An educational method used to improve performance, the Alexander
Technique teaches people to replace unnecessary muscular and mental
effort with consciously coordinated responses, maximizing effectiveness
while also relieving, if necessary, any chronic stiffness or stress.
Integrative Alexander Technique Practice for Performing Artists
presents the empirical research of Cathy Madden, a teacher and coach
with more than thirty-five years of experience with the technique. She
addresses common concerns, such as concentration, relaxation,
discipline-specific techniques, warm-ups, performer/audience
relationships, stage fright and critical responses, and explores the
role of the senses, emotions, learned behaviour, human consciousness
studies and neuroscience in the application of the techniques.