What happens during an Alexander Technique lesson?
Through touch and verbal instruction, the teacher guides the students to discover ways they are interfering with their natural coordination. By bringing certain habits to consciousness, students are given the opportunity to choose whether or not to continue them. Because the responsibility of choice and change is left to the students, this is an educative process, not a medical one. The touch of the teacher is gentle, non-manipulative, non-invasive. It guides the student by communicating the way the teacher is attending to herself, and this direct linkage makes the learning quicker than using words alone. Activities usually center first on the simplest daily ones (sitting, standing, walking) and then progress to more complex ones such as those required for the students work or play.
