Waar is het werk op gebaseerd?
Binnen mijn prkatijk combineer ik de ervaring die ik heb met lichaamsgerichten pratkijken waar ik de afgelpen 15 jaar in getraind en ontwikkeld ben. De basis van mijn methode vormt de Alexander techniek
Wat is de Alexander techniek?
De Alexander Techniek is een educatieve methode die je helpt bewuster en efficiënter om te gaan met jezelf in beweging en in rust. In plaats van symptoombestrijding richt de techniek zich op hoe je iets doet, niet alleen op wat je doet.
Door meer aandacht te krijgen voor de samenwerking tussen hoofd, nek en rug, ontstaat er ruimte voor vrijer bewegen, beter ademen en helderder waarnemen. Deze verandering werkt door in alledaagse activiteiten zoals zitten, staan, lopen, werken, sporten en ontspannen.
De Alexander Techniek is geen therapie, maar een leerproces dat je ondersteunt om met meer keuzevrijheid, balans en gemak te functioneren – fysiek én mentaal.
This bodywork is no substitution for medical treatments, for acute or life-threatening sicknesses or conditions.
It is no alternative medicine, either. In the sessions you learn more body awareness and -control, therefore increasing life quality and activating self-healing processes in the body. You don’t get “fixed” by me, you learn tools for self-use. As such, it can be used as a complement to treatment, it helps to master chronic conditions or can be used as a prevention tool.
None of my bodywork training is in any way academic (except my training for being a professional dancer).
That being said, it uses principles which are proven by different scientific research.
Recent insights in the fields of psychophysiology and neurology shows a clear interaction between body states and emotions.
The research proved connection between our health and our behaviors/habits as well as a bodily imprinting of personal experiences. Furthermore, it proved the intrinsic human capability for improving and auto-curing body-conditions.
As described above I use different tools and techniques learned in more than 20 years of experiences. Similarities might be found with many other forms of bodyworks. Beyond the already mentioned methods clients recognized similar elements and principles from things such as Yoga, Haptonomy, Feldenkrais, Alexander-technique, bio-energetics and others.
All of them share the aim of an increased body awareness, and control of body functions and -movements, and the result of an improved overall life quality through bodywork.
I keep learning and integrating more and other tools from different backgrounds in order to become more efficient, more varied and more to the point of my client’s needs.
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The used tools are entirely based on capabilities of our body, like muscular control, relaxation, use of breath, perception of body sensations etc. However, we live in a culture where we tend to treat the body as a kind of machine, to be sent to a doctor or specialist to fix in case of malfunction. Something independent from our behavior and lifestyle, and beyond our personal control and responsibility. As a consequence many of us – when asked to pay attention to their own body, its sensations and functions – initially distrust that as unscientific and might call it esoteric. Another common belief is that we need only “understand” our problems in order to solve them, rather than having and using the tools to change them. Experiencing and exploring are often considered subjective and unscientific.
Touching the body is an essential part of a session.
Learning to relax, letting go of tensions and enjoying the body are some of the aims within a process, and in this aspect you might be reminded of a massage.
However, within this work touch is used for much more than that – as a tool for paying attention, for initiating changes in the body, triggering the physical memory, experiencing other body states and more.