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How the Alexander Technique can help you breathe and speak more effectively

Body Learning: The Alexander Technique

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The Importance of Relaxation

A lot of people are surprised at how strong a muscle the diaphragm is. It can easily be subverted towards becoming a postural support muscle. Once that happens, it's just simply not going to function as a breathing muscle anywhere near as efficiently as it's designed to. In practice, relaxation is a meaningless word. Most people respond to the idea of relaxing by just collapsing and kind of dead.

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