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In this article you will learn about the biographies of Alexandra Nikolaevna Strelnikova.

Alexandra Nikolaevna Strelnikova was born in 1912. Father - Nikolai Dmitrievich, mother - Alexandra Severovna, sisters - Nina and Tatyana. Father - Nikolai Dmitrievich Strelnikov was very handsome man when he married Alexandra Severovna, he was 37 years old, and she was 17 years old.

The summer of 1919 found the Strelnikov family in Vladivostok, where they were brought by a revolutionary storm. Alexandra Severovna's sister Lydia and her husband also moved here, hiding from the Red Terror. Last time the head of the family, Nikolai Dmitrievich, was seen by his family at the Zima station. No one saw him again and no information about him was received by the family. According to the recollections of the younger sister Nina, their father played a lot with his daughters and rolled them on his shoulders. Also from the memoirs of her younger sister Nina, her mother wrote: "Shura is unhappy in marriage, she divorced." Alexandra Nikolaevna herself did not like to talk about herself.

Since 1920, Alexandra, with her mother and two sisters, lived in Vladivostok near older sister his mother, Lydia. After some time, Lidia Severovna and her husband, taking younger sister Nina, we left for Harbin.

Alexandra Strelnikova became opera singer. She sang in the troupe of the Musical Theater. K. S. Stanislavsky and V. I. Nemirovich-Danchenko, and Alexandra Severovna Strelnikova, her mother, worked at the Novosibirsk Philharmonic as a vocal teacher.

Even in the pre-war years, A.S. Strelnikova used individual exercises from her future unique system breathing. In 1941, Alexandra Severovna Strelnikova applied to the People's Commissariat for Health and offered to consider her invention called "Method of treating asthma with breathing exercises." The Technical Council of the People's Commissariat of Health of the USSR reviewed and registered on April 29, 1941 under No. 4268 and sent it for conclusion, writing a letter stating that the results would be reported. But the war began, and it was not up to that. And everything was postponed indefinitely.

After the war, A.N. Strelnikova returned to Novosibirsk and took up the leadership of amateur art activities, driving around Novosibirsk region with the propaganda team. In 1953 she returned to Moscow and brought three of her students with her. One of her students entered the Gnessin Institute, and two others entered the Moscow Conservatory. After her mother's arrival in Moscow, Alexandra begins to work as a vocal teacher in the Central House of Culture of Railwaymen, and Alexandra Severovna - her mother - in the Moscow State Stage. They lived during this period in Sokolniki in an old one-story house. The Strelnikovs' mother and daughter communicated with the metropolitan circle of singers. Breathing gymnastics worked wonders, it improved the beauty of the timbre, expanded the range of the voice for those for whom it was a profession, and “made” the voice for those who really wanted to sing, but did not have special natural abilities.

Already at this time, Alexandra Nikolaevna Strelnikova had a sick heart, she suffered from asthma attacks. The luminaries of Moscow medicine of that time could not help her. The disease progressed. Once Alexandra Nikolaevna felt pain in her chest and an attack of suffocation such that she thought she would not live to see the morning. Mother opened all the windows wide open, but nothing helped. There was a whole block to the nearest pay phone, but the mother was afraid to leave her daughter in this state. Alexandra Nikolaevna began to breathe, four times with a break (using the principle of her gymnastics), and then she realized that she would live until morning. It was on this terrible night for both of them that they realized that they had created gymnastics not only returning the voice to singers and actors, but also something much more that would help restore people to health. She developed her own breathing system. After some time, she will say about her invention like this:

On September 28, 1973, the All-Union Scientific Research Institute of State Patent Examination for the first time registered the copyright of a singing teacher for the “Method of Treating Diseases Associated with Voice Loss”, establishing its priority dated March 14, 1972 (copyright No. 411865).

For the first time, information about unusual breathing exercises was published by the magazine "Inventor and Rationalizer" (No. 7 for 1975), where there was a photograph of Andrei Mironov performing the exercises, and already in No. 8 for 1976 Strelnikova's set of exercises was published. Also in 1975, the dignitary magazine " Soviet Union”, published in several other countries in the west, released a short note about Strelnikova and her unique breathing technique. The Ministry of Health of the USSR perceived this technique, let's say, with hostility.

Studies on the effectiveness of Alexandra Strelnikova's gymnastics were carried out at the Clinical and Diagnostic Center of the Children's City Polyclinic No. 69, at the Central Polyclinic No. 1 of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, at the Central Research Institute of Tuberculosis of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences and at the 9th Garrison Polyclinic of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

To say that the path to the recognition of the methodology was difficult is to say nothing. Alexandra Nikolaevna had to overcome a lot of things, but thanks to her strong character and serving people, this technique has received recognition and is now being successfully developed and also brought to people's health by her student and follower Mikhail Nikolaevich Shchetinin.

At her age, and she was 77 years old, Alexandra Nikolaevna Strelnikova was absolutely a healthy person, she was an excellent swimmer and on the day of her death, she returned from swimming in the river in which she swam until the river was covered with ice. Gathering after swimming, she was crossing the road, when suddenly two drunken guys on a motorcycle on high speed knocked her down and, losing control, crashed into a pole and died themselves. Three ridiculous deaths at the same time.

She died in September 1989 as a result of a traffic accident.

The student of Alexandra Nikolaevna Strelnikova, Mikhail Nikolaevich Shchetinin, dedicated to his teacher the book “Respiratory Gymnastics Strelnikova”, which he wrote, having collected all the accumulated experience using this technique. It sets out in great detail what exercises, in what quantity and how, should be done for various diseases. Now everyone can use this technique to restore their health and all you need for this is just one square meter squares and an open window.

Biography of A.N. Strelnikova on Wikipedia is very stingy, when compiling, the book “Respiratory gymnastics Strelnikova” by M. N. Shchetinin, a student and follower in her life, was used. By clicking " ", you will go to a page on which there is a video on how to do this gymnastics.

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The artist signed an agreement with her student that in exchange for care and care, she will bequeath her her luxurious Moscow apartment. Alexandra Ilyinichna fulfilled her obligations, but the girl did her job in bad faith.

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Strelchenko decided to terminate the contract, but this had to be done through the courts. With the support of family and friends, she managed to win the argument. In addition, the judge went to a meeting People's Artist.

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This whole conflict greatly undermined the already poor health of the artist. Alexandra Ilyinichna ended up in intensive care. She is now cared for by a specially trained nurse.

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Having got rid of the fraudulent student, the artist began to feel much better. She slowly began to speak, returning to her former form.

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Strelchenko leaves the house not only to the hospital, she tries to visit holy places. For example, she recently visited Dmitrov, a local monastery, where she asked the Almighty to give her strength.

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“I would still sing! I have devoted my whole life to the stage and to the audience. But I really regret that I never became a mother! But you won't get anything back. She has already lived - that's enough, that's still to go on stage ... "- quotes the artist" StarHit ".

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To recover faster, Strelchenko observes strict regime. Designed for the artist diet food and special physical exercises. Despite a slight improvement in well-being, doctors do not give good prognosis. It turns out that Alexandra Ilyinichna was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, which is slowly developing.

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For some reason, it is believed that a person needs to be taught to read, sing, draw, but you don't need to learn how to breathe. But this is fundamentally wrong! Most people, unfortunately, do not breathe correctly, and because of this they have a lot of diseases.

“You will take care of your breathing, you will live happily ever after”- so said many centuries ago, one Indian sage. And these are not empty words. Thousands of people have mastered the techniques correct breathing. And what wonderful words of gratitude they say to those who taught them how to recover without pills and expensive treatment!

The study of the mechanisms of respiration and attempts to take control of this most important physiological process originate in primitive society. Studying himself as part of nature, man noted inextricable link between the nature of breathing and the state of health. The beginning of human and animal life coincided with the beginning of breathing, last breath a killed enemy or a dying tribesman meant the end of life.

Method development history

Strelnikova's breathing exercises are several hundred quick body movements, in which breaths are performed at the end of movements with a compressed or unable to expand chest. That is why the technique is called "paradoxical".

This method was discovered by the mother of Alexandra Nikolaevna, Alexandra Severovna Strelnikova, who, like her daughter, was a singing teacher. She was engaged in staging the voice, people whose work was related to singing tried to get to her classes. Initially, Alexandra Severovna did not even imagine that her breathing exercises could heal people.

