Since becoming a full-time Alexander teacher in 2003, I've taught the Alexander Technique in settings including classrooms, libraries, homes, cars, community centers, hospitals, physical therapy offices, health food stores, neurologists offices, music schools, music studios, office cubicles, colleges, Broadway theatres, and gyms. Today I taught the Alexander Technique in a men's room...
Can The Alexander Technique help with Chronic Back Pain Management? Can the Alexander Technique help with chronic back pain management is a question I often hear as an Alexander Technique teacher. Can the Alexander Technique help with chronic back pain management, can the Alexander Technique help with chronic neck pain management, can the Alexander Technique help with chronic low back pain management? My very short answer is yes. The Alexander Technique teaches you a way...
If desktops go on your desk, then laptops must go on your lap, though desktops on your desk are favorable to a laptop on your lap. While using the Alexander Technique helps greatly, having a computer on your lap puts you in a very challenging position. Your eyes are way up there but the screen...
...People unfamiliar with an Alexander Technique computer break may take their hands off the computer keyboard, shake them, roll their head around, stretch, only to begin again where they left off. To get out of their computer slump they sit up as straight as possible. When that gets too tiring, which may take a few seconds or a few minutes, they'll go back to their habitual collapse. On and on, slumping, sitting up straight, then slumping again. And slumping wins...
