Alexander Technique & Voice Coaching
Psychosynthesis Counselling
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The Alexander Technique helps you to find the natural balance of your body to move well and avoid injury. Suryagita, our certified Alexander Technique teacher who also specialises in voice coaching (see below), will help you to ease tension and improve postural patterns which cause back/neck pain and OOS and find a level of relaxation within. Her gentle hands-on guidance will eliminate muscular tension, which in turn will give you a healthier, more resilient body which is less prone to injury. In a session you receive relaxing hands-on guidance in how to move efficiently, which frees your body to heal itself of injury or restriction.
The Technique is particularly successful in alleviating back problems: research through a clinical trial (published in the British Medical Journal 2008) shows that Alexander Technique is highly effective in easing chronic lower back pain. |
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The Alexander Technique was developed by FM Alexander, an actor in Australia in the 1890’s, initially as a method to heal his own vocal strain, and gradually it also improved his use of his whole body and mind.
So he started to guide others in his new method, which had the effect of improving the health of his clients as well as the performance of his colleagues. Eventually he trained others to become teachers and it is now a highly successful method of postural re-education which is practised worldwide.
So he started to guide others in his new method, which had the effect of improving the health of his clients as well as the performance of his colleagues. Eventually he trained others to become teachers and it is now a highly successful method of postural re-education which is practised worldwide.
Voice coaching will help you to restore easy breathing and a resonant voice for speech or singing, and to speak in public with poise and confidence.
Psychosynthesis counselling is a powerful way of getting clear perspective on problems and issues, which then helps you to effect change in your life.
Suryagita is qualified counsellor and now works with issues such as:
Psychosynthesis counselling is a powerful way of getting clear perspective on problems and issues, which then helps you to effect change in your life.
Suryagita is qualified counsellor and now works with issues such as:
- trauma
- dissatisfaction with work
- stress, anxiety
- depression
- grief and loss
- crisis in life purpose
- relationship difficulties
- fear of change
Our City Expert in Alexander Technique
Suryagita Cox BA, STATM, MATTSNZ
Suryagita is a certified teacher of the Alexander Technique and voice coach. She has 16 years’ experience working with individuals and groups. She is an active member of ATTSNZ (the Alexander Technique Teacher’s Society of New Zealand). She graduated from the Brighton Alexander Training Centre, UK in 1996. She has studied with voice teachers in the UK and Estill Voice Training System teachers in NZ, and runs group workshops and a choir in Wellington, Libero Singers, as well as giving individual lessons at City Osteopaths.
Suryagita was first drawn to the Alexander Technique after a back injury following a mountaineering accident in 1988. Early lessons left her feeling light and pain-free and the Alexander training had a transforming effect on her life. Over time her back and neck pain disappeared and she felt calmer, able to release tension and manage stress. The Technique has also helped her to practise meditation and yoga with more ease, and has freed her breathing, singing and speaking voice.
Suryagita gives individual lessons at City Osteopaths and loves to help her clients to improve posture, relieve pain and fulfil their human potential. In a session you receive relaxing hands-on guidance in how to move efficiently, which frees your body to heal itself of injury or restriction. She is particularly successful in helping those with RSI, chronic back and neck pain, tension or restricted breathing, and people find her sessions relaxing and invigorating.
For more information see www.alexandervoiceworks.co.nz and also the Testimonials below
Suryagita is a certified teacher of the Alexander Technique and voice coach. She has 16 years’ experience working with individuals and groups. She is an active member of ATTSNZ (the Alexander Technique Teacher’s Society of New Zealand). She graduated from the Brighton Alexander Training Centre, UK in 1996. She has studied with voice teachers in the UK and Estill Voice Training System teachers in NZ, and runs group workshops and a choir in Wellington, Libero Singers, as well as giving individual lessons at City Osteopaths.
Suryagita was first drawn to the Alexander Technique after a back injury following a mountaineering accident in 1988. Early lessons left her feeling light and pain-free and the Alexander training had a transforming effect on her life. Over time her back and neck pain disappeared and she felt calmer, able to release tension and manage stress. The Technique has also helped her to practise meditation and yoga with more ease, and has freed her breathing, singing and speaking voice.
Suryagita gives individual lessons at City Osteopaths and loves to help her clients to improve posture, relieve pain and fulfil their human potential. In a session you receive relaxing hands-on guidance in how to move efficiently, which frees your body to heal itself of injury or restriction. She is particularly successful in helping those with RSI, chronic back and neck pain, tension or restricted breathing, and people find her sessions relaxing and invigorating.
For more information see www.alexandervoiceworks.co.nz and also the Testimonials below
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Testimonials About Suryagita's Alexander Technique & Voice Coaching
“Lessons in the Alexander Technique with Suryagita help me to find immediate relief when my neck and shoulders are tight at work. I used to feel very tense when working for long hours, “stuck” in my body, as if my head was glued to the top of my spine. Regular lessons with Surya keep me feeling flexible. I no longer feel any pain in my back when I stand at my desk for 10 hours a day. My arms and hands don’t get so stiff, and I have learned how to bend easily at my joints so that I can stand and sit more comfortably. I can now localize where the tension is in my body, and when I relax those areas the pain is whipped away. The result is an ability to focus on my work better, which is a big help when my body is tired”. - Myriam, Wellington, 2012
"My first contact with Alexander Technique came about almost by accident, when I substituted for my wife (who was ill) at a pre-paid one day workshop held by Suryagita. It seemed like a good idea for me to go as I was suffering from a repetitive strain injury. The only help from the medical profession in respect of the RSI had been for the doctor to recommend the use of painkillers. I also suffer from lifelong asthma and an increasingly poor posture.
I enjoyed the workshop and felt some immediate benefits to my posture so I started to have weekly lessons with Suryagita…. One Friday evening, two days after a lesson I felt the most extraordinary internal 'release' in my lower neck. Over the course of the evening it felt as if I was dragging my neck ever upwards from within my upper torso, where it had been sunken, and collapsed like a closed telescope for years. The overall impact was very emotional and liberating.
I felt that I had been hiding inside my 6'3'' body for years, self-conscious of my height. I was now growing up to my full and natural height. I can honestly say that having Alexander Technique lessons with Suryagita has changed my body and my life around. I feel more confident, happy, my breathing is better. The RSI has almost disappeared. I had thought the RSI had been purely down to using a computer every day for about 14 years, but I now realise that this was only one of the contributory factors. A lifetime of hunching, slouching and increasing stress due to day to day living have also been to blame. My asthma has vastly improved and my posture is a million times better. And I feel good about myself and confident in my body when I move and walk.
The Alexander Technique has become a central and vital part of my life, that helps me cope with all the day to day stresses and I wouldn't do without it. I would definitely recommend anyone to give it a go and to stick at it”. - Alan Buck. Brighton, UK
"The best thing about Surya's Alexander Technique lessons, for me, were how it was a genuinely surprising insight into what I was doing right, and more importantly, wrong! I found her the perfect teacher to help unpick my scepticism and the voice coaching element has paid huge benefits with my performing career." - Stephen Grant. British comedian and compere
"I have found my Alexander Technique lessons with Suryagita to be a nourishing learning experience. She has helped me to connect with my body in a sensitive and enthusiastic way. She has inspired me to carry on long enough that much of what I learned feels a part of me. I greatly enjoyed our voice lessons as well and many things she showed me have enriched my life.” - Mary Clark.Croydon, UK
"Since having Alexander lessons I feel more confident, happy, my asthma has vastly improved and my posture is a million times better. It helps me cope with day to day stresses and I wouldn't do without it. I would definitely recommend anyone to give it a go!” - Alan Buck, Town Planner