Alexandra Nikolaevna Strelnikova in her youth often suffered from heart attacks; one night when it was impossible to get medical care, began one of the most severe attacks. Then Alexandra Nikolaevna remembered breathing exercises. She began to breathe, as her mother taught, overcoming the pain. By morning, the suffocation receded, the heart rate returned to normal. Since then, she began to regularly engage in paradoxical gymnastics and, in her old age, did not know those ailments that most elderly people suffer from: she had no problems with her heart, she passed the disease of the century osteochondrosis, she never had high blood pressure.

In the postwar years, Alexandra Nikolaevna lived in Moscow and worked at the Musical Theater. Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko, and then a teacher-vocalist in the recreation center of railway workers. She herself was an excellent singer, but, like her mother, she preferred the stage to learning the art of singing, using a family methodology. She liked to watch how people who had mediocre natural data developed beautiful strong voices.

Many of the famous singers and actors were engaged in the mother and daughter of the Strelnikovs (to her help in different time Ludmila Kasatkina, Andrey Mironov, Alla Pugacheva, Maxim Shtraukh, Larisa Golubkina and many others applied). The reviews were so impressive that Alexandra Nikolaevna decided to apply for a patent for breathing exercises. This patent was issued to her under the title: "Method of treatment of diseases associated with loss of voice." But it happened half a century later, in 1972.

Gradually, Alexandra Nikolaevna began to notice that her method not only helps in restoring the voice, but also contributes to the healing of the whole organism, especially the respiratory organs. Strelnikova paid special attention to the treatment of bronchial asthma. . One of the cured patients, Mikhail Shchetinin, became her student and follower. He still practices this method, developed new sets of exercises for various diseases and published his own data obtained after improving the method.

Until now, doctors have no idea about Strelnikova's method. consensus. Some recognize it and consider it a wonderful remedy for the treatment of many diseases, especially diseases of the respiratory, cardiovascular and nervous systems. Others deny its benefits, trying not to focus on those cases when gymnastics saved people's health. Still others want to get the very scientific justification that Alexandra Nikolaevna never gave.

She died more than 20 years ago, in September 1989, and the gymnastics she created successfully "self-sustained". Now anyone can study it and put it into practice.

Advantages of this method

. asthma and chronic diseases of the bronchi and lungs;
. rhinitis (chronic runny nose);
. sinusitis, bronchitis;
. pneumonia;
. diabetes and its complications;
. neuroses and neurogenic diseases;
. hypertension;
. asthenoneurosis with hypotension;
. peptic ulcer (without exacerbation);
. stuttering;
. loss of voice
. angina;
IBS.

Besides, respiratory gymnastics activates the immune system and protective and adaptive mechanisms of the body , helps to overcome stressful conditions, getting rid of excess weight and nicotine addiction . Breathing exercises are an effective complement to other therapies (traditional and non-traditional), especially in the treatment of long-term chronic diseases.

Exercises are actively included in the work all parts of the body: arms, legs, head, abdominals, spine. Therefore gymnastics gives good results in the treatment of children and adolescents suffering from scoliosis: it eliminates stoop, and makes the body more flexible and plastic. For adolescents who are lagging behind in physical development, Strelnikova's gymnastics helps to grow up (it contributes to the proper formation of all organs and systems, especially during puberty).

Strelnikova's gymnastics also cures stuttering, and the strongest is when speech therapists and even hypnotists fail to help a stuttering teenager. In these cases, in addition to breathing exercises special sound exercises are also needed to overcome laryngospasm, which are assigned to each stutterer individually.

“If you systematically perform the proposed exercises (twice a day - in the morning and in the evening - 1200 breaths-movements in one session), - Strelnikova's student M. I. Shchetinin said in an interview with the newspaper Help Yourself, - the result will not be slow to affect. Strelnikovskaya gymnastics treats in a complex way: it has a beneficial effect on general metabolic processes, strengthens the nervous and immune system improves the drainage function of the bronchi.

In addition, it restores disturbed nasal breathing. (without any surgery!) , normalizes the functioning of the cardiovascular system, improves blood circulation, inhibits the development of deformities of the chest and spine.

In addition, the exercises of our breathing exercises actively involve all systems and organs: arms, legs, head, pelvis and shoulder girdle, abdominals, etc., causing a positive reaction of the whole organism. And since all exercises are performed with a short and sharp breath through the nose with a passive exhalation, internal tissue respiration increases and oxygen absorption increases.

What is the essence of Strelnikova's breathing exercises and her fundamental difference from other methods?

Breathing exercises Strelnikova called paradoxical, because during inspiration, the chest does not expand as usual, but contracts(covered by hands or kept from expanding due to tilts and turns of the body). In traditional breathing exercises, inhalation is done against the background of movements that expand the chest (for example, when spreading the arms to the sides), and exhalation is done during movements that compress it (for example, when turning).

“Alertness and even distrust of my gymnastics were caused by the fact that it runs counter to many theories, including the teachings of yogis,” said A. N. Strelnikova. - After all, it is recommended to start the breathing exercises of yogis with the most complete exhalation, if possible. And their exercise "Chopping wood" consists mainly of intense exhalations. Well, I recommend the opposite…”<

The first action of a newborn is to inhale. Exhalation is the result of inhalation. “What is the point of training both cause and effect? - Strelnikova asks herself and answers: - It is enough to train the cause for the result to change by itself.. Thinking only about inhalation and leaving exhalation, so to speak, to the mercy of fate, Strelnikova created gymnastics that preserves the natural dynamics of breathing and develops the most convenient breath for holding.

According to her, such inhalation training increases the body's most important reserve - air, which increases the vitality of the body. “That is why the results of our gymnastics,” says Alexandra Nikolaevna, “turned out to be much more significant than we expected.”

The question arises: which breath is more convenient for holding? According to Strelnikova, when a person is waiting for some important event, carefully watching something, or, for example, sneaking up, hiding, he naturally holds his breath.

To hold your breath means to hold a supply of air in order to survive difficult moments with it and adapt. Alexandra Nikolaevna and her mother began to train an instantaneous, oral, passionate breath. Thus, the corresponding auxiliary movements prompted by instinct were found. But oral inhalation is practiced only in clean and warm air, it must be done very accurately, otherwise the throat will dry. This breath is wider and shallower than the nasal one.

Nasal inhalation is deeper, not afraid of cold and dust, perfectly relieves the common cold . Therefore, the Strelnikovs began to train nasal inhalation against the background of the same movements as the oral one, the same emotional one. This determined the basic postulates of paradoxical gymnastics.

Emotional breath - active and natural. In natural conditions, in order to survive, our ancestors had to watch, listen and not draw a breath, but sniff anxiously. “You can live without sight,” notes Alexandra Nikolaevna, “you can live without hearing, but you can’t live without breathing!

It is no longer necessary to sniff every minute, so modern people have weakened the activity of inhalation, the most important function of the body. Paradoxical gymnastics easily restores this activity precisely because the breath in it is emotional.

So, Strelnikova’s gymnastics trains only inhalation (passive, spontaneous exhalation!), Which is performed at the end of each physical movement, when the muscles work with the greatest load and when, according to traditional breathing techniques, you need to exhale.

However, despite this paradox, exercise does not lead to fatigue and shortness of breath, but, on the contrary, slows down breathing. At the same time, pulmonary ventilation increases 5-6 times, but intense physical activity on many muscles, synchronous with inspiration, keeps carbon dioxide in the body at a constant level close to the physiological norm.

The energy output of such frequent breathing against the background of physical activity is high. With a noisy short breath through the nose, the cerebral cortex is actively saturated with oxygen: vasospasm is eliminated, chronic headaches disappear, memory improves. Breathing is carried out against the background of movement. At the same time, the muscles themselves develop, because they receive a load. Restored, as we now say, the energy balance of the body. Breathing activates the dormant process of self-regulation.

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Biography

Born in 1912.

Mother - Alexandra Severovna (singing teacher at the Stanislavsky Moscow Opera and Drama Theater), father - Nikolai Dmitrievich, the family had three sisters - Alexandra, Nina and Tatyana. In her youth, Alexandra married, but the marriage quickly fell apart.

Since 1920, with two sisters and her mother, she lived in Vladivostok with her mother's older sister, Lydia. Then Lidia Severovna and one of her sisters left for Harbin.

Alexandra Nikolaevna Strelnikova became an opera singer. Before the war, she sang in the troupe of the Musical Theater. K. S. Stanislavsky and V. I. Nemirovich-Danchenko, and her mother worked at the Novosibirsk Philharmonic as a vocal teacher. Even in the pre-war years, A. S. Strelnikova used individual exercises of her future unique breathing system.

