What people have said about the Alexander Technique

'I have been learning Alexander Technique for 18 months and my body now feels like a well-oiled machine, not the stiff, tired old thing it was before. My physical awareness has increased significantly, as has my emotional and mental awareness, giving me a more centred and grounded feeling than I have enjoyed for many years.  Surprisingly, my diabetes has also improved – my HbA1c levels have decreased, possibly due to better organ function as a result of greatly improved posture and perhaps through reduced stress as well.  I am using less physical effort to move than I used to because I have better posture and I am more aware of moving with less effort.  I am much calmer and I am not operating in 'overdrive' like I used to, and I am still learning.'  

– Sales and Marketing Director, Sydney

'I recommend the Alexander Technique as an extremely sophisticated form of rehabilitation...many types of underperformance, and even ailments, both mental and physical, can be alleviated, sometimes to a surprising extent, by teaching the body musculature to function differently.'

– Professor Nikolas Tinbergen, 1973 Nobel Prize recipient for physiology/medicine, Science, July 1974

'I have been learning Alexander Technique for over a year now and it’s the first time in my life I felt that my spine was longer than my legs. I have always known my spine was longer but it had never felt like it was.'

– Nurse, 49 years young

'The technique enables people of all ages to sit, stand, walk, breathe, sleep, work and play, with the maximum generation of vital energy and the minimum expenditure of their resources. It also releases hidden talents and powers. Ther is nothing mystical or mysterious about it, for it is based on psychological and anatomical facts. It has been called "organised commonsense" and "a bridge between the conscious and the unconscious".'

– Louise Morgan, Inside Yourself

'The Alexander Technique gives us all the things we have been looking for in a sytem of physical education – relief from strain due to maladjustment and consequent improvement in physical and mental health and, along with this, a heightening of consciousness on all levels. We cannot ask more of any system; nor, if we seriously desire to alter human beings in a desirable direction, can we ask any less.'

– Aldous Huxley, Ends and Means

'You translate everything, whether physical, mental or spiritual, into muscular tension.'

– F.M. Alexander

'In Alexander's discovery it isn't a matter of right or wrong, but a matter of observing habits.'

– Marjorie L. Barstow

'The downward pressure that we all seem to develop in our bodies as we grow up is not a natural thing, but is a habit we develop.'

– Marjorie L. Barstow

'The hardest thing to attend to is that which is closest to ourselves, that which is most constant and familiar, this closest "something" being precisely ourselves...In the Alexander Technique, a means is at hand whereby this task may be successfully accomplished.'

– Professor John Dewey