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At 77, Alexandra Nikolaevna Strelnikova wore tight-fitting dresses in size 48 and high heels. She did not recognize any diets and did not observe. She adored sweet and starchy foods, indulged in cakes at night. In addition, she did not like to cook, she ate anywhere, with anything and at any time. However, she never had gastritis or colitis. She herself explains this paradox by the fact that for many years she did her gymnastics several times a day ...
The unexpected normalization of weight was noted by many who did breathing exercises according to Strelnikova. The effect is achieved by improving the work of all centers of the brain, including food.
This gymnastics is called paradoxical because in natural conditions we take a breath when we straighten up or spread our arms. Here it's the other way around. On inspiration, a tilt is made, the chest is compressed, the top of the lungs is clamped. The air goes to the lower section, and the lungs are filled to 100%. Much more oxygen enters the blood.
But doing the right Strelnikov's breath is not easy. You need to train actively, enthusiastically, selflessly. If the technique is impeccable, the body enjoys the movements, and does not languish from them. The main complex is 12 exercises, each of which is normally performed 96 times. For those who want to lose extra pounds, it is usually recommended to do the main complex 3 times a day (30 minutes in the morning, afternoon and evening).
But you should not start mastering gymnastics on your own - it is better to consult a specialist and take into account contraindications. For example, with increased arterial, intraocular pressure, stones in the liver, kidneys and myopia of more than 5 diopters, you can not bend low, and in case of cardiovascular diseases it is not recommended to raise your legs high.

BREATH OF THE ORIENT
Perhaps most of the healing techniques based on breathing exercises and meditation came to us from the East. Poetic names, fanatical perseverance and immersion in Eastern philosophy. East is a delicate matter.

Qigui
This is perhaps the most complex system of psychophysical influence on a person. In a nutshell, do not tell about it. Weight loss occurs due to the overall harmonization of the body, the normalization of the gastrointestinal tract, liver and bile ducts. Qigong is not suitable for cores, it is impossible to practice during exacerbations of chronic diseases, as well as in diseases accompanied by bleeding, pustules on the skin.

jianfei
Translated from Chinese, it means "lose fat". Those who practiced say that the first kilogram leaves in 2-3 days, another 5-7 kg - after 2 months. The feeling of hunger disappears, it will be possible to reduce the amount of food without much effort or even stop eating for a while. At the same time, there is no weakening of the body, no dizziness.
With the help of 3 types of breathing exercises - "wave", "frog" and "lotus", which must be performed 3 times a day for 30-40 minutes, you can maintain a slender figure and maintain excellent health for years. This is what the authors say, referring to the fact that exercises stimulate blood circulation, metabolism, relieve fatigue, and raise tone.
The exercises are not difficult in principle, although they have a number of limitations for those who suffer from cardiovascular, gastrointestinal or other serious diseases. Women during menstruation, this technique is contraindicated.

WAVE: lie on your back, legs bent at the knees at a right angle, feet stand straight, put one hand on the chest, the other on the stomach. When inhaling, expand your chest, draw in your stomach. When exhaling, on the contrary - draw in the chest, inflate the stomach.
The respiratory rate should be close to normal (if there is a slight dizziness, breathing should be slightly slowed down). If desired, the exercise can be done standing, sitting, even walking or cycling. To extinguish a hungry attack, 40 full breaths are usually enough.
"Wave" is driven in the first days of classes. Then - only when hunger is felt. If after 60 "waves" a strong feeling of hunger does not go away and unpleasant sensations arise, then your body is a tough nut to crack and even the ninth respiratory shaft is beyond its strength.

Know-how in Chinese
It is not necessary to comprehend the complexities of ancient techniques, say modern Chinese reflexologists. The benefit of the figure and health can be brought by simply devoting a few minutes a day to exercises on the male and female type of breathing (abdominal plus chest). Upper (thoracic) breathing saturates the blood with oxygen, which means it enhances metabolic processes and burns fat. Lower (abdominal) makes food better digested, eliminates constipation, increases the tone of the abdominal muscles. As a result, the stomach is tightened and the folds on the hips disappear.
To take a deep breath, you first need to stick out the stomach, lowering the diaphragm. Then fill your chest with air by raising your shoulders. Then you need to hold your breath for a few seconds and start exhaling. You need to start exhaling "from above": lowering your shoulders, squeezing your chest and only then pulling in your stomach (pulling the diaphragm under the ribs). In no case should you make the mistake that the Chinese call the "hourglass" when, when exhaling, the diaphragm first tightens, only then the shoulders drop. Thus, the lungs are squeezed from two sides at once and, from the point of view of ancient Chinese medicine, they squeeze the "wonderful meridian" - one of the main energy channels of our body.

HERE AND NOW!
Try the simplest and most affordable complex by taking 3 exercises from three famous authors: G. Shatalova, G. Childers and Strelnikova. Which of these exercises to do, how they are combined and how much time to devote to them, everyone decides for himself. The only thing that can interfere with breathing exercises is tight clothing.

