The Alexander Technique Manual

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Discover the way to a healthier, lappier lifestyle
The Alexander Technique is a unique way of releasing muscular tension throughout the body. It allows you to move with greater comfort and ease, and helps to relieve or prevent common aches and pains that can become debilitating in later life.
The Alexander Technique Manual
• an essential step-by-step guide to reducing stress and tension within the body
• easy to follow, with full colour photographs throughout
• ideal for newcomers as well as established students of the Technique
• shows how to take greater control over your life and increase your sense of well-being
• includes specific advice on applying the Technique to a wide range of sports, as well as pregnancy and childbirth
This practical and informative guide clearly sets out the principles of this world-famous technique and shows you how to use them in your daily life. With the help of colour photographs, it reveals exactly how we... Tovább

Fülszöveg

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Discover the way to a healthier, lappier lifestyle
The Alexander Technique is a unique way of releasing muscular tension throughout the body. It allows you to move with greater comfort and ease, and helps to relieve or prevent common aches and pains that can become debilitating in later life.
The Alexander Technique Manual
• an essential step-by-step guide to reducing stress and tension within the body
• easy to follow, with full colour photographs throughout
• ideal for newcomers as well as established students of the Technique
• shows how to take greater control over your life and increase your sense of well-being
• includes specific advice on applying the Technique to a wide range of sports, as well as pregnancy and childbirth
This practical and informative guide clearly sets out the principles of this world-famous technique and shows you how to use them in your daily life. With the help of colour photographs, it reveals exactly how we place our bodies under excessive strain and how the Alexander Technique can help us to ease this tension and achieve a more relaxed muscular system. There are also plenty of exercises for you to practise at home, with handy hints on mistakes to a,void when you first start to practise the Technique.
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MANUAL
rplie Alexander Technique is a simple yet highly effeccive way of releasing muscular tension throughout the body. It will teach you new ways of sitting, standing and moving which put less stress on your muscles, bones and joints and help you to move about with greater ease. In turn, this increased comfort will heighten your sense of well-being, and help you to become a much calmer and happier person, It will also help to reduce the pain of many common ailments.
TJje Alexander Technique Manual is an essential step-by-step guide to reducing levels of stress and tension within the body. Much of this tension is self-inflicted, albeit unconsciously. The particular ways you sit, stand or perform everyday activities can place your body under great strain, and these habits interfere with the natural reflexes responsible for balance and co-ordination. It is vital that you 'unlearn' your old habits and reiearn how to use your body more appropriately. But before you can do this, you need to know exactly what you are doing to create, and hold, unnecessary tension within your body.
The Alexander Technique Manual reveals just that. With the help of clear, full colour photographs it shows precisely how you place your body under excessive strain, and what you can do to rectify the situation. Ideal for both newcomers to the Alexander Technique and established students alike, this easy-to-follow book sets out the principles of the Technique and shows you how to apply them to your everyday life. Special sections are included, covering pregnancy and childbirth, as well as sf)ecific advice on how to apply the Technique to a wide range of sports. A course of lessons in the Technique is highly recommended by the author and what to expect from them is fully covered. There are hints and tips on common mistakes to be avoided when you first start to practise the Technique, as well as exercises that you can do regulariy at home. In time, you will soon experience an amazing feeling of lightness and ease as your body begins to move freely and fluidly for perhaps the first time in years.
Whether you wish to ease or prevent aches and pains, relieve stress or simply take greater control of your life, The Alexander Technique Manual will soon show you how. Let this book lead the way to a happier, more relaxed and stress-free lifestyle. Vissza