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Drop-in session

Wednesday
November 2nd 2011
1.00pm to 2.00pm

Room to be announced
(check the healthy performance noticeboard on the morning of the session)

The session is for students who would like to find out more about the Alexander Technique and how it may be able to help them.

The Alexander Technique has been helping musicians for more than 100 years, and it has been part of the mainstream education of musicians in the UK for many years.

Typically musicians come initially for Alexander lessons for one or more of the following reasons:

  • Posture related pain including back pain, neck and shoulder tension, trapped nerves, general stiffness, recovery from injury or surgery, scoliosis,
  • headaches and migraine,
  • breathing difficulties, from singers who want to breathe more freely and effectively, to the control of asthma,
  • stress, performance nerves, tension,
  • RSI, carpal tunnel problems, and other arm/wrist/hand difficulties,
  • chronic fatigue, ME, fibromyalgia.
However, you don't have to have any kind of medical problem to get a great deal out of Alexander lessons.

The Alexander Technique is about learning to engage in any activity with less strain, and with more awareness of how our bodies are "designed" to function. We also learn to notice how some patterns of thought and misplaced effort tend to lead to tension and under-performance, whilst other more conscious ways of dealing with situations help us become relaxed, confident, focused performers.

Some students find that the Alexander Technique is an essential part of their life at music college, while others find that having the chance simply to try it out is informative and enjoyable.

Email me at for more information about one-to-one and shared Alexander lessons at RWCMD.

FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT POISE AND BALANCE FREEDOM FROM TENSION