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Richard Brennan Alexander Technique Change Your Posture, Change Your Life www.alexander.ie What is the Alexander Technique? Awareness Choice Freedom How can the Alexander Technique help you? Benefits of the Technique Preserves Health Reduces Pain Reduces Stress Enhances Performance Increases Enjoyment of the Present Improves Posture Preserves Health Experienced teacher Elisabeth Walker pulling another person out of a chair at the age of 90! George Bernard Shaw took lessons from Alexander himself when he was 80! “Alexander established not only the beginning of a far reaching science of the apparently involuntary movements we call reflexes, but a technique of connection and self control which forms a substantial addition to our very slender resources in personal education.” George Bernard Shaw Reduces Pain 97% of people with back pain could benefit by learning the Alexander Technique – it is only a very small minority of back pain sufferers that require medical intervention such as surgery. Dr Jack Stern, spinal neurosurgeon and founding partner of Brain and Spine Surgeons of New York, USA Conclusion of Southampton University Research: One to one lessons in the Alexander technique have long term benefits for patients with chronic back pain. British Medical Journal - 18th August 2008 Reduces Stress Improves Performance The following people have all benefited from Alexander lessons: Greg Chappell cricket Daley Thompson - decathlete Linford Christie - running Sally Swift - equestrian Jeff Julian - golf John McEnroe - tennis Improves breathing and the voice Julie Andrews Paul McCartney Madonna Sting Improving performance Acting Paul Newman William Hurt Hillary Swank Keanu Reeves Judi Dench Kelvin Kline Terence Stamp Jennifer Saunders Robin Williams John Cleese Prevents Chronic Muscular Fatigue James Galway Julian Bream Mairtin O’Connor Increase Enjoyment of the Present Moment Improves Posture How would you define the word posture? The way you hold yourself? The way you carry yourself? The position or shape you are in? or The relation of one or more parts of your body to the rest? The outer expression of how you feel inside? Dictionary definition of the word Posture is: the relationship of one or more parts of your body to the rest Good posture happens when that relationship is free Poor posture happens when that relationship is fixed Good posture is enjoyable poised flowing balanced relaxed attentive all of the above! Posture is also an outward expression of how you feel inside Posture is also an outward expression of how you feel inside Posture is also an outward expression of how you feel inside Posture is also an outward expression of how you feel inside New book by Richard Brennan Available January 2012 Find out more about the Alexander Technique by exploring www.alexander.ie www.alexander.ie