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Breathing gymnastics Strelnikova is a system that combines movement and breathing. It has a significant therapeutic and preventive effect in any pathologies of the respiratory system.

The history of the creation and development of breathing exercises

Alexandra Nikolaevna Strelnikova invented the first exercises for the future respiratory gymnastics complex in her youth, before the war. She applied for a patent, but the advance of the German troops prevented her from obtaining it.

And in the war, and mainly in subsequent years, Alexandra Nikolaevna continued to expand and improve her complex. At this time, she had the first patients and followers, including Shchetinin Mikhail Nikolaevich: Strelnikova's breathing exercises literally saved him from bronchial asthma and the loss of voice associated with it.

After the tragic death of Strelnikova, Mikhail Shchetinin continued her work; Strelnikova's breathing exercises, the video of which is presented here to your attention, is the most accurate reproduction of the basic exercises of the complex. Shchetinin mastered it directly under the guidance of the author, thanks to which he got acquainted with all the nuances and subtleties of the exercises.

How to do breathing exercises correctly?

Their key feature is the performance on a noisy, emotional breath through the nose. A deep, sharp breath, accompanying certain movements of the body, has a strong effect on the gas balance, on the acid-base balance of the body. It activates various compensatory mechanisms, due to which the course of various diseases is corrected.

Each exercise should be performed in eights. We did 8 repetitions, rested a little.

The breath should be sharp and short as cotton.

The effectiveness of gymnastics in various ENT diseases

Bronchial and cardiac asthma, stuttering, headaches and many other health problems are successfully solved by M.N. Shchetinin; Strelnikova's breathing exercises in his hands become a method whose effectiveness is comparable to drug therapy and physiotherapy. You, too, can appreciate the effectiveness of this method by mastering its basic exercises and doing them regularly!

Breathing exercises Strelnikova (a set of exercises)

Exercise "Palms"

Stand up straight, palms forward.

We squeeze our palms into fists and at the same time sniff our nose.

Exercise "Carriers"

We place our hands with clenched fists at the level of the belt.

With force we push our hands down, unclenching our fingers.

Exercise "Pump"

Exercise "Cat"

Exercise "Hug your shoulders"

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“Dear Alexandra Nikolaevna!

Words cannot express my gratitude!

You are a miracle!

Before I met you, I did not believe in miracles.

Now I believe!

M. Mironova

From the author

Breathing gymnastics by A. N. Strelnikova was created at the turn of the 20-30s of the last century in our country and after a decade and a half it was a set of breathing exercises that included in active work not only the respiratory organs, but the whole organism as a whole, all parts body from head to toe.

The official "birthday" of Strelnikovskaya respiratory gymnastics is April 29, 1941. I am quoting a document from the People’s Commissariat of Health, stored in the archive of A. N. Strelnikova: “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 ... ".

But, the war began, and the country was not up to Strelnikovskaya gymnastics. And only in 1972, Alexandra Nikolaevna Strelnikova received a copyright certificate No. 411865 for "Method of treating diseases associated with loss of voice." I emphasize - "METHOD OF TREATMENT", and not recovery. The certificate of usefulness was given by the clinic of the Bolshoi Theater, the ENT room of the Institute. Gnesins and the Institute of Surgery. A. V. Vishnevsky.

Alexandra Nikolaevna was well aware that the gymnastics she invented was precisely THERAPEUTIC. That is, it does not just “knead” and “train” the body, like any physical exercise that is done in the morning after sleep or in physical education classes in schools and educational institutions. And it has a therapeutic effect, first of all, on the respiratory organs and, together with them, on the whole organism as a whole. Here and the musculoskeletal system, and the gastrointestinal tract, and the genitourinary system; diseases of the endocrine and nervous system and much, much more. That is why, next to Alexandra Nikolaevna Strelnikova, there were always doctors who not only treated themselves, treated their children and grandchildren with this unusually effective gymnastics, but also tested its effect on various organs and systems in those medical institutions in which they worked.

Using Strelnikov's breathing exercises at the Central Research Institute of Tuberculosis of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences for more than 25 years, I never cease to admire its truly miraculous properties in the treatment of various forms of pulmonary tuberculosis.

High efficiency of breathing exercises A.N. Strelnikova has been confirmed by numerous studies that have been carried out at the Central Research Institute of Tuberculosis of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences since 1992.

No medicines in the world can increase the vital capacity of the lungs (VC). This can be done only by respiratory gymnastics.

Fulfilling the will of my teacher, I patented the gymnastics invented by her with three patents for the treatment of respiratory diseases. Again, for TREATMENT, not recovery. Alexandra Nikolaevna, throughout her half-century practice of cooperation with doctors, has always listened to their opinion and advice in the treatment of diseases (and who doesn’t have them now?! ..), requiring professional medical knowledge. She was always happy when doctors sent their patients to us, strongly recommending that they do Strelnikovskaya breathing exercises. A. N. Strelnikova also treated instructors, physical education teachers, and leaders of various sports sections with respect. But, I was absolutely convinced that their knowledge and practical experience are applicable in fitness, aerobics and sports, and not in medicine. And ONLY doctors should treat her with therapeutic exercises.

That is why I am ready to teach this unique healing technique to doctors who know the anatomy and physiology of the human body and are able to help patients with a variety of diseases. And not just the respiratory system.

Mikhail Nikolaevich Shchetinin

“The only thing I have in life is my gymnastics and my Misha!”

“Our gymnastics is an absolutely independent medical system. It should not be combined with any other healing methods. If the author of another method reinforces his system with Strelnikov's exercises, then his "creation" is either ineffective or completely useless! .. "

A. N. Strelnikova

Alexandra Nikolaevna Strelnikova (1912-1989) - opera singer, theater teacher. In the 1930s she was a soloist at the opera house under the direction of K. S. Stanislavsky and V. I. Nemirovich-Danchenko. Having lost her singing voice, she developed, together with her mother A. S. Strelnikova, a set of breathing exercises, which later turned into a harmonious health system. And now this system is successfully used in the treatment of a number of different diseases of the respiratory and cardiovascular systems, the musculoskeletal system, the gastrointestinal tract, the genitourinary system, and the central nervous system.

But, like many inventors, Alexandra Nikolaevna had to go through a difficult path from the rejection of her method by official medicine to nationwide popularity.

She was a completely healthy woman until her last day, when she tragically died in a car accident. She was 77 years old.

But, the work of her life - unique breathing exercises - she left to us, her compatriots. She passed on and bequeathed her discoveries to her student, Mikhail Nikolaevich Shchetinin.

They met when Mikhail Shchetinin was a student at the directing department. He came with his misfortune - he completely lost his voice. With the help of Strelnikovskaya gymnastics, he not only regained his lost voice, but also restored nasal breathing, got rid of bronchial asthma. Amazing gymnastics won him over with its truly ingenious simplicity and efficiency. Since then, he has become a follower of Strelnikova, her devoted student and assistant. According to her instructions, he receives a second, already medical education, and now he is completely “immersed” in medicine, testing “singing” breathing exercises into an unusually effective non-drug therapeutic method.

