THE ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE
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  • About the Alexander Technique
  • Who can benefit?
  • What happens in a lesson?
  • Who was F.M. Alexander?
  • Workshops
  • Working with children and teenagers
  • The Alexander Technique for Musicians
  • Testimonials
  • About Tanya Bénard
  • Research & Resources
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THE ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE

__WORKING WITH CHILDREN AND TEENAGERS

Life can make a surprising number of demands on children and teenagers.  Some manage to meet these demands with a minimum of excess tension, but many, however accomplished, struggle with unhelpful patterns of tension and strain.  At a time when bodies are growing, developing and changing so rapidly, it can be helpful to be exposed to ways of relating to our mind-body system and to the stresses of life with greater ease and equilibrium.

​Learning to be aware of and transform excess tension as it arises can be of extraordinary value as a preventive tool, as well as a means of addressing emerging or existing challenges.

Here's what some of the young people Tanya has worked with have to say about their experience of the Alexander Technique:

“I realized that there's more space inside me than I thought. But… my habit is strong!"
         Ivan, 9 years old

“Wow - when I try to force my body to do things, it really doesn't work at all!"
         Rosie, 9 years old

“See, I’m not so scrunched up today!!"
         Maggie, 4 years old, upon arriving at her fourth lesson

 “Don’t correct the habit.  Make a new habit."
         Samuel, 9 years old, on what he learned from his first lesson

“My friend asked me what the Alexander Technique was, so I asked him to stand up straight, and then had him look in a mirror. 'See anything funny?' I asked. He agreed that yes, he looked kind of stiff, that his shoulders were pulled back, etc. 'I thought that was what I was supposed to do to have good posture,' he said, 'but now that you mention it, it does look kind of funny.'

I told him that the Alexander Technique helps me to see all that extra stuff that I'm doing - things that don't really help - and it helps me to stop.”
         Blake, 13 years old


“The Alexander Technique really works.”

-Roald Dahl, author

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