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Alexander Technique was founded by Frederick Mathias Alexander, who was an actor by profession and used to recite pieces from Shakespeare’s plays for a living. After some years he began to lose his voice as soon as he started reciting. It would
become hoarse and make it impossible for him to continue.
He consulted doctors, who examined him and said that there was nothing wrong with his organs of speech but advised him rest. But even that did not help.
He resolved to work this out himself, and began a series of self observations and experiments which finally evolved in what is now known as the Alexander Technique.
His effectiveness with this technique was such that he switched from performing to teaching this to a wide circle of people.
Since then, the Alexander Technique has been taught in the US, UK, Europe and Israel, and is well established there.
Because of Alexander’s background in acting, it has always had a strong connection with the performing arts, but it has also helped people in all walks of life, in all professions, of all ages and in varying states of health to improve the quality of their lives.
A lesson actually works at the physical and the mental level. The teacher uses her hands to give the pupil an actual experience of this release, and simultaneously guides him verbally so that he learns to facilitate it himself.
It is a teacher-to- pupil postural re-education and not a medical treatment.
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