The core principles of the Alexander Technique help you return to the upright posture you were born with, but often lose along the way:

1 – The Force of Habit.

• The first step is Awareness – how do you move? Have you gradually picked up poor habits?
• How do you carry yourself? Are habits that you may not even feel at the root of your poor posture and pain?
• An Alexander teacher is trained to observe your habits. They help you retrain harmful habits, release excess tension and move with ease.

2- Inhibition – in Alexander terms it means to refrain from doing the intended action.

• It is not agreeing to move by habit.
• Pausing (Inhibition) gives you freedom to choose how you do what you do rather than reacting habitually. It’s equally applicable in movement and in human interaction.
• As you begin to move through expansion and length, you regain upright, natural movement and good posture.

3 – Primary Control

• Relationship of the Head, Neck and Spine
• F.M. Alexander discovered that the head-spine coordination is the key factor in good movement and coordination. This is true for all vertebrates – all animals with a spine.
• Coming back into balance with the head and spine is the essence of good posture.
• Do you have “text neck?”  Does your head and neck poke forward of your body? An Alexander teacher is trained to help you gently return to upright, natural posture.

4– Direction

• A way to organize yourself by thinking internally in physical directions in the body.
• We all prepare for movement – the Alexander Directions promote graceful lines and movement with ease.
• Runners gather themselves in the moment before the race begins.
• Golfers take a stance.
• Dancers organize themselves before the first step.

5 – Mind-Body Unity

• Alexander Technique is about the connection between thought and muscular activity.
• The way you think is the way you move.
• Stress, happiness, fatigue, poor posture, all show up both in mind and body.
• Learn to think the Alexander Directions and move with ease!

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