The Alexander Technique In Sheffield Ease & Poise
The Alexander Technique for pain, fatigue, stress and body confidence
If you’re dealing with long term pain or reduced mobility, Alexander Technique will help resolve your discomfort AND teach you how to move with ease and poise for the rest of your life.
It’s not a stretch sequence or massage - it’s a way of unlearning physical habits that keep pain in its place, replacing them with new ways to move, and reaches parts that physiotherapy can’t quite reach.
I am an expert in teaching you how you can change the habits of tension that are keeping you in pain.
If you have been restricting your experiences- taking ever shorter walks, not going to a show because it involves a long period of sitting, saying no to events where you anticipate back ache from standing, then I can help you.
When you have said goodbye to the old ways of moving that were causing pain you will have moments where you realise you are saying yes to experiences that wouldn’t have happened, a glimpse in a mirror will make you realise how you’re standing and moving more freely and you will have altogether less pain and more freedom.
Everyone can benefit from the Alexander Technique, whether you work at a desk, are an athlete or play an instrument. I have helped people gain confidence and ease that they never knew was possible.
What does the industry get wrong?
Standard pain management treats the location of pain in isolation - stretch it, strengthen it, medicate it, eventually operate on it without addressing the whole-body patterns generating tension. That means that relief is often partial or temporary because the root cause was never examined.
At Ease and Poise I focus on you as a whole and work on releasing the patterns of tension that are keeping you in pain and restricting your movement. The effects are long term and life-changing.
I teach in one-to-one private sessions at my therapy room in Sheffield. That way the practice is completely personalised to what your body needs, week by week.
Who this is for?
People who have tried all the obvious treatments and are still in regular pain. Who are ready to commit to changing how they sit, stand and move through every day, so they can regain the ease of movement they were born with and protect themselves from pain and injury. Who are dedicated to learning to care for and love their body in any stage, shape or size.
"I guide you to recognise and release tension"
Alexander Technique sessions
In a session we practice everyday movements such as sitting, standing and lying down, which are the building blocks of most movement. Through gentle hands-on you will be guided to use your body in a way that utilises the body’s natural design.
The Alexander Technique works on your nervous system and you tend to feel extremely relaxed in the sessions. You learn what it can be like when you stop tensing and holding and let the body’s natural poise take over. You stand taller, breathing becomes easier and you feel clear headed and calm. Curiosity takes the place of excess effort.
Sessions teach skills for you to take into your own life and make your own. You will find that life becomes easier and things that would make you shaky or tense no longer do so.