The Alexander Technique is a remarkably powerful method for learning to skillfully control how your mind and body interact. It teaches you to coordinate your body more skillfully in daily living, while improving self-perception and mental skills such as attention, awareness, self-inhibition, and spatial thinking.

Vineyard’s book sheds fresh light on this revolutionary method. She combines cutting-edge research in neuroscience with personal and moving stories of herself and her students drawn from over thirty years of teaching experience. The book includes simple and effective self-experiments for enhancing your mind-body mastery.

The book shows you how you can learn to:

• Overcome chronic pain and injury
• Enhance mental attention and improve mood
• Reduce tension, stress and anxiety
• Improve balance and coordination
• Increase technical skills in athletic and artistic performance