The Alexander Technique, an educational method founded by F.M. Alexander over 100 years ago, teaches how to change habits of misuse that cause stiffness, discomfort, stress and inflexibility in the body. Students of all ages and backgrounds make many new discoveries in their lessons and apply these learning experiences to everyday and specialized activities. People study Alexander Technique to alleviate aches and pains in their bodies. They study to improve their Yoga, fitness, dance technique and/or stage presence in the performing arts. They study to work at the computer in an easier way or to cope with the stress of everyday living. Alexander Technique is a self-work that may be applied at any moment to any movement, such as: writing, washing dishes, walking or sitting. Students discover that the human body is not composed of straight lines, but has roundness and 3-dimensionality. Through working on themselves, they explore how they move and how to respond in a free way to the impetus to move.

Alexander Technique is taught at The Juilliard School, NYU, New World School of the Arts, Educare Small School, the American Dance Festival, the New England Conservatory of Music and many other schools, wellness centers, gyms and studios. Many prominent individuals study or have studied the Alexander Technique, including Paul Newman, Hilary Swank, Kevin Kline, James Earl Jones, Robin Williams, Sting, Yehudi Menuhin, John Dewey, George Bernard Shaw, Aldous Huxley and Nobel Prize Laureate, Professor Nikolaas Tinbergen. Alexander Technique teachers, Ann Mathews (in her Bank Street College Thesis) and Michele Arsenault (in her book Moving to Learn), have conducted extensive pilot projects on the benefits of Alexander Technique as a part of children’s school curriculum.