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Summer Weekend Workshop

A summer weekend somatic and gentle movement workshop using the principles of the Alexander Technique. Saturday, July 16th, 2:00pm – 4:30pmSunday, July 17th, 10:30am – 12:30pmIn Person at Open Door – 18 N Main St. WRJ, VT 05001$125(preregistration required) Register

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Online Workshop Weds Jan 26, 2022

Wednesday Jan 26 at 2pm EST / 11am PT – No donation is too small. All proceeds benefit the Judith Leibowitz Scholarship Fund This workshop augments Alexander directions, deepening understanding of how our legs connect into our pelvis and spine

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Alexander class for dancers

Click here for info and to register Start 2021 with a present to yourself. Some time to slow down and quiet your mind. Create more space for listening to and accessing your body’s intelligence. This class is designed for dancers

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Breathing Freely

At this time, during the COVID-19 Pandemic, we’re deeply attuned to our lungs and to thinking about the health and safety of our respiratory systems. Breathing is fundamental to life. We breathe about 23,000 times a day most of the

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How Habit Interferes With Mastery – Video

  This video takes a very clear look at how habits, developed over a lifetime of training can interfere with mastery. Alexander Technique is perfectly positioned to help individuals identify their habits and learn to move without them. The discussion

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Alexander Technique As A Tool For Patients With MS

In February 2016, Senior Alexander teacher Judy Stern convened a panel discussion entitled Living with MS and How Alexander Technique Can Help: A Students Perspective. The discussion centered around a student named Ron, who shared the numerous ways the Alexander

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AT Shown To Ease Chronic Neck Pain

This finding represents new clinical research on the benefits of Alexander Technique. The research study, recently published in the Annals of Internal Medicine shows that taking lessons in the Alexander Technique is a better, more effective option for relieving neck pain than

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Alexander For Treatment Of The Cervical Herniated Disc – video

Dr. Seth Neubardt, an orthopedic cervical spine surgeon, recommends the Alexander Technique as a highly effective non-surgical option for treating a cervical herniated disc. In this video, he interviews highly renowned Alexander Technique teacher, and my mentor, Judith Stern about the critical

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Stretching effectively with Alexander Technique – a podcast

Inspired by the “On Hamstrings” podcast I did with Brooke Thomas, this podcast with Robert Rickover of Body Learning focuses more broadly on the activity of stretching. Here, I talk about how the way we move (or sit) all day

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On Short Hamstrings – a podcast

Recently a colleague of mine Brooke Thomas, a wonderful rolfing practitioner and creator of the Liberated Body Guide and podcast interviewed me for a podcast on short hamstrings. She gathered a multiplicity of voices to speak on the subject including mine, from

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