Alexander Lessons in New York City and Columbia County

What do you do for a living? Odds are, that no matter what your answer, you spend a lot of time sitting. Most likely, you’re sitting right now. If so, how’s that going? Maybe you’re feeling great; you’re making contact with your chair in a vital, dynamic way. Or maybe, if your habit is like mine, you’re letting yourself collapse into your chair, your head and the floor of your pelvis opposite ends of a C slumping toward the screen. If that’s the case, you’re lucky that hasn’t begun to bother you yet; your back hasn’t begun to complain. Or maybe it has.

Whether sitting or standing, acting or singing, using the computer or playing an instrument, the way you engage yourself in activity ­– your “use” we call it in the Alexander Technique ­– determines your experience. If you want to change your experience of your work, your play, your art, or your relationships, change your use. How?

In a lesson we will use simple activities – sitting, standing, breathing, walking – to explore your habit and create opportunities for change. You will see stiffness yield to freedom, contraction to expansion, the dull and outgrown to the new and invigorating. You will find that simple steps toward the mastery of small things are ripples that touch every shore of our experience.