 The Alexander technique is about learning how to move the way the body likes to move. In the Alexander technique lesson you'll learn to notice how you respond to stimuli, how you can let go of those responses that do not serve you. Take the startle response for instance where there's a loud noise that suddenly goes off and your head juts forward and your shoulders rise up and your head kind of tilts back onto your neck compressing your spine. You go through life with this weird tension pattern where the right shoulder is higher than the left or your brows always furrow because you're thinking about such deep lofty issues. Think Jimmy Carter or George W. Bush. On the other hand you have smooth elegant politicians such as Barack Obama and Ronald Reagan who have much greater command of themselves, they're much more at ease with themselves and therefore it's much easier to listen to them. When you can learn to let go of these interfering tension patterns you're more likely to be at ease with yourself and you're more likely to be at ease with other people. It's a great way to grow personally, psychologically, spiritually and to achieve a higher level of performance athletically or with music or with acting. You can notice what your responses are to stimulus and what your responses are to your mother or to your boss and you can let go of those responses that don't serve you because almost all of the patterns, the kinesthetic habits that we pick up as we go through life, almost all of them set us back, they don't serve us. So when we can get rid of these harmful tension patterns, when we can let go of our unnecessary responses to stimuli by compressing and pulling down on ourselves, we just kind of rise up into life. We become more buoyant, we become more happy, we're better able to relate to ourselves, we're better able to relate to other people.