When one day at a press conference, Alexandra Strelnikova was asked if she had students, she said: “The only thing I have in life is my gymnastics and my Misha!” Mikhail Shchetinin was next to his teacher for the last 12 years of her life. Alexandra Nikolaevna taught him how to stop an attack in a choking asthmatic, how to help the heart, how to get rid of prostatitis, prostate adenoma and impotence, how to deal with bedridden seriously ill patients, how to restore flexibility to the spine and joints, how to make a stutterer speak smoothly, improve sound the voice of an actor or singer.

Currently, Mikhail Nikolaevich Shchetinin is actively popularizing Strelnikova's method in the press, on radio and television, and successfully introducing it into the practice of medical institutions. Mikhail Nikolaevich has preserved the richest archive of Alexandra Nikolaevna: her notes, photographs, joint sketches and development of new exercises. She could have done a lot more, but she didn’t have time ...

Mikhail Shchetinin is a spiritually generous and selfless person. He does not skimp on kindness: he has numerous free lectures for the elderly and disabled, gratuitous classes with seriously ill children in tuberculosis clinics, emergency telephone consultations for critically ill patients.

Mikhail Nikolayevich says that he is a happy person: he has cured himself, he saves others. Shchetinin's patients are very grateful to the tireless propagandist and talented student of Alexandra Strelnikova. And supporters of recovery in Strelnikovsky are becoming more and more every day. After all, Shchetinin gives free lectures at social service centers (SSC), children's centers, centers for disabled children, kindergartens and schools, and military units. And every time his listeners are amazed at the amazing effectiveness of paradoxical breathing exercises. And no wonder: Strelnikova's gymnastics makes it possible, with the help of simple breathing exercises, to improve the condition in a short time in almost any disease.

Dear readers, we wish you good health and success in mastering Strelnikovskaya breathing exercises!

O. S. Kopylova is the host of the program “Dialogues about Health” on Radio Russia.

"I'm tired of kneeling down! .."

Dedicated to Alexandra Nikolaevna Strelnikova, my teacher, my savior, my sorceress!

“Take off your hats, gentlemen, before you is a genius!”

Robert Schumann

Alexandra Nikolaevna Strelnikova! This name was shrouded in legends during his lifetime. “Adventurer”, “hypnotist”, “ignorant sorceress” - this is how she was called in the highest medical and bureaucratic circles. And thousands of people who were tired of endless and useless going from one doctor to another and already desperate to be cured were called the savior.

They prayed for her! She was wished for a hundred years of life by those whom she saved from many diseases, often incurable! And she ... - died ... In September 1989 ... Ridiculous, by chance, scary ... In a road accident in Serebryany Bor, where she loved to swim before the Moscow River was covered with ice. She was an excellent swimmer and an absolutely healthy woman at 77 years old.

If this had not happened, Alexandra Nikolaevna Strelnikova would have lived for 100 years for sure, I am sure of this. She did not know what osteochondrosis, hypertension, heart failure were. However ... what such a wild heartache - she knew. After all, the first heart attack that she stopped with her gymnastics was her own, moreover, when she was only forty-odd. They lived with their mother in Sokolniki, in an old one-story house that once had stables. Then the mother and daughter of the Strelnikovs were known only in a narrow circle of metropolitan singers, since their breathing exercises improved the beauty of the timbre, expanded the range of the voice of those for whom singing was a profession, and “made” the voice of those who wanted to sing without having any natural data.

Strelnikova - the youngest at that time was sick, very sick. Someday I will write about this in more detail, now I will only say that from heavy, stubbornly repeated bouts of fever, always with equal frequency, her heart had already begun to fail. (The Strelnikovs were already well-known specialists in voice production, had connections in the medical world of Moscow, but none of the well-known infectious disease doctors was able to help Alexandra Nikolaevna).

And then one day, on a dead 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. "Mother! Alexandra Nikolaevna screamed, “I am suffocating!” There was no telephone in the house, the nearest machine had to walk a whole block. Alexandra Severovna Strelnikova, 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 clearly and clearly: Strelnikovskaya gymnastics! Not “mine”, not “ours”, but “Strelnikovskaya”, as if she had already left them and became the property of all people on Earth. Gathering the last of her strength, with clenched teeth, she began to sniff the air noisily, taking 4 short, sharp breaths. And immediately, after a few moments, I realized that she would live until morning.

And here, in these moments, the mother and daughter of the Strelnikovs realized that they had created not only breathing exercises that returned voices to actors and singers, but something much more, something GREAT that could make almost any person healthy.

How did the mother and daughter of the Strelnikovs create their gymnastics, how did it all begin? For twelve years, being next to my teacher, I heard the same phrase from Alexandra Nikolaevna countless times, which she uttered at her lectures: “As a young singer, I lost my voice. And my mother began to look for a way for me to restore it. Thus, gradually, gymnastics was invented. All. But what happened before Strelnikova Jr. lost her voice? Alexandra Nikolaevna never told anyone about this. She didn’t like to touch on this topic, she was afraid to talk about it ... And even I, her only student and assistant, her pupil, the person closest to her (“What I have in life is my gymnastics and my Misha,” Alexandra once said Nikolaevna Strelnikova at one of the medical conferences, when she was asked a question from the audience: “What is the meaning of your life?”) - I did not know anything about her first half of her life. So ... separate episodes from childhood and youth spent in the Far East. I didn’t even try to ask Alexandra Nikolaevna about this, I always knew that she would say what she needed!

And now, 6 years after her tragic death, a woman found me in Moscow, who conveyed the news from Nina Nikolaevna Strelnikova, Alexandra Nikolaevna's sister; the third of the Strelnikov sisters, whose existence no one ever knew. At a very advanced age, she lived in Australia, practically immobilized, ill with a serious incurable disease. For more than 60 years she tried to find her mother and sisters who remained in Russia. After the death of Alexandra Nikolaevna, she read about me in one of the Russian newspapers, where, fortunately, my address and even phone number were indicated.

And now, the only survivor of the three Strelnikov sisters, already holding a pencil in her hand with difficulty, Nina Nikolaevna Strelnikova wrote to me about what Alexandra Nikolaevna never had time to tell during her lifetime.

“In general,“ Shuryonysh ”was full of independence. When she was fed a 2-year-old (pictured on the right) - (Nina Nikolaevna sent me a photograph of her sister, the same as that of Alexandra Nikolaevna, only in a different position) - she tore out the spoon and announced: “Sam!” - cheerfully smeared porridge all over the face ...

Strelnikov - our father, Nikolai Dmitrievich, was a remarkably handsome man, but older than his mother. She was 17 and he was either 34 or 37 years old. We met at Davydov's singing lessons ... Mom ran away from school with books, and came to her parents - already married !!!

We, 3 sisters with a grandmother and a governess, in 1919 were sent to Vladivostok to stay with my mother in the summer. At the Zima station I saw my father for the last time. He came out to meet us. He always knew how to play with us, put us on our shoulders and jumped. He had a good tenor.

