What is a.t.? | ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE NEW YORK | BETTERATBEING

Alexander Technique (AT) is a holistic self-care method, acquired through learning and practicing new, specialized skills of self-awareness, organization and intention. It is known for improving people's posture and physical grace.

AT is most useful in improving the quality and comfort of everything we do while we are upright, as we are during most waking activities. The benefits of AT include better general functioning, balance and mobility, helping many people to perform everyday tasks with less effort and discomfort, and achieve better performance at work, in sports or in the arts.

AT teaches us to reduce excessive and unnecessary tension. Since tension often triggers or exacerbates pain, AT can be very helpful for managing or even eliminating chronic pain conditions.

The best way to learn AT is by working with a deeply experienced, highly trained teacher in a series of personalized, hands-on lessons, and to continue improving our AT skills by using them in our daily lives on a regular basis.

By making us aware of subconscious habits and patterns interfering with our postural support, movement and breathing, AT lessons enable us to develop the skills necessary to prevent and transform these habits for the better.

How does Alexander Technique work? This video animation explains the process.

All kinds of people use AT to improve their mobility, comfort and performance:
- actors, public speakers and singers
- people who play sports or instruments
- those recovering from injury
- those managing chronic pain, especially back pain
- headache sufferers, including people with tension-induced migraines
- those experiencing discomfort resulting from work activities
- people suffering from stage fright or anxiety
- people with breathing conditions
- people with Parkinson's Disease
- expectant mothers preparing for childbirth
- seniors seeking better balance, agility, and confidence
- individuals seeking to improve or explore themselves

People who study Alexander Technique (best taught in one-on-one, hands-on lessons with a trained, certified AT teacher) typically experience relief from chronic pain and discomfort, improved breathing and voice production, and greater ease of movement.

Regular practice of Alexander Technique can bring about improvement in general functioning overall: better balance, respiration, circulation, digestion, mood and mental clarity.

Continuous, ongoing practice of Alexander Technique increases the individual's capacity to resist habitual, debilitating reactions to internal and external stimuli, and increase his or her capacity for meeting physical, mental and emotional challenges with greater creativity and resilience.

To read more about the science supporting Alexander Technique's efficacy, visit www.alexandertechniquescience.com

AT teaching has been passed down directly from its early 20th-century creator, F.M. Alexander. Over time different teaching approaches have emerged, adapted by influential teachers who originally trained under F.M.

At betterATbeing, AT is taught in the tradition of Walter Carrington, to whom F.M. entrusted his practice on his death. Carrington's classic approach to teaching AT is closest to F.M.'s own, providing the pupil with the fundamental skills and knowledge needed to take on any activity with grace, poise and freedom.

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