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Alexander Technique Group Class for Studio Music Teachers
Are you a studio music teacher who is curious about the Alexander Technique? Do you have some experience with the Alexander Technique, but wonder how to bring it into your pedagogy? Join colleagues — other studio music teachers of all instruments and age ranges — for...
The Goggles of Habit
Let's say that one day, you were doing something that required goggles: perhaps painting, woodworking, swimming, or officiating a Nerf battle (yes, this is a real example from my life!) And let's say that after the activity was over, you didn't take your goggles off....
Alexander Technique: A Foundational Practice
In my professional life, I’ve been privileged to work in a number of different fields. I teach the Alexander Technique to individuals and groups, I direct a choir, I teach voice, and I’ve done all of those in a range of settings. However, in every one of those...
You Can Never Hold Back Spring
Earlier this year, I had the wonderful privilege of presenting at the Midwest American Choral Directors Association conference, with “Process, Poise, Presence: Tools from the Alexander Technique for Wellbeing in Music and Daily Life.” Teaching Alexander Technique to...
The Wisdom of Your Body
Problem Solving...Have you ever faced a problem where the solution seemed so complex, you just couldn’t wrap your head around it? Or a confusing situation where things didn’t seem to add up, and you spent lots of time and energy thinking around in circles with no...
Powerful Positive Negative: Three easy, practical pauses for your daily life
Have you been busy?If you answered that question with a fatigued laugh, a big sigh, an eye roll, or maybe a blank stare, you’re not alone. Everyone around me reports being Busy. Overwhelmed. Stressed. Here in fall 2021, much of life and work has attempted to return to...
New Class Summer 2021: Reopen from Center
The last 15 months of pandemic living have affected all of us in profound ways. As the wider world moves onward to something resembling “normal,” we each have the opportunity to choose how we, personally, re-enter and re-center our lives. Businesses are required to...
On a Scale of One to Free…
I don’t know about you, but over the last month or so, I’ve been tired. Even getting enough sleep, I have been experiencing a deeper kind of fatigue. If you’ve been tired, fatigued, depleted, or even burned-out, you’re not alone: a recent article published in the New...
The Enemy of the Good
The perfect is the enemy of the good. - Voltaire I was re-introduced to this phrase, paraphrased from a quote of Voltaire, near the end of 2020. In a discussion on social media about process-oriented ways to approach exercise, I was exploring the idea that, while I...
Transformation
First, let’s talk about caterpillars. (Don’t worry…we’re going into and through and past the cliché about caterpillars becoming butterflies, via micro-CT scans, entomology, social justice, personal growth, and the Alexander Technique.) I like to adopt...