After the war, Strelnikova returned to Novosibirsk and began to lead amateur art activities, traveling with a propaganda team around the Novosibirsk region. She returned to Moscow in 1953 and brought three of her students. Two of them entered the Moscow Conservatory, the third - in the Gnessin School. When her mother came to Alexandra, she began to work as a vocal teacher in the Central House of Culture of Railway Workers, and her mother - in the Moscow State Stage. Lived in Sokolniki.

Alexandra Strelnikova already had a heart condition at that time. Saving herself from asthma attacks, together with her mother, she developed her own breathing system. She later spoke of her invention as follows:

On September 28, 1973, the All-Union Scientific Research Institute of State Patent Examination for the first time registered the copyright of a singing teacher for the “Method of Treating Diseases Associated with Voice Loss”, establishing its priority dated March 14, 1972 (author's certificate No. 411865). Assistance in obtaining a patent, becoming her experimental, was provided by the future soloist of the Bolshoi Theater and People's Artist of Russia Alexander Lomonosov.

The first in the USSR to talk about unusual breathing exercises was the magazine "Inventor and Rationalizer" (No. 7 for 1975), and in No. 8 for 1976 Strelnikova's set of exercises was published. [

At 77, Alexandra Nikolaevna Strelnikova was an absolutely healthy woman. She did not know what osteochondrosis, hypertension, heart weakness were. However, what is the strongest heartache, she knew. After all, the first heart attack that Strelnikova stopped with her gymnastics was her own ...

Alexandra Nikolaevna never told anyone about her youth. She avoided touching on this topic, as if she was afraid of something. And even I, her only student and assistant, knew almost nothing about the first half of her life. So ... individual episodes from childhood and youth spent in the Far East.

And now, six years after the tragic death of my mentor, I was found in Moscow by a woman who passed the news from Nina Nikolaevna Strelnikova, the sister of Alexandra Nikolaevna, the third of the Strelnikov sisters, whose existence I did not even suspect. At a very advanced age, she now lives in Australia, is practically immobilized, and is ill with a serious incurable disease. For more than 60 years, Nina Nikolaevna tried to find her mother and sisters. After the death of Alexandra Nikolaevna, I read about Strelnikova's breathing exercises in one of the Russian newspapers, where, fortunately, my address and even phone number were indicated.

The only survivor of the three sisters, Nina Nikolaevna, wrote to me about what Alexandra Nikolaevna did not have time to tell.

Their father, Nikolai Dmitrievich Strelnikov, was a handsome man, older than his wife, Alexandra Severovna. She was 17, and he was 37, when they met at Davydov's singing lessons ... Mom, as Nina Nikolaevna writes, ran away from school, and they came to their parents, already married.

The summer of 1919 found Alexandra Severovna and her three daughters, Alexandra, Nina and Tatyana, in Vladivostok, where they were swept away by a revolutionary storm. Alexandra Severovna's sister Lydia and her husband also moved here, fleeing the Red Terror. And the girls saw the head of the family, Nikolai Dmitrievich, for the last time at Zima station. Nina Nikolaevna could not tell me anything more about his further fate. It only remained in her memory that her father played a lot with his daughters, loved to put them on his shoulders ...

In 1924, Lidia Severovna and her husband left for Harbin, taking with them Nina, a very weak girl, to help Alexandra Severovna support her family. Since then, Nina Nikolaevna no longer saw her mother and sisters.

"But I was once going to swim across the Amur!" - Alexandra Nikolaevna once told me (she was an excellent swimmer all her life, and in her youth she was even the champion of Novosibirsk).

Now, several years after her death, I found out why she wanted to do it! She wanted to see her sister! But it was then that she met "such wonderful blue eyes" (from the letter of the younger Alexandra to her sister Nina, which she sent to me in Moscow more than half a century after receiving it), that ... "Because of these" blue eyes "- writes me Nina Nikolaevna from Australia, - Shura changed her mind about swimming across the Amur and fleeing to Harbin. She got married. But unsuccessfully. Mom wrote: "Shura is unhappy in marriage, divorced. And forget about our existence."

It was 1934, the Stalinist repressions began in the USSR.

In old photographs sent to me from another part of the globe, the Strelnikov family is captured at the dacha with a Chinese cook and at a picnic with friends - White Guard officers. The childhood memory of Nina Nikolaevna Strelnikova captured a portrait of her mother for the rest of her life, where she is depicted in full growth next to an ebony chair ("from the backs of the chairs, we children tried to pick out porcelain medallions in a bronze frame").

Alexandra Severovna Strelnikova was an unusually beautiful woman in her youth. My teacher had the same portrait of her mother on the piano in her youth (unfortunately, the portrait disappeared after the death of A.N. Strelnikova). Miraculously, an amateur photograph has been preserved, in which one of my patients photographed me against the background of this portrait.

Fate spared A.S. Strelnikov and her daughters. They were not affected by repression.

In the pre-war years, Strelnikova Sr. already used individual exercises of the future unique breathing system. Looking through the old papers of Alexandra Nikolaevna, I found a document from the People's Commissariat of Health, sent to A.S. Strelnikova, which said: "Your proposal entitled "Method of treating asthma with breathing exercises" was received by the Bureau of Inventions of the Technical Council of the People's Commissariat of Health of the USSR on April 29, 1941, registered under No. 4268 and sent for conclusion. The results will be reported to you."

But the war broke out, and there was no time for gymnastics.

How did it all start? Where did this unique system come from?

Countless times I heard from Alexandra Nikolaevna the same phrase that she uttered during her lectures: “When I, a young singer, lost my voice, my mother began to look for a way to restore it. So gymnastics was gradually invented.” o Alexandra Nikolaevna didn't like to talk about herself, and only from certain phrases, from some remarks, I could imagine how it all began.

They then lived with their mother in Sokolniki, in an old one-story house, which once had "stables. The Strelnikovs' mother and daughter were known only in a narrow circle of metropolitan singers. Their breathing exercises improved the beauty of the timbre, expanded the range of voices for those for whom singing was a profession, and "made" a voice for those who wanted to sing, without having any special natural gifts for it.

Strelnikova Jr. was very ill at that time. From heavy, stubbornly repeated, always with equal frequency, bouts of pain in her chest, her heart began to fail. The Strelnikovs had extensive connections in the medical world of Moscow, but, alas, none of the doctors, even the most famous ones, were able to help Alexandra Nikolaevna.

And then one day, on an autumn night, Strelnikova-daughter was brought out of oblivion by a sharp pain in her chest, which bound her whole body and came up to her throat with a lump. "Mom!" cried Alexandra Nikolaevna. "I'm suffocating!"

There was no telephone in the house, the nearest machine was a whole block away, Alexandra Severovna, horrified, threw open all the windows in the room so that her daughter could breathe easier. But it didn’t get any easier ... And then, convulsively catching air in her mouth, the younger Alexandra suddenly thought: “Strelnikov’s gymnastics!” Not "mine", not "ours", namely Strelnikovskaya! Gathering the last of her strength, with clenched teeth, she began to sniff the air noisily, taking 4 short, sharp breaths; And after a few moments I realized that I would live until morning.

It was in these terrible moments that mother and daughter realized that they had created not only breathing exercises that returned voices to actors and singers, but something much more, something that could make a person healthy! This was the beginning of a new health system.

Before the war, Alexandra Severovna lived in Novosibirsk, she worked at the local Philharmonic Society as a vocal teacher, and Strelnikova Jr. lived in Moscow, she was invited to sing at the K.S. Stanislavsky and Vl.I. Nemirovich-Danchenko. When the war began, Alexandra Nikolaevna moved to her mother in Novosibirsk. Here she led amateur art activities, traveling with the propaganda team around the Novosibirsk region,

In 1953, Alexandra Nikolaevna returned to Moscow, bringing three vocal students. Two of them entered the Moscow Conservatory, the third - at the Gnessin Institute. A little later, Alexandra Severovna also moved to the capital. The daughter began to work as a vocal teacher at the Central House of Culture of Railway Workers, and her mother worked with the artists of the Moscow State Stage.

The rumor about amazing gymnastics, thanks to which the voice sounds clearer and louder, gradually spread throughout Moscow. Famous singers and dramatic artists began to come to the Strelnikovs for singing lessons.