Mom's older sister, aunt Lida (Severovna), graduated from 4-year medical courses in St. Petersburg and Bestuzhev University (was a lawyer). At the time of the revolution, they were landowners, they had their own estate. In 1919, my aunt and uncle Vasya (her husband) were evacuated on two carts to Omsk to Kolchak, then in the 20th year - to Vladivostok. We lived with my aunt and uncle in Vladivostok (Shurka and I) for months. Aunt Lida took care of all her nieces, nursed them (this is how I got to her at the age of 5 weeks). Aunt Lida and Uncle Vasya then took me to Harbin with them to make it easier for my mother to support three children. They took me because I was the weakest. The sisters' measles passed easily, and I lay in bed for a month and a half - fever and headaches. After that, she began to lose her hearing, her left arm and leg “failed”.

The last time I saw my sisters, my mother and grandmother was in 1924. Tanya was 7 years old, she pulled out her favorite toy from her pocket and put it in my hands! Correspondence broke off in 1934 ... "

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

And now, after she was gone, I found out why she wanted to do this. She wanted to see her sister! But ... she met "such wonderful blue eyes" (a letter from my teacher from her distant youth, more than half a century later, her sister sent me to Moscow) that ...

Nina Nikolaevna Strelnikova at the age of 38. Shanghai

Photo from the personal archive of M.N. Shchetinina

A.N. Strelnikova in childhood

Photo from the personal archive of M.N. Shchetinina

Alexandra Severovna Strelnikova with her daughters at her father's dacha near Yekaterinburg. Right - Shura

Photo from the personal archive of M.N. Shchetinina

“Because of these “blue eyes,” Nina Nikolaevna writes to me from Australia, “Shurka changed her mind about swimming across the Amur and fleeing to Harbin. She married him. But, everything was broken. Mom wrote: “Shura is unhappy in marriage, divorced. And in general - forget about our existence.

It was 1934, the Stalinist repressions began in the USSR. Two daughters remained with Alexandra Severovna Strelnikova: Alexandra and Tatyana. And it was better not to receive letters from white émigré Harbin. It could cost a life. Correspondence terminated...

"Did I sing?" asks the sister of my teacher. And she herself answers him: “Well, of course, she sang! And she also developed her own system for staging a spoiled voice. Nina Nikolaevna Strelnikova said that, as a sixteen-year-old girl, she learned to sing in Harbin from Solovieva, who was a student of Viardot, for a year. Until recently, H. H. Strelnikova taught painting at the Art College. 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). Alexandra Nikolaevna had a portrait of her mother in her youth on the piano. What happened to the portrait is unknown (after the death of A. N. Strelnikova, his nephew, who is also no longer alive, took it along with other things). An amateur photograph has been preserved in which one of my patients photographed me against the background of this portrait. The childhood memory of Nina Nikolaevna Strelnikova captured a portrait of her mother for the rest of her life, in which she stands in full growth next to an ebony chair (“we are children from the backs of chairs, we tried to pick out porcelain medallions in a bronze frame”). Alexandra Severovna Strelnikova was a very beautiful woman in her youth. “Mom always had a lot of admirers,” Alexandra Nikolaevna told me. To one such admirer, a high-ranking NKVD official, Strelnikova Sr. owes her life and the life of her daughters.

“There were days,” said Alexandra Nikolaevna, “when my mother’s admirer came to pick us up in the evenings in his company car. He took Tatyana and me to spend the night with his friends on the outskirts of the city, and rolled my mother through the hills all night. When he brought us to our apartment in the morning, everything in it was turned upside down. And it has happened so many times."

Fate spared A. S. Strelnikova and her daughters. Indeed, even in the pre-war years, Strelnikova-mother already used individual exercises of the future unique system. Anastasia Ivanovna Tsvetaeva in her book “My Siberia” describes her meeting with Alexandra Severovna, who impressed her with her determination and great desire to help people when they had health problems.

Looking through Alexandra Nikolaevna’s old papers, 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 N 4268 and directed to the conclusion. The results will be communicated to you."

But, the war began, the country was no longer up to Strelnikovskaya gymnastics. Before the war, Alexandra Severovna worked at the Novosibirsk Philharmonic as a teacher-vocalist, and Alexandra Nikolaevna sang in the troupe of the musical theater named after K. S. Stanislavsky and V. I. Nemirovich-Danchenko in Moscow. During the war, Alexandra Nikolaevna had to return back to Novosibirsk. She led amateur art activities, traveling with an agitation team around the Novosibirsk region.

In 1953, Alexandra Nikolaevna returned to Moscow, bringing three of her student vocalists who had made an attempt to enter the Moscow Conservatory. Two of them were enrolled, the third entered the Gnessin Institute. A little later, Alexandra Severovna also arrived in the capital. The daughter began to work as a vocal teacher in the Central House of Culture of Railwaymen, and her mother - in the Moscow State Stage. The rumor about amazing gymnastics, after which the voice sounds clearer and louder, began to 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 Russian (then Soviet) Army to hire unique teachers who eliminated her in a matter of days hemorrhage in the vocal cords, which the Bolshoi Theater polyclinic could not cure for several months. Leading specialists begin to send singers and actors to the Strelnikovs from this polyclinic: phoniatrist V. A. Zagoryanskaya-Feldman and otorhinolaryngologist D. A. Shakhova. From the lorry office of the Gnessin Institute, student vocalists, announcers, teachers with broken voices began to come to the Strelnikovs, guided by the phoniatrist V. L. Chaplin. Inspired by success, Alexandra Nikolaevna Strelnikova decides to submit an application for an invention to VNIIGPE. By that time, the Bolshoi Theater Polyclinic had already been sending actors and singers to the Strelnikovs for 17 years, the Gnessin Institute's loric office for 7 years, and the Vishnevsky Institute's biological office checked the results of breaths on chest compressions on a spirograph and capnograph. The spirograph showed an increase in the volume of inhalation, the capnograph showed an improvement in gas exchange in the first lesson. Then people who have been doing this gymnastics for many years were tested. Everyone had great breath.

On September 28, 1973, the All-Union Scientific Research Institute of the State Patent Examination for the first time in the history of art registered the copyright of a singing teacher for the “Method of Treating Diseases Associated with Loss of Voice”, establishing its priority dated March 14, 1972. The certificate was registered under N 411865. How many times later in life this copyright will help A. N. Strelnikova, how many times will she later say to me: “What a blessing that I have a copyright, otherwise I would have been erased from the face of the Earth long ago! »

The list of diseases that Srelnikovskaya breathing exercises help with has begun to expand every year. The central press began to write about the unique gymnastics, which cures many diseases. Along with popular recognition, hatred from official medicine also intensified. High-ranking officials from the Ministry of Health did not want to put up with the fact that some kind of “imposter”, who had not only a medical, but also a real pedagogical education, in general, did not dare not only brazenly get into their clan, but also do what they themselves could not do, having the titles of professors and doctors of medical sciences, using the latest medical equipment for various studies.

