Teachers of F.M. Alexander’s technique offer lessons rather than treatments. During a typical lesson, the teacher manually guides the student through walking, sitting, standing, or lying down, simple acts that are used to illustrate principles underlying all activity. Lessons can focus on any activity of interest to the student.

In a lesson, you learn to transform rigid old habits into flexible new responses. Most of us habitually and unconsciously shrink from everything we encounter. Our stature, vitality, health, and attitude all suffer as a result. Alexander lessons gently return us to our natural buoyancy, allowing us to expand more fully into who we are, and restoring our ability to choose freely what to do next.

The aim of this process is as much to clarify intention as it is to rectify posture, as much to regain freedom of choice as to regain freedom of movement. Body and mind are never separated. Nor is the teacher’s process very different than the student’s. Both work on themselves, and rebound together.