The Alexander Technique

 

The Alexander Technique can help you, and can help anyone who is willing to learn.

How can it help, and how much can it help? This will be different for every individual.

This is because the technique helps us to look at and understand the way that we use ourselves.

Oxford - Spring 2011

Evening class dates

4-week evening courses in central Oxford.

There will be two courses in the spring, starting on January 18th and February 15th (both falling within the University term).

There will be two further courses during the summer term.

See main menu for more details

Some people use themselves well, but most people use themselves badly, creating huge yet unnecessary strains and tensions throughout their bodies.

Watch the way that most people sit down, and think about the tension that this simple act causes in their necks and backs. Think about the way that you are sitting now.

Pain, illness or unfitness are often simply the result of the harmful way in which a person uses herself or himself.

With the Alexander Technique you will learn to use yourself well.

Introductory and Advanced
Summer Workshops

The summer workshops are over for another year. There will be classes again next summer, probably on three mornings a week from mid-July to mid-September.

Click here for more details about summer workshops.

 

Back pain, neck pain and all other sorts of muscular and joint pain can obviously be caused by bad use. Many other conditions also have more to do with the way that we are using ourselves than with any other cause - and learning to use ourselves better is often more effective than any other cure.

Learn by working one-to-one with a good teacher. The teacher can communicate in words and through direction with his or her hands.

The experience can be a revelation, giving an immediate sense of well-being and a promise of consistent improvement to follow.

Call 01865 765511 or email me at S.C@btinternet.com for lessons and information, or visit my LINKS page to find a teacher near you.

Recent research, published in the British Medical Journal in August 2008, has established that the Alexander Technique is effective (and cost-effective) in the treatment of chronic back pain.

Patients receiving 6 Alexander lessons were reporting, a year after the lessons, a drop of days per month in pain from 21 to 11. Patients receiving 24 lessons fared even better, reporting on average a fall from 21 days in pain to 3 days in pain. The control group showed no improvement.

A second article, containing an economic evaluation of this randomised controlled trial, has just been published in the bmj (December 08).

Click here to read more
or go the British Medical Journal website at www.bmj.com
and type Alexander Technique in the search box.