Alexander Technique group classes

13/09/2025

Back pain? Knee pain? Poor posture?
Learn to take the pressure off joints and move with more freedom. Alexander Technique drop-in classes starting Wednesday 17th September. You will learn learn ways of 'thinking' that let you perform everyday tasks with less effort. Studies show that after Alexander lessons postural muscle tone is redistributed to deeper muscles allowing more efficient and adaptable movement.

10/09/2025

Very positive feedback from a new student who says she woke up without pain for the first time in years after her first lesson. You don't get anything for nothing of course - as always with AT she had to put some effort in to learn how to start leaving behind old habits and adopting new more efficient patterns of movement.

31/08/2025

Good posture is simple! 💪🏼🙌🏼

Nurture’s resident Alexander Technique teacher, Andy Moorhouse, is giving a talk and live demonstration in Lydgate Parish Hall on 1st September at 2.30 pm.

Good posture is not about making an effort to 'stand up straight'. If you have tried that you will know that you quickly get tired and are back to where you were. A lasting improvement in posture is about SIMPLIFYING - making less effort, not more.
The question is, how to leave out what we don’t need - how to do less without losing what is essential to the movement?

Andy will introduce Alexander's main ideas and illustrate them through slides and simple practical demonstrations (which you can join in if you want). The techniques are used in performance art courses around the world and significant reductions in chronic back pain have been proven through clinical trials. Modern neuroscience helps us to understand how the techniques employed by Alexander teachers since the early 1900s help to redistribute postural muscle tone so we work more efficiently and adaptably.

There will also be a live demonstration of how, with a combination of verbal instruction and hands-on guidance, anyone can learn to perform a task with less effort and better posture. Learn to find the simplicity!

📍Monday 1st September at 2.30 pm
Lydgate Parish Hall, OL4 4JL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzlVPOEN8Qc

28/08/2025

Free up!
Drop-in Alexander Technique classes in Todmorden
Learn to move with better posture, more awareness, greater freedom and less chance of pain.
Wednesday evenings 7.30-9.00 pm during term time
Todmorden Alexander Technique Studio, Walsden
First session free, after that - pay as you feel (comparable classes like yoga are typically £8-£15)
Please contact me before you come for the first time so I can make sure the class will be suitable for you
Contact Andy Moorhouse MSTAT a.t.moorse@gmail.com

Aims:
Learn to apply Alexander’s techniques to move without unnecessary strain
Improve awareness of postural and muscular habits and your own anatomy
Benefit from the active rest exercise.
Classes on 17th September, 1,8,15, 22 October @ 7.30-9.00

Further details https://tinyurl.com/TodmordenAT

20/03/2025

Before and after 15 minutes’ instruction in how to apply Alexander technique. The aim was to get up and down with less effort. The student’s neck and back are quieter when applying the technique which allows the task to be completed with far less effort*. Balance and confidence also look to be improved. The student had previously had 90 minutes instruction in applying the thought process when working in a chair and on a table. Old habits will probably return to some extent before her next lesson but with repetition the new, more efficient patterns will become reinforced. Further improvements are expected with practice.
* recent research suggests that postural muscle tone is redistributed to the deeper muscles of the neck and back (https://doi.org/10.1123/kr.2020-0026)

03/03/2025

Learning to climb a step without strain at the drop-in class on 25th Feb in Walsden. Next class Tuesday 4th March 1.30-3pm and then weekly. during March.
DM to enquire or book.

02/03/2025

Good posture actually requires LESS effort than poor posture when you know how!
Free up! Drop-in Alexander Technique classes in Waslden every Tuesday 1.30pm. Next class 4th March. First session free.
https://alexandertechnique.co.uk/users/a-moorhouse
https://tinyurl.com/rwxhzrnr
Please email or DM to enquire or book
'Correcting' posture by standing up straight doesn't really work because we quickly get tired. The trick is to learn how to leave out patterns of tension that we don't need – natural good posture will then do itself without effort! Watch any toddler!

20/02/2025

Climbing a step is easier when we think helpful thoughts in the right way ...

05/02/2025

Good posture actually requires LESS effort than poor posture when you know how!
Free up! Group Alexander Technique classes in Waslden starting 25th Feb. https://tinyurl.com/52r2at3h
https://drive.google.com/file/d/13i3HguuC2QlCQuWmaNSqJmIY8UFwEqub/view?usp=drive_link
Please email or DM to enquire or book

02/01/2025

Fred Astaire shows us that good posture requires LESS effort than poor posture, not more

Good posture requires LESS effort than poor posture, not more! The trick is to learn how to do what you need with less effort.
6 week course in Alexander Technique at Saddleworth Museum and Gallery starting 11th Jan. 2 places left. https://fb.me/e/24OQoQgyMS
Email a.t.moorse@gmail.com or DM to enquire/ book.

02/01/2025

Good posture requires LESS effort than poor posture, not more! The trick is to learn how to do what you need with less effort.
6 week course in Alexander Technique at Saddleworth Museum and Gallery starting 11th Jan. 2 places left. https://fb.me/e/24OQoQgyMS
Email a.t.moorse@gmail.com or DM to enquire/ book.