If you want to improve your posture but are tired of the advice from your typical posture training book, What Your Body Wants You to Know offers a different approach. Discover the basic principles of the Alexander Technique, a holistic method that's been helping people with pain management and posture alignment for over 125 years.

Your parents were annoying when they nagged you to stop slouching. But their advice wasn't that off track. Your posture affects not only how you look, but also how you feel and move. Unfortunately, we too often address poor posture as simply trying to stand up straight and pull our shoulders back.

But it's not the whole story. Posture is a lot more interesting than that.

A true mind-body approach, the Alexander Technique understands that how you think affects how you move and knows your habitual tension patterns are often at the heart of your problems.

Lauren K. Hill has been teaching the Alexander Technique for over twenty years. The method has also been integral in her personal journey of managing chronic pain that started at age nineteen.

What Your Body Wants You to Know shares:

• a fun, easy, and practical introduction to the principles of the Alexander Technique,
• over twenty-five activities and reflections to encourage better body awareness, posture, and movement,
• recommendations for small adjustments to achieve big relief, and
• a compassionate approach to recognizing and dismantling harmful habits.

Discover how, with a few small shifts in mindset and movement, you can approach your posture differently, harness your mind-body connection, and start building healthy habits for a lifetime.

Start your journey now.

Lauren K. Hill has been an AmSAT-certified teacher of the Alexander Technique for over two decades. She began studying the Alexander Technique in her twenties while looking for help managing chronic neck, shoulder, and back pain. Besides the physical relief she found with the Alexander Technique, she was also drawn to its simple and practical nature. She's continually fascinated by this work, more than twenty-five years since her first Alexander lesson.

Lauren loves helping her students learn the skills of the Alexander Technique—and watching them use those skills to make positive changes in their lives. She believes that a good teacher should be a "guide by your side" rather than a "sage on the stage."

Lauren knows that small changes have the power to transform our lives and relationships with our bodies.

"If you have ever wondered why your body doesn't always do what you ask it to, or deliver the goods you aim for, this lighthearted and well-written book provides useful and unexpected answers. If you are new to the Alexander Technique, Lauren K. Hill is an experienced and articulate teacher who will help you laugh a little while you learn a lot." — Missy Vineyard, author of How You Stand, How You Move, How You Live

"Lauren K. Hill's What Your Body Wants You to Know is an excellent introduction to the Alexander Technique. Written in a fun and easy way, her book is filled with helpful information and practical insights that will inspire anyone interested in mindfulness and the body-mind connection." — Mary Derbyshire, author of Agility at Any Age: Discover the Secret to Balance, Mobility, and Confidence

"Lauren K. Hill has brought new insight, explanation, and practical application to the venerable art of the Alexander Technique in What Your Body Wants You to Know. Her accessible writing style, interspersed with touches of humor and shared personal experiences, lends itself well to the subject of functional movement and pain reduction while utilizing good practices for the postural mechanism." — Rose Bronec, founder and director, Alexander Technique Urbana

"With relatability and humor, Lauren K. Hill offers clear and simple real-life examples of how we end up crunched and scrunched and offers practical strategies for better understanding and changing these habits. I love that the reader is invited to learn and experiment as they are reading, provoking curiosity and encouraging them to experience something new. The book is organized into topics but adheres to a coherent narrative and journey, which was truly a joy to read!" — Lindsay Newitter, Posture Speaks

"Introductory books about the Alexander Technique run the risk of being too heady and laden with jargon. There is none of that here: only an experienced Alexander teacher who skillfully and generously invites the reader into the wonderful world of the Alexander Technique. Writing in an accessible, conversational tone, Lauren K. Hill employs real-life scenarios, practical examples, and beautiful illustrations to make learning the AT simple, enjoyable, and fun. As a former student of Lauren's, take it from me—this book is like having a whole series of lessons with her that have the potential to change your life. Buy this book. I promise you won't regret it!" — Peter Jacobson, founder/director of Mind Body Music School and certified teacher of the Alexander Technique

"What Your Body Wants to You Know is a practical and creative guide useful for both beginners and longtime students of the Alexander Technique. It nurtures curiosity, encourages conscious choice, and builds skills while demonstrating the strength of Lauren K. Hill's teaching—her insightful and effective problem-solving specific to each person's unique physiology, posture, movement, and life experience." — Julie Williams, author of Escaping Tornado Season and Drama Queens in the House