Does the Alexander Technique Work?
Posted by admin on Jun 6, 2010
Does it work? – no, it’s about not working!!!!! – about not doing, it’s about letting go. It will teach you to be aware of how much extra use you put your body through, and find less harmful and more efficient ways to use your body. This is particularly useful to people who have muscular pains or bad posture, but people who are perfectly OK will benefit tremendously from a series of lessons.
It is normally recommended that you start with a series of 10 lessons – this will give you the knowledge and experience to work alone and go for ‘top-up’ lessons later.
It may seem expensive, but truly, what you learn, even more so, how you learn to un-learn, is worth its weight in gold.
If I could I would recommend that EVERYBODY has a course of lessons, I’d put it on the National Curriculum. When the body is functioning as it should, all other things come into balance – mind,spirit,emotions.
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Try the Alexander Technique at your desk.
Posted by admin on Jun 5, 2010
A technique used by actors to reduce tension and increase poise can lead to a long-term fix for chronic back pain. Certified Alexander Technique instructor Mary McCann gives Rodale.com’s Rick Chillot simple back-saving tips.
Duration : 0:2:36
Alexander Technique with Marjorie Barstow – Singing
Posted by admin on Jun 5, 2010
Here Marjorie is working with a singer at one of her last workshops in Lincoln, Nebraska. She was in her 90s and She was in her 90s and suffering from osteoporosis. Workshop participants came from all over the world to study with her.
To learn more about Marjorie and her teaching, visit her website at http://marjoriebarstow.com
To learn more about the Alexander Technique, visit the Complete Guide to the Alexander Technique at http://alexandertechnique.com
Duration : 0:3:27
what is alexander technique.?
Posted by admin on Jun 5, 2010
i know to do with posture, anyone tried this
Heya
In the Alexander Technique individuals are taught to correct their posture and movements. A teacher works with the student to help them monitor and control muscle tension. The Technique is also taught in groups, often using short individual lessons which in turn act as examples to the rest of the class. The Technique takes its name from F. Matthias Alexander, who first observed and formulated its principles between 1890 and 1900. The Alexander Technique is claimed to alleviate pain, promote rehabilitation, improve breathing, and decrease stage fright, as well as improve other conditions. There is little scientific research supporting these claims.
The Alexander Technique is a form of physical therapy in which patients are taught with the assistance of a coach to correct their posture in order to align the body. There is a focus on becoming aware of and directing muscle tension using a focus on proprioceptive feedback. The instructor provides verbal instructions while monitoring and guiding the movement with their hands. The Alexander Technique is considered to be an educational technique taught to be practiced by the student on their own, rather than a curative treatment regimen of the client/patient relationship. It is designed to be used while doing any other activity, so there are no prescriptive forms of movements to follow.
F.M. Alexander developed his own terminology to talk about the method. An example of this terminology is "End-gaining" which means to focus on a goal and in the process to lose sight of the means by which this goal is achieved. This is argued to increase the risk of selecting older, poor physical habits and injury.
How habits may be stopped, refined or well-formed is reflected in Alexander’s specialized use of the word "Inhibition" and "Direction." In the Alexander Technique, "inhibition" is a moment of conscious awareness that interrupts a habitual pattern of muscular misuse and establishes a new Head-Neck-Back relationship.
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does anyone apply the alexander technique?
Posted by admin on Jun 5, 2010
I use it all the time – particularly when I’m doing an activity (in my case running and keyboarding) that I know from past experience will lead to pain or discomfort if I don’t use it.
The Alexander Technique is a very simple (not to say always easy) process that you can use to release tension and move more easily. They have a site at http://alexandertechnique.com that will answer all your questions.
Alexander Technique with Marjorie Barstow – Clapping
Posted by admin on Jun 3, 2010
Here Marjorie works with a student clapping at one of her last workshops in Lincoln, Nebraska. She was in her 90s and These are the introductory comments of Marjorie Barstow at one of her last workshops in Lincoln, Nebraska. She was in her 90s and suffering from osteoporosis. Workshop participants came from all over the world to study with her.
To learn more about Marjorie and her teaching, visit her website at http://marjoriebarstow.com
To learn more about the Alexander Technique, visit the Complete Guide to the Alexander Technique at http://alexandertechnique.com
Duration : 0:4:31
Alexander Technique British Medical Journal Back Pain Study
Posted by admin on Jun 3, 2010
This video summarizes the results of a major back pain study published in the British Medical Journal in 2008. The study showed that the Alexander Technique was highly effective in treating back pain. There have more recently been follow-up studies that confirm this result.
For more information about the Alexander Technique: http://alexandertechnique.com
Duration : 0:9:46
Do you practice the Alexander Technique?
Posted by admin on Jun 3, 2010
No.
Can someone briefly sum up the Alexander Technique and it’s respect to music?
Posted by admin on Jun 3, 2010
The Alexander Technique is not about "good posture for bad backs". It is one of the most subtle ways of taking responsibility for our continuing growth and development as human beings.
The physical aspect of playing a musical instrument involves a complex series of movements. The movements are, however, essentially no different from those needed for other activities; they are movements of the arms, hands, fingers and respiratory mechanism. Although complex, they are not complicated; not complicated because the body’s capacity to repeat learned movements is very efficient. It can function well in spite of excess tension or poor muscle tone, although there is often a price to pay for this. Given the fact that the body can learn to carry out movements efficiently, what is the problem? For many, there is no problem, but for others they are myriad.
The difficulty experienced by most people, not only musicians, who suffer from a complaint related to repeated movements is often caused by the fact that these movements have been learned while unnecessarily contracting certain groups of muscles. This happens just below the sense register and one is not usually aware of it. Each time the movement is repeated then, by association, so is the contraction; the two have become so linked in our sensory awareness (the feedback mechanism by which, through sensations, we are aware of what is happening in the body at rest or in movement) that it is no longer possible to separate the necessary movements from the unnecessary contractions.
Alexander Technique by Noam Renen_Part I of II
Posted by admin on Jun 2, 2010
An Introduction
Part I
Duration : 0:9:10