3 days a month. These results were maintained a year later.
No adverse effects were reported for the Alexander Technique.
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