The Alexander Technique is an educational method that teaches you to release unnecessary tension and stop the habitual, harmful reactions to stressful situations that lead to injury and pain. Results from research on the technique, published in the British Medical Journal in August, 2008, showed that the Alexander Technique was effective in reducing back pain. Students learn skills that allow them to move and react to daily stresses with balance and ease.
Developed in the late nineteenth century by Frederick Mathias Alexander, an actor, this technique is also taught in leading University departments of music and theatre including The Julliard School, The New England Conservatory and Yale School of Drama, to name a few. Song-a-Day Instructor Paul Recker is a nationally certified teacher of the Alexander Technique.
You can learn to handle stage fright, reduce risk of injury or pain, manage your reactions to stress and improve your general well-being by learning to improve how you do what you do.
The Alexander Technique is an important offering for the musicians, singers, performers and actors that Song-a-Day Music is committed to serving. Being a performing artist goes so much further than knowing how to sing or play an instrument. How you handle yourself, dealing with that kind of tension, can be managed by learning this technique.
Paul Recker has been a full-time musician since 1986, and began learning the Alexander Technique in 1998. He graduated from the Alexander Technique School New England (ATCNE) and is certified to teach the Technique by the American Society for the Alexander Technique (AmSAT).
