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THE ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE

Any
one can learn the Alexander Technique. You learn to get a degree of conscious
influence over how your muscular system works. So you deal with what might
be called your "background muscle tone" and how you use your
muscles to stand sit walk etc. By background muscle tone, I mean how released
your muscles are when not being used. Over time your muscles might have
stayed contracted without you realizing and maybe now you perceive, certain
holding patterns as normal. This influences your muscles' ability to perform.
A contracted muscle requires a lot more effort to do the same work as
a naturally lengthened muscle. So even the task of standing can become
hard work if your back muscles are not at a good background tone.
To learn the Alexander Technique is to discover how you can consciously
influence your muscles both at rest and in action. You can particularly
learn to affect the state of the muscles in your neck for these have important
consequences for how your spine works. Alexander, the man who founded
this Technique, discovered that we have a natural relationship between
how our head releases at the top of the spine and how our spine functions.
All vertebrates have this and we see it working well when we watch an
animal lead with it's head and move with it's spine in an elastic lengthened
way that looks effortless and graceful. As two legged vertebrates we have
the same functioning but our life styles often interfere with it.
There are many good reasons for having this conscious ability to influence
your muscular system. One of these is handling stress. If you are in touch
with your background muscle set up you have a sort of feedback arrangement
that lets you know when you are "doing" too much. You also know
how to release muscle that you have unconsciously shortened. So you can
prevent unnecessary stress and become more in charge of living and working
at a pace that works for you.
The
second benefit for learning this process is that it enables the main part
of your structure, your spine, to work in a natural way.
With bad backs becoming a major health problem, you may be looking for
a way of helping yourself and preventing damage, pain etc to your spine.
This process will make a major contribution to the health of your spine.
Another benefit is to your creative/performance skills. Your natural
spontaneity is linked to your muscle set up. Rigidity and fixing in one
produces the same in the other.
Your emotional health is also linked to the state of your physical structure.
When your structure, especially your spine, is working in its natural
resilient supportive way you are able to meet the demands of life more
fully.
A session in the Alexander Technique is carried out in ordinary loose-fitting
clothes and usually lasts for about 45minutes.

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