If you want to learn about the Alexander Technique, this site was made for you!
I’m a full-time, Certified Alexander Technique teacher offering Alexander Technique lessons and Alexander Technique group classes in Manhattan, New York City, New York.
Use the Alexander Technique to improve your posture, stop back pain and neck pain, and reduce your stress.
Mark Josefsberg
“With good humor, specificity, and charm, Mark makes a challenging technique accessible and fun!” Kyra Sedgwick, Emmy-winning actor. (”The Closer”)
“I really enjoyed our Alexander Technique lessons, learned a lot, felt lighter, more balanced and my neck pain is better. You have a true healing presence and great knowledge and skill.”
-Martin Ehrlich M.D., M.P.H. Medical Director, Beth Israel Continuum Center for Health and Healing.
Small group Alexander Technique classes-Saturdays from 4:30PM-6:00PM.
1133 Broadway, between 25th and 26th streets, room 213 in NYC.
Please contact me to reserve your space. Class limited to four.
Traditionally, Alexander Technique lessons are taught privately. However, Alexander Technique group classes offer a few advantages… The first advantage of group Alexander lessons is price. The cost for Alexander Technique Saturdays, a very small Alexander Technique class, is $35…
I have a stiff neck. We say we have a stiff or sore neck, as if someone gave it to us and now it’s ours. In Alexander Technique terms it might be more accurate to say “I’m stiffening my neck.” Of course if you say it that way you sound insane…
There is really only one way to improve posture, and I can say it in one word: The Alexander Technique. Ok, that’s three words, but one idea.
Most people think they know how to improve posture, but it is not the best way to improve posture, nor is it a permanent way to improve posture. Here’s what most of us know about improving posture: ‘stand up straight!’ ‘Sit up straight!’ We’ve all heard things like ‘suck your stomach in, push your chest out, put your shoulders back, stick your chin back’ etc. This is not the way to improve posture. This is a way to have military posture…
I think F.M. Alexander (1869-1955), the developer of the Alexander Technique, would be fascinated by the emerging evidence of how thinking affects our brain, how our brain affects our body, and how our body affects our brain. Detailed brain imagery demonstrates that thinking is not a purely mental process; it is physical as well. Measurable, physical changes occur in our brains ‘just’ by thinking. In other words, we don’t just think. We change our brains, in function and structure, with our minds and bodies…
FREE! Alexander Technique lessons and Alexander Technique tips. These free emails will show how the Alexander Technique is used for back pain, neck pain, shoulder pain, and how the Alexander Method is used to fix bad posture. These short emails will arrive every two weeks. "...I came across your Alexander Technique website a few weeks ago and in particular, your weekly newsletter. What a difference! Almost instantly, using the words and instructions you suggest, I have noticed an amazing lightness in the way I was walking, much less neck pain (that I was coming to feel was ‘just part of me’) and a slight change in my attitude (that I can’t really put into words)... I really like and value the clear way you explain each ‘order’. In just a few short weeks I can honestly say that you have made a positive difference..."
What Will The Alexander Method Do For Me?
The Alexander Method is a practical, proven technique which will fix your posture, relieve your lower back pain and neck pain, and reduce your stress. Use the Alexander Method for your sitting posture, standing posture, computer posture, walking and more. “One to one lessons in the Alexander Technique…have long term benefits for patients with chronic back pain.”
- British Medical Journal- August 19, 2008.
And NOTHING helps fix bad posture like the Alexander Technique!
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Why should I take Alexander Technique lessons?
1. To improve your computer posture, standing posture, and sitting posture.
2. To get lasting relief for your back pain and neck pain. (reported by The British Medical Journal)
3. To reduce your anxiety and stress.
4. To present yourself with confidence, poise and strength.
5. To breathe easier and have a stronger voice.
Why take Alexander Technique lessons?
Because we live in New York!
Mark Josefsberg-AmSAT and ACAT Certified Alexander Technique Teacher
Mark@MarkJosefsberg.com
(917) 709-4648