Applications
Fay Putnam - Alexander Technique
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The Alexander Technique is about the study of the "Use of Ourselves." How we 'Use' ourselves affects bow we function in our activities. 'Use of The Self' refers to more than one's posture or movement. it includes bow one thinks.
Relief, recuperation & prevention
The Technique benefits people with a variety of neurological and musculo-skeletal problems including:
• neck, back and hip disorders
• traumatic and repetitive stress injuries
• chronic pain and arthritis
• breathing and coordination disorders
• stress related disorders and migraines
• depression and anxiety
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"The Alexander Technique enables people to get better faster and stay better longer. Its practitioners stress unification in an era of increasing specialization. This is undoubtedly the best way to take care of the back and alleviate pain." |
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Jack Stern, MD, PHD NEUROSURGEON |
Daily Life
The Alexander Technique is an intelligent way to solve common body problems and improve your self-image. Study of the Technique optimizes your strength, endurance, muscle tone and flexibility. Athletes and fitness enthusiasts use it to help them reach their goals.
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The Alexander Technique has played an important part in my life. It keeps the body alive at ages when people have resigned themselves to irreversible decline. Those committed to it find they cannot do without it. |
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Robertson Davies, Writer |
Performance
For over 100 years, actors, dancers, singers and musicians have used the Alexander Technique in order to be more effective on stage. The Technique is taught worldwide in universities and conservatories, including the Juilliard School, the New England Conservatory of Music, Yale School of Drama, UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, The Royal College of Music, and The Verbier Festival and Academy.
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"The Alexander Technique coordinates mind and body in all activities of living. In the process it organizes our sensations of movement our feelings and emotions and our experiences of the world around us." |
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Glynn MacDonald, AUTHOR OF THE ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE |
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With The Alexander Technique you learn to strip away movement habits and tension patterns eliminating any discomfort you may have. You learn bow to balance your own body and take charge of your own health. You learn to think differently and to sit, stand and move with safety, efficiency and ease.