Swimfulness helps you to enhance the health benefits from the time you spend in the water. Allowing you to fully enjoy and benefit from the weightlessness and experience a freedom of movement not found on dry land
Swimfulness helps you to enhance the health benefits from the time you spend in the water. Allowing you to fully enjoy and benefit from the weightlessness and experience a freedom of movement not found on dry land
The Alexander Technique has been found to be valuable in helping people to manage a wide range of diverse challenges such as back pain, tense shoulders, stiff neck, headache, aching joints, breathing difficulties, stress, performance anxiety ,,,,,,,, - the list is much longer.
The core of the Alexander Technique is to create awareness and change maladaptive habits of postural support, muscle tension and movement patterns.
These are habits that have come slowly, unnoticed and built up through the years. After uncountable repetitions, they have become automatic, ingrained, and feel correct. Many of these habits are very subtle and outside our awareness. They may, however, be part of considerable suffering and preventing one from functioning optimally.
The Alexander Technique has been found to reduce unnecessary tension and establish more coordinated, balanced, and harmonious way of moving around (and being) in the world.
The Alexander Technique is a self-help method that enables one to have more conscious choice of how to respond to what we are encountering in life. The Alexander Technique can be brought into all activities of daily life.
Alexander Technique is a good fundament/basis for all activities, has a unique potential for improving our movement skills, calming our nervous system and has relevance for everyone.
The Alexander Technique has become established part of the program in many renowned performing art schools (such as Yale school of drama, Juilliard, and London royal academy of music) as well as health/rehabilitation institutions (such as Mayo Clinic).
The origin
The Alexander Technique has its roots in the self-explorative work of the actor Frederick Matthias Alexander (1869-1955) searching for a way to deal with hoarseness that threatened his carrier.
Provided treatments had been fruitless, as his hoarseness always turned back when he started to perform. He concluded that his hoarseness could not solely be due to physical problem with his throat but had to be related to something he did himself while he was acting.
After scrutinized self-explorative work, he concluded that it is impossible to separate mental and physical processes in any form of human activity and by solely addressing human illnesses, difficulties and shortcomings as either physical or mental something would be missing.
Alexander succeeded, got back on stage, started to share his discoveries with others and got highly appreciated.