Would you like to improve your posture? Or learn practical strategies to ease pain? Or find more flow in your performance?

The Alexander Technique is a unique, 100-year-old self-help method that helps people identify and avoid habits that are ultimately harmful to their overall health and well-being. It offers strategies that can progressively unlock your natural poise, vitality and freedom.

Classes do not involve physical manipulation; you are guided with gentle touch and suggestions for enquiry in everyday activities such as walking, standing, sitting, bending, and lifting, as well as in specific activities related to your work or hobbies.

Colin will help you influence your habitual, day-to-day reactions by becoming curious about your unconscious patterns of muscular activity —habits you have developed over many years.

By taking a moment to pause, to let your breath out and to let go of any rigidity that might have crept into your nervous system, you can choose to allow your natural balancing and breathing mechanisms to support you, much more like they did when you were a young child, before you learned how to sit ‘correctly’ and how to stand up ‘straight’.

Many performers use the Alexander Technique to improve their performance and prolong their careers in sports, acting, singing, dancing and playing an instrument.

There is evidence that the Alexander Technique can be helpful for people suffering from musculoskeletal pain. Two major randomised clinical trials showed reductions in long-term back and neck pain after a course of lessons, and one smaller trial showed reductions in chronic knee pain. There is also evidence that it can help people who have Parkinson’s disease (See the NHS website), and much anecdotal evidence that it can help with many other conditions. Get in touch, and we can discuss whether and how the Alexander Technique might help you.

Colin Beattie is a S.T.A.T. registered teacher and offers individual classes from home in Drumbeg, between Belfast and Lisburn.

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