University of Michigan - Alexander Technique: Balanced Posture for Ease and Comfort
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Alexander Technique: Balanced Posture for Ease and Comfort at Coursera Overview
Duration | 10 hours |
Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Official Website | Explore Free Course  |
Credential | Certificate |
Alexander Technique: Balanced Posture for Ease and Comfort at Coursera Highlights
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Alexander Technique: Balanced Posture for Ease and Comfort at Coursera Course details
- What you'll learn
- Organize the head, neck, and spine to promote spinal length and fluid movement and improve your relationship to the ground.
- Understand the mental processes behind a new way of inhabiting your body, creating a newfound sense of lightness and freedom in all your movements.
- Combat stress, anxiety, and discomfort using a different approach to breathing than what you've likely been taught.
- Many of us spend our days sitting at a desk, looking down at our phones, or moving in ways that cause significant discomfort for our bodies. In the Alexander Technique: Balanced Posture for Ease and Comfort, explore how this novel approach to your body's organization and coordinated movement can help relieve pain and tension, promote calm, improve sleep, and allow you to breathe fully and easily without effort.
- The Alexander Technique has been taught for more than 100 years to help artists, musicians, and actors improve their craft, but this method can help anyone examine our body's natural movements and readjust based on the wears and tears of everyday life. Through verbal instructions, graphics, videos, and demonstrations, you will learn to better align with our body's natural movements.
- By the end of this course, you will be thinking of your relationship to your body and its movements in an entirely new and more comfortable way.
Alexander Technique: Balanced Posture for Ease and Comfort at Coursera Curriculum
Looking at the Mind Body Relationship
Introduction and History
The Brain Creates Habits
Using a Different Part of our Brain
F.M. Alexander and His Story
Course Syllabus
Help Us Learn About You
Weekly Slide Decks
Module 1 Reading Summary
Week 1 Assessment
Module 1 Discussion
Head-Neck-Back Relationship while Sitting
The Lie-Down
Body Mapping/Head Balance
Sitting Bones Rock
The Basic Pivot Seated
Weekly Slide Decks
Module 2 Reading Summary
Module 2 Assessment
Module 2 Discussion
From Standing to Sitting
Using Props
Faulty Sensory Awareness and Inhibition
Standing to Bouncing
Standing to Sitting
Weekly Slide Decks
Module 3 Reading Summary
Module 3 Assessment
Week 3 Discussion
The Strength of the Torso
Picking up Something off the Floor
Suspension and Widening
The Use of the Arms from the Torso
The Four Movements of the Spine
Weekly Slide Decks
Module 4 Reading Summary Part 1
Module 4 Reading Summary Part 2
Module 4 Reading Summary Part 3
Module 4 Assessment
Module 4 Discussion
Calming the Nervous System with Breath
The Biology of Stress
The Anatomy of Breathing
The Controlled Exhale
Walking to Restore the Natural Breath
Weekly Slide Decks
The Art of Breathing
Course Attributions
Alexander Technique Resources
Post-Course Survey
Module 5 Assessment
Module 5 Discussion
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