Alexandra Severovna Strelnikova was no longer alive. A few years after her daughter received the copyright for gymnastics, Strelnikova Sr. died, unable to cope with severe intestinal injuries she received during a street accident. Alexandra Severovna was 88 years old.

I didn't get to see her alive. I came to Alexandra Nikolaevna for treatment at the beginning of 1978, by that time she was already alone, without a mother, she had moved from Sokolniki to a tiny apartment on Tukhachevsky Street. An old amateur film has been preserved, on which Alexandra Severovna Strelnikova goes out into the garden and sits in a rocking chair. This only lasts a few seconds. “Everyone loved my mother,” Alexandra Nikolaevna told me, “from the janitor to the minister. And she loved everyone. “I don’t care what they are,” my mother said, “it’s important to me: what I am!”

"Shurenka? - Lyudmila Ivanovna Kasatkina once said when Alexandra Nikolaevna and I were visiting her. - You know how I feel about you ... But what a mother you had! She was a saint! The eyes of the People's Artist of the USSR clouded with tears ...

Later, a few years after I came to Alexandra Nikolaevna Strelnikova, she once admitted to me that shortly before her death, Alexandra Severovna told her daughter: “A boy will come to you in a year, he will be called the same as your husband (second husband Alexandra Nikolaevna - Mikhail - died in 1943, she did not marry the third time). Teach him everything, he will heal after us!” “Why did you say: to me, mother? Alexandra Nikolaevna asked in surprise. “Why not to us?”

People's Artist of the USSR Lyudmila Ivanovna Kasatkina doing Strelnikov breathing exercises

Photo taken by M.N. Shchetinin

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

Alexandra Nikolaevna, after the death of her mother, was left alone and began to fight the Ministry of Health alone. Official medicine demanded from her a "SCIENTIFIC" substantiation of the gymnastics she created (you might think that the more complete and serious the "scientific" substantiation of the method, the more unique its healing properties!). And then, after all, it happens that in reality the theory does not always coincide with practice. And “Practice is the criterion of truth!” Karl Marx once wisely remarked.

People who came to A. N. Strelnikova for help from all over the Soviet Union did not give a damn about the “scientific” justification of Strelnikov’s gymnastics. It was important for them that these breathing exercises helped them get rid of asthma attacks, headaches or epileptic seizures. And what scientific explanations could be demanded from my teacher, because she did not work in a clinic, she did not have a laboratory. Alexandra Nikolaevna Strelnikova was a singer ... But what a singer! ..

When many years ago she performed several of her students at the Moscow Conservatory, the teachers told her: “The fact that they all sing beautifully and own a good School does not prove the correctness of your methodology ... You have gathered the best amateur singers from all over Moscow!”

And then Strelnikova got up and dragged out Kuma's arioso from P. I. Tchaikovsky's opera "The Enchantress" - "Look from the Lower". The teaching staff of the commission had a real shock! Everyone was numb ... Frozen with delight, afraid to swallow the lump in their throat that suddenly appeared from such singing, the members of the commission stopped, unblinking eyes, as if paralyzed, staring at this woman, who until a few minutes ago was fiercely hated only because she dared to tell them about some then his method of voicing, which runs counter to all generally accepted recommendations, traditional for singing schools in England, France and even Italy!

A.N. Strelnikova at an away concert

Photo from the personal archive of M.N. Shchetinina

Hugo Natanovich Tietz, then the dean of the vocal faculty, in the full sense of the word “fell into prostration”, and the former soloist of the Bolshoi Theater Professor Elena Katulskaya, unable to stand it, broke away and, sobbing in her voice, shouted: “God! What a singer! .. I refuse to participate in this vile persecution! .. ”And she ran out of the hall.

Every time I was present at our home “sobantuy”, when singers and actors gathered, whom the mother and daughter of the Strelnikovs once “repaired” voices or simply taught to sing, I choked on tears, listening to Alexandra Nikolaevna perform Neapolitan folk songs and songs of Vertinsky ... The way she sang the Russian folk song "Nochenka" - no one else will ever sing! She had such an inner temperament and passion that it seemed as if her energy could crush everything in its path.

It seemed that in twelve years I already knew her entire repertoire by heart, heard her singing countless times. And ... every time the same thing - a lump in the throat, and tears that suddenly appeared from her singing, which could not be contained. ITS had to - SEE!

Slender, impulsive, impetuous… Red hair scattered over her shoulders, a piercing, demonic look of burning eyes – the look of Mary Stuart climbing the scaffold… (Her favorite heroine is Mary Stuart, her favorite artist is Vrubel).

When she sang, she wanted to cry... SHE SINGED WITH SUCH PASSION, AS IF THEY WERE BURNING AT THE FIRE!

A friend of her artistic youth once told her: “Shurka, you never have a middle ground ... You love extremes!”

Alexandra Nikolaevna Strelnikova

Photo from the personal archive of M.N. Shchetinina

She was like that, all in contrasts. Waking up in the morning, I always wondered: what will it be like today? Kind or as if dissatisfied with something, cheerful or sad?

A.N. Strelnikova had some kind of supernatural inner instinct: she could not explain why, but she accurately guessed the person’s illness - it was enough for him to just start doing our gymnastics. It was only later, after several years of joint treatment of patients, that I realized that by the way a person moves, how he breathes, how he looks, she could determine what he was sick with. I remember we rested with her in the summer in the Crimea, in Sudak. Suddenly, unexpectedly, on the beach, she was seized by a strong anxiety. I asked: what's the matter? “Something happened, Mishunichka,” 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 ...” (for the last fifteen years -twenty Strelnikova worked as a vocal teacher at the Satire Theater and at the Mossovet Theater). The next morning I bought at the kiosk (when we went to the beach with her) the newspaper "Soviet Culture". On the beach, I unfolded it and read aloud on one of the pages: Faina Georgievna Ranevskaya had died. Alexandra Nikolaevna shuddered, her face went dead for a few moments...

In the same way, one day, having come in the evening from the Satire Theater, she said: “Mironov and Papanov have changed the way they play, and I don’t even like THIS.” And I realized that she did not like the new way of playing outstanding actors, but something new that suddenly appeared inside each of these great artists. Soon, returning from work late in the evening, without undressing, here, in the hallway, she announced in some strange, unnaturally muffled voice: “Papanov died,” and leaning her back against the door, looking into the depths of the room with a fixed gaze, she quietly and doomedly said: “And it seems to me that Andryusha will be next ... ”, - she began to slowly slide down the door to the floor and for several minutes she sat on the floor here, in the hallway, as if lost, looking with unseeing eyes somewhere into the void. Then she got up heavily (this is due to her lightness and impetuosity) and, without undressing, went into the room, “thumped” on the trestle bed (we never had beds) and slept dressed until morning.

