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Alexander Lessons


"The conscious mind must be quickened."
F.M. Alexander.

Alexander teachers who are members of the professional body AUSTAT, the Australian Society of Teachers of the Alexander Technique, have completed the three year, 1600 hour study at an accredited teacher training school where the teacher / student ratio is 1:5.  Other affiliated societies include, STAT (London), AmSAT (USA), CANSTAT (Canada) and other European teacher training schools.  See www.stat.org.uk
Diana Devitt-Dawson hands on
Diana Devitt-Dawson 		Let the neck be free,
To let the head balance up on the neck,
To let the back lengthen and widen.
F.M. Alexander's directions.
Alexander and boy
F.M Alexander

"The Alexander Technique teaches you how to bring more practical intelligence into what you are already doing; how to eliminate stereotyped responses; how to deal with habit and change.  It leaves you free to choose your own goal but gives you better use of yourself while you work towards it."
Professor Frank Pierce Jones

Re-educating Sensory Awareness - Our Kinaesthetic Sense
Alexander lessons involve mind/body co-ordination.  A course of individual lessons teach you how to self-work in order to be free from harmful postural and tension habits that interfere with poise, fine co-ordination and deep natural breathing.

Alexander lessons are one to one in order to address the harmful habits of use that are unique to you as an individual.  As such, lessons offer long-term, fundamental change and improvement in your manner of use & reaction to daily life.  The whole person benefits, physically, mentally and emotionally...as your conscious mind quickens!

During lessons the teacher instructs and demonstrates with gentle hands-on guidance, the importance of a balanced head, neck and back relationship in all daily life activities and interactions.  For example:- when sitting at a computer, while practicing and playing a musical instrument, riding a horse, public speaking, singing, or when gardening or playing golf.

Due to pain, stress, the busyness of life and or too much exercise, our minds & muscles become occupied with so many inputs from the outside world that signals from the body are suppressed or 'gated out' before reaching consciousness.  We then develop what Alexander referred to as a 'faulty sensory awareness'...(kinaesthetic sense)...through which we perceive life situations.

The experiential nature of Alexander lessons heightens your sensory awareness (kinaesthetic) sense and enables you to become more consciously aware and to self-work with Alexander's practical 'means whereby' .... a particular goal may be reached.  It is simple in means, but rich in ends!

The number of lessons required in order to self-work vary from person to person, however the recommended number is usually between 10 and 30.  Children and young adults require fewer lessons.  The number of lessons required will be recommended after the initial consultation.

Teachers at the Alexander Technique Institute do not incorporate other disciplines or mind programming methods, such as NLP, with Alexander lessons thereby allowing the original integrity of the teachings to be fully experienced and understood.  Alexander lessons do not involve exercises, restrictive postures or manipulation.

For further information on individual lessons or introductory talks, Contact Us.