a_logo02

Home

NEW!
VIDEO ARTICLES!

Back or Neck Pain & Alexander

Breathing & Alexander

Golf & Alexander

Acting & Alexander

Testimonials

Workshop at Your Office

Articles

Research & Doctor Testimonials

Press

Who Was F.M. Alexander?

Links

Email

Alexander Technique in New York, Queens and Long Island

 

ALEXANDER
TECHNIQUE

Manhattan Office - 32nd St. & Park Ave., NYC

House Calls in Queens & Long Island, NY

Leland Vall
Certified Teacher
(917) 239-6313

E-mail

Improve Your Posture with the Alexander TechniqueAlexander Technique lessons can help you:

  • Eliminate back pain.
  • Use your computer with comfort.
  • Improve breathing.
  • Stop jaw clicking.
  • Prevent excess tension.
  • Improve your posture.
  • Look and feel younger without exercise.
  • Discover your innate feeling of lightness.

 

What is the Alexander Technique?

The Alexander Technique is a 100 year-old method for helping you learn how to use your body properly. I use gentle hands-on guidance and verbal instruction to help you prevent movement patterns that wear you down by the end of the day or cause pain. There are no exercises, machines or special clothing. Instead, you apply the principles to your normal activities.  It takes from 5-30 lessons to learn the Alexander Technique and all lessons are either private or shared and are taken once or twice per week.

The theory behind the Alexander Technique is that people habitually and unnecessarily shorten and narrow their bodies. This habit degrades posture and makes movement more difficult. It also reduces the internal capacity of the torso, causing crowding for internal organs, and making breathing more difficult. As an Alexander teacher, I show you how to free yourself of this habit to gain a renewed feeling of ease and lightness so that you can look and feel better for the rest of your life.

Try these lessons you can do on your own.

“My back pain went away after 5 lessons. Now I take lessons not for maintenance, but to continue to improve awareness of my body’s movements.” - Stock Analyst, 24

LelandVall02Leland Vall

I discovered the Alexander Technique over 20 years ago in a big group demonstration.  The Alexander teacher went around the room gently repositioning each person’s head. I could see that something was changing every time but when he came to me it was an epiphany. The only way I can describe it is like being reintroduced to my body.

Like anyone, I thought I knew how to hold my head, walk, sit in a chair or even breath. But what I didn’t know is that even a small improvement in how I “use” my body could make such a giant change.  Of course, I have taken many Alexander lessons since then, but today, over 20 years later, I still benefit from that first experience and I am sure that I look and feel better every moment of my life because of it.

I am passionate about the Alexander Technique and I am focused on getting my students where they want to be as quickly as possible.  I trained in Boston for three years with some of the best teachers in the world and I am certified by the American Society for the Alexander Technique (AmSAT). I am also a certified personal trainer and I have a special certification in breathing coordination.  For five years I was the editor of the AmSAT News and I am a former board member of the American Center for the Alexander Technique.

 

Leland Vall - Alexander Technique at Chelsea Piers

Working with Luis Baez, athletic/personal trainer  at Chelsea Piers.

Leland Vall - Alexander Technique at Chelsea Piers

Click here to find out about scheduling your first lesson.

Improve Your Posture with the Alexander Technique

© Copyright 2005 Leland Vall

Alexander Movie

A very short movie of F.M. Alexander giving a lesson to an unidentified man.