Craniosacral Therapy
Alexander Technique
Three Principles
in London
"You can't do something you don't know,
if you keep on doing what you know."
F. M. Alexander
- Founder of the Alexander Technqiue
North London Practice
Hello, I'm Fumiaki.
I practice in Swiss Cottage North London, offering
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Three Principles - wellbeing coaching
Craniosacral Therapy in North London
Craniosacral Therapy is a gentle, hands-on approach that supports the body’s natural self-healing potential and helps restore balance, promoting overall health and vitality. By working with the body’s subtle rhythms, Craniosacral Therapy helps balance the autonomic nervous system, calming the body’s fight-or-flight response and supporting the rest-and-digest response.
In a Craniosacral Therapy session, I attend closely to the subtle rhythms and movements of your body. Instead of applying force or manipulation, I use a light, supportive touch and allow the body to respond as it needs. This process can help ease areas of restriction and compression, enabling the body to release long-held tension and settle into a deeper state of balance. Many clients experience the sessions as deeply relaxing, and some describe a sensation of lightness or floating.
If you would like to learn more, please read the Craniosacral Therapy page.
Alexander Technique in North London
Many people come for Alexander Technique lessons in North London when they are experiencing ongoing tension or discomfort, such as back, neck, or shoulder pain, or when they become aware of patterns of strain in how they sit, stand, or move.
Lessons are simple and gentle, often involving everyday movements such as sitting and standing, as well as time spent lying down, which can help release built-up tension. Over time, many people find they move with more comfort, better coordination, and more freedom in daily life. The technique is widely used by people dealing with work-related tension or the stress of everyday desk-based life, as well as musicians, actors, and performers.
Sessions are available in Swiss Cottage, North London, conveniently located near Swiss Cottage and Finchley Road tube stations.
To find out more, please read the Alexander Technique page.
What is Alexander Technique ?
Developed by F.M. Alexander in the late nineteenth century, the Alexander Technique helps you become more aware of your posture, movement, and habits that may contribute to tension and discomfort in everyday life.
Many people spend years sitting at desks, working on computers, looking down at phones, driving, or repeating the same movements day after day. Over time, these habits can affect posture and place strain on the body. Forward head posture is a common example. It places extra strain on the neck and shoulders and can contribute to headaches, jaw tension, stiffness, and discomfort.
By noticing and changing these habits, it is possible to reduce tension and move with greater ease and freedom. Many people find they feel more comfortable in their bodies and move more easily in everyday life.
Research suggests that the Alexander Technique may be helpful for people experiencing long-term back pain and neck pain.
Consider this: if you sleep for 8 hours a day, you spend the remaining 16 hours upright. That is over 100 hours every week, and nearly 6,000 hours every year of practising your postural habits. Over a decade, that's almost 60,000 hours.
Just as a constant drip of water can wear away stone, these small habits — repeated tens of thousands of times — can gradually shape how the body feels and functions. Poor posture and harmful movement habits may gradually contribute to chronic discomfort, tension, and pain without us being fully aware of it. Because these habits are repeated day after day, they come to feel normal and familiar. However, familiar does not always mean correct.
Many treatments can help release tension and reduce symptoms, which can be extremely valuable. However, if the underlying habits that contribute to the tension remain unchanged, it is not uncommon for the same patterns to gradually return.
The Alexander Technique helps you recognise these harmful habits and provides practical tools for changing them into healthier ones. By improving how you sit, stand, and move, and learning how to let go of excessive tension in everyday life, you can reduce unnecessary strain, take a more active role in your own wellbeing, and support lasting change.
Practice information
Location:
The practice is located between Swiss Cottage
and Finchley Road tube stations.
Practice days:
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Wednesday
morning, afternoon and evening
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Thursday
morning and early afternoon
Address:
Flat 10 College Court College Crescent, London NW3 5LD
Tube stations:
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Swiss Cottage - Jubilee line
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Finchley Road - Jubilee and Metropolitan line
Overground stations:
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Finchley Road & Frognal
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South Hampstead
Buses:
There are many bus services in the area
From Hamstead 46, 268
Belsize Park 268, C11
Chalk Farm 31, C11
Camden 31
Golders Green 13, 268
Parking:
Limited Parking space available (please ask if you need to park your car)
"The Alexander Technique is subtle and powerful — and Fumiaki is a master teacher. It only took a few sessions before my body awakened and effortlessly started to realign itself with its natural state. Many physical and mental issues just fell away, and my back pain spontaneously dissolved. Highly recommended."
Peter Frank
"Fumiaki is an excellent teacher. I have been doing Alexander Technique for approximately 7 years & highly recommend him. I first came to Fumi with a neck problem which Fumiaki helped me overcome. Through the technique, he allows good habits to replace bad ones allowing the body to adopt its' natural posture. I now do classes regularly."
Ewan
Fumiaki Tanaka – Alexander Technique & Craniosacral Therapy
Address:
Flat 10 College Court College Crescent, London NW3 5LD
Tel: 07305 577700