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Healing Back Pain And The Alexander Technique

Most Alexander Technique teachers avoid delving deeply into the psychological aspects of back pain and neck pain. As Alexander Technique teachers, we are usually more concerned with how we use ourselves, body and mind. Alexander teachers help their students replace harmful postural habits with beneficial ones, and teach how to use Alexander Technique principles in any circumstance. There are various causes of back pain, neck pain, and shoulder pain, and it stands to reason that negative emotions could be one. Dr. John Sarno, in his book 'Healing Back Pain', indicates that "tension myositis syndrome, or TMS, is the major cause of the common syndromes of pain involving the neck, shoulders, back, buttocks and limbs.

Alexander Technique Bodywork

“Stand up straight!” “Pull your shoulders back!” As children, we were told to have good posture. Yet we were seldom taught effective ways to accomplish this. Indeed, we were often not even told just what “good posture” is. The consequences of this information gap can be seen all around us: stiff necks, shoulders hunched forward or pulled tightly back, restricted breathing, and tightness in the thighs, legs and ankles. Backaches, headaches, and other painful symptoms are often the unfortunate result...

Alexander Technique Audio

This short Alexander Technique post contains two MP3's. Both are audio interviews of myself conducted by Alexander Technique teacher Robert Rickover. The first interview concerns my Alexander Technique teaching; why I became an Alexander Technique student and subsequently an Alexander Technique teacher here in New York City. The second interview is geared more for Alexander Technique teachers, as we discuss the Alexander Technique and Alexander Technique teachers' use of the web. This interview calls on my expertise regarding websites. I think it's an interesting interview because I have no expertise regarding websites!...

Alexander Technique And The Nobel Prize

In 1973, Nicholas Tinbergen and two others won the Nobel prize for Physiology-Medicine. He dedicated a good portion of his acceptance speech to F.M. Alexander, the Alexander Technique and it's benefits. He was an Alexander Technique student, as was his wife and daughter. They all took Alexander Technique lessons with different Alexander Technique teachers. What follows is the beginning of the portion of the speech relating to the Alexander Technique: …My second example of the usefulness of an ethological approach to Medicine has quite a different history. It concerns the work of a very remarkable man, the late F. M. Alexander. His research started some fifty years before the revival of Ethology for which we are now being honoured, yet his procedure was very similar to modern observational methods, and we believe that his achievements and those of his pupils deserve close attention...

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Kyra Sedgwick, Emmy Award Winning Actress
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Mark Josefsberg teaches one-to-one lessons and group classes in Manhattan, and everywhere on Zoom.

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Mark Josefsberg is AmSAT and ACAT Certified, 2003. ACAT—The American Center for the Alexander Technique AmSAT—The American Society for the Alexander Technique