What is the Alexander Technique?

The Alexander Technique is a method of somatic inquiry designed by Frederick Matthias Alexander to help people improve on how they sit, stand, and move (which is everything we do!) Alexander Technique is used by musicians, dancers and actors, as well as many people with chronic conditions such as neck and back pain, Parkinsons Disease and Ehlers-Danos Syndrome, and many others seeking greater coordination, balance, and overall economy of movement in their everyday lives to help students connect the mind and body, helping individuals identify habits that can cause discomfort, physical limitations, and chronic pain.

Here’s how it works!

  • Lessons involve guided hands-on movement through simple everyday tasks, creating conscious awareness of habits that affect the position of your head and spine in particular.

  • You'll develop a "body map" through direct experience, heightening awareness of yourself within the space around you and learning to identify improper “alignment” in real-time.

  • You'll discover how your habitual patterns interfere with natural upright poise and create tension and chronic pain in your body.

  • Over time, you'll replace old habits with new ones using a constructive approach based on each lesson's direct experiences, making better choices about how you sit, stand, and move in everyday life.

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A man participating in an Alexander Technique lesson with a certified teacher in a cozy room with plants and a framed photo on the wall.
A man participating in an Alexander Technique lesson with a certified teacher in a cozy room with plants and a framed photo on the wall.
A man participating in an Alexander Technique lesson with a certified teacher in a cozy room with plants and a framed photo on the wall.

“With the best intentions, the job of acting can become a display of accumulated bad habits, trapped instincts and blocked energies. Working with the Alexander Technique has given me sightings of another way... Mind and body, work and life together. Real imaginative freedom.”

— Alan Rickman

"I find the Alexander Technique very helpful in my work. Things happen without you trying. They get to be light and relaxed. You must get an Alexander teacher to show it to you".

-Hugh Jackman

"It gives us all the things we have been looking for in a system of physical education: relief from strain due to maladjustment, and consequent improvement in physical and mental health, increased consciousness of the physical means employed to gain the ends proposed by the will and, along with this, a general heightening of consciousness on all levels… We cannot ask more from any system of physical education; nor, if we seriously desire to alter human beings in a desirable direction, can we ask any less."

— Aldous Huxley