People's Artist of the USSR Lyudmila Kasatkina (then already a well-known actress throughout the country, who starred in the film "Tiger Tamer"), who attended the lessons of the Strelnikovs, convinced the leadership of the Theater of the Soviet Army to hire these unique teachers, who in a matter of days eliminated her hemorrhage in her vocal cords , which the Bolshoi Theater polyclinic could not cure for several months. From the same polyclinic, the surgeon-phoniatrist V.A. begins to send singers and actors to the Strelnikovs. Zagoryanskaya-Feldman and otorhinolaryngologist D.A. Shakhov. Vocal students, as well as announcers, teachers with "torn" voices, directed by the phoniatrist V. L. Chaplin, began to come to the Strelnikovs from the lorry office of the Gnesins Institute.

Inspired by the support of scientific luminaries and her success, Alexandra Nikolaevna decides to submit an application for an invention to the All-Union Research Institute of State Patent Examination (VNIIGPE).

She had something to register. Her breathing exercises not only restored the singers' breath and voice, but also had an unusually beneficial effect on the body as a whole.

On September 28, 1973, VNIIGPE for the first time in the history of music registered the copyright of a singing teacher for the "Method of Treating Diseases Associated with Voice Loss", establishing its priority dated March 14, 1972. The certificate was registered under No. 411865.

How many times will this document help A.N. Strelnikov! How many times will she tell me: "What a blessing that I have a copyright certificate, otherwise I would have been wiped off the face of the earth long ago!"...

The use of Strelnikov's breathing exercises in practice has shown that the range of diseases in which it helps is very wide. The central press began to write about the unique healing gymnastics. But along with popular recognition, the rejection of official medicine also grew. High-ranking officials from the Ministry of Health did not want to put up with the fact that some kind of "imposter", who, in general, did not have not only medical, but also pedagogical education, dared to penetrate their "territory" and do what they we couldn't do it ourselves. Using the latest medical equipment provided at their disposal for various studies, pulmonologists nevertheless turned out to be, as they say now, uncompetitive in front of Strelnikova's technique.

Alexandra Severovna Strelnikova was no longer alive. A few years after her daughter received a certificate granting her the right to invent the "Method of Treating Diseases Associated with Loss of Voice", Strelnikova Sr., at the age of 88, died from severe injuries sustained as a result of a car collision. (A terrible coincidence: her daughter will also lie in wait on the street.)

Unfortunately, I did not know Alexandra Severovna, since I met Alexandra Nikolaevna at the beginning of 1978. By that time, she had moved from Sokolniki to a tiny apartment on Tukhachevsky Street. I saw only an old amateur film, kept by Alexandra Nikolaevna, on which her mother goes out into the garden and sits down in a rocking chair. The frames last for a few seconds.

Everyone loved my mother, - Alexandra Nikolaevna told me. And she was very kind to people. I'm completely different, I can't love everyone!

Shurenka! - Lyudmila Ivanovna Kasatkina once said when Alexandra Nikolaevna and I were visiting her. You know how I treat you...

But what kind of mother did you have? She was a saint!

Only a few years after I met Alexandra Nikolaevna, she somehow admitted that shortly before her death, Alexandra Severovna told her:

A year later, a boy will come to you, he will be called the same as your husband (the second husband of Alexandra Nikolaevna, Mikhail, died in 1943). Teach him everything, he will heal after us!

Why did you say "to me", mom? Alexandra Nikolaevna asked in surprise. - Why not "to us"?

And I will no longer be alive, daughter! - answered the elder Strelnikova.

Alexandra Nikolaevna Strelnikova was not only a wonderful teacher, but she herself had a wonderful voice. She believed that this was largely the merit of breathing exercises.

When in 1953 her student vocalists were auditioned at the Moscow Conservatory, the conservatory luminaries began to doubt: “The fact that they all sing beautifully and have a good school does not prove the correctness of the methodology ... You, Alexandra Nikolaevna, simply gathered the best amateur singers in Moscow! "

And then Strelnikova got up and sang Kuma's arioso ("Look from the Lower") from the opera by P.I. Tchaikovsky "The Enchantress". Everyone was numb ... Frozen with delight, they listened to the woman whose merits they had rejected a few minutes ago. Well, how! Some upstart talks about his own method of voicing, which goes against all generally accepted recommendations, traditional for singing schools in England, France and even Italy!

The dean of the vocal faculty, Hugo Natanovich Titz, literally fell into prostration, and the former soloist of the Bolshoi Theater, Professor Elena Katulskaya, exclaimed: "God! What a singer! .. I refuse to participate in this vile persecution!"...

Every time, being present at Alexandra Nikolaevna’s home “sabantuy”, where singers and actors gathered, whom the mother and daughter of the Strelnikovs once “repaired” voices or who were simply taught to sing, I choked with tears, listening to Alexandra Nikolaevna perform Neapolitan folk songs and Vertinsky's romances... And no one else will ever sing the way she sang the Russian folk song "Nochenka"! She had such temperament and passion that it seemed as if her energy could crush everything in its path.

Slender, impetuous, impetuous... Red hair scattered over her shoulders, a piercing, demonic look of burning eyes...

When she sang, I wanted to cry... She sang as if she was being burned at the stake!

"Pagan!" she said about herself.

And this talented woman wrote poetry. Here is one of her later quatrains:

On the threshold of winter I want

Get carried away for an hour, getting drunk ...

Without haggling - I'll pay for everything!

And I will never regret anything!

Alexandra Nikolaevna had some kind of supernatural inner instinct: she could not explain by what signs, but she accurately determined a person’s illness, it was enough for him to do a few gymnastics exercises.

Only later, after several years of working together, I realized that by the way a person moves, how he breathes, how he looks, she could tell what he was sick with.

But there were other cases of real clairvoyance. I remember one summer we were relaxing with Alexandra Nikolaevna in the Crimea, in Sudak. Suddenly, unexpectedly on the beach, she was seized by a strong anxiety. I asked what was the matter.

Something happened, - said Alexandra Nikolaevna and, after a little thought, looking at the sea horizon, added: - It happened in the theater ... - and after a few seconds she confidently and firmly said: - In the Theater of the Moscow City Council ...

Here it must be clarified that for the last fifteen or twenty years Strelnikova has worked as a vocal teacher at the Satire Theater and at the Mossovet Theater.

The next day in the morning I bought the newspaper "Soviet Culture" at the kiosk. When I read aloud: "Faina Georgievna Ranevskaya has died," Alexandra Nikolaevna shuddered, her face "dead" for a few moments ...

One evening, coming home from the Theater of Satire, she said:

Mironov and Papanov have changed the way they play, and I don't like THAT.

I realized that she did not like the new way of playing outstanding actors, but the reasons that made her change. Soon, returning from work late in the evening, without undressing, in the hallway, she announced in some strange, unnaturally muffled voice:

Papanov died, - and, leaning her back against the door, looking with a fixed gaze into the depths of the room, she said quietly and doomedly: - And it seems to me that Andryusha will be next ...

She slowly slid down the door to the floor and sat like that for several minutes in the hallway, staring with unseeing eyes somewhere into the void. Then she got up heavily (this is with her lightness and impetuosity!) and, without undressing, went into the room.

Andrey Mironov died very soon ...

The first in our country to talk about unusual breathing exercises was the magazine "Inventor and Rationalizer" (No. 7 for 1975), which posted a photograph of Andrei Mironov performing a set of Strelnikov exercises. A year later, the set of exercises itself was published there. In 1975, the dignitary magazine "Soviet Union", which was also published in several countries in the West, published a short article about Strelnikova and her breathing exercises, which the USSR Ministry of Health always received with hostility.

This forced the magazine to make a statement by the then-famous pop singer Larisa Mondrus, who, having left the borders of our country, told Western journalists at a press conference in Germany that in the USSR "there are no conditions for a creative personality! An example? Please! My vocal teacher Alexandra Nikolaevna Strelnikova!.." Literally in the next issue, the magazine "Soviet Union" wrote that A.N. Strelnikova is a well-known teacher and works in the best theaters in Moscow. A Western layman should have concluded that Mondrus was slandering Soviet reality.

Alexandra Nikolaevna Strelnikova was grateful to Larisa Mondrus for the rest of her life for this statement. And when someone came from abroad, she was always interested in her fate. And let Larisa not be offended by my teacher for being so

I never dared to call her. I was afraid ... Not for myself - for the work I was doing, because gymnastics still had to be approved! Strelnikov remembered Stalin's times too well ...