1. Belly breathing
GS Shatalova believes that breathing with the lower abdomen is the most effective breathing exercise. Such gymnastics sitting or standing should be performed for 10 minutes. Place one hand on the chest, the other on the middle part of the abdomen. With a deep breath through the nose, we "inflate the stomach" as much as possible, while exhaling through the mouth (lips into a tube), we slowly release the air. At the same time, you can perform "imperceptible" exercises: clench and unclench your fists or alternately change the position of the legs without moving the torso.

2. Bodyflex breathing for a flat stomach
slowly and evenly exhale through the mouth all the air stagnant in the lungs (lips into a tube)
inhale quickly and aggressively through the nose
sharply exhale all the air through the mouth, lowering the diaphragm as low as possible
close your mouth, hold your breath and draw in your stomach, mentally counting to 10, tilt your head forward, pulling your stomach up (imagine how the abdominal organs are literally tucked under the ribs)
relax and inhale, feeling the air rush into the lungs. At the stage of exhalation and the inverted abdomen, add "invisible" exercises with the arms or legs. This breathing scheme is also suitable for walking.

3. Hands
This is one of the exercises of the system of A. N. Strelnikova. Stand up straight, bend your elbows (elbows down) and "show your palms to the viewer." Take 4 sharp rhythmic breaths in a row with your nose (“sniff” 4 times), simultaneously clenching and unclenching your fists. Lower your arms, rest for 3-4 seconds. 4 more short, noisy breaths - and again a pause. The shoulders must be motionless. You can perform the exercise standing and sitting.

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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 of proper 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, the last breath of 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 help, one of the most severe attacks began. 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 (Lyudmila Kasatkina, Andrei Mironov, Alla Pugacheva, Maxim Shtraukh, Larisa Golubkina and many others turned to her help at different times). 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 do not have a common opinion about Strelnikova's method. 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 mellitus 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 systems, and 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 its 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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one of the Strelnikov sisters, whose existence I had no idea. 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 called "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.

leniya. This is how gymnastics was gradually invented, "o Alexandra Nikolaevna did not 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 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 to make it easier for her daughter to breathe. 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 can make a person healthy! This was the beginning of a new health system.

MOTHER AND DAUGHTER

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 a "Method of treating diseases associated with voice loss", 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.

"Pagan"

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...
And the voice, this extraordinary voice... Those who happened to hear it will remember it all their lives.
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, she 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 THIS.
I realized that she did not like the new way of acting by prominent actors, but the reasons that forced her to 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 ...

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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 a 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. The last time the head of the family, Nikolai Dmitrievich, was seen by his family was 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 with her mother's older sister, Lydia. After some time, Lidia Severovna and her husband, taking their younger sister Nina, left for Harbin.

Alexandra Strelnikova became an 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 separate exercises from her future unique breathing system. 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 over the leadership of amateur art activities, traveling around the Novosibirsk region with an 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, published a short article 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 conducted 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 service to people, this technique was recognized and is now being successfully developed and also brought to people by her student and follower Mikhail Nikolaevich Shchetinin.

At her age, and she was 77 years old, Alexandra Nikolaevna Strelnikova was an absolutely healthy person, she was an excellent swimmer and on the day of her death, she returned after 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 knocked her down at high speed and, having lost 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 of area 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.

Use the technique, it is actually miraculous!

Sincerely, Stolbunets Lydia

Alexandra Nikolaevna Strelnikova(1912-1989) - opera singer, teacher. Along with his mother, Alexandra Severovna Strelnikova, he is the co-author of the respiratory gymnastics complex, known as Strelnikova's breathing exercises.

A family

Father - Nikolai Dmitrievich Strelnikov, he was last seen in 1919. Mother - Alexandra Severovna, a singing teacher at the Moscow Opera and Drama Theater. Stanislavsky, then worked as a vocal teacher in. There were also two sisters - Nina and Tatyana. In her youth, Alexandra married, but the marriage quickly fell apart.

Biography

Born in 1912. Since 1920, she lived with her sisters and mother at her aunt (her mother's older sister) Lydia. Then Lydia Severovna moved with one of her nieces to.

Alexandra Nikolaevna Strelnikova became an opera singer. Before she sang in the troupe. Even in the pre-war years, Alexandra Nikolaevna used individual exercises of her future breathing system.

After the war, Strelnikova moved to and began to lead amateur art activities, traveling with a propaganda team around. She returned to Moscow in 1953 and brought three of her students. Two of them entered, the third - in. When her mother moved to Alexandra, she began working as a vocal teacher at, and her mother at 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:

She died in September 1989 as a result.

Breathing exercises

The author's certificate with priority dated March 14, 1972 was finally received by her daughter Alexandra Nikolaevna. The invention was called How to treat diseases associated with loss of voice» . The first to talk about breathing exercises was the magazine "" in 1975, which placed photographs of people doing the exercises. A year later, the entire set of exercises was published there.