Alexander Technique
Explore your body’s flow, Earth, and balance.
What is the Alexander Technique?
The Alexander technique is a method for learning to become aware of your body’s structure and reducing unnecessary muscle tension in your regular activities. Through verbal cues and gentle, non-manipulative hands-on, you will experience a new sense of ease and you will learn skills that you can practice at home, and then apply in all aspects of your life.
“Alexander Technique doesn’t teach you something to do. It teaches you how to bring more practical intelligence into what you are already doing; how to eliminate stereotyped responses; how to deal with habit and change. It leaves you free to choose your own goal but gives you a better use of yourself while you work toward it.”
— Frank Pierce Jones
Alexander Technique for a Healthy Pelvis
Using the Alexander Technique for Pelvic Floor (and whole-body) health is a non-surgical, drug-free way to reduce, eliminate and prevent future pelvic floor dysfunction, no matter what the cause (childbirth, stress, age, or even if you’ve already had surgery). Come to this workshop and take the next step toward a leak-free, pain-less life!
Pelvic floor issues are often a result of the way we move and carry our pelvis and our whole body, which, in turn, affects how the muscles are able to keep the organs in place. Often we don’t have success with PF exercises because we haven’t figured out how they fit into our busy lives or we lose motivation to do them.
In this workshop you will learn to develop your Pelvic Floor Health in a fun and pleasurable way and begin to explore how to fit pelvic floor health into your everyday life.
When you implement the Restore Your Pelvic Floor program you will:
● Reduce or eliminate pain and discomfort so you can live actively
● Feel confident knowing how your pelvic floor works so you can get it functioning well, and keep it that way
● Be healthy, confident and free in all situations
● Be active, sneeze, cough and laugh unreservedly
● Be a model of great pelvic floor habits for your family
● Love your body during all the phases of your life
Come to this workshop and take the next step toward a leak-free, pain-free life!
Who is this for? Any body with a pelvis. This class will be taught with modifications for musculoskeletal or life issues (including pregnancy, joint replacements, etc.).
Some signs that you need to work of your pelvic health are:
● menstrual cramps and pelvic pain
● low back pain
● toilet urgency or frequency
● leaking urine when you exercise, laugh, cough or sneeze
● incontinence
● saggy or prolapsed pelvic organs
● prostate inflammation
● hemorrhoids
● constipation
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Who was F.M. Alexander?
F.M. Alexander (1869-1955) was an actor who began his career as a Shakespearean orator and developed chronic laryngitis while performing. Determined to restore the full use of his voice, he carefully observed himself while speaking, and noticed that undue muscular tension accounted for his vocal problem. He sought a way to eliminate that restriction.
Over time, he discovered and articulated a principle that profoundly influences health and well-being: when neck tension is reduced, the head no longer compresses the spine and the spine is free to lengthen.
Alexander restored his own natural capacity for ease by changing the way he thought while initiating an action. From this work on himself and others, he evolved a hands-on teaching method that encourages all the body’s processes to work more efficiently – as an integrated, dynamic whole.
~From the 1996 North American Society of Teachers of the Alexander Technique Directory
