Get the Best from Your Daily Life!
This website links teachers and community members together
in an effort to make the Alexander Technique known
throughout Central Illinois. For your convenience, these
pages provide information about the Alexander Technique,
contacts for teachers of the Technique and information
detailing
our local teacher training programs.
The
Alexander Technique Teachers of Urbana-Champaign
are available
to
all individuals, organizations and businesses interested in
learning the benefits
of the Alexander Technique for managing tension and pain,
improving
co-ordination, and developing a healthier use of
ourselves.
Many people are interested in
learning how to develop more awareness and skill in their
activities. F.M. Alexander (1869-1955) demonstrated that
the difficulties many people experience in learning, in
performance and in physical functioning are caused by
patterns of learned habits. These habits interfere with
your natural poise and your capacity to learn. When you
stop interfering with the innate coordination of the body,
you can take on more complex activities with greater
self-confidence and presence of mind.
The Alexander Technique provides a concrete means for
overcoming these impeding habits, and for helping people
learn better and do things more freely -- from learning to
play a musical instrument to moving with more comfort and
ease through daily life.
From back pain to learning blocks, whether you are a
musician or an office worker, Alexander lessons remain
fundamentally the same: Under the skilled guidance of a
teacher, you learn a greater freedom of choice within your
habitual response patterns coupled with an increased
general co-ordination.
The Alexander Technique, however, is not a therapy that
treats a passive patient. It is for the person interested
in working towards his or her goals with increased
awareness and practical intelligence. You can encourage a
marked improvement in overall health, alertness and
performance by consciously eliminating harmful habits that
cause physical and emotional stress, and by becoming more
aware of how you engage in your activities. American
educational philosopher John Dewey, Nobel-prize-winning
scientist Nikolaas Tinbergen, Aldous Huxley, George Bernard
Shaw and many others within the local community have
recognized the Alexander Technique as an effective aid in
improving physical and psychological well-being.