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Title: Richard Brennan Alexander Technique


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Richard BrennanAlexander Technique
  • Change Your Posture,
  • Change Your Life

www.alexander.ie
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What is the Alexander Technique?
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AwarenessChoiceFreedom
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How can the Alexander Technique help you?
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Benefits of the Technique
  • Preserves Health
  • Reduces Pain
  • Reduces Stress
  • Enhances Performance
  • Increases Enjoyment of the Present
  • Improves Posture

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Preserves HealthExperienced teacher Elisabeth
Walker pulling another person out of a chair at
the age of 90!
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George 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
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Reduces 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

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Reduces Stress
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Improves Performance The following people have
all benefited from Alexander lessons

Greg Chappell - cricket
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Daley Thompson - decathlete
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LinfordChristie- running
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Sally Swift - equestrian
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Jeff Julian - golf
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John McEnroe - tennis
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Improves breathing and the voice
Julie Andrews
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Paul McCartney
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Madonna
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Sting
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Improving performance - Acting
  • Paul
  • Newman

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William Hurt
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Hillary Swank
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Keanu Reeves
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Judi Dench
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Kelvin Kline
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TerenceStamp
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Jennifer Saunders
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Robin Williams
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John Cleese
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Prevents Chronic Muscular Fatigue
James Galway
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Julian Bream
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MairtinOConnor
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Increase Enjoyment of the Present Moment
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Improves 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?

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Dictionary definition of the word Posture
isthe relationship of one or more parts of
your body to the rest
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Good posture happens when that relationship is
freePoor posture happens when that
relationship is fixed
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Good posture is enjoyable
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poised
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flowing
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balanced
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relaxed
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attentive
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all of the above!
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Posture is also an outward expression of how you
feel inside
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Posture is also an outward expression of how you
feel inside
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Posture is also an outward expression of how you
feel inside
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Posture is also an outward expression of how you
feel inside
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New book by Richard Brennan Available January
2012
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Find out more aboutthe Alexander Techniqueby
exploring www.alexander.ie
www.alexander.ie
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