Shchetinin Mikhail

Breathing exercises Strelnikova

FOREWORD

Strelnikova's breathing exercises, a unique healing method created several decades ago and which has already cured more than one thousand sick people, is finally becoming available to anyone who wants to master and apply it. Because the book that we bring to your attention is a real self-instruction manual, where for the first time everything you need to know for self-study using the Strelnikova method is described in detail.

Unfortunately, Alexandra Nikolaevna herself could not write this book. The closest to her in the last years of her life was Mikhail Shchetinin - at first a patient whom she cured of chronic rhinitis, bronchitis and allergies, then a student, assistant and creative heir. The editors approached him with a proposal to describe in detail the methodology of A.N. Strelnikova, in order to acquaint our readers with it practically first-hand and protect them from unscrupulous popularizers and amateur healers. However, Mikhail Nikolaevich went further: he not only generously shared all the accumulated experience of applying the Strelnikova method in practice, but literally bit by bit collected information about the difficult fate of Alexandra Nikolaevna, about her family, about the history of the creation of breathing exercises. And we hope that you will appreciate his work.

So, you are holding a book in your hands, which, we are sure, will help you and your loved ones to improve their health. But do not rush to start classes, first carefully read the book to the end. Then re-read Chapter Two, "Getting Started," and the appropriate section from Chapter Three, "If You're Already Sick..." or Chapter Four, "Voice Training," if you have an occupational disease associated with loss of voice, or just want to have a beautiful sonorous voice. And only after this preparation, start training.

And we can only wish you success in mastering Strelnikova's breathing exercises and good health.

Alla KASATKINA, book editor

Dedicated to my teacher

Alexandra Nikolaevna Strelnikova

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Editor-in-chief's word

Review

Breathing exercises - traditional and Strelnikovskaya

Mechanisms of action of respiratory gymnastics A.N. Strelnikova and its therapeutic efficacy

The main set of breathing exercises

Exercise "Palms"

Exercise "Carriers"

Exercise "Pump"

Exercise "Cat"

Exercise "Hug your shoulders"

Exercise "Big Pendulum"

Exercise "Turning the head"

Exercise "Ears"

Exercise "Pendulum head" or "Small pendulum"

Exercise "Rolls"

Exercise "Steps"

How to master Strelnikov's gymnastics

Auxiliary set of exercises

Hand exercises

Exercise "Rise Forward"

Exercise "Rise forward with a crouch"

Exercise "Rise forward with steps"

Exercise "Rise back"

Exercise "Takeoff back with a crouch"

Exercise "Take off back with steps"

Exercise "Scissors in front of you"

Exercise "Scissors at the top"

Exercise "Squatting scissors"

Exercise "Scissors with steps"

Exercise "Scales"

Tilt scale exercise

Exercise "Pinwheel"

Exercise "Squat Forward Spinner" and "Squat Back Spinner"

Exercise "Roll forward with steps" and "Turn back with steps"

Exercise "Push-ups from the wall"

Exercise "Push-ups from the floor"

Leg exercises

Exercise "Socks"

Exercise "Circular movements of socks"

Exercise "Prancing feet"

Exercise "Knees Prancing"

Exercise "Carroting the hips"

Exercise "Circular movements of the knees"

Exercise "Hala hoop with straight legs" (standing) or "Circular movements with straight legs"

Hala hoop with knees (bending down)

Exercise "Twist"

Exercise "Charleston"

Exercise "Big Batman"

Exercise "Batman with a crouch"

Exercise "Batman with a hug"

Exercise "Complex batman"

Exercise "Steps on your haunches forward"

Exercise "Steps on your haunches back"

Exercise for the head and spine

Exercise "Sideways"

Exercise "Triple Gimlet"

Exercise "Circular movements of the head"

Exercise "Circular movements of the body"

Exercise "Circular movements of the hips"

Exercise "Gypsy"

A special set of exercises for the treatment of diseases of the genital organs (urological set of exercises)

Exercise "Spring"

Exercise "Raising the pelvis"

Exercise "Metronome"

Exercise "Sit-Rise"

Exercise "Swing"

Exercise "Pull-up"

Exercise "Steps with the buttocks"

Gymnastics of extreme conditions

Help with exacerbations and acute conditions

How to stop an asthma attack

Acute Conditions: Double Slope Pumping

How to cough

What you need to do to catch your breath faster

Strelnikova breathing exercises for bedridden patients

Exercise "Palms" for bedridden patients

Exercise "Pogonchiki" for bedridden patients

Exercise "Hug your shoulders" for bedridden patients

Exercise "Turning the head" for bedridden patients

Exercise "Worm" for bedridden patients

Strelnikova gymnastics on the go

Exercise "Steps"

Exercise "Cat" on the go

Indications for the use of the auxiliary complex

Restrictions

Mistakes when performing Strelnikova breathing exercises

Inspiration quality

Passive exhalation

Correct tempo-rhythm

Features of performing Strelnikova gymnastics for various diseases

Chronic runny nose, adenoids, sinusitis

If you have a stuffy nose

About the order of the exercises

Adenoids

Sinusitis

Bronchial asthma and bronchitis

Cardiovascular and nervous diseases

Cardiac ischemia

Hypertension

Vegetovascular dystonia

Neurosis, neuritis, depression

Diseases of the endocrine system

Diabetes

Thyroid dysfunction

Diseases of the musculoskeletal system

Osteochondrosis

Joint diseases

Osteoporosis

Injuries in the elderly

Hip fracture

Restrictions

Diseases of the male genital area

Prostatitis

Prostate adenoma

Impotence

Varicocele

cryptorchidism

Infertility

Strelnikovy gymnastics and vision

Snoring exercises

Insomnia

Friends, Enemies and Plagiarizers

Do not torment Strelnikova, gentlemen!

And yet I hope!

Letters from patients

Memories of friends and favorite artists

Anastasia Ivanovna Tsvetaeva, writer

Lev Ivanovich Vodolazov (Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, Laureate of the State Prize, Honored Worker of Culture)

Alexander Mikhailovich Lomonosov (soloist of the State Academic Bolshoi Theatre, People's Artist of Russia)

Anatoly Mikhailovich Mishchevsky (soloist of the Moscow musical theater named after K.S. Stanislavsky and V.I. Nemirovich-Danchenko)

Alexander Anatolyevich Vasiliev (singer)

Tatyana Viktorovna Ovchinnikova

Irina Dmitrievna Dunaeva (Ph.D. in Pedagogics, Associate Professor, Department of Orchestral Conducting, Moscow State University of Culture and Arts)

Boris Grigoryevich Tevlin (Laureate of the State Prize of the USSR, the Lenin Komsomol Prize and the Glinka State Prize of the RSFSR, Honored Artist of the RSFSR, People's Artist of Russia, Professor of Art History, Head of the Department of Choral Conducting at the Moscow State P.I. Tchaikovsky Conservatory)

Lyudmila Ivanovna Kasatkina (People's Artist of the USSR, laureate of the State Prize of the USSR and the RSFSR)

Margarita Borisovna Terekhova (actress, People's Artist of Russia)

