Back Pain
Helping you to help yourself

Both the Alexander Technique and the Feldenkrais Method are gentle but powerful and effective approaches for anyone wishing to reduce pain. From your first lesson you will learn ways to help yourself. You’ll gradually discover how to change your movement patterns and habitual reactions so as to reduce and eliminate pain, as well as preventing further injuries or damage. The knowledge of how to listen more deeply to yourself and to transform deep-rooted patterns is something you can take away from your lessons and apply throughout the rest of your life, in all your activities.

“I can honestly say that learning this technique with Philippa has been one of the most valuable learnings of my life, freeing me entirely from the recurring back pain, neck pain and aching shoulders which had plagued me for decades, by showing me how I was causing them and how to avoid doing so. What a gift”

“The Feldenkrais Method has positively changed my life! I have chronic/persistent pain and it is debilitating. However, since starting the class with Philippa 4 months ago, the improvements have been miraculous.”

This video summarizes the results of a major back pain study published in the British Medical Journal in 2008. The study showed that the Alexander Technique was highly effective in treating back pain. Recent follow-up studies have confirmed this result.

“Of all the approaches tested … Alexander Technique lessons proved to be the most beneficial”

— British Medical Journal

“ Philippa spotted straight away what I was doing to cause myself back pain - something that both the sports physio and the chiropractor I had recently seen missed! I had pain and discomfort for years and now I basically don’t have a bad back any more :-) ”

“For years I have been regularly using osteopaths to relieve my back pain but Alexander Technique lessons with Philippa have made a huge difference. I now have much less pain (and am saving on osteopath bills) – I only wish I’d started years ago.”

“97% of people with back pain could benefit by learning the Alexander Technique - it is only a very small minority of back pain sufferers that require medical intervention such as surgery.”

— Jack Stern, Spinal Neurosurgeon

“Neck problems are virtually an occupational hazard for Ear, Nose and Throat surgeons. I had serious problems during my working years, but hoped for relief on early retirement. This was not the case and limitation of cervical (and thoracic) movement became quite an intrusion on my life. Physiotherapy and medication gave only short-term improvement. On being introduced to the Alexander Technique I was somewhat sceptical that anything was going to work, but can only describe the relief gained, and maintained, as quite incredible. General posture has improved and neck mobility has returned to that last experienced more than twenty years ago. What more could one ask for? ”

— Kieran Tobin, M.B, B. Ch, BAO, FRCS(Eng), FRCS(Irl), D.L.O Past-President of the Irish Otolaryngological, Head and Neck Society; Past-President of the E.N.T. Section of the Royal Society of Medicine of Ireland