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Who Benefits?
Alexander lessons are preventative, rehabilitative and have stress and pain
management benefits for all who undertake a course of individual lessons from a
fully qualified Alexander teacher, who is an AUSTAT member.
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Benefits:
- Mind/body integration
- Enhanced postural / tensional balance and coordination
- Relief from neck, back and postural pain
- Freedom from harmful habits of use and reaction
- Stress management
- Prevention of anxiety or depression
- Improved breathing
- Free voice
- Enhanced motor skills
- Relief from tension headaches
- Re-education of the kinaesthetic sense / heightened sensory awareness
- Improved general health and well-being
- Enhanced performance ability
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Potential Benefits for:
- Chronic pain
- Mal-coordination and poor posture
- Back pain / sciatica / whiplash injury / disc trouble / scoliosis
- People with Parkinson's disease (1)
- Teenagers with poor postural use and stress
- Sports enthusiasts in order to prevent injury
- During Pregnancy & after birth (2)
- Instrumentalists, Actors, Singers, Dancers
- Young musicians
- Management and prevention of performance anxiety
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"The uniqueness of the Alexander approach is that it emphasizes using the mind and body in unity. This is undoubtedly the best way to care for the back and alleviate back pain. The Alexander Technique stresses unification in an era of greater and greater medical subspecialization. It enables patients with back trouble to get better faster and stay better longer." (3)
Jack Stern ,M.D., PhD.
Neurosurgical Director,
Westchester Medical Centre
New York Medical College
Valhalla, New York
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(1) Australian Doctor Therapy Update 12th April 2002
(2) Devitt-Dawson D. The Alexander Technique in Pregnancy & Beyond booklet 2003.
(3) Stern Jack In the Forward to, Back Trouble A New Approach to Prevention & Recovery based on the Alexander Technique by D. Caplan, P.T. 1987.
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