Category Alexander Technique

Mindfulness is at the heart of AT.  AT brings an extra level of neuro-muscular awareness into every moment in activity.  AT has been called Embodied Mindfulness or Mindfulness in Activity.  Your daily meditational sitting practice will feed your AT and vice versa.

Mindfulness is at the heart of AT.  AT brings an extra level of neuro-muscular awareness into every moment in activity.  AT has been called Embodied Mindfulness or Mindfulness in Activity.  Your daily meditational sitting practice will feed your AT and vice versa.

Pupils frequently bring their physiotherapy exercises to the AT lesson and I encourage them to keep up the daily discipline.  Together we consider how the pupil can stay whole in their attention without interfering with the integration of the Head-Neck-Back relationship whilst they perform their exercises.  Exercises are thus performed more effectively.

The teacher will use gentle touch and words to guide you into a new awareness of balance and poise within familiar movements and positions, such as sitting, standing, bending and lying down.

We will use activities such as walking, standing and bending.

Guided self-observation and both verbal and neuro-muscular mirroring are an effective form of feedback.

You will learn to observe yourself in action and notice excess habitual tensions.  As your awareness grows you will learn to prevent unnecessary tension in action, or to release it as it appears, discovering a new lightness and ease.

10 weekly lessons offer a basic understanding of the process and gives you some self care principles to apply. 20-30 lessons many pupils find improved consistency in their application of AT to their daily lives. As with any skill, you can take the AT to whatever level you choose. Each individual’s journey is different and

Please wear loose, comfortable clothing which allows joint movement.  You will need to remove your shoes.

AT is not a series of exercises or postures but an ordered process of embodied awareness which you can apply AT to your Pilates or Yoga with great benefit.