"So what's the Alexander Technique for?"

It's a hoary question that no 'in a nutshell' description can ever do justice to.  Alexander defined his Technique as a technique for 'the use of the self' and, elsewhere, as concerning 'the control of reaction'. Flicking through my first notebook from my days training to be an Alexander Teacher, back in 1993, I found these two summaries of the Alexander Teacher's role:

• "Our goal is to help a person become more whole, more free and more choosing."
• "Our main territory is to help people learn about themselves and carry out their activity without interfering or getting stuck in harmful repetitive patterns of misuse."

Thank you to David Gorman.