97% of people with back pain could benefit by learning the Alexander Technique - it is only a very small minority of back pain sufferers that require medical intervention such as surgery.
Jack Stern, spinal neurosurgeon
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The Alexander Technique is a realistic alternative to beta blockers in the control of stress-induced high blood pressure.
Dr Bent Ostergaard - Consultant Cardiologist
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The Alexander Technique transformed my life. It is the work of an acknowledged genius. I would recommend it to everyone.
Tony Buzan, author of Mind Mapping
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The Alexander Technique will benefit anyone whether they are an elite athlete or whether they just wish to live life without the aches and pains that many people suffer and accept as part of life. It is a pity that these techniques are not shown to us all at an early age for I have no doubt that this would alleviate many of the causes of ill health in our communities.
Greg Chappell, Australian test cricketer (1970 - 1984)
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Alexander’s work is of first class importance and investigation by the medical profession is imperative.
British Medical Journal
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The Alexander Technique can be sustaining; it is something that if learned well, can be carried along with you for the rest of your life. It gives you confidence to be who you are when you are up in front of an audience.
Patrick Maddams, managing director, Royal Academy of Music
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I find The Alexander Technique very helpful in my work. Things happen without you trying. They get to be light and relaxed. You must get an Alexander teacher to show it to you.
John Cleese, actor
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Mr Alexander has done a service to the subject [of the study of reflex and voluntary movement] by insistently treating each act as involving the whole integrated individual, the whole psychophysical man. To take a step is an affair, not of this or that limb solely, but of the total neuromuscular activity of the moment, not least of the head and neck.
Sir Charles Sherrington, neurophysiologist
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We already notice, with growing amazement, very striking improvements in such diverse things as high blood pressure, breathing, depth of sleep, overall cheerfulness and mental alertness, resilience against outside pressures, and in such a refined skill as playing a musical instrument.
Professor Nicholas Tinbergen, Nobel Prize winner for medicine and physiology in his Nobel acceptance speech 1973
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The Alexander Technique makes a real difference to my often tense and busy life. Its thoughtful approach has made me calmer, improved my concentration and given me a clearer sense of my own well-being. I am grateful for it.
Joan Bakewell, Television presenter and journalist
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Balance is a vital aspect of good hammer throwing and getting the head, neck, spine and pelvis in the correct relationship enables the balance of the throw to come so much more easily. Once the balance is settled there is an enormous improvement in turning speed.
Howard Payne, Commonwealth record hammer thrower
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The Alexander Technique works... I recommend it enthusiastically to anyone who has neck pains or back pain.
Roald Dahl, writer
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Alexander established not only the beginnings of a far reaching science of the apparently involuntary movements that we call reflexes, but a technique of correction and self control which forms a substantial addition to our very slender resources in personal education.
George Bernard Shaw, writer, Nobel Prize winner for literature
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It gives us all the things we have been looking for in a system of physical education: relief from strain due to maladjustment, and consequent improvement in physical and mental health, increased consciousness of the physical means employed to gain the ends proposed by the will and, along with this, a general heightening of consciousness on all levels... We cannot ask more from any system of physical education; nor, if we seriously desire to alter human beings in a desirable direction, can we ask any less.
Aldous Huxley, writer
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The Alexander Technique has given me a glimpse of the possibility of harmony.
Edna O'Brien - Author
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I thoroughly support the teaching of The Alexander Technique to musicians. It has shown itself to be a suitable catalyst, developing the mind/bodyco-ordination essential for good musicianship.
Michael Gough Matthews, Royal College of Music
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I love the Alexander Technique. It has corrected my posture, improved my health and changed my life.
Alec McCowen CBE, actor
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The Alexander Technique has played an important and beneficial part in my life.
John Houseman, actor, producer and director
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Alexander students rid themselves of bad postural habits and are helped to reach with their bodies and minds, an enviable degree of freedom of expression.
Michael Langham, Director, The Juilliard School, New York USA
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The Alexander Technique has helped me to undo knots, unblock energy and deal with almost paralysing stage fright.
William Hurt, actor
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The Technique's many benefits for actors include minimized tension, centeredness, vocal relaxation, and responsiveness, mind/body connection and about an inch and a half of additional height.
Kevin Kline, actor
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Of all the disciplines that form the actor training program, none is more vital, enriching and transformative than the Alexander Technique.
Harold Stone, Associate Director, Theatre Department, The Juilliard School, New York USA
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I can definitely say without hesitation that I wouldn't have had the rowing success that I have had the luxury of experiencing in my short time on the water, without finding the AT and the great teachers that I have had the privilege to work with.
Valerie Thompson-Williams, rowing masters gold medallist
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The Alexander Technique changed my life. It enabled me to devote more time to creating beauty. This inner strength is essential for all.
Andrew Logan, sculptor
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I have given a good deal of attention to some of the various methods [of physical education], and have formed a definite opinion as to which is the best of those that came under my observation. I should, without hesitation, give First Place to the system associated with the name of Mr. F. Matthias Alexander. He has secured remarkable results.
Dr. Alexander Leeper, in a report to the Australian Federal Government's Schools and Registration Board.
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His [Alexander's] procedure and conclusions meet all the requirements of the strictest scientific method. It bears the same relation to education that education itself bears to all other human activities.
Professor John Dewey, From his introduction to Alexander's book The Use of the Self
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The Alexander Technique helped a long standing back problem, and to get a good night's sleep after many years of tossing and turning.
Paul Newman, Actor
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The Alexander Technique removed a long standing back problem and improved my riding ability. Riders who take up the technique always make a very significant improvement in their riding.
Daniel Pevsner, Fellow of the British Horse Society.
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It is by now a plain brute fact that the Alexander Principle works. It is also a plain brute fact that most of the population need it but know nothing of it.
Dr Wilfred Barlow, 1990
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I was dubious about the effects of the Alexander Technique when I first went in to experience it, but I found out almost immediately that the benefits were total - both physically and mentally - and, happily, have also been long-lasting.
Joanne Woodward, Actress
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It is one thing to teach the need of a return to the individual man as the ultimate agency in whatever mankind and society collectively can accomplish. It is another thing to discover the concrete procedure by which this greatest of all tasks can be executed. And this indispensable thing is exactly what Mr. Alexander has accomplished.
Professor John Dewey, Philosopher and Educationalist
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Mr. Alexander's method lays hold of the individual as a whole, as a self-vitalising agent. He reconditions and re-educates the reflex mechanisms and brings their habits into normal relation with the functioning of the organism as a whole. I regard this method as thoroughly scientific and educationally sound.
Professor George E Coghill, Nobel Prize Winning Anatomist and Physiologist
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