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In moments of emotional conflict—when what we feel doesn’t match what we show, or when we suppress emotion to "keep it together"—our bodies react. This inner tug-of-war is known as emotional dissonance, and it doesn’t just stay in the mind. It echoes through our posture, breath, voice, and muscular patterns.

The Alexander Technique, at its core, is about awareness, inhibition, and direction—learning to recognize how we respond to simple mundane activities. Learning to  choose how to move forward, and finding direction that guides us simply and effectively toward greater ease and integrity. While often applied to physical habits like tension, pain, or posture, its principles are just as powerful when brought into the emotional realm.

When we experience emotional dissonance—say, smiling while feeling upset, or holding back tears in a professional setting—the body often compensates. We might tighten the jaw, hold the breath, raise the shoulders, or brace through the spine. These reactions might be necessary at the time, but when repeated over time, they become unconscious patterns that affect how we move, speak, and even think.

Alexander Technique allows us to experience how emotional suppression or conflict is manifesting physically, mentally and emotionally and to create space between stimulus and response. This “space” is where we can choose a different path—not to push emotions away, but to let the body be congruent with our inner world.

Through gentle hands-on guidance or verbal cueing, an Alexander Technique teacher helps you not only become aware of unconscious patterns. but to recognize that you have a choice to do something including what you have always done.  Perhaps the shoulders are perpetually lifted, or the breath held in anticipation. When these patterns are gently brought to light, something begins to change—not just physically, but emotionally as well.

Students often find that as they learn to not only recognize physical tension, long-held emotions surface, shift, and integrate. In this way, the Alexander Technique becomes a tool not just for posture or pain relief, but for emotional congruence—living in a body that reflects, rather than resists, your lived experience.

Emotional dissonance is often a product of necessity—we adapt to survive, to belong, to function. But over time, it can create a gap between who we are and how we show up. The Alexander Technique offers a way back into alignment. Not by fixing or forcing, but by noticing, pausing, and choosing presence.

By working with the body as a whole, the Alexander Technique supports not just physical ease, but emotional clarity and honesty. It helps us live with greater freedom—both in movement and in meaning.

• Workshop, Group and Individual sessions: Workshop: How to Breathe. February 7th 2026. Individual Sessions.