Alexander Technique

Alexander Technique Shed pain and stiffness by learning how to change habits that compress spine and joints. Alexander Technique improves overall coordination and balance.

Alexander Technique can help you become more comfortable in your body, eliminating stiffness and pain caused by habitual contraction. It is helpful for neck and back pain, hand problems, coordination, walking, balance, bending, reaching, lifting, healing after injury, public speaking, playing music, singing, computer use, posture, poise and more. You can eliminate or decrease neck and shoulder stiffness, back pain, hand problems, hip and leg stiffness. It’s a great help for using a computer, playing music, walking, lifting, healing after injury and breathing. How does one learn the Alexander Technique? Learning takes place in a private lesson or introductory workshops. The teacher uses a combination of very gentle hands-on guidance, verbal instruction and repetition. There are no exercises. Rather, over time, the student incorporates freer ways of moving into his or her everyday life. An individual lesson in the Alexander Technique is 30 minutes in length during which the student's balance and compressive habits are explored. Sitting, standing, walking, reaching, bending, lifting, and using the hands are common starting places for improvement. A series of lessons (weekly or twice-weekly ) is usually needed to counteract many years of habits that interfere with activities. Specific complaints and applications are also addressed, such as eliminating neck pain while at a computer, playing a musical instrument with more freedom, driving a car feeling more relaxed, lifting a baby without hurting your back, being comfortable while working. You may feel lighter and easier just walking down the street. Over the years, people of all ages and types have recognized the effectiveness of the Alexander Technique in improving physical and psychological well-being. Performing artists, computer users, athletes, teachers, doctors, and gardeners say their work is easier after a series of Alexander Technique lessons. Many well-known people have spoken of the Alexander Technique as an integral part of their growth: Paul McCartney, Sting, writer Aldous Huxley, philosopher John Dewey, Nobel prize-winning scientist Nikolaas Tinbergen, George Bernard Shaw, actors Joanne Woodward, Paul Newman, and Kenneth Branaugh. Frederick Matthias Alexander was born in Tasmania in 1869 and made his living as a Shakespearean recitalist. After losing his stage voice, he consulted doctors who found nothing wrong. His personal story is one of keen observation of his own habits and nearly decade-long experimentation, resulting in a discovery that has universal application. He demonstrated that once we learn to stop interfering with our reflexes, our balance improves, pain and stiffness decrease or disappear. Training to become a certified teacher of the Alexander Technique is over 3-years time, 1600 hours.

Fun to learn about yourself and your very own kinesthetic sense. Breathe more freely, less back pain, more enjoyment.
07/04/2025

Fun to learn about yourself and your very own kinesthetic sense. Breathe more freely, less back pain, more enjoyment.

Unkink your spine with the Alexander Technique
01/26/2024

Unkink your spine with the Alexander Technique

Learn to help yourself to more comfort and ease. You will be guided to change patterns that compress your spine and join...
02/02/2023

Learn to help yourself to more comfort and ease. You will be guided to change patterns that compress your spine and joints that lead to back, neck and leg pain. Breathe more fully and move more easily. There are no exercises. We look at how you bend, reach, sit, move through gentle hand-on guidance and helpful words. Great for musicians, computer use, anyone who wants to be more comfortable in their body.

02/02/2023

Alexander Technique can help you become aware of and change patterns that contract your spine and joints. Great help for musicians, artists, computer work, really anyone. Individual lessons are geared to your habits of tension and how to lessen them through gentle guiding touch and helpful words. We look at how you bend, reach, sit, play your instrument, work at the computer...

05/23/2019
03/07/2019

There is no exercise, manipulation or hypnosis in The Alexander Technique. Instead, you are guided to observe and change ways that you compress your spine and joints. This approach has been used by thousands of people including Paul McCartney, Sting, Julie Andrews, Madonna, Aldous Huxley, Linda McCartney, Paul Newman, members of the British Royal Family, Sting. and many more.

03/07/2019

Alexander Technique can be a basic underpinning to everything you do. Sometimes our contractive habits lead to pain and stiffness. You can learn how to approach everyday activities with awareness, lightness and ease. Lessons are $60 and my teaching studio is next to my home in Chicago Park, off Rt 174 about 12 minutes from downtown Grass Valley.

Free your neck. How? Start by letting gravity help you. Learn more about Alexander Technique at www.ATsierra.com
03/26/2018

Free your neck. How? Start by letting gravity help you. Learn more about Alexander Technique at www.ATsierra.com

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02/15/2018

Alexander Technique Workshops for Spring (choose one): Sat. March 17, 10-11:30 am or Sat. April 14, 10-11:30 am. $25 each workshop. There are no exercises or manipulation. You'll learn to observe and change ways that you may be compressing your spine and joints in everyday activities. See www.ATsierra.com . Register by messaging me or calling Mt. View Rehab 477-0893 where the workshop will be held.

Shed pain and stiffness by learning how to change habits that compress spine and joints.

Workshop thurs Oct 26, 4-5:30 at Mt View Rehab, GV. $20. No exercise. Learn useful ways to help your . Call Mt Vi...
10/17/2017

Workshop thurs Oct 26, 4-5:30 at Mt View Rehab, GV. $20. No exercise. Learn useful ways to help your . Call Mt View 477-0893

Next Workshop is tomorrow Sunday Oct 8, 4-5:30 pm. Contact me through www.ATsierra.com
10/07/2017

Next Workshop is tomorrow Sunday Oct 8, 4-5:30 pm. Contact me through www.ATsierra.com

Offered by Alexander Technique, Nora Nausbaum - Oct 8th 4pm-5:30pm: FALL WORKSHOP DATES: Fee for each workshop is $20 Sat. Sept 16, 10:30 am-noon Tues. Sept 19, 5:30-7 pm Sun. Oct 8, 4-5:30 pm Thurs Oct 26, 4:30-6:00 Sat. Nov. 4, 3:30-5 pm Sat. Nov. 11, 10:30-noon Sun. Dec. 3, 3:30-5 pm The Alexande...

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