Whether you play professionally or simply for the love of it, your body is part of your instrument. Musicians do some of the most complex and demanding physical movements of any profession, and often for long hours at a time.
Habits of tension can build over time and interfere with ease and expression. Tension around how you hold your instrument may lead to persistent pain or RSI. Unconscious habits around breathing may restrict your whole coordination and musical expression. Alexander Technique works by helping you to become aware of – and change – habits of misuse that affect the way you play and the way you feel.
Applying the Alexander Technique to your playing is a skill that you develop alongside your practice. As you learn to hold yourself and your instrument with less tension you find greater freedom in your body – and also in your sound.
Under pressure in performance, the embodied mindfulness approach of AT helps you stay more calmly connected to yourself and your audience, available to the creative moment. And playing with less tension or pain, you play with more confidence. In learning the Alexander Technique, you can bring a new dimension of awareness, creativity and freedom to your music and performance.