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 "Alexander Technique is a system that integrates the head with the heart...it opens the mind, frees the voice, releases the body and nurtures the imagination." (1)
Ben Donenberg
Artistic Director, Shakespeare Festival, LA
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Alexander Farkas
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  • Public Speakers
  • Barristers
  • Singers
  • Actors
  • Instrumentalists
  • Marketing Managers

A Lifetime of Good Use for a Healthy Voice

The word Sprezzatura describes the behaviour of one who having assimilated the rules for the art of living, may then transcend them to achieve true freedom.

Perhaps Frederick Matthias Alexander understood such rules, for his teachings offer people of all ages a conscious use of themselves, free from the constraints of habit.  It invites a way of Being that allows ease, naturalness and true spontaneity without affectation or technique.

The Alexander Technique is a psychophysical re-education for the conscious use of the self.  It is an invaluable pedagogical tool for all those interested in healthy vocal function and for overcoming performance anxiety.  Your birthright is to have free, articulate speech able to convey emotion, thought and intention without affectation.

In order to free the voice, you must first free yourself.  Alexander lessons for voice are initially indirect and focus on eliminating harmful habits of use that interfere with natural balance, full capacity breathing and the production of sound.  Lessons progress to instruction on articulation, intonation, rhythm, pace, pausation and phrasing.

Your voice, and or the music you make is unique to you and it can delight the listener when it comes from a place of temenos - of space, of ease - that allows true spontaneity, energy, confidence and joy, that place being yourself.

"F.M. Alexander, a successful Shakespearean reciter and actor, having restored his own vocal function, recognised that the voice is but one part of the human organism.  Its function is best understood not as a mechanism to be dealt with in isolation, but rather as a part within the whole organism that responds most accurately to the way in which one is employing his/her use in daily life."
Alexander Farkas
Vocal Coach/Alexander Teacher

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(1) Videotape The Alexander Technique First lesson. Actor William Hurt with Jane Kosminsky.