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Alexander for Yoga Practice

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keeping natural alignment of head, neck and back intact
Among many other things, Yoga Postures are tools to help you create space and freedom in your body, which in turn make you feel and think good.
Creating that space in your body needs a certain kind of mental awareness, a skillful attentiveness the Alexander Technique can provide.

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The Alexander Technique applied to Yoga Postures gives you an amazing tool for self-control of tensions and habits that get in the way of real well-being on and off the mat:
  • relieve and prevent pain
  • release daily stress and muscular tensions
  • decompress the spine for proper organ functions
  • increase your range of motion
  • identify dysfunctional movement patterns
  • cultivate alertness and self-observation
  • turn down the volume of life
  • handle yourself with more care and sensibility
  • improve posture and encourage grace and ease in any activity
  • respond in a flexible way to the challenging and complex demands of modern life
  • how to hold and use your body for maximum energy
  • directly activate the technique's benefits throughout your day
  • recognize when you internal tune-up is out of harmony and how to restore it

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Trying too hard leads to arching and tensing
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"just so"... uprightness without pulling up

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