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The Alexander technique is an alternative medicine and educational discipline focussing on bodily coordination, including psychological principles of awareness. It is applied for purposes of recovering freedom of movement, in the mastery of performing arts, and for general self-improvement affecting poise, impulse control and attention.
The Technique takes its name from F. Matthias Alexander, who, in the 1890s, developed its principles as a personal tool to alleviate his breathing problems and hoarseness and hence enable him to pursue a career as a Shakespearean actor.
Teachers use demonstration, explanation, and repeated examination of what spontaneously occurs in the student. Light hand contact is also used to detect the students unnecessary physical and mental stresses. Hands-on suggestions are offered in the context of everyday actions such as sitting, standing, walking, using the hands, and speaking. Assistance with sports, hobbies, or the performing arts may be requested by students as further topics of personal interest.
History
Alexander was a Shakespearean orator who developed problems which resulted in losing his voice. After doctors informed him they could find no physical cause, he carefully observed himself in multiple mirrors. His use of the empirical scientific method of reasoning revealed that he was needlessly stiffening his whole body in preparation to recite or speak. Further, Alexander observed that many individuals experiencing breathing and voice problems commonly tightened the musculature of the upper torso, especially the neck, prior to phonation in anticipation of the act of voicing. He suggested that this habitual pattern of dropping the head backwards and downwards in relationship to the spine needlessly disrupted efficient overall body alignment. This was later termed the reaction of a "startle pattern." After innovating new substitution strategies that included sharpening his ability to choose that new response, read more at » http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander+technique
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