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Testimonials for Jeff Tessler
Freeing the Body with Alexander Technique
By Barbara Baumgartner

Barbara works as a Children’s Librarian and storyteller in the Philadelphia area.

I first started taking lessons in the Alexander Technique motivated by the fact that
I would often feel a lot of neck pain as I was working at my typewriter and would
then notice that my shoulders were hunched and my head thrust forward.
At the beginning of my first lesson with Jeff Tessler, he asked what kind of
exercise I do.  I said, “Most of all I like to walk, but I don’t do much walking because
I frequently have the sensation that my hip joints are grinding — as if they need to
be greased!”


Jeff quietly said, “It’s possible that the work we do here may change that as you
stop collapsing into your hips.”
Four days later, as I was walking from my parking space to my office, I noticed that
indeed my hip joints were no longer grinding.  And after the second Alexander
lesson, I had significantly less neck pain!
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Jeff Tessler - Alexander Technique
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