My colleague, Maaike, has updated her Alexander Technique app with some fantastic new audios. You can try out some of these audios for free via her website here. The four new audios (subscribers only) are described below:

  1. ‘Freeing up your shoulders – improve your body schema’
  2. ‘Freeing up your arms – improve your body schema’
  3. ‘Lunging easily – push, pull & lift’
  4. ‘Accents & sforzandos – with ease and expression’

The first two audios work with our body schema, which is our brain’s map of our body parts in space. It is possible to tune up your body schema: a better internal map means that movement becomes more accurate and easeful, and less prone to injury (imagine the strain caused by trying to move from a joint you have inaccurately conceived).

The third audio focuses on the Alexander Technique lunge, a procedure I’ve described in detail here, and the fourth audio is part of Maaike’s helpful series of audios for musicians.

Well done again Maaike for a fantastic app to help students get the most out of their Alexander Technique lessons!