Hi, I'm Maria McGivern, owner of The Mindful Body. I teach a mind-body mindfulness and re-educational method called the Alexander technique. The Alexander technique teaches you how to work with your mind and body to change harmful habits and how you react to stressful stimuli in everyday life. It works with the nervous system, the physical startle pattern, and the fight-flight, freeze and fawn stress responses affecting body alignment and posture to retrain unconscious habits and reactions to stress. Read more