The position itself is a useful one and practiced in conjunction with lessons it encourages the changes the Alexander Technique aims to promote. The Position Lie on your back on a firm surface – a carpeted floor is good – with your knees bent upwards so that your feet are as close to your body as is comfortable. Your feet should be far enough apart – about shoulder width – for the legs to balance with minimum effort, your knees neither falling apart nor pulling together. S

'Tech Neck', is becoming a global epidemic thanks to modern technology. I'm referring to the pain you get in the back of your neck from spending too long looking at a screen - be it on your laptop, computer, gaming device, mobile phone etc. The neck, indeed the whole spine, is highly flexible - it's easy to bend the head forward from the shoulders when you want to look down. However, the problems start when you do this repeatedly, or fixedly, over a long period of time. It

Three years ago now, wow, I went away for an intensive bit of CPD with my old Alexander teacher John Nicholls. John was one of the principals at the college where I did my three-year teacher training about 25 years ago. He hasn't changed all that much to look at, which in itself is pretty amazing, but his use of himself and his coaching have continued to develop over the intervening years and are really, really awesome. Needless to say, I learned a lot in my four lessons. Ho

Often, when people clean, they brace their legs, tense their arms, hold their breath and go at it like crazy, making rapid, restricted movements. People think it's best to just get it over and done with quickly. But all that polishing, dusting, vacuuming, tidying...done in a frenzy can be rather exhausting and detrimental. I have never done Tai Chi but I've seen people practicing the slow, graceful movements, and I think if you could just pretend you're doing Tai Chi when yo