During the life of Alexandra Severovna, mother and daughter supported each other. After the death of her mother, Alexandra Nikolaevna had to fight the Ministry of Health alone. Official medicine demanded from her a "scientific" justification for breathing exercises (you might think that the more complete and serious the so-called scientific justification of the method, the more unique its healing properties!).

And the people who came to A.N. Strelnikova for help from all over the Soviet Union, there was no time for the scientific justification of gymnastics. Sickness, that was their problem. They hoped for this breathing exercise as a miracle that would help them get rid of asthma attacks, headaches or epileptic seizures.

And what scientific justification could be required from Strelnikova, because she did not work in a clinic, she never had her own laboratory.

Alexandra Nikolaevna rushed from one clinic to another, asking, begging for research and thereby prove that her gymnastics would help unfortunate people who were choking. But she was denied everywhere. In the meantime, there was no official scientific justification, she constantly heard in her address: "You are not a doctor! You have no right to treat!"

Fortunately, the author's "certificate" saved: according to Soviet law, she had the right to receive patients at home, since no expensive equipment was required to "implement the invention" of the Strelnikovs into practice. On the contrary, such treatment itself could generate income for the state if it organized the reception of patients from - abroad.

From a letter to A.N. Strelnikova to the newspaper "Pravda":

“The Frenchman, who accidentally observed the results of our gymnastics, said:“ I don’t understand this country ... She could get rich by exploiting Strelnikova. Doesn't anyone need this?!"

And another fragment from the same letter:

“About 4 years ago, two elderly ladies came to me: a fat one and a thin one. Both doctors. The fat one said: “I wrote to you. You sent a description of the gymnastics, and despite the fact that I am 63 years old and I have severe asthma, I feel better ... Check if I'm doing everything right?

Thin woman said: "I am from Austria, doctor of medical sciences. Check me too. I think that in such an unusual gymnastics it is necessary to immediately inform the Minister of Health!"

Our doctor, who accompanied her, objected: "Yes, they will immediately strangle her / Let her sit and not rock the boat!" And I sat and did not rock the boat...

Once, at a party in the Actor's House, the leading phoniatrist of the capital approached Alexandra Nikolaevna and, spraying saliva right in her face, hissed: "It's not enough to kill you!" By the way, at one time this doctor unsuccessfully treated me for loss of voice with prozerin tablets "...

Following the magazine "Soviet Union", the newspapers "Evening Moscow", "Moskovskaya Pravda", "Soviet Culture", "Socialist Industry" wrote about Strelnikova's gymnastics. He began to write about A.N. Strelnikova and the popular magazine "Physical Culture and Sport". Having published the first article in the March 1980 issue, this magazine returned again and again to materials about amazing gymnastics. And even during the years of the unprecedented "Ministry of Health persecution of my teacher, when all other publications kept deathly silence," FiS "continued to publish materials on Strelnikov's respiratory gymnastics on its pages. How many readers he eased the suffering, introducing her principles and methods!

The Trud newspaper also published (April 21 and May 21, 1981) two excellent articles about breathing exercises, which have fantastic healing properties. And what? The journalist who wrote these articles - Nikolai Gogol - was fired from his job for this!

However, it was after the publications in "Trud" that the cramped two-room apartment of Alexandra Nikolaevna was subjected to a real siege of patients! The line of those wishing to get in for treatment was the width of the entire flight of stairs from the first floor to the fourth. I remember that a neighbor who lives on the third floor, returning from a store with full bags, could not go to her apartment (one of the prudent patients disabled the elevator so that new arrivals, entering the entrance, stood in line on the first one).

Where do you go without a queue?! someone barked at a neighbor who was making her way into her apartment.

I live here! Clear?!

We know you, "residents"! .. I suppose I bought food on purpose in order to get through without a queue!

It is quite natural that the residents began to take emergency measures for "self-defense": call and write to the Housing Office, the police department, the executive committee and even Petrovka, 38, demanding to evict the "healer" one hundred and first kilometers from Moscow.

In hot weather, however, problems with the tenants were temporarily removed. We took all our patients (sometimes their number reached more than two hundred and fifty people) to the "dog playground" in front of the house, put them in a circle and practiced. Alexandra Nikolaevna counted, and I went in circles and corrected mistakes.

However, the neighbors' complaints still reached the district prosecutor's office. The young, energetic chief prosecutor of the Khoroshevsky district of Moscow arrived, put Alexandra Nikolaevna in an official car, and, having brought her to his office, forced her to write a letter of refusal from private practice.

The crowd in the stairwell pounded on the door, I periodically went outside the threshold of the apartment and announced that Strelnikova was forbidden to receive patients. And Alexandra Nikolaevna herself at that time was rushing around the apartment in an impotent rage.

Concept "My house is my fortress!" meant absolutely nothing at the time. The district police officer, and sometimes even a whole squad of police, burst into Alexandra Nikolaevna's apartment several times, even in the middle of the night. See if there are any patients here?

For several days, choking people, along with children, silently stood under our door. Sometimes one of the kids, who had an asthma attack, rolled up in crying. The patients could not understand in any way: how is it - they "have no right to help" ... Why?! And they hoped that Strelnikova would finally "have mercy" and begin to teach them gymnastics, for which they had come from different parts of a huge country.

On one of those days, when it became unbearable to see and hear the choking children, Alexandra Nikolaevna could not stand it. Rushing to the door, she flung it open and said:

Come in!..

And now, dear reader, I will give excerpts from letters and articles. There are many of them, written by different people or prepared in different institutions.

I will introduce you to just a few. Read carefully and you will understand what Alexandra Nikolaevna had to go through. But she endured all this, endured, was able to adequately answer and convince. After all, the fate of her gymnastics, and hence the fate of thousands of patients, depended on this.

From Strelnikova’s letter to Pravda *, where she talks about an experiment that the USSR Ministry of Health finally allowed to be carried out: “... and they gave me a hall at the Institute of Balneology for 12 lessons. A letter from Star City saved me. It reported good results in gymnastics .

I started working, despite the fact that the institute's management did everything to fail the experiment. The room was not ventilated, the heat was 30°, and cores and asthmatics stood shoulder to shoulder. I had the right to refuse, but I was so confident in my gymnastics that I didn’t even hesitate ... The results were excellent! People are changing right before our eyes!

True, students sometimes approached me and said: “What is happening? I was lying and sitting. Now I walk, run, go up to the fourth floor, and the doctor, to whom I am attached, looks with green eyes from hatred and says: “I don’t see any improvement! “I should be worried. But the results were so good, the collective lessons went so beautifully that I was happy and thought: “Nothing! They will understand!..” And they realized that if our gymnastics was set in motion, it was necessary to restructure the entire medical practice. It’s easier to fill up Strelnikova.

After finishing the classes with the first three groups, N.F. Soloshenko from the Ministry of Health told me that gymnastics was recognized as useful in the allergic form of asthma and, the commission believes that it can be recommended "on a par with other gymnastics." I knew that it was a lie, that in terms of strength and effectiveness our gymnastics is immeasurably stronger. She is simply POWERFUL!!!

In thirty years of practice, there has not been a case that our gymnastics did not help with respiratory diseases. Asthmatic children recover even much faster than adults. So is it really impossible to create normal working conditions for me?"

However, the note "In fact - quackery", published in the newspaper "Soviet Russia" on April 27, 1982, stated the exact opposite:

“I happened to participate in the commission created by the USSR Ministry of Health,” writes the chairman of the commission, V.A. Siluyanova, in it. “It was her task to give a scientific assessment of the studies of A.N. Strelnikova. She outlined her illiterate “scientific” concept to the members of the commission. and no wonder, because Strelnikova does not have any medical and pedagogical education.From a conversation with her, it turned out that her mother was once engaged in restoring the voice of the artists.Obviously, something was adopted by her daughter.Over time, the daughter stopped doing vocalists and switched to the sick, suffering from "stuttering", bronchial asthma, cardiovascular diseases: hypertension, heart defects.Sessions were given privately and for a fee.

Since a considerable number of gullible patients had to be given a clear and scientifically sound answer, the members of the commission decided to give Strelnikova the opportunity to demonstrate the so-called breathing exercises to the patients.

Three groups were created. The first included patients with "stuttering", the second - with cardiovascular diseases, the third - with bronchial asthma. Each group consisted of approximately 21 to 28 people.

All patients were warned that they were going to the experiment. Medical supervision was carried out at the highest methodological level. And what? After 21 days of training, deterioration in most indicators reflecting the functional state of organs and systems was observed in almost all three groups.

