for pain-free backs
How to use your hands to help you stop pulling your belly down into your legs. Other benefits include freeing up your breathing and letting your legs move more easily.
The procedure is demonstrated from the front and from the side while standing. I then show how it works when walking and sitting as well.
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Medical Study proves lasting effectiveness of the Alexander Technique for low back pain.
Published in the prestigious British Medical Journal on 19 August 2008, this randomised controlled medical trial compares Alexander Technique lessons, exercise and massage for chronic and recurrent back pain.
British Medical Journal video
“My teacher is Philip Pawley and I can thoroughly recommend him: he’s patient, kind and knows what he’s doing. He’s given me a new life.”
“My interest in the Technique came from my interest in yoga. At the time when I heard about it, I thought that this would be a useful thing for me to learn — just a development of what I understood yoga to be.”
“Since starting with the Alexander Technique, it has boosted my confidence tremendously. It does so much more besides just helping you with the osteoporosis.”
“I have got enormous benefit out of a series of thirty-minute sessions with Philip Pawley. My whole stance has improved and I’m singing better.”
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