MOD MUSIC ACADEMY
HALTON REGION
Alexander Techinque
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WHAT IS THE ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE?
WHAT IS THE ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE?
Teachers use demonstration, explanation, and repeated examination of what spontaneously occurs in the student. Light hand contact is also used to detect the student's unnecessary physical and mental stresses. Hands-on suggestions are offered in the context of everyday actions such as sitting, standing, walking, using the hands, and speaking.
The Alexander Technique is considered to be primarily an educational process to be practiced by the student, rather than a curative treatment or therapy.
Freedom, efficiency and patience are the prescribed values. Proscribed are unnecessary effort, self-limiting habits as well as mistaken assumptions. Students are led to change their previous habitual and largely automatic routines that are interpreted by the teacher to currently or eventually be physically limiting and structurally inefficient. The Alexander teacher provides verbal coaching while monitoring, guiding and preventing unnecessary habits at their source with specialized hands-on assistance to show what is meant.
The Alexander technique is an alternative medicine and educational discipline focusing on bodily coordination and the principle of awareness. The goal of this technqiue is to recover freedom of movement, in the mastery of performing arts, and for general self-improvement affecting poise, impulse control and attention.
F. Matthias Alexander developed his technique in 1890 as a personal tool to alleviate his breathing problems and hoarseness in his voice to enhance his career as a Shakespearean actor. He found that after multiple performances his vocal chords were sore and he would often lose his voice. After doctors had instructed him to rest his voice for two week and then return to his work he found a bit of improvement in his vocal production however he still had voice trouble by the end of the night. This led to the realization that there was something incorrect HE was doing to cause himself discomfort in his voice. He looked into his theory and soon coined the Alexander Technique. A practice to break bad habits we incur over time
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