Technique

Alexander Technique teaches you how to unlearn the subtle but habitual movements that cause discomfort, pain or poor performance. Using verbal directions and gentle physical guidance of your head and back, the teacher takes you out of your usual kinaesthetic experience, your sense of what feels like the right bodily position. As a student, you learn to change your thoughts in order to release unwanted tension, change the way in which you initiate movement, and respond to daily activities and circumstances. The Alexander Technique is very gentle, yet profoundly effective, and it’s applicable to everything you do.

Pilates is a form of exercise, best known for strengthening the core muscles, the innermost muscles that we use to maintain our posture. The exercises typically enhance strength, alignment flexibility, stability, balance and breath, and can be customized for individual needs. The method encourages a mindful focus on specific movement.

Combining gentle Pilates based movement with Alexander thought and awareness can help you to become even more aware aware of your habitual patterns, one informing the other, while strengthening your new patterns of movement and sometimes speeding up what we need to function effectively.