Learning The Alexander Technique Exercises

By Kristen Baird


You know that exercise is good for you. It helps to boost your mood and improve your life. The health benefits of regular exercise and physical activity are very hard to ignore. The benefits of exercises are all yours regardless of your age, sex and physical ability. Once you consider regular exercise, you have also considered a quality life.

Since there are different ways to stay healthy and to do exercises, it is better to choose something that makes you comfortable and satisfied. You may consider learning the Alexander technique exercises, as it helps you improve body movements and postures. Every session, you are taught to position your body properly and correct poor postures so you can move efficiently.

The teachers of this technique proves that it can help to eliminate excess tensions of the body and may eliminate problems, such as sore shoulders, back aches and neck pains. Most conditions, such as back aches can be a result from misused body for a long span of time. Thus, sitting or moving improperly can be causes of unhelpful habits you have practiced.

Therefore, the aim of the Alexander technique is to teach and help you learn those good habits and achieve a more balanced and naturally aligned body. It has been proven that this technique has the potential to improve specific health conditions. The key principles on the other hand includes how you move, stand, sit and how could it affect your functions.

It will help you to become mindful on the things you have done in your regular activities and to make any changes to gain more benefits. Your mind and body will also work together to influence others. Actually, your neck, sine and head are important to improve your functions well. Once you have learned and applied the technique to your daily activities, it can help to improve your coordination and breathing as well.

The sessions can be done in a small clinic or studio with qualified teachers that would last for thirtyminutes. You should wear comfortable clothing so you can move easily and freely. The teacher will also observe how you move and if executed improperly, they will show you the best way to move with less strain and better balance.

They will be using their hands to gently guide you with your movements. You will also learn the ways to improve your daily activities. You will learn to practice how to apply the technique while standing, sitting, lying down, walking and maintaining good relationship between the back, spin, head and neck. You just need to attend several lessons to learn the basic concepts of the technique.

Once you have gained a clear understanding with the principles, you can also apply them to your daily life. According to experts, Alexander system can benefit people regardless of age and no matter the levels of physical fitness. It has been proven that it is effective in helping to relieve back pain. It also help elderly to boost and improve their balance skills and beneficial for patients with Parkinson disease.

It teaches them to make positive changes of lifestyle and both mental and physical outcomes. For many people, the lessons are all safe and pose no health risks if no manipulation is involved and just pure gently touch. However, this is limited for certain people with a specific spinal injury, severe spinal stenosis or narrowing or the spine, severe pain from ruptured disc and people with a fracture of the bones in the spine.




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