Description: The Alexander Technique is a general way to learn poise, alleviate unnecessary tension, and perform with less anxiety overall.
Describing the Alexander Technique to someone who has never had a lesson is like describing the taste of a mango to someone who has never had one. That’s not to say it is a fruitless effort, but rather I will ask you the reader to keep your curiosity alive and trust me when I say that the simplest things in life are often the trickiest to describe. Alexander calls his work a technique because it can be described as a step-by-step process, but to know what it is a technique of or to in fact do this technique
Whether you are solving a math problem, writing a line of code, playing the piano, or taking a golf swing, you are at the centre of the activity.
And while we are taught to believe that some of these activities are mental and others are physical, the truth of the matter is that they are all simultaneously mental, emotional, and physical and the better integrated the individual’s thinking-acting self, the more reliably that individual will be able to perform at their full potential. Alexander discovered a relationship between the head, neck, and upper back which enables a coordinated and upright poise.