What is the Alexander Technique? The Alexander Technique is a revolutionary tool for helping people both to release chronic pain and stress and to achieve greater states of effortless flow. It's based on a very simple principle that also happens to be at the core of many ancient esoteric healing traditions. What is that principle? Here it is: People use too much effort in doing what they do. This excess effort, which is virtually always unconscious, causes everything from stress and decreased performance, to chronic pain and disease. If you can teach a person how to recognize and release their excess effort, you will free that person to enjoy increasing health, emotional well being, mental focus, and optimal function. That is the goal of what are called “lessons” in the Alexander Technique: sessions where you and an Alexander Technique teacher work together to help you perceive how you bring excess tension into your body, and how to let it go. What is an Alexander Technique lesson? In a lesson with an Alexander technique teacher, you explore very simple postures and movements (sitting, standing, walking, talking, breathing), and actually experience what is usually unconscious: how it is that you are bringing excess tension into what you are doing. At the same time, you actually experience how to sit, stand, move, breathe, talk etc. with less tension and more ease. You experience how to live in your body (and therefore in your life) more effortlessly. As your teacher, Ingrid helps you to experience this by guiding you through simple movements, using both her hands and verbal suggestion to help you become first, more self-aware and then, more released and free. What is the reputation of the Alexander Technique? A former Nobel Prize laureate named Nicholas Tinbergen devoted his acceptance speech to discussing the extraordinary physical, mental and emotional benefits that could be derived from learning the Alexander Technique. Famous writers and philosophers, including George Bernard Shaw, Aldous Huxley, and John Dewey, studied the Alexander Technique with its founder, Frederick Mathias Alexander. They claimed the Technique vastly improved the quality of their lives. Contemporary actors, classical musicians, opera singers and other performers train in the Alexander Technique in order to perform more fluidly and effortlessly. Finally, people suffering from chronic pain and stress often find immediate relief through taking lessons in the Alexander Technique, even when all other routes of healing have failed. Ingrid as an Alexander Technique teacher. A teacher of the Alexander Technique for twenty years, through both her products and her private consultations Ingrid Bacci teaches clients how to reduce pain and stress, find greater self-empowerment and live more effortlessly, by applying principles of the Alexander Technique to their daily lives.