Alexander Technique in East Yorkshire
Active rest/Semi-supine – Benefits
Active rest:
- Influences
- Muscles and joints – conscious control/releasing/thinking reduces unnecessary/habitual tension patterns
- Digestion – the relaxation influence on nerves normalises the activity of the gut and gives an opportunity for the abdominal muscles to release and provide space for gut
- Breathing
- Can increase energy levels and ease, and alleviate pain and discomfort by allowing:
- complete rest of the body
- a decrease in muscular effort and excess tension
- fluid to be imbibed (absorbed) into intervertebral discs
- Facilitates heightened self-awareness, specifically:
- Improves kinaesthetic awareness (awareness of the position of your body in space) as a result of giving directions (invitations to your body to release)
- Facilitates awareness of the relationship between the head, neck and back
- Facilitates awareness of how body and mind are not separate
- Provides an opportunity to notice and reduce unhelpful habitual thought patterns/mental chatter via the use of stop and the mindful approach of using conscious thought (i.e. directions) to release excess tension
- Facilitates/speeds up your learning process of The Alexander Technique via improved kinaesthetic awareness
- Helps you to re-train your thinking to gain conscious control of how you use yourself by providing an opportunity for quiet self-observation
- Can be an effective stress management tool and can induce calm (before and after a stressful event) as it provides a stop and a release