Who can benefit?                                                                                       

Everyone can benefit.

While the Alexander Technique has long been recognised for its contribution in the areas of health and performance, you do not need to have a specific problem in order to benefit.  Whatever your age, background or interests, and no matter how well or not you think you are doing in life, the Alexander Technique will help you to continually improve in everything you do.  

Typical benefits that people report include:

• More poise

• Easier movement

• Clarity in thinking

• More energy

• More confidence

• Increasing flexibility

• Increasing happiness

• A sense of empowerment

• Increasing ability to handle whatever life throws at you

• Improved general health and wellbeing

• Disappearance of specific problems

• Less tension and discomfort

• More ease, calm, and joy

• More success in life
  

Performance and the Alexander Technique

Actors, dancers, athletes and musicians of all flavours are often drawn to the Alexander Technique for its capacity to improve efficiency of movement, stamina, mental resilience, and artistic expression.  We can learn to get the most out of our specialist skills, talents and training by gaining command of Alexander’s approach. 

Health and the Alexander Technique

Many people experience a reduction in medical symptoms when they learn the Alexander Technique.  While the technique does not deal directly with medical conditions, very often symptoms are exacerbated by behavioural patterns developed in response to the condition.  Applying Alexander’s tools enables us to stop creating these kinds of responses.  

Sometimes, as in the case of Alexander himself, a medical-like condition will develop which is actually caused by a particular movement behaviour.  Applying Alexander’s tools enables us to stop creating the behaviour, which in turn stops causing the medical-like condition.

In recovering from an injury, or finding new ways to do tasks which can’t be done in the old way anymore, Alexander’s work helps us to devise constructive coping strategies and promote the healing process by minimising further damage.