"Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom"

Viktor Frankl

Life is a constant succession of stimuli that we receive and react to, consciously or unconsciously: Street noise; a telephone call; our work; our relationships; our wishes and fears… Our reactions to those stimuli is mostly unconscious, responses that our learned in the past, replayed often automatically, “decisionless”. Over time these unconscious reactions can become stuck patterns of relating, expressing themselves as chronic tension, influencing the ways we move, breathe, think, feel and act in the world.

The Alexander technique re-organizes such patterns. Rather than trying to disperse tension through manipulation, The Alexander Technique consciously addresses the roots of postural support so that movement and breathing can perform coherently and with ease.

In sessions the guidance of the Alexander teacher´s hands and verbal instructions help you to reorganize and redistribute muscle tone, enabling more naturally supportive musculature. This liberates body and breath from unnecessary restrictions, reducing interference, supporting the self-sustaining intelligence of the body to express itself more freely.

Frederick Mathias Alexander (1869-1955) was a pioneer in the scientific investigation of somatic intelligence and the development of a methodology for restoring a natural and effortless relationship with the body. He was the first to understand the importance of the relationship head-neck-back and how this “Primary Control” (as he called this relationship) influences the way we perceive, the way we react and as a result the quality of our experience and functioning. The benefits of this work can show up as heightened physical awareness; heightened quality of consciousness; a supportive and uplifting quality of presence; a clearer, calmer physiology.

Keystones of the work:

• The body as a psychophysical unity.

• Recognition of the force of habit.

• recognition of our faulty sensory awareness.

• primary control (relationship between head and spine).

• Engaging with “the means whereby” instead of end-gaining through employing

  inhibition, non-doing and sending directions.

More information about the Technique at www.alexandertechnique.com