It might seem strange in today's world of modern medicine and all its high-tech treatments that a low-tech re-educational system developed by a Tasmanian more than 100 years ago has become more valid – and more needed - than ever. As today’s teachers of the Alexander Technique we see its remarkable results in ourselves and those we teach. Over-worked, uncentred, stressed-out people from all walks of life can regain their zest for living and learn to achieve good functioning with a series of lessons in the technique.

Our aim
As a professional organization, Alexander Technique Education Inc. (ATE) upholds Alexander’s original principles and a high standard of teaching of the technique in order to maintain its integrity.

This site is about promoting the Alexander Technique and providing the information and resources to continue to develop the Technique in a manner true to the processes used by F.M. Alexander when he first laid out his discovery 100 years ago.

The technique is not a treatment, a therapy or a magic bullet, but a way of teaching us how best to use our minds and bodies in a co-ordinated and balanced manner.

A journey of discovery
Other than an alternative to therapies such as massage, Bowen, Reiki or Pilates etc., the technique is a fundamental approach to changing your responses to life’s stresses and uniting the use of your mind and body so as to achieve economy, efficiency and poise in all acts of living. It is used by musicians, actors and sports and business people worldwide.

Much more than a remedial treatment, it offers a life-long journey of self-discovery.

Though the Alexander Technique and Psychotherapy are different disciplines, each requires that its practitioners acquire a particular expertise which cannot be reduced to formulae. Our unique approach to improving the human condition – described by Walter Carrington in his essay On Categorizing the Alexander Technique – is a method of re-education by example.  As such, it is unavoidably denatured by regulations that reduce experience to format. Our teachers, besides employing a particular skilled use of their hands, also need freedom to improvise and to use imagination to transmit F. M. Alexander’s principles in solving movement and postural problems. The argument that state regulation thwarts meaningful outcomes in psychotherapy applies equally to our work in that it reduces the teaching of the Alexander Technique to a ritual denuded of its opportunities for creative interaction. We therefore thank the Alliance for Counselling and Psychotherapy for their kind permission to post their statement on our website.

Against State Regulation We have added the Alliance Statement to our library to allow members to consider the damaging impact of statutory regulation. You can sign the Alliance's petition to the UK Government here or find out more about the campaign by visiting the website. ATE wholly supports the campaign and urges any members who are able to attend the Alliance's London conference on April 5 to do so.