Teachers of F.M. Alexander’s technique offer lessons rather than treatments. The purpose of a lesson is for students to learn more effortless ways of using themselves in whatever they do. 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 also focus on any other activity of interest to the student.

In lessons, you learn to transform habitual reactions into flexible responses. Most of us make a habit of shrinking from all we encounter. Our vitality, health, and attitude all suffer as a result. Alexander lessons gently reintroduce us to our natural buoyancy, allowing us to expand and become more fully ourselves, restoring our freedom and ease.

The aim of 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.