Welcome to Think Alexander
Think Alexander is based in Rosanna, a northeastern suburb of Melbourne. Through individual and group lessons, Think Alexander teaches a unique and intelligent approach to wellbeing and pain management that is gentle and fun to learn.
This approach is called the Alexander Technique.
What is the Alexander Technique?
The Alexander Technique is a unique educational process that supports health and wellbeing by recognizing and changing habitual patterns of tension that are interfering with movement, posture and breathing.
Many habits, both physical and mental, accumulate over a lifetime and leave unconscious fixed patterns of chronic muscle tension. These patterns inevitably interfere with natural postural reflexes that work to keep us upright against the pull of gravity. Because of this interference, movement and poise can be affected in ways that lead to stress, poor posture, pain and injury. Unconscious muscular tensions over time will decrease vitality, drain energy and affect quality of life .
The Alexander Technique improves balance and coordination and promotes better muscle tone, strength and overall functioning. It’s all about how you think and move.
Learning the Technique can help you to discover how thinking and moving interact, how habits can interfere with ease and freedom in activity and, more importantly, how to change them.
The strengths of the technique are that it:
- develops skills that help to deal with poor posture, pain, disability and stress
- improves performance of any activity
- does not require exercises, equipment or a regimented approach
- is a self-management strategy for chronic pain
- offers a gentle pathway to regaining poise in activity, leading to a more balanced way of being
Medical studies have shown that the Alexander Technique provides longstanding benefits for people suffering with back, neck and knee pain. The Technique can also be applied to improve breathing, vocal use, skill and performance in sports, recreation and the arts as well as enhancing workplace health and general wellbeing with reduction in stress and anxiety . The Alexander technique is also found to be a helpful modality to improve movement and function in Parkinson’s disease.
If you would like to improve your balance and posture and be able to move more freely, with reduced levels of pain and much more energy think about exploring a unique approach……….Think Alexander.
Upcoming workshops
Introduction to the Alexander Technique
Learn your way out of pain
Constructive Rest
In these workshop you will learn the simple ideas behind the Technique and how they can be applied in your life to eliminate chronic tension and promote calmness and ease in everything you do. Learn your way out of pain will cover the current options available for the management of chronic pain, give a brief overview of the problem of pain and the underlying neurobiological changes that can make pain difficult to manage. This workshop when taken along with Introduction to the Alexander Technique will help you understand where the Alexander Technique fits in with both the prevention and recovery from chronic pain. These are practical workshops that will also demonstrate how the technique can help you with your pain or movement problem. Constructive Rest practice is integral to the principles of the technique, giving insights into habits of movement and how tension can interfere with easeful and pain free movement. This workshop compliments both the Introduction to the Alexander Technique and Learn your way out of pain.
Workshops are currently on hold. Coming soon.
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