Anna Savovna Terekhova (actress)

Larisa Ivanovna Golubkina (actress, People's Artist of Russia)

Olga Borisovna Voronets (singer, People's Artist of Russia)

Maksim Maksimovich Shtraukh (People's Artist of the USSR, laureate of the Lenin and State Prizes)

Expert opinions

Interview with an otorhinolaryngologist, phoniatrist, doctor of medical sciences, professor V.A. Zagoryanskoy-Feldman

Feedback from the archpriest of the Kazan Cathedral on Red Square Father Valentin

The conclusion of a phthisiopulmonologist of the highest category, candidate of medical sciences, honored doctor of Russia N.D. Egorkina

Conclusion of a physiotherapist of the highest category Z.P. Melikhova

Conclusion of a doctor of the highest category, Honored Doctor of Russia, Head of the Children's and Adolescent Department of the Central Research Institute of Tuberculosis of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences Z V. Evfimyevskaya

Conclusion of the Head of the Department of Children's Diseases of the Russian University of Peoples' Friendship, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor L.G. Kuzmenko

The conclusion of the therapist of the highest category L.A. Moiseeva

Conclusions of medical institutions

Parting words to those who hold this book in their hands

Editor-in-chief's word

Alexandra Nikolaevna Strelnikova, the creator of therapeutic breathing exercises, went, like many other inventors, a difficult path from the rejection of her method by official medicine to nationwide popularity. In September 1989, an absurd tragic accident ended the life of this brilliant healer. She left, leaving us, her compatriots, what she lived and fought for - unique breathing exercises. She handed over the work of her life and bequeathed it to her student, Mikhail Nikolaevich Shchetinin.

Mikhail Shchetinin came to Alexandra Nikolaevna as a student of the directing department. He came with his misfortune - he completely lost his voice. With the help of Strelnikov's gymnastics, he not only regained his lost voice, but also restored nasal breathing, got rid of bronchial asthma. Amazing gymnastics won him over with its truly ingenious simplicity and efficiency. Since then, he has become a follower of Strelnikova, her devoted student and assistant.

When one day at a press conference A.N. Strelnikova was asked if she had students, she said: “The only thing I have in life is my gymnastics and my Misha!” M.N. Shchetinin was next to his teacher for the last 12 years of her life. Alexandra Nikolaevna taught him how to stop an attack in a choking asthmatic, how to help the heart, how to deal with the most seriously ill bedridden patients, how to make a stutterer's speech smooth, to improve the sound of an actor's or singer's voice.

Currently, Mikhail Nikolaevich Shchetinin is actively popularizing Strelnikova's method in the press, on radio and television, and successfully introducing it into the practice of medical institutions. At M.N. Shchetinin, the richest archive of Alexandra Nikolaevna has been preserved: her notes, photographs, joint sketches and development of new exercises. She could have done a lot more, but she didn’t have time ...

On the pages of this book, Dr. Shchetinin shares the secrets of the unique technique of "paradoxical breathing", gives specific recommendations for its implementation in various diseases, based on his 25-year experience in treating patients with Strelnikov's breathing exercises. Mikhail Shchetinin's book is a real help to anyone who wants to escape from the captivity of their illnesses.

Mikhail Shchetinin is a spiritually generous and selfless person. He does not skimp on kindness: he has numerous free lectures for the elderly and disabled, gratuitous classes with seriously ill children in tuberculosis clinics, emergency telephone consultations for critically ill patients. There is no such area in Moscow where M.N. Shchetinin did not give free lectures in social service centers (SSC), children's centers, centers for disabled children, kindergartens and schools, military units.

Mikhail Nikolayevich says that he is a happy person: he has cured himself, he saves others. Taking this opportunity, I would like to say a huge thank you to him from all of us - those whom he helped, for whom he lives!

Olga Kopylova

Chief Editor

Publishing house "Metaphor"

Review

on the book by Mikhail Shchetinin

“Respiratory gymnastics A.N. Strelnikova"

Chief Specialist in Functional Diagnostics in Moscow, Pulmonologist, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor of the Department of Children's Diseases of the Moscow Medical Academy. THEM. Sechenova M.I. Anokhin

Thousands of patients have confirmed the high effectiveness of Strelnikova's gymnastics.

With regard to the physiological justification of the methodology, the following can be said: there are many different systems of breathing exercises, and, obviously, all of them are useful, because otherwise they would not be practiced. A positive factor common to all of them is movement. The necessity and usefulness of the movement are undeniable.

THEM. Sechenov, in his last work "On the Question of the Influence of Sensory Nerve Stimulation on Human Muscular Work," showed the significance of the impulses that arise in working muscles for the state of the nervous system. I.P. Pavlov wrote about "muscular joy". "Kinesophilia", "aerobics", "hypokinesia" are just some of the physiological terms related to the study of muscle activity. For their part, psychologists emphasize the role of movement in the development of mental functions, and M.N. Shchetinin writes that sometimes a diagnosis can be made by the way a patient performs an exercise. This observation is comparable to the famous actor M.A. Chekhov that in order to enter into the image of a character, it is important to understand how he holds his head. The relationship of the psyche with movement in French medical schools is devoted to a special course called "psychomotrise".

Intense physical activity created during breathing exercises is important to dose correctly. It is better and safer when the patient is engaged with a methodologist. He counts the pulse so that arrhythmia does not occur and the heart rate does not exceed the permissible value, controls blood pressure (an experienced methodologist can roughly estimate it by the pulse) and monitors the general condition of the patient. Ideally, electrocardiogram registration, measurement of oxygen consumption and much more are necessary, although even the most complex measurements do not fully solve the issue of load optimization.

Movement is good for everyone. In Strelnikov's gymnastics, it is cyclic, repetitive, which is most adequate for vegetovascular dystonia.

A specific element of Strelnikova's gymnastics is a change in the breathing pattern. It is shown that any training has a trophic strengthening effect on the nervous system. Leonardo da Vinci compared the brain to a razor that rusts from disuse. Trophic action can be explained even at the level of the nerve cell. It has several degenerative short processes and one long, working one. The long shoot is the one that has overtaken the others in the competition. By transmitting nerve impulses, it is fed from the cell that it innervates. So it is almost equally good for health to learn both astronomy and astrology. Another example: if a schizophrenic is forced to speak a foreign language (no matter how badly he knows it), his delirium is weakened. By analogy, a change in the stereotype of breathing can be a pathogenetic therapy for logoneurosis (stuttering), bronchial asthma (because it disrupts the coordination of the respiratory muscles and, in particular, diaphragmatic spasm sets in) and cases of voice loss.

The third element of Strelnikova's gymnastics is psychotherapeutic (in medicine it is called the placebo effect). This is the effect of faith in healing (remember the gospel “your faith has saved you”). The psychotherapeutic factor was present when people were treated at temples in ancient times, and it still takes place now in any treatment, including medication and surgery. In itself, going to the doctor already often provides a psychotherapeutic effect, although the doctor usually does not realize it. Why is it difficult to treat doctors themselves? Because they are distrustful, or even deep down they "almost do not believe in medicine", i.e. scientifically placebo-negative. There is a significant confession in the book. The surgeon, directing the patient to M.N. Shchetinin, says: "Only without fanaticism." To which Shchetinin replies: “If I study without fanaticism, you will not send your patients to me. Because then they won’t recover so quickly!”

