97% of people with back pain could benefit by learning the Alexander Technique - it is only a very small minority of back pain sufferers that require medical intervention such as surgery. Jack Stern, spinal neurosurgeon
The Alexander Technique is a realistic alternative to beta blockers in the control of stress-induced high blood pressure. Dr Bent Ostergaard - Consultant Cardiologist
The Alexander Technique transformed my life. It is the work of an acknowledged genius. I would recommend it to everyone. Tony Buzan, author of Mind Mapping
The Alexander Technique will benefit anyone whether they are an elite athlete or whether they just wish to live life without the aches and pains that many people suffer and accept as part of life. It is a pity that these techniques are not shown to us all at an early age for I have no doubt that this would alleviate many of the causes of ill health in our communities. Greg Chappell, Australian test cricketer (1970 - 1984)
Alexander’s work is of first class importance and investigation by the medical profession is imperative. British Medical Journal
The Alexander Technique can be sustaining; it is something that if learned well, can be carried along with you for the rest of your life. It gives you confidence to be who you are when you are up in front of an audience. Patrick Maddams, managing director, Royal Academy of Music
I find The Alexander Technique very helpful in my work. Things happen without you trying. They get to be light and relaxed. You must get an Alexander teacher to show it to you. John Cleese, actor
We already notice, with growing amazement, very striking improvements in such diverse things as high blood pressure, breathing, depth of sleep, overall cheerfulness and mental alertness, resilience against outside pressures, and in such a refined skill as playing a musical instrument. Professor Nicholas Tinbergen, Nobel Prize winner for medicine and physiology in his Nobel acceptance speech 1973
The Alexander Technique makes a real difference to my often tense and busy life. Its thoughtful approach has made me calmer, improved my concentration and given me a clearer sense of my own well-being. I am grateful for it.
Joan Bakewell, Television presenter and journalist
The Alexander Technique works... I recommend it enthusiastically to anyone who has neck pains or back pain.
Roald Dahl, writer
Alexander established not only the beginnings of a far reaching science of the apparently involuntary movements that we call reflexes, but a technique of correction and self control which forms a substantial addition to our very slender resources in personal education.
George Bernard Shaw, writer, Nobel Prize winner for literature
It gives us all the things we have been looking for in a system of physical education: relief from strain due to maladjustment, and consequent improvement in physical and mental health, increased consciousness of the physical means employed to gain the ends proposed by the will and, along with this, a general heightening of consciousness on all levels... We cannot ask more from any system of physical education; nor, if we seriously desire to alter human beings in a desirable direction, can we ask any less.
Aldous Huxley, writer
The Alexander Technique has given me a glimpse of the possibility of harmony.
Edna O'Brien - Author
I love the Alexander Technique. It has corrected my posture, improved my health and changed my life.
Alec McCowen CBE, actor
The Alexander Technique has played an important and beneficial part in my life.
John Houseman, actor, producer and director
Alexander students rid themselves of bad postural habits and are helped to reach with their bodies and minds, an enviable degree of freedom of expression.
Michael Langham, Director, The Juilliard School, New York
The Alexander Technique has helped me to undo knots, unblock energy and deal with almost paralysing stage fright.
William Hurt, actor
The Technique's many benefits for actors include minimized tension, centeredness, vocal relaxation, and responsiveness, mind/body connection and about an inch and a half of additional height.
Kevin Kline, actor
Of all the disciplines that form the actor training program, none is more vital, enriching and transformative than the Alexander Technique.
Harold Stone, Associate Director, Theatre Department, The Juilliard School, New York
I can definitely say without hesitation that I wouldn't have had the rowing success that I have had the luxury of experiencing in my short time on the water, without finding the AT and the great teachers that I have had the privilege to work with.
The Alexander Technique changed my life. It enabled me to devote more time to creating beauty. This inner strength is essential for all.
Andrew Logan, sculptor
His [Alexander's] procedure and conclusions meet all the requirements of the strictest scientific method. It bears the same relation to education that education itself bears to all other human activities.
Professor John Dewey, From his introduction to Alexander's book The Use of the Self
The Alexander Technique helped a long standing back problem, and to get a good night's sleep after many years of tossing and turning.
Paul Newman, Actor
The Alexander Technique removed a long standing back problem and improved my riding ability. Riders who take up the technique always make a very significant improvement in their riding.
Daniel Pevsner, Fellow of the British Horse Society
I was dubious about the effects of the Alexander Technique when I first went in to experience it, but I found out almost immediately that the benefits were total - both physically and mentally - and, happily, have also been long-lasting.
