The Alexander Technique (AT) is a remarkably simple but powerful method for learning to skillfully control how your brain and body interact, allowing you to better coordinate your movements while increasing the accuracy of your mind's thoughts and perceptions. Now, in How You Stand, How You Move, How You Live, leading Alexander Technique master teacher Missy Vineyard sheds a completely fresh light on this revolutionary method and, in the process, offers path-breaking insight into the mind-body connection. Vineyard thoroughly explains and teaches the central skills of the AT through simple self-experiments, and she offers engaging stories of students in their lessons to show its effective application across a range of disciplines, including the performing arts, athletics, health, psychology, and education. How You Stand, How You Move, How You Live introduces us to a world within ourselves that we know surprisingly little about--and thereby helps us to understand why we often cannot do what we should be able to do, why we harm ourselves with chronic tension and anxiety, and why our thoughts often seem beyond our control. Vineyard is also the first AT teacher to draw on cutting-edge research in neuroscience and to synthesize those findings with AT theories and techniques. She fully illuminates the benefits to be reaped by mastery of the Alexander Technique, which include: Release from acute or chronic physical pain Enhanced mental attention and focus Reduced anxiety Improved balance and coordination Relief from tension and stress Increased ease and efficiency performing precise movement skills

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 I met with John, a middle-aged man who hoped the Alexander Technique would help him rid himself of the pain he experienced from his frozen right shoulder. His arms were pressed inward against his ribs. #2 We often don’t know we are doing something, like tensing our neck muscles when we move our head. It is surprising how much we don’t notice about how we use our body. #3 John’s right shoulder was lower than his left. He knew he made it worse because he pulled his right shoulder up around his ear, but he didn’t realize that it was part of his particular way of moving his body. #4 The next time you are doing a movement, pay attention to your posture. If you have a tendency to pull your right shoulder up, try pressing it down instead. You should notice a difference in your posture.

"The Alexander Technique is now recognized the world over as the most revolutionary and far-reaching method developed for maintaining the health and efficiency of the body."--Back cover

Rebecca Nettl-Fiol and Luc Vanier utilize their ten years of research on developmental movement and dance training to explore the relationship between a specific movement technique and the basic principles of support and coordination.

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