In an Alexander Technique lesson, you’re invited into a gentle, guided exploration of movement, awareness, and presence. Here’s what each experience may hold:
Personalised Attention
Each lesson is designed to meet you where you are. Together, we’ll observe and ease patterns of tension that quietly shape your posture and movement, guiding you toward a natural, effortless alignment.
Awareness and Ease
This is a space to uncover what it feels like to let go of unneeded tension, allowing ease and fluidity to emerge naturally.
Breath and Resonance
As we release habitual holding patterns, your breath and voice may find new space to expand, bringing a renewed sense of calm and self-expression.
Practical Self-Care
What you discover here can ripple into daily life, gently fostering a deeper sense of connection, vitality, and balance.
A Pathway to Freedom
The Alexander Technique invites you to stop striving and simply experience the moment as it is. Each lesson is a step toward rediscovering a freer, lighter sense of self.
Cultivating Vitality
A full understanding of the Alexander Technique cannot be attained in just one or two lessons. While many people notice benefits after a single session, the Technique unfolds more fully through a series of lessons. The number you may need depends on your specific condition and goals.
- Suggested Lesson Series: Most students benefit from a sequence of 11 to 30 lessons, with some choosing to continue on an ongoing basis for greater depth.
- Typical Lesson Plan: Many start with two lessons per week for the first month, tapering to one lesson per week as they integrate the Technique into daily life.
- Exploring Your Own Pace: You’re encouraged to find a rhythm that feels right for you. A discount is available for those taking more than one lesson per week.
“Each of you is perfect the way you are … and you can use a little improvement.”
— Shunryu Suzuki
Lesson structure
You learn the Alexander Technique through one-to-one lessons, which will consist of the following:
• Initially you may discuss your reasons for taking lessons and the lesson plan will be tailored and discussed
• You will be guided through simple movements and everyday activities such as sitting, standing, walking or bending, communicating through skilful hands-on guidance and verbal explanations
• Part of the lesson may include lying down in the classic Alexander Technique semi-supine position which allows maximum support for the back to relax and expand
• Although you will not be engaging in any kind of strenuous exercise, the session relies on your active participation
Book a lesson
Contact Grace AT to discover how you could benefit from the Alexander Technique. Book an introductory appointment.
“Good Use implies economy and availability — to the moment, to the partner, to the emotion, to the unexpected — the essence of improviso and the enemy of rigidity. Good use implies choice about deciding to go into action and about what action to do and how to do it. Good use means we are capable of delicacy and subtlety as well as thrust and force. These are the qualities of movement that the Alexander student learns to distinguish, since all movement — picking up a pencil, a sprinter’s burst, the exquisite conservation of energy in a resting cat — becomes a source of observation and constructive possibilities.”
Joan Schirle, The Availability of the Actor