Negative data were revealed during and after A.N. Strelnikova (they were carried out by herself) in patients with cardiovascular diseases. Three people who had recently been discharged from the hospital and were feeling relatively well had to be taken back to the hospital. Several people, feeling unwell, left the second or third session.

With patients with bronchial asthma, the experiment was carried out twice - in July and December last year. Several patients had severe attacks of suffocation during classes, which were not removed by physical applications offered by A.N. Strelnikova.

The experts present at the round table meeting unanimously declared that such appearance of various kinds of private "healing" methods, which have no scientific basis, should be resolutely fought, directly declaring them a manifestation of quackery.

After the publication in "Soviet Russia" of an interview with V.A. Siluyanova, Head of the Department of Physiotherapy at the 1st Moscow Medical Institute named after I.I. THEM. Sechenov (now it is an academy), chairman of the Scientific Council of the USSR Ministry of Health / chairman of the "verification" commission for evaluating the results of the "experiment", Alexandra Nikolaevna rushed to the Institute of Balneology with a request to let her see the medical records of the people who studied with her and at the same time write off their addresses and phones.

My dear teacher, trusting and disinterested, devoted herself to charity, accustomed to give, not to take (how many free lessons she gave to seriously ill people in her whole life - do not count!), did not write down during the "experiment" the addresses and telephone numbers of patients. She did not listen to advice, she was shy. I didn't know who I was dealing with...

The director of the Institute of Balneology and Physiotherapy grinned in her face:

I am not authorized to give you medical records. You are not a doctor!

Trying to find justice, A.N. Strelnikova turned to the Ministry of Health:

"I studied at the Institute of Balneology in June-July, November-December 1981. I really spent more time with patients, I gave each of the 5 groups 12 lessons ...

The program of examining my students was absolutely unknown to me, unknown even now; and I was surprised that not a single examination was carried out in front of me. And when I said that the pneumograph was not suitable for the study of Strelnikov’s gymnastics, they immediately brought it to the practice room and forced some students to exhale immediately after each of my “stop” commands, knowing that this worsens the results, because the pneumograph trains exhalation , and Strelnikov's gymnastics is a breath ... Strelnikov's voice restoration lessons consist of breathing and singing exercises, for which a piano is needed. He was not at the Institute of Balneology, and no one had the right to examine the sound of the voice where there were no sound lessons. I consider the examination of the sound unauthorized. And why do cores and asthmatics need it, I don’t understand.

I know very well that there is no status of asthma from our gymnastics. There is shortness of breath, which takes the form of an attack. It is necessary to give the student a break and learn to breathe again. I stopped statuses many times, and not only me, but also my students.

At the 57th hospital, at the request of doctors, I stopped an asthma attack in a young man during my lecture in front of everyone, at the daughter of an usher of the Theater of Satire, at her place, although there was such a case that I did not hope for it.

You don't have to be a doctor to understand from the first glance at the spirograph record why Strelnikov's gymnastics stops an asthma attack, and from the first glance at the capnograph record - how much gas exchange improves. Why was not a single such record made at the Institute of Balneology? Why, when our gymnastics was checked by biologists, the results were excellent, and when the doctors were allegedly bad?

I cannot agree with the decision of the Institute of Balneology, and once again I ask you to immediately give me the opportunity to write off the addresses of all the students who studied with me then, so that I can prove the truth. I know that not all doctors were my opponents. There were also supporters of Strelnikovskaya breathing exercises, so please tell me the names and addresses of all members of the commission of the Institute of Balneology.

In the Ministry of Health of the USSR, of course, they did not give her any addresses, sending her back to the Institute of Balneology. This is how Strelnikova rushed between two state institutions. And everywhere the same answer: "You are not a doctor, you have no right!"

Exhausted, almost broken, no longer hoping for anything (it was on one of the dark days of that hopeless period of her life that she said: "I'm tired of kneeling because I'm taller than many doctors of medical sciences! .."), she alone after another, he writes three letters to the editor-in-chief of the newspaper Sovetskaya Rossiya, which published the note "In fact - quackery."

Here are excerpts from them:

"... Among biologists, physicists, physiologists, our gymnastics has no opponents, and the number of doctors who are treated by it, who treat their children and parents, is growing uncontrollably.

I gave lectures about our gymnastics in hundreds of Soviet enterprises and institutions, primarily medical ones, including the Fourth Directorate. I will gladly read it in your editorial office, because you must know the person you are writing about.

Doctor Sedun from Chisinau and Lieutenant Colonel of the Medical Service Kogan from Leningrad report good results of our gymnastics for patients. And many more that I don’t know, since I don’t keep records, there’s no way!

But this is not the main thing. You don't have to be a doctor to understand from the first glance at the graph papers of the biological cabinet why asthmatics stop having asthma attacks from our gymnastics. It can be seen that the volume of inhalation increases immediately, from the first lesson ...

Two years ago, a student told me: “My friend worked at our embassy in France. He was often sick. strange gymnastics". The friend went. And a week later he said to the Frenchman: "What does Europe mean! How we are lagging behind!" To which he replied: "You are mistaken .. This is YOURS, not our gymnastics. I brought it from Moscow, from Sokolniki. A certain Strelnikov taught me." I asked how the Frenchman lives. "Modestly. A small two-story mansion. "And I have a 12-meter room for classes. And I have not been able to get a hall for 30 years.

It seems to me that a Soviet person should think first of all in this way: is what I am doing useful to the state.

Our gymnastics closed hundreds of ballots, dozens, and maybe even hundreds of people removed from disability. Sometimes even without meeting with me: people did gymnastics according to the description! And how many children grow up healthy, because they were brought to me at the right time? And I don’t pull a salary from the state, like many doctors of science, but I pay him as much as I can. Create conditions - I will earn currency, and oh, how much I need it now!

I don't need rebuttals. Siluyanova's statement aroused ardent sympathy for me, and the influx of students increased even more! I hope that your editorial staff will also want to get acquainted with Strelnikov's gymnastics. At the end of the lectures, I always demonstrate it and call those who want to do it. I hope you will also want to hear my story.

"In addition to my letter, I want to tell only a case from my practice.

On April 26 of this year, at twelve o'clock in the morning, a telephone rang in my apartment, and the woman, bursting into tears, shouted: "Do not hang up! I speak from Kyiv! My nine-year-old son is dying (she said so: DIES)! Second month status asthma, and he is allergic to drugs. Your gymnastics is the last hope. Can you do it in this condition? " - "Must! Do you know her?" - "Yes, I was once at your lecture and you showed it there!" - "Begin this very minute!" And I explained on the phone the pace and dose of gymnastics. On April 28, at 8.30 am, I again heard her voice: “Alexandra Nikolaevna! I bless your name! I bless the meeting with you! We stopped the attack in 30 minutes.

The son walks, eats, speaks! We are already in Moscow. Can I bring him to you?" "Take it soon!" I shouted. And after 30-40 minutes they were with me. A pale, thin boy came in, but with normal breathing, and began to do Strelnikov's gymnastics ...

You allowed a stupid, vicious, incompetent woman to sling mud at me in the pages of your newspaper. You know and I know that neither Siluyanova, nor the entire institute where she works and which costs the state many thousands, has done nothing of the kind in their entire existence. And you became an accomplice in the black Siluyanovsky case! And you do not feel sorry for the children? And not scared? And no one in your family suffocates at night from asthma? And never get sick?

Doctors consider themselves offended, but you, you, how could you not understand this? After all, it’s scary to live when you see how a nationwide, but what’s there - global, opening is being strangled by people who have lost their conscience!

And one more passage - from the third letter to the chief editor of the newspaper "Soviet Russia":

"Don't you know that modern medicine has no - do you hear? - there are no means of combating asthma? I have seen children completely deaf, forever, because pneumonia was treated with antibiotics, against which asthma was going. Results: hearing is lost forever, and "Pneumonia and asthma are the same. I saw adults with their throats cut, sometimes on both sides. They were promised that the asthma would end, but it continued. And it cost me superhuman efforts to teach them to breathe. I did it, and the asthma receded. And the hormones?" , which cripple not only the kidneys and adrenal glands, but also the genital area, although medicine does not like to admit this.

Before my eyes is a 7-year-old boy from the GDR who was given hormones because he was choking. And my gymnastics could stop the attack jokingly and warn new ones: the Soviet people "en masse", in your own words, do Strelnikov's gymnastics, therefore, they need it. So why did you go not with him, but against him?! I am sure that your editorial office, television, radio, Pravda are inundated with letters demanding to show and describe Strelnikov's gymnastics. She arrived on time and took two lives: my mother's and mine. How could you, not seeing me, not knowing who I am, throw mud at not me, but a huge nationwide cause. Yes, there is universal! Global!

