The Alexander Technique is a practical method which enables us to improve the way we use our body. The Australian actor F. M. Alexander (1869-1955) has discovered that many health problems and disfunctioning of the body are connected to faulty patterns of posture and movement which we have attained during our lives.

Especially the almost universal habit of pulling the head back and down into the neck, and thus compressing and shortening the spine, has a very bad influence on the overall functioning of the body.
During Alexander Technique lessons we work on finding back the balance of the head on the top vertebra of the spine, which will enable the whole back to lengthen and to widen so it can fulfill its original tasks again: giving support and flexibility to the breathing and other vital body mechanisms, giving support and flexibility to the arms and legs, and to divide the weight of the body and all nescessary muscle tension efficiently throughout the body.

The Alexander Technique is a non-manipulative method. We don’t directly work for a physical change in the student, the Alexander Technique also doesn’t give any physical exercises to the student. In working together with the teacher at making the mechanism of sensory appreciation of the body more reliable, by becoming aware of posture and movement patterns, by learning to recognize and to inhibite undue muscle tension, the body will find back its natural balance step by step.