LESSONS IN THE ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE
with REBECCA POOLE, m. ACAT, AMSAT
Neither a system of exercises, nor a form of meditation, nor a therapy, nor a treatment or cure, the F.M. Alexander Technique is an educational method. It teaches a unique way of looking at patterns of unnecessary, unconscious, habitual tension, and how they effect you in activity, while giving you common-sense tools to make improvements on your own.
Now 120 years old, the Technique provides students with an approach to prevention, pain relief, self-care, education, and skill-improvement. As demonstrated most recently by the British Medical Journal’s long-term comparison of the Alexander Technique, massage, and exercise when dealing with generalized back pain, people of all ages and abilities can learn to prevent and relieve the pain and stress caused by their everyday misuse of themselves.
The Technique is used by people of all ages from all walks of life with various conditions, from musicians with RSI or tendinitis, to computer users with chronic pain, to people living with M.S.. and Parkinson’s Diseasee, to athletes, performers, and public speakers who want to prevent injury while they improve endurance and performance.
Luminaries who have studied the Technique include:
-Aldous Huxley, writer
-George Bernard Shaw, writer
-John Dewey, American educational philosopher
-Nicolaas Tinbergen, 1973 Nobel Prize Laureate in Medicine
-Frederick (Fritz) Perls, originator of Gestalt Therapy
-Prof. Raymond Dart, anthropologist
-Sir Charles Sherrington, Nobel Prize-winning neurophysiologist
-Robertson Davies, writer
-Roald Dahl, writer
-and performers such as: Yehudi Menuhin, Dame Judy Dench, William Hurt, Kevin Kline, John Cleese, Mary Steenbergen, Robin Williams, Paul Newman, Maggie Smith, Jeremy Irons, John Houseman, Joanne Woodward, Sir Colin Davis, Patti Lupone, Paul McCartney, Leonardo DiCaprio, Joel Gray
**For further information about the Alexander Technique (including short video) and classes with Rebecca Poole, please visit: http://www.NYAlexanderTechnique.com**