The Basic Alexander Teaching
When we observe very young children (up
to about 18 months of age), it is obvious that we humans are born with a wonderfully
effective program 
for how to hold and move our bodies with ease, poise and
grace.
This original program contains what is "normal" for a human, what is "home."
As we grow up, most of us pick up a number of bad habits that interfere with that wonderful, instinctive program. Fortunately, we never actually lose it. We simply forget it.
The job of a teacher of the Alexander Technique is to show you how to remember that original program, your natural inheritance of good use of yourself.
The key to this remembering is in thinking differently.
A Journey to the Centre of Yourself
where the Original Program resides
Your strength in this endeavour lies in how you direct
your attention.
“Where Attention Goes, Energy Flows”
Your Alexander teacher will guide your attention,
with verbal guidance for how to think
with hands-on
guidance for how to move
Your teacher has learned to ‘be’ the Alexander Technique, to exemplify it in how he/she thinks and moves. Your teacher's example shows the direction in which you are headed.
Soon, your memory of good ‘use’, your original program, will begin to be stirred. "Aha !" you will say. "Yes! I have been here before. This is what 'normal' feels like."At first, your remembering will be fugitive and short lived. However, every time you make this journey 'home,' it will become easier and easier until normal will once again be readily accessible to you.
The Power of Awareness
Self awareness is the key to self improvement.
The quality of self awareness can be much higher than it is.
Improving self awareness is not simply a matter of trying harder in the same fashion as before; new and better methods are needed.
The Alexander Technique employs a unique combination of simple, subtle, practical methods for improving self awareness.
After more than a century of continuous growth, The Alexander Technique is recognized as one of the most sophisticated and successful methods for bringing fundamental change and awareness to our lives.
For a more comprehensive introduction to the Alexander Technique please click on the following article:
The Alexander Technique,A Method For Self Improvement by Richard Albert