Here are some of the benefits of the Alexander Technique, indicated in the book “Alexander Technique” by Chris Stevens. This book was published in 1987.
Edward Maisel, Director of the American Physical Fitness Research Institute writing on the effects of the Alexander Technique.
“There is an overall flexibility and tonic ease of movement, greater freedom in the action of the eyes, less tension in the jaws, more relaxation in the tongue and throat and deeper breathing. There is also a sense of weightlessness and a diminution of the effort previously thought necessary to move one’s limbs. Activity now becomes free and flowing, no longer jerky and heavy with strain.”
British Medical Journal
“F.M. Alexander’s work is of first class importance and investigation by the medical profession is imperative.”
Paul Collins, Canadian National Marathon Champion
“Through the Alexander Technique I was able to rehabilitate my running after 25 years of being unable to run through injuries, to the extent that I was able to set ten world records for veterans in 1982.”
Tony Buzan, inventor of Mind Maps, author of Use Your Head and The Evolving Brain
“The Alexander Technique transformed my life. It is the result of an acknowledged genius. I would recommend it to anyone.”
John Cleese, comedian and actor
“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.”
Aldous Huxley, writing on the Alexander Technique
“It is now possible to conceive of a totally new type of education affecting the entire range of human activity, from the physiological, through the intellectual, moral and practical, to the spiritual – an education which, by teaching them the proper use of self, would preserve children and adults from most of the diseases and evil habits that now afflict them.”
George Bernard Shaw, playwright
“Alexander established not only the beginning of a far reaching science of the apparently involuntary movements we call reflexes, but a technique of correction and self-control which forms a substantial addition to our very slender resources in personal education.”
WHM Carrington, writing on the Alexander Technique
“Our human upright posture is a unique accomplishment…a most delicate balance, an equation of forces brought about by an interplay of the sensory and motor mechanisms, by which all muscular effort is practically eliminated. The unique quality of the whole performance lies in this reduction of effort.”
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