Lighten UP: 29 Playful Lessons to Help You Learn the Alexander Technique

This book is approachable and informative! I walked away (literally) with less pain and more confidence. The bite-sized mini-lessons, paired with light-hearted stories, helped me understand the Alexander Technique in a way I never had before.

I've studied Alexander Technique with Mark on & off for many years, so naturally I knew this book would be good. I also suspected that I would enjoy the humor, which I did. It's a pleasant & easy read... one that I can do over & over again to continually remind me of the many techniques he taught me that improve my posture, my breathing, my attitude, and help keep my life pain free!

While this book is witty and brief - a fun read - it very seriously gets to the heart of the Technique, and in a clear and accessible way. Holding to first principles, revealing subtleties without digressing, it is both a wonderful introduction and a useful daily resource for experienced students of the Technique seeking to live … forward and up.

This is not only a delightful book, but tremendously helpful. I can open any page of the book and find life-changing information. The humorous aspect not only goes along perfectly with, but also enhances the wisdom of the Alexander Technique. The author offers lessons on this Technique in a concise, easily accessible and most enjoyable format. The book is not only great fun to read, but really helpful in enabling us to move freely with less pain, during any activity in life. Highly recommended!

This is one of my favorite books, and believe me, I have lots of books! The information is so valuable and is delivered in a delightfully funny manner. I have received Mark's emailed newsletters for quite a while and have picked up valuable tips that have kept me out of pain (no small feat for a life long horse rider). To have this resource with all these tips available in one place, all I can say is YAY!

Josefsberg has distilled the principles of the Alexander Technique into a brief, highly enjoyable read. He manages to convey the profundity of the Technique through easy explorations and hilarious stories. It's not often a scholarly and practically applicable book can also be appreciated for the pleasures of the prose. After closing this book at the end of the final chapter, I felt remarkably well in myself, not being sure whether this was a result of my freer neck or from the hearty laughter I'd gleaned from these delightful pages. Eagerly awaiting the sequel....

In order to make positive changes in our lives we need to get it deep into the subconscious mind and that's what this book and the Alexander Technique does. We all have some sort of stress in our lives and this book gives you the tools to apply to lessen that stress. "Free your neck" means so much more than just freeing our neck as it also means to free our jaw and to let the tension go. As I'm writing this I'm actually freeing my neck right now and it's allowing me to breath more freely. Mark is a great teacher and wrote a great book!

I've taken Alexander classes in person before but am heavily out of practice. I'm on the author's newsletter for online classes, but was so excited when this book was announced and it did not disappoint! It's a slim volume of practical exercises, written in a fun, no-stress way. Alexander is amazing for increasing body awareness, reducing pain, and improving performance in specific tasks. I can't think of anyone this book wouldn't be useful for.