Alexander Technique: Balanced Posture for Ease and Comfort

Coursera MOOC / Non-credit USD 49
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Alexander Technique: Balanced Posture for Ease and Comfort

About this course

Many of us spend our days sitting at a desk, looking down at our phones, or moving in ways that cause significant discomfort for our bodies. In the Alexander Technique: Balanced Posture for Ease and Comfort, explore how this novel approach to your body’s organization and coordinated movement can help relieve pain and tension, promote calm, improve sleep, and allow you to breathe fully and easily without effort. The Alexander Technique has been taught for more than 100 years to help artists, musicians, and actors improve their craft, but this method can help anyone examine our body's natural movements and readjust based on the wears and tears of everyday life. Through verbal instructions, graphics, videos, and demonstrations, you’ll learn to better align with our body's natural movements. By the end of this course, you will be thinking of your relationship to your body and its movements in an entirely new – and more comfortable – way.

What you'll learn

  • Recognize postural habits that contribute to physical discomfort and tension
  • Apply Alexander Technique principles to reduce pain from desk work and daily activities
  • Improve body alignment and coordination for more natural movement patterns
  • Use breathing techniques that reduce effort and promote relaxation
  • Adjust movement patterns based on the body's natural mechanics

Course objectives

  • Explore how body organization and coordinated movement can relieve pain and tension
  • Examine the body's natural movements and identify areas affected by daily wear and tear
  • Develop a new awareness of the relationship between posture and physical comfort
  • Learn to better align with natural body mechanics through verbal instructions and demonstrations

Skills you'll gain

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