How the Alexander Technique helps relieve back pain and neck pain by getting to the source of the problem.
Your Back Pain Is Killing Me!
...the Alexander Technique 'inhabits' your body through the cultivation of awareness. We realize, through Alexander Technique lessons, that we have control over this tension. I didn't know that I had control over my overly-tensed painful neck until I started working with an Alexander Technique teacher. I just thought: my neck is tense and it hurts. I didn't know...
Alexander Technique for Back Pain, The Alexander Technique for Neck Pain.
The Alexander Technique helps reduce pain, and I know this from personal experience. The Alexander Technique got me out of the severe neck pain I was in, and now I see the same results over and over as I teach Alexander Technique lessons in NYC to people suffering from back pain, neck and shoulder pain, hand pain. We don't realize that we're causing our own pain by the way we use our bodies (poor posture, added stress). The good news is that the Alexander Technique shows us a way out from this pain. It puts us back in control...
