Lessons

"Train the movement not the muscle"

Standard lessons are 50 minutes. Please allow an hour. I have also developed extended 80 minute sessions that include customized exercise programs, integrating the Alexander Technique principles with chi kung, strength and fitness programs and the wealth of movement remedies from the field of somatics. Click here to schedule.

Lessons combine movement analysis, table work and guided hands on and verbal instruction with specific movement practices. These might be from the basic activities of daily life such as sitting, standing, twisting, lifting and walking to very specific needs you wish to explore. For instance, we may work together on your running form, your computing, guitar playing, yoga, specialized labor related movements, gardening or martial arts. Bring your questions and interests!

I help you break the movement down and notice the whole body pattern taking place. Then we work together to establish the most connected, efficient, enjoyable pattern possible.

My role is to facilitate your awareness and ability to choose new patterns. Clients often report both how unfamiliar and more connected they find these new ways of using and thinking about their bodies. Through exploring the unfamiliar, your nervous system is training new patterns. Your homework is to explore these new patterns in your daily life and let them grow. This learning process becomes an ongoing and rich experience that can impact all parts of your life. This is the essence of Alexander's work.

All the while, we are cultivating the three main truly universal themes at the root of the Alexander Technique. These are awareness, non-doing (or inhibition) and direction.

During our work together, I'll provide you withwritten resources to support what we are working on in person.