The Alexander Technique is usually taught on a one-to-one basis tailored to your needs. Lessons may vary in length from thirty to sixty minutes, with a standard lesson being forty-five minutes.

Your teacher will use gentle hands-on guidance and verbal explanations to help you find ease and balance in yourself in simple movements and everyday activities like sitting, standing, walking or bending.  Because these activities are familiar and habitual, they can tell us a great deal about our overall thought-movement patterns.  Through experience and observation you gain increased awareness, enabling you to change habits and to function more efficiently.  In time you will be able to use your new understanding and skill in more complex and demanding activities; you can bring awareness and poise to anything you do.  

Part of a lesson may include you lying down, fully-clothed, in the Alexander Technique constructive rest position, which allows maximum support and relief for the back as you work with your teacher on developing 'non-doing' skills.       

As a student of the Technique you learn to:

• Fine-tune your sensory monitoring system, which allows you to more accurately assess your  habits.
• Stop harmful subconscious habitual responses so that you can choose a more constructive response.
• Develop a way of thinking, called Direction, that lets you carry out the constructive response you choose.  

Learning the Alexander Technique relies on your active participation.  It is a subtle and thoughtful discipline that is essentially practical and problem-solving.