The young correspondents of your newspaper visited me several times and interviewed me. One, apparently the most conscientious, was at a seminar of doctors who had come from many cities, including foreign ones, and saw the enthusiastic reception given to me by the doctors. And yet the correspondence did not go. Why?

Why do you stand not on the side of the new and great, but on the side of the old and obsolete, and most importantly, unscrupulous? Well, think, think honestly, as a citizen and a person: who can understand and find the right breath: a doctor or a singer who has become a vocal teacher? The dentist, the venereologist, the urologist, the surgeon - disappear at once. A laryngologist who meets with singers on a daily basis? No, he looks at the larynx and ligaments - that's all. Professor Zagoryanskaya said: "We still see, but Strelnikov is still!" And she showed the first time to the base of the neck, and the second - to the waist. And she was right. The therapist listens to the breath, but does not delve into its essence. He states: this and that is obscured. But he does not think about why and what to do to fix it. The singer, who lost her voice and realized that it cannot be returned if her breathing is organized incorrectly, is looking for the right breath as a means of life and finds it.

I can tell you one thing: you are destroying not only adults, but also children, very young children who suffocate at night and whose only way to escape is Strelnikovskaya gymnastics. I do not assume, I know, I know this from 30 years of practice, and let your conscience decide the rest.

But only four years later, inundated with letters in defense of Strelnikova, the editors of Sovetskaya Rossiya were forced to publish an objective article about her method. It finally came out on February 14, 1986 under the title "To Breathe or Not to Breathe?"

The correspondent of the newspaper S. Kalenikin, before writing an article, visited A.N. Strelnikova and talked with the patients present at the gymnastics session, with the mothers of children with asthma.

But the skeptics did not let up.

In response to an article in Soviet Russia, Medical Newspaper on March 21, 1986, saving the honor of the uniform, published an article by the Chairman of the Academic Council O. Gavrilov, in which he reported that during Strelnikova's "experiment" in 40% of patients, the state of health remained unchanged , 29% had a negative result and only 31% had a positive result.

Alexandra Nikolaevna in response writes a letter to the Medical Newspaper:

"... 29% - the result is negative? But it may be that chronic pneumonia, against which asthma was going on, gave an outbreak from gymnastics with an increase in temperature, as a result of which many years of sputum went, traffic jams and relief could immediately come, but I don’t allowed to finish the job.

Slight dizziness happens in the first lesson. But it also happens when a person who has been in a stuffy room for a long time comes out into the fresh air. Didn't the doctors of the Institute of Balneology know this? Let them know it's not harmful.

As negative results, an increase in pressure and a violation of cerebral circulation were mentioned in 1-2 people. But pressure can rise from any movement, and this cannot prove that movement is harmful, and as for cerebral circulation, how did this become known if there was not a single encephalogram? However, there was not a single spirogram, that is, a decisive document when it comes to breathing, either.

Was there an increase in pressure? Why didn't anyone tell me about this? I would change the pace and dose! In any case, all these effects are minor and temporary. And since truth is known in comparison, compare the negative results of conventional medicine and Strelnikov's gymnastics. Here are the letters I receive.

"My eldest son had diathesis. He was treated, he turned into eczema. With eczema, we were in Rostov, Krasnodar and two Moscow hospitals. We were treated. We got asthmatic bronchitis and loss of vision. (Growth, region, Zamovnikvosky district, p.o. . Kamyshev, Davydova N. I.)".

“I’m sick for the 4th year. I fell ill with pneumonia. They put me in the hospital, they began to inject. The pressure rose to 280/145. I injected. It didn’t get better. The pressure was 220/110, it stabilized. I read about your gymnastics in the newspaper, began to do it. The pressure is 140/80, 160/90. But it's still difficult to breathe. Little is written there. Send the complex. (Saratov region, Pugachev, Yuryev V.P.)."

"Our daughter is 9 years old. She has been suffering from asthma for 5 years. What have we done! Our child is getting worse. There were attacks with loss of consciousness. (Vladimir region, Gorokhovets, Tunkina T.N.)".

“Three people in my family suffer from this disease. All attempts at treatment fail. Help!

"Send the complex. Disabled group II, I'm 55 years old. I can't go for bread. Sukhovey A.V. Rostov region, Salsk."

"She is now 34 years old, she has been hospitalized 4 times in serious condition. Nothing helps. From the speech of "Soviet Russia" it is clear that the Ministry of Health will investigate your gymnastics. This will probably end after her or your death. Please send a training manual. Amurskaya region, Svobodny. Father and daughter Rozanova.

"Sign up for an appointment. And thank you maternally. You put your daughter on her feet. She has not known medicine for 4 years. She started doing aerobics. Kaliningrad, Kornakova."

"Slavik was lying, he could not get up. He began to do "Turns", "Ears" and "Small Pendulum". After a few minutes, his breathing became even. Kyiv, Kulishenko."

There was also such a letter: "Thanks for the manual, but the girl had already died in the ambulance."

And knowing all this, the experts rated Strelnikova's gymnastics "definitely negatively"!

Has anyone gone blind or deaf from it, like from antibiotics? Or were the kidneys, adrenal glands, nervous system, genital area and spine permanently crippled, as if from hormones?

And even if 30 percent of patients had a positive result, and then our gymnastics is the only way to fight bronchial asthma that gives a real result without harming the body, because bronchoscopy causes injuries to the bronchi, sometimes very severe, and hormones cripple a person forever, and , judging by the fact that now they are even given to children (and other official methods are ineffective), their harm is great.

I ask you, members of the editorial board of the Medical Newspaper, in the name of the Hippocratic oath that you once took, instead of joining the opponents of the new one, to help me reproduce the training manual so that the letter that the girl died before her received".

But in the January issue of the journal "Health" for 1989, an article was published, which was called "Breathing according to Tolkachev or Strelnikova?" In connection with the environmental situation that has worsened in recent years and the growth of diseases of the bronchopulmonary system, the editors of the journal, in response to numerous letters asking them to talk about various respiratory techniques, gathered a number of leading experts in this field at a round table. B.S. Tolkachev was invited to the round table, but A.N. They forgot to call Strelnikov. Doctor of Medical Sciences E.I. Sorokin from the All-Union Scientific Center for Medical Rehabilitation and Physiotherapy (formerly the Institute of Balneology), by the way, is a cardiologist, not a pulmonologist.

She reported:

“Now a lot of people are addicted to breathing according to Strelnikova. We tested the effectiveness of this method at our institute. We didn’t find any advantages over classical breathing exercises. Moreover, there were even cases of exacerbation of bronchial asthma. more broadly."

Pay attention to the words: MORE WIDE. For the first time, a representative of official medicine recognized the right to treat Strelnikovskaya gymnastics, albeit with reservations.

The ice is slowly starting to move...

September 1989 An Indian summer of stunning beauty! Alexandra Nikolaevna does not officially receive patients, because she has a vacation and she is going to rest. As always, he wants to go to the Crimea, to his beloved Sudak. But circumstances demanded her presence in Moscow. Strelnikova is waiting for her student, the soloist of the Grand Opera, who, having called from Paris, warned that she would come to singing lessons not alone, but with two French doctors who were very interested in breathing exercises.

During the day, Alexandra Nikolaevna deals with one or two unscheduled out-of-town patients who were passing through Moscow, and in the evening she hurries to her beloved Serebryany Bor. She always swam until the very frosts, until the Moscow River was covered with ice.

Day after day passes, Alexandra Nikolaevna begins to get nervous: the student should have been in Moscow for a long time, but she is still gone. And he doesn't even call! What happened?..

I persuade you not to wait and go on vacation (the year was especially stressful). In which case I will send a telegram, and it seems that she is ready to give in.

I am going to visit my mother in Sergiev Posad near Moscow for a few days. On Friday afternoon I say goodbye to Alexandra Nikolaevna. She stands in the middle of the room near the table, smiles somehow apologetically and looks at me as if she wants to remember.

Did I think then, hugging my teacher, that I would never see her again? Of course not! But there was a strange feeling of something standing between us. As if she was already somewhere far, far away ...

After a few days spent in Sergiev Posad, I suddenly felt a feeling of anxiety, hopelessness, and melancholy growing every day. I started calling Alexandra Nikolaevna in Moscow. No one picked up the phone even though I knew she should be at home. And I rushed to the capital.

