The Alexander Techique Birth Book

A guide to better pregnancy, natural birth and parenthood
3. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-3-903416-18-5
Verlag: Mouritz

Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 440 g

Presenting a new and inspiring approach to all aspects of childbearing, this richly illustrated, practical book shows women how to prepare for pregnancy and childbirth using the Alexander Technique.

It shows how, by achieving an overall improvement in balance and movement, the mother’s experience can be transformed, with countless benefits to her own health and the baby’s development. As well as explaining how many of the health problems associated with pregnancy can be traced back to faulty body use, the authors show how the Technique can be used to achieve a more natural birth, reducing the need for medical intervention.

The authors also provide advice on how to nurture your child’s development.

Foreword by Sinead Cusack and Jeremy Irons.

First published in 1993.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Drake, Angela

Drake, Jonathan

Machover, Ilana

Über Autor(innen)

Machover, Ilana
Ilana Machover is a qualified teacher of the Alexander Technique and Medau Rhythmic Movement and a founding member of Doula UK. She was an advanced teacher for Britain’s National Childbirth Trust. From 1986 to 2003 she was an assistant teacher at the North London Alexander Technique Teacher Training School, and from 2004 is Head of Training of the Alexander Technique School, Queen’s Park. As part of her private practice she runs special courses for pregnant women. She has also conducted many workshops for midwives, antenatal teachers and Alexander teachers on the relevance of Technique to childbirth. She has two children and four grandchildren.

Drake, Jonathan
Angela and Jonathan Drake have three children between them – two born at home, one in hospital assisted by a community midwife. Angela first had lessons in the Alexander Technique in 1985. It has proved invaluable during the pregnancy and birth of their youngest child, and helps her cope with the demands of family life! Her main involvement with the book was in editing the text. Jonathan, a medical graduate, worked in health education for a number of years before qualifying as a teacher of the Alexander Technique in 1982. He is the author of The Alexander Technique in Everyday Life (1996, revised edition, first published as Body Know-How, 1991) and Thorsons Introductory Guide to the Alexander Technique (1993). He also teaches T’ai Chi and is a consultant on ergonomic problems in the workplace.