1. Improved posture.
Your posture affects how you feel, how you perceive people, and how people perceive you.
Posture is a loaded word, however. It can imply phony posturing, forced posing, and correct positions. To some, good posture is sucking your stomach in, sticking your chest out, pulling your shoulders back, tucking your chin in; add the proverbial yanking your head up with a string. This so called “good posture” feels crappy and looks uptight—and all this yanking, pulling, sticking, tucking, and sucking, is unsustainable.
When you apply the Alexander Technique to posture you’re not a poser. Alexander Technique posture feels free and looks great. You’re upright, but not uptight.
2. Back pain, neck pain, the good news, and the bad news.
Sometimes the good news is the bad news. Often, the source of your neck tension and back pain is…you. You are the source of the problem, so you are the solution to the problem; you are empowered to fix your own pain, from the inside out.
With the help of your Alexander Technique teacher, you’ll discover how to stop your own pain or discomfort, and prevent it from recurring.
3. Reduced tension, stress.
Where do we commonly hold tension? In our neck. What is the first direction in the Alexander Technique? To let your neck be free. For many, this free feeling is foreign. The Alexander Technique goes right to the tension spot; right to the place we tense when we’re startled; right to the place we start compressing our spine. And because of the bi-directional mind/body connection, freeing our neck helps us become calmer and less stressed out.
4. Increased breathing and stronger voice.
Nothing is more vital to our health than breathing. Yet, we usually give it no thought. Applying the Alexander Technique to our breathing lets it become slower, fuller, deeper, and more complete. This leads to a stronger voice and a more confident way of being.
5. Surprise, side-effects.
What is the mystery, surprise, unexpected fifth Alexander Technique benefit? It’s anybody’s guess; the fifth benefit is a wildcard because it all depends on you.
Do you run, wrestle, or row?
Do you play the piano, ping-pong, do the polka or play poker?
Would you like to augment your mindfulness, or diminish your neck pain?
You use the Alexander Technique to change your habitual reaction to…anything—giving you control, a voice, and a choice. The Alexander Technique covers it all, because it covers you all.
Mark Josefsberg-Alexander Technique NYC
(917) 709-4648
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