The psychotherapeutic factor is extremely important in eliminating the sensation of shortness of breath, headache and other unpleasant sensations. Shortness of breath manages to "speak" in the same way as "speak" a toothache. This explains the well-known fact that asthma patients receiving non-drug treatment (according to Buteyko, homeopathy, reflexology, etc.) feel well, while bronchospasm persists according to spirography data. In severe forms of bronchial asthma, it is by no means possible to exclude drug treatment against the background of non-drug treatment. In general, any asthma treatment should be controlled by functional methods (the simplest of them is peak flowmetry).

The book is also a document reflecting the eternal struggle of talent with the mediocrity surrounding it. This struggle was, to paraphrase the saying, “not for death, but for life.” I remember the scene of the siege of the healer's apartment, when she, in defiance of the judicial and security authorities, opens the door and lets in the sick. And of course, the portrait of the author of the technique, Alexandra Nikolaevna Strelnikova, is remarkable - an unusually gifted artistic woman who, thanks to her gymnastics, has preserved her youth at 77 years old!

“Inspiration leading to ecstasy” - this is the headline of one of the newspaper publications about Strelnikova’s gymnastics. The mother of Alexandra Nikolaevna studied with a student of Pauline Viardot. “If you,” said the great singer, “when preparing to sing, took a breath and did not go into ecstasy, you took it wrong. Seek!"

Among the reviews given in the book, the laryngologist professor says: “We still see, but Strelnikov still!” And he shows the first time to the base of the neck, and the second time to the waist. It would be correct to show below the waist and above the neck, especially since gymnastics helps not only with the pathology of the respiratory system.

Touching upon the most difficult issues of the treatment of chronic diseases, the author reminds the reader that the disease is not limited to the obviously affected organ, that the state of the nervous system, and sexual function, etc. are also important. This position corresponds to the Hippocratic "treat the patient, not the disease." The "holistic" approach, as it is now called (from the English whole - whole) is perhaps the most impressive side of this book.

A.N. Strelnikova: I'm tired of kneeling!

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!

A.N. Strelnikova

About the childhood of Alexandra Nikolaevna, her sister Nina Nikolaevna told in a letter. Their mother Alexandra Severovna was a very beautiful woman in her youth. Father Nikolai Dmitrievich Strelnikov was also remarkably handsome, but 17 or 20 years older than his mother. The last time the sisters saw their father was in 1919.

Since 1920, Shura Strelnikova, together with her two sisters and mother Alexandra Severovna, lived in Vladivostok with Aunt Lida, her mother's older sister. Then Aunt Lida left with one of Shura's sisters for Harbin. Alexandra Severovna left 2 daughters. The last time they saw their sister who had left was in 1924. They corresponded, but in 1934 repressions began, and it was better not to receive letters from white émigré Harbin. Correspondence was interrupted.

By chance, repression bypassed A.S. Strelnikov and her daughters. Alexandra Nikolaevna 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.

How did the mother and daughter of the Strelnikovs create their gymnastics, how did it all begin? Even in the pre-war years, A.S. Strelnikova has already used individual exercises of the future unique system. Looking through the old papers of Alexandra Nikolaevna, I found a document sent to A.S. Strelnikova from the People’s Commissariat of Health: “Your proposal, entitled “The 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 ...” But the war began, and there was no to inventions.

A.N. Strelnikova returned to Novosibirsk and began to lead amateur art activities, traveling with the propaganda team around the Novosibirsk region. She returned to Moscow only in 1953 and brought three of her students. Two of them entered the Moscow Conservatory, the third - at the Gnessin School. Later, the mother also arrived. The daughter began to work as a vocal teacher in the Central House of Culture of Railway Workers, and her mother - in the Moscow State Stage. They lived in Sokolniki in an old one-story house, which once had a stable. Then the mother and daughter of the Strelnikovs were known only in a narrow circle of metropolitan singers, since their breathing exercises improved the beauty of the timbre, expanded the range of the voice of those for whom singing was a profession, and “made” the voice of those who wanted to sing, without having natural data for this. .

Strelnikova, the youngest, was very ill at that time. Due to severe and persistently repeated seizures, her heart had already begun to fail. And although the Strelnikovs had connections in the medical world of Moscow, none of the famous doctors could help Alexandra Nikolaevna. One autumn night, a sharp pain in the chest fettered the body and came up to the throat like a lump. "Mother! Alexandra Nikolaevna screamed, “I am suffocating!” There was no telephone in the house, the nearest machine was a whole block away. Alexandra Severovna opened all the windows so that her daughter could breathe easier, but it did not get any easier. And at that moment, the younger Strelnikova, convulsively catching air in her mouth, suddenly thought: Strelnikov's gymnastics! Not mine, not ours, but Strelnikov's, as if she had already left them and became the property of all people. Gathering the last of her strength, she began to sniff the air noisily, taking 4 short breaths. And immediately I realized that I would live until the morning.

In those moments, the mother and daughter of the Strelnikovs realized that they had created not only breathing exercises that returned voices to actors and singers, but something much more, something great that could make almost any person healthy.

Later, Alexandra Nikolaevna spoke about the invention of breathing exercises: “Being a young singer, I lost my voice. And my mother began to look for a way for me to restore it. Thus, gradually, gymnastics was invented.

The rumor about amazing gymnastics, after which the voice sounds clearer and louder, began to 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 who starred in the film "Tiger Tamer", attended Strelnikova's lessons and convinced the leadership of the then Soviet Army Theater to hire unique teachers who eliminated her vocal cord hemorrhage in a matter of days, which the Bolshoi Polyclinic the theater could not be cured for several months! Leading specialists of this polyclinic, surgeon-phoniatrist V.A. Zagoryanskaya-Feldman and otorhinolaryngologist D.A. Shakhov began to send singers and actors to the Strelnikovs. Foniatr V.L. Chaplin from the Institute. Gnessinykh sent students-vocalists, announcers, teachers with "torn" voices to them.

Inspired by success, Alexandra Nikolaevna decides to apply for an invention. By this time, the clinic of the Bolshoi Theater had been sending actors and singers to the Strelnikovs for 17 years, and the ENT room of the Gnessin Institute for 7 years. In the biological office of the Institute. Vishnevsky checked the results of Strelnikova's gymnastics on a spirograph and a capnograph. The spirograph showed an increase in the volume of inhalation, the capnograph showed an improvement in gas exchange in the very first lesson! Then people who have been doing this gymnastics for many years were examined. Everyone had great breath.

On September 28, 1973, the All-Union 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).

