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“An Introduction to Alexander Technique for Mammographers”: Course I am running in London

June 24, 2018

I have been running these workshops for the Society of Radiographers since 2010. The latest took place on 7th June 2018. These interactive practical workshops are an introduction to the Alexander Technique as an educational training programme and specifically its application to working as a mammographer. The Technique is a practical method which involves the participants taking […]

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Explaining the Alexander Technique to clinicians and scientists: a very useful presentation

January 15, 2018

In late 2017, I attended an inspiring presentation (organised by HITE at UCL in London) given by Alison Loram and Ian Loram–“Mechanisms of sensorimotor control relevant to the Alexander Technique”. Particularly interesting to me was the scientific focus on the importance of the neck as a key factor in sensing and controlling motor response in […]

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Neck pain and Alexander Technique: New study

June 3, 2017

A new study in collaboration with the Society of Teachers of the Alexander Technique published in the prestigious Annals of Internal Medicine demonstrates what has been known all along by Alexander Technique teachers: that improving the way we go about our daily activities can relieve a pain in the neck.

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Alexander Technique on the BBC

June 3, 2017

The potential of the Alexander Technique played a starring role in the BBC’s latest series of ‘Doctor in the House’ recently, when the doctor sought the advice of a practitioner of the Technique to help improve the posture of a Paralympian troubled by debilitating pain that was beginning to seriously compromise his sporting performance and […]

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Parkinson’s and the Alexander Technique

June 3, 2017

Here is a very interesting short clip about how the Technique can help with Parkinson’s.

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Published research on the Alexander Technique: My recommendations

October 30, 2016

More and more research is being done on the Alexander Technique. Here are links to a few academic papers which I particularly recommend: Lighten Up: Specific Postural Instructions Affect Axial Rigidity and Step Initiation in Patients With Parkinson’s Disease Increased dynamic regulation of postural tone through Alexander Technique training Neuromechanical interference of posture on movement: […]

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Smart Phone! Smart Posture? My thoughts…

September 26, 2016

Text Neck – A problem of the modern age Text neck, or tech neck is the term used to describe the pain and damage caused to the neck, back and spine from constantly looking down at electronic devices. It is one of the most common causes of back pain and headaches and is an epidemic […]

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How time shapes your posture… and how the Alexander Technique can help

September 18, 2016

Our body is shaped by how we use it over time. Bad postural habits that have developed over many years can feel normal until pain alerts us that something is not quite right. For instance you might have heard of “forward head posture” or “computer-neck” as way of describing the habitual hunching in front of […]

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The first thing I tell my clients: Think UP

October 12, 2014

The first thing I teach my clients is how to “think up”. “Thinking up” means learning to stop tensing the neck, so that the head can release on top of the spine, from the crown. This in turn will allow the spine to decompress under the better balanced weight of the head. In other words, […]

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Me in the media

October 12, 2014

Alexander Technique ‘directions’ and their relevance to breath and voice: This is an article I wrote for the 2021 Review Journal of AOTOS (Association of Teachers of Singing), focusing on the important role of coordination of the neuromuscular skeletal system for breath and voice. “What is the Alexander Technique?“, an article I wrote for welldoing.org […]

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