You have a crazy schedule and you don’t have the option to take it easy.

This would be an accurate way to describe the life of just about anybody these days – whether you are a homemaker, an executive, or a student (school or college). So you continue working until you have no choice but to stop. That point is usually when you are fairly seriously ill or exhausted.

The Alexander Technique can help.

1) It teaches you to use yourself better, which means that you will be putting less of a load on yourself as you work.

2) You will be able to tell when you begin to tighten up in ways that could hurt you.

3) Most importantly, you will be able to stop doing this.

This does not mean that the Alexander Technique will make you invulnerable to injury. Not at all.

But you will be able to live your daily life in a way that is much less damaging, and actually, much more enjoyable. That’s a marvelous way to live – being able to take pleasure in all aspects of your life – the routine as much as the non-routine. The humdrum becomes not so humdrum after all.

And if you do happen to be caught in a situation where you can’t stop for a rest just yet, you will know how to minimise the damage as you carry on – until you CAN take that break.

You can also use it effectively to

• enhance your presentation skills, your performance in sports and in the arts,  and in a range of other activities.
• prevent debilitating injuries when working on the computer.

It transforms your life in a simple, deeply satisfying way.

The Alexander Technique in Daily Life

Improve your presence – is what employees are sometimes told during their yearly appraisals.

You need to command a diverse range of skills to function effectively in the corporate workplace. Setting and meeting deadlines, addressing your team, making presentations to your clients or your boss – all these, and more, depend not just on your technical skills but also on the strength of your presence.  You need to command attention – but to do it effortlessly.

Subtle habits of holding can affect the way you carry yourself and the way you speak, the tone and timbre of your voice. Without knowing it, you may be sabotaging your own efforts to be effective.

Use the Alexander Technique to drop these unwanted habits and develop that subtle but definite air of quiet confidence/self-possession.

You can also use it effectively to

• enhance your performance in sports and in the arts,  and in a range of other activities.
• Make your daily routine much more enjoyable.
• use the computer intelligently, and prevent debilitating injuries.

It transforms your life in a simple, deeply satisfying way.

You may be a software professional or not – but if you work daily at your computer, you run a risk of being afflicted by one or more of the symptoms of computer related injuries. They can be as minor as occasional twinges in the wrist or shoulder, or as serious as chronic, severe pain, which disables you even for simple, everyday actions like picking up a cup or combing your hair.

People working at the computer tend to make the same sequence of movements repeatedly for long periods of time. Usually they are doing them badly, with unnecessary tension, without stopping for breaks. It’s not very difficult to imagine the effect of sitting hunched up in a chair, head poked forward, fingers either tapping away, or making small circular or up and down movements – for hours at a time.

You may not be able to do anything about the long hours that you need to spend at the computer – but the Alexander Technique can teach you to use yourself intelligently so that you can prevent the damage before it even begins.

You can also use it effectively to

• enhance your presentation skills, your performance in sports and in the arts, and in a range of other areas.
• Make your daily routine much more enjoyable.

It transforms your life in a simple, deeply satisfying way.

Sportspersons and athletes face relentless pressure – win or lose out.
Sports and athletics make their own demands on your system for the strength and power to run, jump, leap, smash.
Peak physical fitness, the ability to mobilise reserves of strength, power and energy – as a player, or an athlete, you face this demand all the time. Added to this is the relentless pressure to win – so is it surprising that injuries are considered a normal occupational hazard?
They don’t have to be – if you learn to use yourself well.
The Alexander Technique teaches you to let go of unhelpful tensions so that your body is free to move with its natural strength and power – in the way it is actually designed to move.

You can also use it effectively to

• enhance your presentation skills, your performance in the arts, and in a range of other activities.
• work on the computer without damaging yourself.
• Enjoy the most mundane activities of your daily routine.

It transforms  your life in a simple, deeply satisfying way.

As a performer, you have to use yourself – body, voice, gesture and movement – to communicate the complexities of character and situation to your audience.

The more free and unhampered you are, the more effective your communication.
But this is a difficult and subtle skill, and the chances are that in trying to achieve it, you’re subjecting yourself to enormous amounts of stress.
A lot of the time, what happens is that the need to deliver an effective performance makes you tighten.
Your performance drops – the voice loses resonance, movements become stiff. This makes you try even harder to free up – but only intensifies the vicious cycle of tightening and constriction. This is the road to stress, damage and injury.
The Alexander Technique can teach you to avoid this whole downward spiral and instead, tap into the energising cycle of freedom and increased power.

You can also use it effectively to

• Enhance your presentation skills, your performance in sports and a range of other activities.
• Work on the computer without damaging yourself.
• Make your daily routine much more enjoyable.

It transforms your life in a simple, deeply satisfying way.

An Alexander Technique session is a lesson in global muscle intelligence.

I teach a skill which helps you refine and transform all your other skills. In addition, it quietly transforms every aspect of your life as well.