Title: Richard Brennan Alexander Technique
1Richard BrennanAlexander Technique
- Change Your Posture,
- Change Your Life
www.alexander.ie
2What is the Alexander Technique?
3AwarenessChoiceFreedom
4How can the Alexander Technique help you?
5Benefits of the Technique
- Preserves Health
- Reduces Pain
- Reduces Stress
- Enhances Performance
- Increases Enjoyment of the Present
- Improves Posture
6Preserves HealthExperienced teacher Elisabeth
Walker pulling another person out of a chair at
the age of 90!
7George Bernard Shaw took lessons from Alexander
himself when he was 80! Alexander established
not only the beginning of a far reaching science
of the apparently involuntary movements we call
reflexes, but a technique of connection and self
control which forms a substantial addition to our
very slender resources in personal
education.George Bernard Shaw
8Reduces Pain
- 97 of people with back pain could benefit by
learning the Alexander Technique it is only a
very small minority of back pain sufferers that
require medical intervention such as surgery. - Dr Jack Stern, spinal neurosurgeon and founding
partner of Brain and Spine Surgeons of New York,
USA - Conclusion of Southampton University Research
One to one lessons in the Alexander technique
have long term benefits for patients with chronic
back pain. - British Medical Journal - 18th August 2008
9Reduces Stress
10Improves Performance The following people have
all benefited from Alexander lessons
Greg Chappell - cricket
11Daley Thompson - decathlete
12LinfordChristie- running
13Sally Swift - equestrian
14Jeff Julian - golf
15John McEnroe - tennis
16Improves breathing and the voice
Julie Andrews
17Paul McCartney
18Madonna
19Sting
20Improving performance - Acting
21William Hurt
22Hillary Swank
23Keanu Reeves
24Judi Dench
25Kelvin Kline
26TerenceStamp
27Jennifer Saunders
28Robin Williams
29John Cleese
30Prevents Chronic Muscular Fatigue
James Galway
31Julian Bream
32MairtinOConnor
33Increase Enjoyment of the Present Moment
34Improves Posture
- How would you define the word posture?
- The way you hold yourself?
- The way you carry yourself?
- The position or shape you are in?
- or
- The relation of one or more parts of your body
to the rest? - The outer expression of how you feel inside?
35Dictionary definition of the word Posture
isthe relationship of one or more parts of
your body to the rest
36Good posture happens when that relationship is
freePoor posture happens when that
relationship is fixed
37Good posture is enjoyable
38poised
39flowing
40balanced
41relaxed
42attentive
43all of the above!
44Posture is also an outward expression of how you
feel inside
45Posture is also an outward expression of how you
feel inside
46Posture is also an outward expression of how you
feel inside
47Posture is also an outward expression of how you
feel inside
48New book by Richard Brennan Available January
2012
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