Sabrina's Testimonial

Sabrina took Alexander Technique lessons in Macclesfield having suffered from lower back pain with disc prolapses for six years, and neck pain with headaches for four years. She had tried various therapies with limited success before her physiotherapist recommended she see James.

Her early lessons involved — as she puts it — confusion, questions, doubts and enquiries, as she worked through the process with a patient instructor. Her primary challenge was excessive neck tension that affected even basic movements like speaking. Through the lessons, she discovered that she was also tensing her eyes, jaw and shoulders habitually, without ever realising it.

The central insight for Sabrina was a counterintuitive one: that it was not her doing but her letting go that would allow her body to learn to inhibit harmful patterns. Her instructor gave her daily homework — lying down and doing nothing for fifteen minutes — as a way to release the tension that accumulates through an ordinary day.

She concludes that nothing was fundamentally wrong with her body. What she needed was to rebuild her relationship with it — and under James's guidance, she developed the ability to remember to let go, and to move through life in alignment with her body's natural function.