Paul McCartney, Sting, and Robin Williams swear by it, but so do computer geeks, athletes, and parents. The Alexander Technique is a 100-year-old physical "re-education" for your body that's helped ...

About one out of every six Americans has some form of neck pain, and chronic sufferers have few treatment options. But acupuncture or the Alexander technique, a system for adjusting posture, could ...

E ven as you read this, you’re probably hurting yourself. And the posture fanatics who practice the Alexander Technique want you to do something about it. The technique preaches better living through ...

“S tand up straight.” I am 13 years old, patiently waiting for the organ to launch into “O Thou the Central Orb,” when I hear these words and feel two hands yanking back my cassocked shoulders.

Chronic and recurring back pain is painful at best and incapacitating at its worst, and sitting in front of a computer all day rarely helps. The New York Times reports that using a method known as the ...

Many people go through their days on autopilot, barely aware of their actions. There’s a disconnect between doing and being when commuting to work, eating a meal, or engaging in conversations. This ...

Performers always need to be conscious of their physical presence on stage. The Alexander Technique, developed in the 1890s by Australian actor Frederick Matthias Alexander, helps actors immerse ...

From the moment we’re born, we’re reacting to our environment and creating habitual responses. These habits come in all flavors: physical, mental, emotional. And they often impede the movement of our ...