For some reason, the door of the apartment was sealed, and a note stuck in it: "Misha, urgently call. Evgeny Mikhailovich" (nephew of A.N. Strelnikova. - M.Shch.). The key did not fit into the keyhole, and I did not immediately realize that a new lock had been inserted ...

As they told me later, that day in Moscow was warm and sunny. But in the evening the sky quickly became overcast with clouds, and it began to rain. Alexandra Nikolaevna, having bathed, hastily got ready to go home. She began to cross the road ... Two drunken guys on a motorcycle flew out from behind the turn at high speed and knocked down Alexandra Nikolaevna. Having lost control, they crashed into a pole and died themselves. Three ridiculous deaths at the same time...

Alexandra Nikolaevna was buried on September 20. And again it was warm and sunny. The leaves on the trees, yellow-yellow, for some reason did not fall ...

I will not describe the funeral. God grant that those days remain the most terrible in my life!

After the death of Alexandra Nikolaevna, everything had to be done so that the Strelnikov method continued to live and benefit people. This is the best thing that could be done in memory of Alexandra Nikolaevna.

Although this task was very difficult. After all, even Strelnikova herself, with incredible difficulty, defended the right to life for her offspring.

The first to come to the rescue were dramatic actors who had known Alexandra Nikolaevna for many years and experienced the wonderful properties of her gymnastics: Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, Margarita Terekhova, Galina Yatskina, singer Olga Voronets.

People's Artist of the USSR Lyudmila Kasatkina came to my defense as an indestructible wall. It was she, the good genius of the Strelnikovsky house, who knocked out the first housing in the 60s for the then unknown provincial teachers of the mother and daughter Strelnikov. It was she who opened Strelnikov's gymnastics for the actors. And now Lyudmila Ivanovna was again among those who helped me get on my feet as a professional specialist.

For nine years now I have been working alone, without my mentor. I carefully keep a document signed by Alexandra Nikolaevna, testifying that I am her "only student and creative heir. Just like during the life of Alexandra Nikolaevna, frequent calls are heard asking for help, sick people come with the hope of getting healed.

I want to help everyone, especially sick children.

I still get letters from the mailbox addressed to A.N. Strelnikova, still not on the phone - no, yes, and I will hear: "Alexandra Nikolaevna, please invite to the phone!" ...

The first medical institution in which I began to introduce breathing exercises during the life of my teacher was the Moscow City Clinical Hospital No. 50 of a wide profile.

I always remember with warmth one of the surgeons (all four surgical departments were assigned to me), who, sending his next operated patient to breathing exercises, each time did not forget to remind me:

I beg you, Mikhail Nikolaevich, only without fanaticism! ..

If I deal with the sick without fanaticism, - I once answered him, - you will not send your patients to me. Because then they will not recover so quickly!

In 1992, I conducted an experiment in the adolescent department of the Central Research Institute of Tuberculosis. Here is what the head of the children's and adolescents department, phthisiatrician of the highest category Z.V. wrote about him. Evfimievskaya:

"From March to July 1992, on the basis of the children's and adolescent department of the Central Research Institute of Tuberculosis of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, an experiment was carried out on the rehabilitation of adolescents suffering from tuberculosis using breathing exercises according to the Strelnikov method against the background of standard chemotherapy. A significant improvement in the general condition of patients was noted, improvement hemodynamics, ECG and respiratory function.Infiltrative changes in the lungs resolve faster and healing of decay cavities occurs.

Particularly good results were noted in adolescents who, in addition to tuberculosis, suffer from vegetative-vascular dystopias.

And in the department of physical therapy of the 9th polyclinic of the Moscow garrison, our gymnastics has been used since 1988. Here is how one of the best specialists in Moscow in the rehabilitation of patients, a doctor of the highest category Z.P. speaks about her. Melikhova:

"I am familiar with many non-traditional methods of treatment: yoga exercises, Buteyko breathing, qigong exercises, taijiquan, su-jok, the Taoist respiratory system. Each of them has its own rational grain. But they all require maximum energy costs from a person, and some are even restructuring of the entire lifestyle and are designed for months and years of hard, intense training.

For Strelnikovskaya gymnastics, one square meter of room and an open window are needed. 10 minutes after the start of classes, a completely different state of health appears: cheerfulness, lightness in the whole body, good mood. That is, in the shortest possible time - the maximum result. And this is exactly what modern man needs in our way of life.

The positive effect of Strelnikovskaya respiratory gymnastics was also noted in the Central Polyclinic No. 1 of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia and was confirmed by an act on its introduction into medical practice. In her interview to the Voin magazine (1996, No. 8), Nadezhda Dmitrievna Yegorkina, Honored Doctor of Russia, Candidate of Medical Sciences, Head of the Tuberculosis Department of the Central Polyclinic No. 1 of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, says: “I maintained friendship and professional contact with Alexandra Nikolaevna Strelnikova for During this time, I was personally convinced of the effectiveness of her method and was very grateful to her for the attention and patience with which she dealt with my patients in my presence.

I have been using Strelnikova's gymnastics in the treatment of patients with various respiratory diseases for more than 10 years. If patients do gymnastics regularly, then the positive effect is always pronounced (acute pneumonia is cured within 10-14 days without antibiotics, with the addition of pathogenic drugs). It should be noted that it is very important to correctly perform the exercises of Strelnikov's gymnastics.

In this regard, we must pay tribute to the only student and assistant A.N. Strelnikova - Mikhail Nikolayevich Shchetinin, who conducts classes in a qualified manner, getting brilliant results. I always refer severe patients with bronchial asthma, exacerbations of chronic obstructive bronchitis to M.N. Shchetinin, since only he can quickly provide medical assistance, stopping asthma attacks with gymnastics, and then work out the stage of independent studies individually with each patient.

And finally, I want to quote the famous surgeon - phoniatrist, doctor of medical sciences, professor - otorhinolaryngologist V.A. Zagoryanskaya-Feldman (newspaper "Children's Health", 1995, No. 11, 12):

“For more than 30 years I have been observing the excellent therapeutic effect of Strelnikov’s breathing exercises in singers and actors with various diseases of the vocal apparatus. It is useful for everyone and at any age, especially for children, with some colds and acute respiratory infections. By improving general metabolic processes, this breathing exercises strengthens the entire body of the child makes it healthy!"

So, you are probably already convinced that our gymnastics can work wonders. However, I want to warn you that some dishonest businessmen from medicine, who, unfortunately, have always existed and still exist, are trying to exploit our gymnastics, making money on this first of all and not caring at all about the results of treatment. How many times have I heard that a patient, having undergone a course of treatment in such and such a medical center and paid an impressive amount for it, did not feel any improvement. And when this patient at my appointment begins to demonstrate Strelnikov's gymnastics, I want to say to those who have this unfortunate person undergone a "treatment": "Fear God, gentlemen!"

By the way, using the right of the sole creative heir A.N. Strelnikova, I recently legally terminated the practice of two false students who worked in traditional medicine centers according to the Strelnikova system. I think not about my own interests, but first of all about sick people, whom it is simply a sin to deceive.

And again, the wise words of my teacher come to mind: "As for the resistance of elite doctors, it is natural, because the recognition of Strelnikov's gymnastics will destroy a number of doctoral dissertations, and the introduction will force to rebuild medical practice, and not just talk about readiness to do it."

Times are changing ... Now no one needs to be convinced of the colossal healing properties of Strelnikov's gymnastics. There is no such city in the country, and in the city there is at least one clinic in which Strelnikov's exercises would not be used. Now, perhaps an outright pest who has a medical degree and hates his patients can argue that our gymnastics is harmful. Indeed, there are some...

Even traditional exercise therapy, which for decades recommended taking "deep" breaths at chest opening, began to suggest breathing in on the opposite movement of the arms (as in our "Hug Your Shoulders" exercise) and lean forward (as in the "Pump" exercise). At the same time, however, it is stipulated that air must be sent to the lower broad bases of the lungs. May he not go there, gentlemen, professors of traditional exercise therapy! It won’t work because you only copied the movement from us (silent, by the way, that you spied it on Strelnikova). And the breath itself remained the same, traditional: long and absolutely passive! So hear the ringing, but you don’t know where it is! Or rather, you do not want to know ... Hence the zero result!

But now you, dear readers, finally have this book. Carefully study the recommendations given in it, and slowly master each movement. Your patience and perseverance will be rewarded with the most valuable prize in the world - good health.