How the Alexander Technique helps you:

Five tips to avoid a bad back

  1. Exercise regularly - three to five times a week
  2. Don't sit in the same position for too long
  3. Take frequent breaks from your desk
  4. Don't carry a heavy bag on one shoulder - choose a rucksack
  5. Bend your knees when lifting - don't bend from the waist
  • relieves back, neck, shoulder pain, headaches and migraine
  • can ease RSI, frozen shoulder, tennis elbow
  • reduces tension and keeps you calm
  • enables you to sleep better
  • improves your posture
  • helps you to breathe easier and deeper
  • improves co-ordination

Ian says, ‘The Alexander Technique is not a therapy. It’s a life skill which is used in everyday activities such as driving, sitting at a PC, gardening, ironing, playing golf or tennis, swimming, or other physical activities. It is particularly popular with musicians and actors. It enables people to function in a more balanced and co-ordinated manner, and leads to improved performance.’

IMPROVE POSTURE: good posture is as essential to your health and wellbeing as eating, sleeping and exercise. It helps muscles and joints, the heart, lung, kidneys, liver and nervous system to work efficiently. When you slump it becomes a habit and leads to back pain and other aches and pains.

RELEASE TENSION: we spend so much time doing tasks that our bodies weren’t designed to do – driving, sitting in front of PCs and laptops, watching TV, ironing and carrying shopping. The Alexander Technique shows you how to carry out the same activities but enables you to become aware of where tension is being held and learn how to release it to minimise excess strain on the body.

REDUCE PAIN: 17 million people in the UK are affected by back pain with the result that every year 100 million working days are lost because of it. Long term tension in the muscles becomes fixed and leads to pain. Help to prevent any more problems by learning this self-help technique.