What is the Alexander Technique?

AT is a self reflective embodiment practice. This means that it is designed to help people make sense of the complex topic of how you use and inhabit your body. 

Practicing AT empowers you to make choices that promote good coordination, balance and natural breathing so you can manage pain, move with ease and regulate your emotions.

Who is Alexander Technique for?

Anyone!

The Alexander Technique could be for you if:

• you are in pain

• you want to feel more vibrant and alive

• you are navigating a change in your life

You do not need any experience or prior knowledge to start, and you do not need to have done yoga or pilates.

What happens in a lesson?

I teach AT ‘hands-on’ which means a lesson will have a tactile element to it. 

AT teachers train for 3 years to use their hands in a special way. Instead of manipulating or changing someone, our hands act as mirrors to help people orient themselves in space and gain an awareness of the quality of tension they are holding in their body. 

Naturally the content of a lesson is led by what each individual pupil wants or needs. More often than not a lesson consists of: 

• calming down and feeling safe in the body. Most lessons include an ‘AT lie-down’, which is like a massage.

• coordinating the body through simple movements such as sitting, standing and walking. Or using techniques such as the Dart procedures.

• exploring natural breathing.