Alexander Technique Pittsburgh
Lisa Levinson, M.AmSAT
What is the Alexander Technique?
The Alexander Technique is a safe, simple, self-care method that can be used to solve the common movement problems that often cause chronic pain and stress.
One of the key concepts behind the Alexander Technique is the idea that the way we use ourselves affects how we function. By extension, mis-use can cause malfunction. Therefore, studying the Alexander Technique becomes a study of the "Use of the Self."
Studying the Alexander Technique involves learning a process to build awareness of, and change, long-standing habits that have led to stress, pain, vocal problems, or performing at less than our potential. We become capable of redirecting excessive effort into useful energy. We learn how to transform tension into attention, fatigue into ease and lightness. Regaining deep structural support, we experience, once again, the sheer pleasure of movement.
Newsflash: British Medical Journal
study shows 85% reduction in back pain through lessons in the
Alexander Technique.
--Long-term pain relief still effective one year after study began.
"Change involves carrying out an activity against the habit
of life."
F. M. Alexander