Did you ever stop to wonder?
Even seemingly simple things like walking, talking, eating are in fact incredibly complex operations involving coordination of muscles, tendons, vision, balance, nerves to name but a few.
Every single one of these mundane actions has had be to painstakingly learned. Just think - how many times have does a child fall over when learning to stand? And your first driving lesson? Through practice comes coordination.
We don’t need to think about it
Luckily for us these skills once acquired are filed away in our brains and can usually be called up on auto-pilot. We don’t need to think about it.
As we go through life we lay down layers of tension in our muscles and fascia and these become absorbed into the auto-pilot program. We complain of more aches and stiffness and wonder at what we used to be able to do as kids.
Feel like a child again
Working with the Alexander Technique you can peel off those layers of tension that have become unconscious habit. The result is a sense of freedom and ease in your own body and the way it moves.
It is a lot more than posture. On one level it is about coordination and moving with less wear and tear on your back and joints. And at a deeper level it is about connecting your whole self – mind, body and emotions.