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This ebook, An Alexander Technique Approach to Driving a Car (Automobile), is published on this website in a PDF format. It is very detailed and practical, and it will give you the physical tools you need to take the limits off of your ability to create the driving technique you want without sacrificing your body.
This ebook is also for sale on all AMAZON websites in a KINDLE format.
Located in Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.A. (MOVEMENT THERAPY)

It is written to help the driver fine tune his or her posture and driving technique, so that driving long distances are not hard on the body. The goal is to find the most effortless way to drive, so that the driver doesn’t pay a physical price when driving for long periods.

An example: I describe in the ebook how to sit fully upright and let the car seat support you without collapsing as you drive. You can truly sit fully lengthening the torso without a collapsed neck and not immobilize the torso. This really gives a powerful flexible base for the arms to move freely from on the steering wheel. Many of the driver’s physical problems are caused by not supporting the arms with the torso in a way that frees the arms up to control the steering wheel easily without pain, strain, and injury.

In this ebook I look in detail at the arms on the steering wheel, and I help you discover how to move and support the arms with ease – without tension and compression in the joints. I explain how the shoulder blades need to be free on the back, if you don’t want to strain the arms as you sit for long periods driving.

I also talk about driving with a free neck, and how to drive without tensing the neck and the body. There is truly no need to lock a single muscle anywhere in the body as you drive. If you try to hold a static position, you will cause your neck, back, and shoulders to hurt. By using this ebook to find a way to make your driving technique continuously flow on a torso that is supported by the seat, then the pain and injuries will begin to disappear. You’ll finally realize that you don’t have a pay a physical price to drive for hours.

I also look in detail in how to use your legs as you drive. You do not have to drive with any tension in your hips and lower legs as you drive. You can truly press the gas pedal without locking a single muscle in your lower body.
I write from a background as a concert guitarist and as an Alexander Technique teacher of 20 years. When I went to an Alexander Technique teacher with carpal tunnel syndrome on the guitar, I wanted to get out of physical trouble as soon as I could. And I did! It is this experience as a hurting guitarist that I never forgot. After I finished my Alexander Technique training, it is this remembered pain and fear of having to stop playing and performing that I bring to my writing and teaching. It makes it possible for me to write clearly about the main physical problems that the driver creates in his or her body.

This ebook, An Alexander Technique Approach to Driving a Car (Automobile), is very concise and detailed about how to approach driving in a way that makes driving kind to the body. I do not hold back any information that you could only get from an Alexander Technique teacher. This ebook stands alone as a guide to healing your pain and strain and injuries, and it also enhances any work you do with an Alexander Technique teacher.