The Alexander Technique improves posture, sustainably.
Alexander Technique Posture Training
Sometimes we need to make ourselves shorter; leaning over a sink, picking something up, sitting down, or playing a sport. The girl in the picture is shortening herself for leverage, but not by shortening her spine. She is lowering herself by letting her knees go forward...
The Alexander Technique and Posture
One of the problems of trying to achieve ‘good posture’, or ‘perfect posture’ or even 'correct posture' is that these terms imply rigidity. Some Alexander Technique teachers attempt to avoid the word posture altogether, calling it the ‘P’ word. One could learn to have ‘good posture’ in a few minutes, especially if you think of military posture. Military posture is standing up as straight as possible, with your stomach in, chest out, chin tucked in, shoulders back...
Computer Posture
What are you doing right now as you’re sitting and reading this? I'll assume you’re sitting and reading right now. If you are sitting, where is your face? I mean, is it poking towards the computer screen? A clearer way to think about this is that you're poking your neck towards the screen; your face is going along for the ride. We tend to poke our necks forward and down; compressing. The muscles in our necks are working harder than necessary. It would be better...
Alexander Technique Computer Posture
One area people ask me about most concerns computer posture. We tend to collapse down in front, poking our necks, faces and upper chest towards the screen. Sound familiar? Feel familiar? How about right now?... What we want is for our necks to be free of excess tension, so that our head can move up. Tension shortens our neck, bringing the head back and down. We want the head to move forward (rotationally) and up. A simple way to achieve this forward rotation is to slightly, slowly lower your nose, while the crown of your head moves up. At the same time...
