Description
The Alexander Technique is a proven, simple, and effective method of training your body so you'll never have to suffer from backaches, headaches, and other spine/brain-related signs of stress and tension. The program doesn't require pills or equipment. You become more aware of how you sit, stand, walk, and bend as you go about your daily activities, and then learn how to correct bad habits you've developed over time. The workbook format lets you direct special techniques toward your own personal lifestyle, whether you're active or sedentary, so you can select movements and exercises to regain youthful grace and energy.
Library's review
The Alexander Technique is a unique way of releasing muscular tensin throughout the body. It allows you to move with greater comfort and ease, and helps to relieve or prevent common aches and pains that can become debilitating in later life.
The Alexander Technique Manual:
An essential step-by-step
Easy to follow, with full colour photographs throughout.
Ideal for newcomers as well as established students of the Technique.
Shows how to take greater control over your life and increase your sense of well-being.
Includes specific advice on applying the Technique to a wide range of sports, as well as pregnancy and childbirth.
This practical and informative guide clearly sets out the principles of this world-famous technique and shows you how to use them in your daily life. With the hep of colour photographs, it reveals exactly how we place our bodies under excessive strain and how the Alexander Technique can help us to ease this tension and achieve a more relaxed muscular system. There are also plenty of exercises for you to practise at home, with handy hints on mistakes to avoid when you first start to practise the Technique.
Richard Brennan STAT MATI is a fully quialified teacher of the Alexander Technique and runs a busy practice in Galway, Ireland. He also holds courses and gives talks throughout Europe, and has been a pioneer in bringing the Technique to a wider audience worldwide.
Contents
Introduction
Chapter One What is the Alexander Technique?
Chapter Two How the Alexander Technique is relevant to you
Chapter Three Pausing before action
Chapter Four Thinking in activity
Chapter Five First steps to reducing stress and tension
Chapter Six The Alexander Technique and sport
Chapter Seven Pregnancy and childbirth
Chapter Eight What to expect from an Alexander lesson
Afterword
Resources
Index
Acknowledgments
The Alexander Technique Manual:
An essential step-by-step
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guide to reducing stress and tension within the body.Easy to follow, with full colour photographs throughout.
Ideal for newcomers as well as established students of the Technique.
Shows how to take greater control over your life and increase your sense of well-being.
Includes specific advice on applying the Technique to a wide range of sports, as well as pregnancy and childbirth.
This practical and informative guide clearly sets out the principles of this world-famous technique and shows you how to use them in your daily life. With the hep of colour photographs, it reveals exactly how we place our bodies under excessive strain and how the Alexander Technique can help us to ease this tension and achieve a more relaxed muscular system. There are also plenty of exercises for you to practise at home, with handy hints on mistakes to avoid when you first start to practise the Technique.
Richard Brennan STAT MATI is a fully quialified teacher of the Alexander Technique and runs a busy practice in Galway, Ireland. He also holds courses and gives talks throughout Europe, and has been a pioneer in bringing the Technique to a wider audience worldwide.
Contents
Introduction
Chapter One What is the Alexander Technique?
Chapter Two How the Alexander Technique is relevant to you
Chapter Three Pausing before action
Chapter Four Thinking in activity
Chapter Five First steps to reducing stress and tension
Chapter Six The Alexander Technique and sport
Chapter Seven Pregnancy and childbirth
Chapter Eight What to expect from an Alexander lesson
Afterword
Resources
Index
Acknowledgments
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Practising the Alexander Technique can improve breathing and posture, and help make the body more supple and responsive. This practical introduction explains the basics of the technique.
Series
ISBN
1885203381 / 9781885203380
Publication
Jouney Ediions Boston Tokyo