The Alexander Technique can bring about:
1. Better health and well-being
The Technique can help with a wide range of problems due to over-tension
or poor posture. It can also help to increase your vitality and
alertness.
2. Improved performance
The Technique can release you from over-stimulated mental tension
and can restore a good co-ordination and unity of the brain and
the body. Performers can develop clarity of perception and flexibility
of movement. Today many performing artists and sport players
employ the Technique to their practice. The Technique is adopted
in most
leading music, drama, and dance schools and colleges including
the Royal Academy of Music, the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
and the Julliard School.
3. On-going self-development
The Technique develops a deeper and broader awareness. Through
the lessons you will learn to inhibit impatient reaction to any
stimulus. Instead of unconscious reaction, you will learn to
stop and to give yourself new mental directions for the use of
your
body. We call this pause before the action ‘Inhibition’.
The
idea of ‘Inhibition’ implies that it is more important how we
perform
a certain act (the means-whereby) than what the result of this
act will be (the end). It is a new approach to how we deal with
stimulus in movement and you can use the idea of ‘Inhibition’ to
all the
stimuli of life in general. It can be a guide to continuous self-discovery.