Alexander Technique's Benefits and Uses

Kinesthetic Movement
Improve balance, freedom and range of movement
Enjoy poise, grace and comfort
Direct your effort to go where it will count toward what you intend

Self-Improvement
Outgrow former conditioning and indoctrination
Suspend premature judgment and reactive assumptions
Make positive and constructive choices, without denial
Reduce the justifications and need for over-compensation

Body Language & Self-Image
Follow and anticipate where someone else is about to move next
Know exactly what you are responding to in the body language of other people
Change the postural attitude you present to others in a first impression
Get free from socially alienating mannerisms
Learn what social effect your mannerisms are having
Minimize an accent, stuttering, voice loss or other unwanted vocal mannerisms.

Remedial Recovery
Completely recover after healing from self-protective compensation
Efficiently conserve, direct and increase stamina
Manage & more effectively mitigate functional & structural physical limitations
Reduce anxiety, episodic reactions, prevent tense reactions
Find an easier way to do actions that you have been told you must avoid or take care with

Improve Activities
Enjoy deliberate, unlimited progress in any art, sport or skill
Make trial and error experimentation more fruitful
Improve reaction times
Gain the patience and sensitivity to recognize gradual and subtle progress
Notice, articulate and describe subtle, precise nuances previously missed

Train Attention
Learn practical, constructive self-observation beyond self-consciousness
Widen your field of attention to include simultaneous inner and outer events
Sharpen intuition & creativity by making all your senses more sensitive
Cultivate your tolerance for unfamiliarity
Extend how long you can put up with ambiguity while you tap the unknown
Get these benefits while doing any activity and improve as you move

What's in the way of having all these benefits? Why do limitations happen?

Here is a page about how Alexander Technique works.

Curious what Alexander Technique really is like for yourself? The best way is to find out is to get a lesson from the links page ...unless you live in Marin County of the San Francisco Bay area - in which case, you can get a lesson from Franis by calling or emailing her on this page. In case you're not curious enough, you might want to check out this page where learners describe as they are experiencing.

If you can't find a teacher, here's a site with more online lessons to experiment with learning Alexander Technique without a teacher. Use it as a refresher if you've already had some lessons, here.

If you are familiar with the Alexander Technique, report your experiences here. - anonymously if you like. If you'd like a page that will give you an idea of everything on this site, check out here,or use the buttons at the top of this page.

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