There’s a kind of Spiritual side to it:

the joy of moving my body that I had not noticed before

and thinking ‘that’s quite good’.

This is the 7th interview in a series of interviews I carried out with people who have had Alexander Technique lessons. Here are Seb’s answers to a simple set of questions I asked him about his experiences.

What drew you to the Alexander Technique (AT)?

I found out about the Alexander Technique via an acquaintance and following our discussion decided to try it for migraine. I have now had a year of lessons and think I am just scratching the surface of the technique.

What impact has doing AT had?

On daily activities:

Seb has begun to question and to notice things that he previously had not. Now, he says things to himself like: Why is my face is so tense?  Why am I holding my shaver so tight when shaving? I can do it with less effort, I can do it differently.

 Instead of standing in a queue for tea at work and distracting myself with thoughts/getting irritated that the queue is so long/looking at mobile, I notice standing. I “play around with it.”

Conference calls at work often got me irritated. I now realise I can sit back and notice other things, not just the irritation about the call but what is around me, so I don’t get sucked in.

I no longer feel, when I wake up in the night, that I have got to get up and read. I used to. Now I can enjoy just laying down and noticing things about laying down.

There is a joy in noticing.

It’s not like a huge “wow” but rather like noticing a robin in the garden.