Product Description

Live Better: Alexander Technique enables you to reap the benefits of the Alexander Technique in the comfort of your own home. Written by an expert teacher of the Alexander Technique, the book features practical instruction in how to move, sit and lie correctly and rebalance the body by releasing tension. The book is illustrated with clear full-colour photographs to ensure that even total beginners can learn with complete confidence. Whether you would like to discover how dynamic and flexible your body can really be or simply learn to sit comfortably and correctly at your computer, you ll find that Live Better: Alexander Technique will help you to achieve optimal health in body and mind.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #179759 in Books
• Published on: 2007-06-15
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 128 pages

About the Author
Joe Searby, a former actor, completed a three-year, full-time course at The Constructive Teaching Centre, West London, to qualify as an Alexander teacher in 1995. A member of STAT (Society of Teachers of the Alexander Technique), he now teaches in the Cotswolds and in London.

Customer Reviews

Essential reading for everyone who wants to take responsibility for improving their lives
The Alexander Technique works on so many levels that it can be quite tricky to explain what it is and how it works to the non-initiated. Joe Searby's book does this extremely well. The chapters are short, succinct, cleverly divided up allowing readers to quickly grasp how relevant the technique is to virtually every aspect of our lives.

Once people start learning the technique, the benefits are immediately palpable, so the difficulty lies in getting people to take it up in the first place - especially in a world full of osteos, physios, and a whole host of other hands on manipulative / massaging therapies. I think this book goes a long way to encourage people to take that initial step of 'the first lesson'.

Sales Brochure
The book does not teach you HOW to apply the technique, it merely SELLS it to you. Rather disappointing as I did not pay £5 (not bought from amazon) to be encouraged to attend a £35/hr lessons!! That said, it does sell it well, but let me save you the hassle of buying this book (and from the looks of it, many other books on this topic...) If you want to correct your posture, perform better, feel better, and look better, learn this technique. There, £5 please !

Live Better: Alexander Technique
One thing I know about the Alexander Technique is that you are very unlikely to learn it from a book. If changing our habits were that easy, we'd all do it right away and life would be perfect. It takes time and motivation to change habits. What Mr Searby does is give a clear explanation of what he understands the technique to be, and the supporting photos and quotations are well chosen.