The Alexander Technique (AT) is a remarkably simple but powerful method for learning to skillfully control how your brain and body interact, allowing you to better coordinate your movements while increasing the accuracy of your minds thoughts and perceptions. Now, in How You Stand, How You Move, How You Live, leading Alexander Technique master ...
This book offers a fully illustrated introduction to the Alexander Technique, a revolutionary and world famous method of postural change to achieve physical and mental well-being.
Have you ever tried to learn anatomy from a picture book? It's like using a road map to learn geography: you can see where all the cities are but you can never retain the information. Like names on a road map, anatomical terms are impossibly hard to remember, and without understanding the meaning behind the concepts, we somehow feel we don't ...
A simple method of learning to be more aware of how we move and the posture we should maintain. Step-by step guide with a series of simple exercises and procedures.
INDIRECT PROCEDURES is the first book to consider the musician exclusively as a subject for Alexander Technique (AT). Often recommended to musicians as a way to reduce the risk of repetitive stress injury and shoulder tension, AT works to bring the body and mind into harmony and expand mobility, balance, and physical coordination through a ...
The Alexander Technique, a revolutionary method of bodywork pioneered by the late F.M. Alexander, provides the key to successful body dynamics. Now, in this updated and revised edition, Wilfred Barlow's classic guide to Alexander's work explores every phase of the technique.
A guide to preventing stress by changing the mental and muscular habits that cause tension. Experienced teacher Theodore Dimon, Jr. outlines the basic principles of the Alexander Technique and demonstrates a new approach to health, based on mind-body unity and conscious prevention and control. 10 illustrations.
The Alexander Technique was invented by Frederick Matthias Alexander in Australia at the close of the 19th century. He observed that the body could have perfect balance and poise with little or no tension, and that many activities and functions were improved in this state. This is an introduction to the technique, description of the principles on ...
Frederick Matthias Alexander was born in Tasmania in 1869. In his twenties, he became a professional reciter of dramatic pieces. After almost completely losing his voice he pioneered a method of improving the 'use' of his body musculature in all positions and movements and cured his vocal problems without medical aid. Alexander then realised that ...
The Alexander technique is a way of reeducating your body through realignment of the spine to give relief from pain and stress and an enhanced sense of well being. First developed in the early part of this century, it has taken its place as a major new therapy. Richard Craze provides a practical, simple and effective guide using a series of ...
A guide to the system of mind and body awareness known as the Alexander technique discusses its practical applications and includes photographic sequences demonstrating the technique in action.
The Alexander technique is designed to encourage good body use which, when attained, improves posture, stamina and wellbeing, and relieves tension and pain. This book shows how the Alexander technique can be of benefit in pregnancy and childbirth, and also in the first months of the child's life. This book is for pregnant women and for those ...
The Alexander Technique is a unique way of releasing muscular tension throughout the body. It allows you to move with greater comfort and ease, and helps to relieve or prevent common aches and pains that can become debilitating in later life. This practical and informative guide clearly sets out the principles of this world-famous technique and ...
Keeping the body supple an responsive is essential for maintaining good health and well-being. The Alexander technique is one of the best-known and popular systems of movement therapy. It helps to break bad posture habits by bringing the head, neck and spine into a properly balanced alignment. This illustrated pocket guide explains the principles ...
'The Alexander Technique' is a proven process of mind and body reeducation that reduces stress and muscle tension, and revitalizes those who practice it. Used by many actors, athletes, and dancers, the technique can help anyone increase his or her energy and achieve a more dynamic presence.
The authors show how women can prepare for pregnancy and childbirth by using the Alexander Technique. By achieving an overall improvement in balance and movement, a mother's experience of childbirth can be transformed, with numerous benefits to her own health and her baby's development. As well as explaining how many of the health problems ...
The self-help techniques in this book, based on the those developed over a century ago and used by people in all walks of life, teach the reader to use the body in harmony with the mind and to adopt correct and healthy postures for all kinds of everyday activities.
After twenty years of going it alone, we are delighted to announced that Ashgrove is now an imprint of Hollydata Publishers Limited, an independent and energetic publishing company. While still drawing inspiration from the beautiful Somerset countryside around the famous city of Bath, the list is now strengthened by a London connection -- by new ...
The Alexander Technique has become one of the most popular alternative therapies and is now widely accepted by the medical profession. it is a system of re-educating the body so that it is in correct alignment and functions efficiently, as nature intended. There is no age, sex or disability limit. Anyone can benefit from an understanding of the ...
Today people often accept common ailments such as backache, headache, arthritis, depression and nervous tension as being "normal". We may readily believe the discomfort we suffer is a natural consequence of "wear and tear", and not realise that we can do something positive about it. In fact, many common ailments stem from stress and a range of ...
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