What are the Alexander Techniques basic ideas?
Though your body is much more elaborate and subtle than any machine, you can understand the Alexander Technique’s basic ideas by comparing it to driving a car. You use the mirrors (awareness), the brake (inhibiting your habits) and the gas (directing your body into expansion). As you develop each of these skills and learn to use them all together, you gain access to your body’s power steering–the primary control. Just as you don’t have to focus on every detail of a car’s operation, you learn about your body’s capacity to respond and coordinate each of its systems to work together, as an integrated whole. Primary control – The primary control is the relationship between the head, neck and spine in stillness and in movement. The quality of that relationship–compressed or free–determines the quality of our overall movement and functioning. When the neck is not overworking, the head balances lightly atop the spine, the torso expands and breath comes more easily. We restore the efficacy
