If you liked the intro to Alexander Technique class, this is the next step. This is a 60-minute body awareness class that meets once a week for 4 weeks. 

About Alexander Technique:
Alexander Technique is designed to help alleviate tension, pain, and stiffness caused by the sedentary lifestyle that has become our new normal. It is a way of learning to move mindfully through your day. It is a preventative as well as retroactive healing approach to living an injury free life. The Alexander process shines a light on inefficient habits of movement and patterns of accumulated tension. These propensities interfere with our innate ability to move easily. It is a simple yet powerful approach that offers the opportunity to take charge of one’s own learning and healing process. This technique is offered in performing arts schools to artists who use their body to make a living, but can be even more crucial for people who sit still all day bent over a keyboard.

Participants: Up to 4 Level: Introductory Time: 4 Weeks/1 hr. per week

What is body mapping? 
Body Mapping is the method founded by William Conable and developed by Barbara Conable to consciously correct a faulty body map in order to rediscover healthy and easeful movement while making music.

Barbara wrote two books on Body Mapping: the first is “How to Learn the Alexander Technique “ and the second is “ What Every Musician Needs to Know About the Body.” She then created a course for musicians by the same name. Before she retired, she trained many of her musician students to present the course material to other musicians. Our organization of Body Mapping Instructors is called Association for Body Mapping Education ( Andover Educators). Barbara realized that in order for musicians to recover from and prevent further injury, we would not just have to retrain movement by correcting the body map, but we would also need to retrain and hone the senses, particularly the kinesthetic sense.

This sense tells us about our quality of movement, but also retrains a healthier quality of attention. Musicians who “ concentrate” are narrowing their field of awareness and once that narrows, so do the muscles in the body.