Alexander Technique Provides:

• An opportunity to evaluate one’s physical patterns

• An inspiration to remove limiting beliefs and change old habits

• An ability to feel centered and recharged

• An avenue to acquire practical take-home strategies for improvement

The Alexander Technique allows you to:

• Befriend yourself through new breath and movement options

• Reformulate habits into mindful awareness and choice

• Embrace your authentic voice

• Discover steps for fearless self expression

• Tune up your body, voice and spirit 

• Stay curious about your reactions to stimuli

• Allow ease of body and mind for readiness rather than a muscular prep for a specific outcome

• Expand awareness of self, tasks and environment 

• Shift your unnecessary tension into useful energy

The Alexander Technique is for:

• All people wanting to discover their authentic selves

• Performing artists

• Seniors

• Business and office workers

• Athletes

• Health care professionals 

• Educators

• Caregivers

• Personal care or service workers

• ASL interpreters

• Individuals seeking more harmony in daily life for mental and spiritual benefit

• Groups or organizations seeking workshops for wellness and ease

The Alexander Technique Can:

• relieve pain

• reduce strain and muscular tension

• improve posture and coordination

• enhance performance

• manage stress

• increase range of motion

• improve confidence and self-control

• enjoy greater mind/body awareness

• Relief from physical pain, tension or stress

• Desire for greater mobility 

• Reduce anxiety for rehearsal, performance and daily life 

• Preparations using voice, speech or breathing  

• Identity

• Desire for personal development and curiosity about the mind-body connection

• Walking or standing 

• Movement to assist in decreasing pain or anxiety 

• Acting, singing or dancing

• Playing an instrument 

• Occupational movement  

• Speaking for business presentations 

• Injury recovery mobility 

• Physical awareness of the self  

• Activities of daily living 

Through light supportive touch and verbal cues, compassionate observation, and curiosity about how we do what we do, a lesson involves looking at personal movement patterns and how we can consciously change thinking to incorporate new patterns that benefit the whole being. Understanding the head-neck relationship and how this relationship determines how we move, see and use the breath, gives insight into how we carry ourselves and our relationship to gravity. Through a series of lessons, active exploration changes the way you think and respond.  The result is an educational process of re-learning inherent thought and movement options which maintain physical and mental flexibility, poise and alleviate unneeded tension. 

Fees are:

• Single lesson - $70/hour      

• 4 lesson series - $260

You can learn more and schedule HERE.

Habits are, by their nature, unconscious. Though you may try to effect changes by yourself, it takes the trained eyes and hands of a teacher to help you perceive and change your ingrained patterns.  The goal of the teacher is to assist the individual in learning new pathways to ease.

Teachers of the Alexander Technique train for three years, with a minimum of 1,600 hours of class time prior to receiving certification.

• Medical treatment, physical therapy or set of repetitive exercises

• Massage 

• Chiropractic therapy

• Yoga and postures

The Alexander Technique is named after the work developed by Frederick Mathias Alexander (F.M.) who was born in Tasmania and became a Shakespearian actor in Australia in the early 1900s. During his recitations of text, he continually encountered  vocal stress and became hoarse, many times losing his voice by the end of his performance. Doctors prescribed vocal rest and after time when Alexander performed again, he developed the same vocal distress. 

After failing to obtain satisfaction from the medical community for his problem, Alexander decided to study his own speech and movement patterns to see what he might be doing to send him into distress. By setting up a series of mirrors, he realized he was gasping for air and pulling his head back and down prior to speaking. His personal trials and discoveries developed his understanding of psycho-physical unity or the mind-body connection and how freeing the head-neck relationship allowed him to return to his body’s inherent function. Alexander was able to stop or pause prior to the start of his recitation and “inhibit” or un-do the movement and breathing that would cause his distress.

He began to teach these techniques in Australia, London and then the United States. Training programs throughout the world now provide three year training opportunities of study for Alexander Technique teachers. Curriculum includes anatomy, breathing and understanding the light touch which guides a student to notice use of movement and breath. Learn more about the Alexander Technique.