Who Can Benefit From Taking Lessons?
Anyone can benefit from taking a course of Alexander Technique lessons. The simple, practical tools of the Alexander Technique can help anyone improve their quality of life.
Performers
The Alexander Technique is useful for anyone seeking to improve their performance skills. It is studied by many musicians, dancers, and actors. It is an invaluable tool for reducing performance anxiety, enhancing stage presence, and improving tone and overall coordination. The Alexander Technique is offered as part of the basic curriculum at many of the world's finest conservatories, including the Julliard School, Manhattan School of Music, the San Francisco Conservatory, and the Royal College of Music in London. Some famous students of the Technique include James Earl Jones, Kevin Kline, Paul McCartney, Paul Newman, Lynn Redgrave, Mary Steenbergen, Sting, Robin Williams, and members of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra.
Pain Sufferers
Many students come to the Technique because they are in pain. With the Alexander Technique, they learn how to strip away the habits and tensions that might be the source of the pain. Students of the Alexander Technique have found relief from headaches, back pain, neck and shoulder pain, carpal tunnel syndrome, and other health issues.
Computer Users
Computer users can learn to sit comfortably at their work stations, free of back, neck and shoulder tension. The simple tools of the Alexander Technique can also help people manage repetitive strain injuries such as Carpel Tunnel Syndrome. Are you considering surgery? Why not try the Technique first?
Athletes
Like performers, athletes are required to use their bodies in highly specialized and efficient ways. The Technique can teach you to remove interferences that impede performance and could lead to injury.
The Stressed or Depressed
The Alexander Technique is very much a mind/body skill. In the Alexander Technique, we use thought to affect the body in healthful ways, and when you feel better physically, you often feel better emotionally as well. 
Through studying the Technique, you will learn that you can make choices about how to respond to stress, depression, or chronic pain. You can help yourself immensely be learning a productive response to these emotional stimuli.
Some people take lessons just because it makes them feel better!
Contact me to discuss whether the Technique might be right for you!
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