Alexander Technique is a Learned Skill,
which can be used to bring relief and improved function and mobility to many painful and debilitating conditions including long-term progressive issues. It can help in raising performance in every field of human endeavour. Assisted be a teacher, Alexander Technique helps to re-educate the human brain as to how it operates the whole human self. Unlike other interventions that seek to alter how we think and respond in the world, AT utilises the responses in the body as the initial access portal. The body can reveal what the mind is up to and is more often easier to observe. In industrial western society there is an almost universal problem that has been created by our way of living and our adaptation to technology that causes us to unnecessarily mis-coordinate, weaken, and pre-dispose ourselves to pain, injury and illness. AT is able to re-educate the corrupted process and restore more efficient movement and function on the physical level, while facilitating clearer, calmer thinking in the development of what would be described as a ‘constructive conscious control’ of the individual, the ability to use conscious thought to beneficially influence the human whole. It sounds farfetched to say its’ benefits are almost limitless, but think on. If something is going on in secret to upset our self-healing and functional potential, then, if you can get that sorted, everything else has to improve. So it begins by finding out what is actually happening, not just what we think is happening. There is a gap between our perception of who we are, what we think and what we do compared to what actually happens. AT helps us to discover the nature of that gap and to bridge it.
What is the problem?
Simply put; the problem is that we have learned to cross-wire the startle pattern, the fight or flight response into all our movements, which gets compounded by habitual adaptive behaviour, injury and duress. This has a number of negative effects on our functioning and well being. It compromises the muscular elasticity needed for the spine to work as it should, and consequently all the structures joined to it. It causes the discrete holding of harmful tensions which compromise the working of all internal structures and systems. It causes a build up of unwanted adrenaline and cortisol which raises our level of stress. Sure there are lots of things that help to reduce stress and help the body. The burning question is what happens to you when you are under duress..? “Can you retain those desirable qualities while you argue with your boss for a pay rise?” Through the practice of the Alexander Technique this does become possible.
Booking a Session
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