What is the Alexander Technique?

Definition and Benefits

My personal definition of the Alexander Technique

Alexander Technique invites you to rediscover your body and your way of inhabiting it. You will learn to recognise automatic impulses and create a small space between the stimulus and your response. Within that space, the possibility of choice is born: how to move and how to respond. More than just a body technique, it is a process of self-knowledge and transformation that helps you to be present and in connection with yourself.
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What is the Alexander Technique?

The Alexander Technique is a method for re-educating the unconscious patterns that condition our responses, seeking to improve coordination by reducing unnecessary tension, both physical and mental. The result is a state of greater balance, calm and holistic wellbeing.

With over a hundred years of history, it is backed by scientific studies and is part of the curricula of major artistic institutions such as: Royal Academy of Music (London), Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse (Paris), Hochschule für Musik Hanns-Eisler (Berlin), Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst (Vienna), The Juilliard School (New York), and the Curtis Institute of Music (Philadelphia), among many others.

Benefits of the Alexander Technique
Discover how this transformative practice can improve your quality of life.

Pain relief

Reduce chronic back, neck and joint discomfort by identifying its causes in your movement patterns.

Better posture and balance

Regain your body's natural alignment without forcing it, releasing tension and improving your presence.

Freedom of movement

Move with greater ease and fluidity in all your daily, professional or sporting activities.

Freer breathing and voice

By releasing tension in the neck and torso, your breathing becomes deeper and your voice more resonant.

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Enhance your artistic performance

Especially beneficial for musicians, actors and dancers: improves technique, prevents injuries and increases expressiveness.

Stress reduction

Learn to respond with calm instead of reacting with tension to everyday demands.

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Forget "correct posture" and regain your body

Instead of striving to maintain a correct posture, the Alexander Technique proposes that we get to know our body and have a new experience: noticing how natural coordination functions within our organism.

When we stop interfering, the body knows how to reorganise itself. By paying attention to what we do unconsciously—to those automated reactions—we open up the possibility for change. Unconscious patterns become conscious. This self-awareness is the foundation for building our wellbeing.

The process takes time—time to feel and integrate—but even a small pause before acting can open the door to a freer response.

It is not about trying even harder, but rather learning to direct ourselves in favour of our balance in relation to what we want to do.

When we attend to ourselves in this way, we regain time and space to just be.

Every posture is full of movement.

Who was F.M. Alexander?
Over time, the Alexander Technique has been an ally for people from very different backgrounds. It all began with its creator, the Australian actor Frederick Matthias Alexander (1869–1955). In his early days, Alexander was dedicated to performing Shakespearean texts aloud, but his career was threatened by a problem that seemed to have no solution: he suffered from persistent hoarseness that, in the middle of a performance, would cause him to lose his voice. Determined to understand what was happening, Alexander embarked on a deep investigation of himself. For years, he observed his posture, his breathing, and the way he used his body while reciting. Bit by bit, he discovered that the cause of his problem was not the voice itself, but certain bodily habits acquired almost without noticing. By learning to change those habits, he managed to regain his voice. But the surprising thing was that, in addition, he was able to develop a method to help other people use their body and mind in a more balanced and efficient way. His process and conclusions were collected in his book The Use of the Self, published in 1931.

The news was not long in spreading. Actors, doctors, artists, and intellectuals began to seek him out, curious about his results. Among his students, we find names as prominent as the playwright George Bernard Shaw, the writer Aldous Huxley, the philosopher John Dewey, and the neurophysiologist Sir Charles Sherrington, winner of the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1932. He was also studied by the anthropologist and anatomist Raymond Dart, the biologist G.E. Coghill, and the animal behaviour researcher Nikolaas Tinbergen, who would receive the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1973.

In fact, Tinbergen was so impressed by the benefits of the Alexander Technique that he dedicated a large part of his Nobel acceptance speech to talking about it. Not only did it help him, but he also encouraged his own family to practise it.

Thus, what began as a personal search to regain his voice became a valuable tool for many people interested in improving the way they move, breathe, and relate to their own bodies in daily life.

What happens in a class?

Receiving an Alexander Technique class is a gift to yourself—a moment to return to your centre. It is a space to slow down, listen and feel.

In our first session, we will explore what brings you here and what you need at this stage of your journey. From then on, I will accompany you with gentle and mindful movements, using my hands and words as a guide, with delicacy and clarity.

We will work on a treatment table, in a chair or in motion, depending on what is most suitable for you: walking, sitting, standing… or even during an activity that is part of your daily life or personal expression, such as playing an instrument, practising yoga or holding your camera. Session by session, you will notice changes. Your way of inhabiting your body will become more refined, opening up and awakening.

You will feel balanced once again—present and available.

A “before and after” that is built upon gentleness.

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