The list of diseases in which Strelnikovskaya breathing exercises help, began to expand every year. The central press wrote about the unique gymnastics, which cures many diseases. But along with popular recognition, hatred from the then official medicine also intensified. High-ranking officials from the Ministry of Health did not want to put up with the fact that some “imposter”, who did not have not only medical, but also real pedagogical education, dared to achieve results in the area where they, having the titles of professors and doctors of medical sciences and using the latest medical equipment, were powerless.

Official medicine demanded from Alexandra Nikolaevna a scientific justification for the gymnastics she created. But people who came for help from all over the Soviet Union did not care about the scientific justification. It was important for them that breathing exercises really got rid of asthma attacks, headaches and epileptic seizures. And what scientific explanations could be required from my teacher if she did not work in a clinic and she did not have a laboratory? Alexandra Nikolaevna was a singer... But what a singer!

When many years ago she showed several of her student vocalists at the Moscow Conservatory, the teachers told her: “The fact that they all sing beautifully and have a good school does not prove the correctness of your methodology ... You have gathered the best amateur singers from all over Moscow! » And then Strelnikova got up and sang Kuma's arioso from P.I. Tchaikovsky "The Enchantress". The professors and teachers from the commission had a real shock! Frozen with delight, they looked at the woman whom a few minutes ago they hated only because she dared to tell them about some of her methods of voice production, which runs counter to all generally accepted recommendations traditional for singing schools in England, France and even Italy!

Hugo Natanovich Tietz, then the dean of the vocal faculty, applauded the singer, and the former soloist of the Bolshoi Theater Professor Elena Katulskaya could not stand it, broke away and, sobbing into her voice, shouted: “God! What a singer! I refuse to participate in this heinous persecution!” And ran out of the room.

A.N. Strelnikova had some kind of inner instinct: she could not explain why, but she definitely guessed the person’s illness - he just had to start doing our gymnastics in her presence. Only later, after several years of joint treatment of patients, I realized: she defined the disease by the way a person; moves, breathes and looks.

Once, having come in the evening from the Satire Theater, she said: “Mironov and Papanov have changed the way they play, and I don’t really like it.” And I realized that she did not like the new way of playing outstanding actors, but something new that suddenly appeared inside each of these great artists. Soon, returning from work late in the evening, in the hallway she informed me in some strange, unnaturally muffled voice: "Papanov died." And, leaning her back against the door, she quietly and doomedly said: “And it seems to me that Andryusha will be next ...” Soon Andrei Mironov also died.

The first in our country to talk about unusual breathing exercises was the magazine "Inventor and Rationalizer" (No. 7 for 1975), which placed a photograph of Andrei Mironov performing several exercises of Strelnikov's gymnastics, and in No. 8 for 1976 published a set of exercises.

In the same 1975, the Soviet Union magazine, which was also published in several countries in the West, published a short article about Strelnikova in the tenth issue. Why did the “main magazine of the country” suddenly need a mention of breathing exercises, which the USSR Ministry of Health accepted with hostility? The explanation turned out to be simple. A very famous pop singer at that time, Larisa Mondrus, at a press conference in Germany, said: “In the USSR there are no conditions for a creative person. Example? Please! My vocal teacher Alexandra Nikolaevna Strelnikova!” After that, literally the next day, the Soviet Union magazine wrote that A.N. Strelnikova is a well-known teacher and works in the best theaters in Moscow. Thus, a Western layman could assume that Strelnikova has at least a mansion in the center of the Russian capital and, in general, everything is in order in her life. And Mondrus is simply slandering Soviet reality.

Alexandra Nikolaevna Strelnikova for the rest of her life was grateful to Larisa Mondrus for this act.

At this very time, Strelnikova rushed from one clinic to another, asking, begging for research and thereby give her the opportunity to prove that the gymnastics she invented was very necessary for choking people, because people around the country die from asthma every day, whom official medicine is powerless to help! And everywhere there was the same answer: “You are not a doctor! You have no right to heal!" Fortunately, under Soviet law, due to the availability of a copyright certificate, she had the right to take patients at home, since no expensive equipment was required to put the invention into practice.

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

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

Back in 1972, the Committee for Discoveries and Inventions explained to me that our method had data for a patent, that the patent was beneficial to the state, and I agreed out of patriotic motives. But the doctors from the Moscow Research Institute of the Ear, Throat and Nose persecuted me so much that I could not stand it and refused, although they persuaded me in the Committee.

One day, two gray-haired ladies, medical workers from foreign countries, came to Alexandra Nikolaevna. One said: “I wrote to you. You sent a description of the gymnastics and, despite the fact that I am 63 years old and my asthma is severe, I feel better ... Check if I am doing everything right?

Another said: “I am from Austria, MD. Check me out too. I believe that such extraordinary gymnastics should be immediately reported to the Minister of Health!”

Our compatriot, who was present at the conversation, also a physician, objected: “Yes, they will immediately strangle her! Let him sit and not rock the boat!” And Strelnikova sat and did not rock the boat ...

Another case that my teacher told me about. At one of the evenings in the Actor's House, the leading phoniatrist of the capital approached her and hissed right in her face: “You need to be strangled!” For ethical reasons, I will not name this doctor of medical sciences, I will only say that before I got to Alexandra Nikolaevna absolutely voiceless, I was also treated by this doctor. For several months he very conscientiously tried to return my voice to me by prescribing Prozerin tablets. Alas, to no avail.

While Alexandra Nikolaevna herself, tired of unsuccessful attempts to break into any medical institution, accepted patients only at home, the Soviet press, fortunately, continued to write about her successes! Following the magazine "Soviet Union" about Strelnikova's gymnastics in 1975-76. wrote "Evening Moscow", "Moskovskaya Pravda", "Soviet Culture" and "Socialist Industry".

In 1981, the Trud newspaper published two excellent articles on breathing exercises. The journalist Nikolai Gogol, who wrote them, was fired from his job for this. And to our house (at that time I lived with Alexandra Nikolaevna in her cramped two-room apartment on the Oktyabrsky field) literally began a pilgrimage! The queue of those wishing to get in for treatment was the entire width of the flight of stairs from the first floor to the fourth. Some neighbors, of course, began to call and write to the Housing Office, the police, the Executive Committee, demanding to evict the "healer" somewhere far away ... Complaints reached the district prosecutor's office. The young and energetic chief prosecutor of the Khoroshevsky (at that time Voroshilovsky) district arrived, put my teacher in an official car and brought him to his office, where he forced me to write a statement about refusing private practice ...

The crowd on the stairs pounded on the door, I periodically left the apartment and announced that Alexandra Nikolaevna was forbidden to receive patients. A district police officer, and sometimes a whole squad of policemen, burst into our apartment several times, even in the middle of the night, to see if we had a hangout! For several days, choking people, along with children, silently stood under our door. Sometimes one of the kids cried - he began to have an asthma attack. Finally, when it became unbearable to look at the suffocating children, Strelnikova could not stand it. She rushed to the door, flung it wide open and said: “Come in!”

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 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 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 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.

"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, 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 ...