Fluid Being
Ease of movement,
and ease of being…
with the Alexander Technique
and Jon in Dolphinton south of Edinburgh – South Lanarkshire, Scotland
The Good News is…
It turns out that we are better designed than we think, almost everyone can enjoy greater fluidity and less tension or stiffness in their body and their mind.
It’s the ingrained ways that we move our bodies that is very often the primary cause of pain and stiffness.
Back Pain?
When back pain flares up your first call for immediate relief may be to the physio or osteopath but if it repeats and you seek a longer term solution, you may find out if it is the way you sit, stand and move that is the root cause of your re-occurring back pain.
Manual therapies are often effective at addressing back pain in the short term but do not always offer long term pain relief because patterns of movement and posture that are causing the problem are elusive habits that remain in place. A truly effective ‘clean sweep’ is required to address these long term hidden habits.
I help people reorganise the way they move use their bodies to relieve strain on their backs and spine.
The key difference is that Alexander Technique offers a way to self-manage back pain, this is supported by findings of the British Medical Journal馃敆
So why do we need the Alexander Technique or other somatics?
The person who worked all of this out, FM Alexander found out that many of the aches and pains we have come to expect as part of the aging process or the stress of modern living (and office furniture) have their roots in the way we ‘use’ our bodies and also the way that we use our minds. He found that most people can reclaim their birthright of a more enjoyable and easier ‘flow state’ if only they can learn to prevent harmful patterns that have become habit that have become so familiar they are no longer noticed.
The hardest thing to get rid of is something you didn’t know was there.
How will Jon teach me?
Alexander teachers train three years to learn to use their hands in a non-intrusive and skillful way to assist and guide you in movement to start the process of retraining your nervous system so that it can react in a different way.
I give a mixture of verbal guidance as well giving a skilled and subtle form of guidance with my hands.
The training of an Alexander Technique teacher is not all about the way they use their hands to influence and guide patterns within their clients body. An Alexander is required to embody everything they teach their clients, and so for three years during training they receive an intensive course of Alexander sessions.
Alexander Technique teachers embody what they teach.
Location
Dolphinton lies on the A702 between Biggar and West Linton.
Most of my clients travel from Biggar, Peebles and West Linton and I also see clients from Edinburgh.
Home visits are possible for clients who have mobility difficulties.
… Allowing natural coordination and restoring balance
Our bodies and minds are capable of a deep level of fluid co-operation that reduces internal friction, effort and wear and tear. Unfortunately our lifestyles and stress often erode this internal harmony and instead we find for example a conflict of interest between the way we use our arm and our shoulder, its as if we are giving out incompatible messages to our bodies and unfortunately when we eventually embodying these harmful patterns as habits, they seem natural to us even though they persist at cost to our well being.
Alexander teachers help people retrain their nervous systems, re-coordinate themselves and re-establish natural patterns once more, this applies to our physical balance, standing on our feet as well as our emotional balance.
