How you will benefit from Alexander Technique sessions
The Alexander Technique is a tool for change. It helps with pain relief, stress-management and injury prevention. It enhances general performance in daily life and in sports, and enhances your quality of life as a whole. During Alexander Technique sessions, you learn how you are interfering with your body's natural coordination and how to stop the interference. You acquire skills you can use on your own, for the rest of your life, any time and anywhere - to improve how you perform any activity.
The Alexander Technique teaches you to:
- Improve health and well-being
- Improve breathing and posture
- Release excess tension
- Improve flexibility and ease in movement
- Discover how your body and mind work together
- Understand the root causes of physical pain
“If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always got.”
The way you do things affects the results you get. We all know it. We have people to teach us how to play sports and use machinery, but nobody has ever given us instructions on how to work ourselves. We often stumble through life, feeling frustrated when we recognise our own limitations yet are unable to overcome them. Many of these limitations are the result of poor habits we have developed, which are carried in to our life's activities.
Employing the core principles of the Alexander Technique allows you to respond to any situation, with greater alertness, awareness, ease and poise. It has been called a "pre-technique" which you can apply to enhancing your special skills and improving how you perform activities. It is also a preventive technique, teaching you to improve and maintain your health and become self-sufficient.
How we help you during sessions
As Alexander Technique teachers, we use a combination of verbal explanation and guiding touch to enable you to be more relaxed, connected, and grounded. The verbal instruction combined with hands-on contact helps you to discover and stop your habitual ways of controlling and interfering with your body and mind's natural function. We teach you how to better understand the messages your body is constantly giving you, which we often ignore or misunderstand. By tuning in to yourself, you begin to discover a new way of being which is effortless - the REAL you.
Alexander Technique sessions are educational and designed to empower you
Although many people report great physical and mental benefits from having sessions in the Alexander Technique, the Alexander Technique is not treatment. It is not done to you by a practitioner. Rather, it is an educational process through which you learn to become your own expert. By observing yourself, you discover the ways in which you interfere with your health and learn to stop interferences with this natural functioning. By stopping interferences, you will experience benefits which are long-term - since you are no longer going about things in the way that caused the problem in the first place.
Experience positive change that can last a lifetime
Your habits have built up over many years, and permanent change doesn't happen overnight - yet positive change occurs much faster than the habits took to form. When you begin implementing the Alexander Technique to your everyday life, you begin to feel improvement which does not 'wear off' after lessons. The British Medical Journal's 2008 Alexander Technique study included a follow-up 12 months later, which showed that clients were still continuing to benefit without continued lessons. The BMJ study noted this long-term gain also makes the Alexander Technique highly cost-effective as a means of treatment and prevention of any future problems.
Prices
Introductory Session: €60
Regular Alexander Technique Session: €50
