Alexander Technique Practitioners

Let me introduce myself and two of my passions in life: the Alexander Technique and Music. I’ve been playing French horn since the age of ten. It’s a personal and artistic challenge for me, and a great deal of fun. However, at one point the years of intense music studies led to some very challenging problems; repetitive strain injuries, tension problems, and overuse. After trying every conceivable form of treatment, I discovered the Alexander Technique, a method that taught me to “unlearn” my habits of inefficient movement and thought. The Alexander Technique changed ...

The Alexander Technique teaches you how to prevent and undo chronic low back pain, neck/shoulder tension, limitations in sports/music/performance, and helps you improve your responses to stress so you can experience more freedom, power, and vitality in life. An internationally certified teacher since 2009, I have helped office workers, artisans, dancers, and more apply the Alexander Technique to improve their comfort and performance at office work, musicianship, public speaking, running, driving a car, Pilates, Yoga, massage and manual therapies, and the activities of daily life.

Sydney Laurel Harris, BA, AmSat certified, RIE certified, came to the Alexander Technique as an actor and creative drama teacher. A founding Board member of the Alexander Training Institute of Los Angeles and faculty member, Sydney was also an assistant trainer at the Alexander Training Institute of San Francisco from 1977 to 1984. She has taught the Technique in private practice and in numerous academic and public settings since 1977. Sydney offers the Alexander Technique in semi-private groups and in private lessons. Over the years her work with the Alexander Technique has been powerfully ...

I teach the Alexander Technique to individuals and groups in my mountanside studio and in retreat settings. The Technique offers a highly sophisticated approach to mindfulness, movement, and meaning in our day-to-day lives. Learn to: Direct your awareness Calm your nervous system Understand your upright design and free balance Develop confidence in your physical, emotional, and mental responses Perform better at everything you do

Amira Glaser is an AmSAT Certified Teacher of the Alexander Technique. She is a graduate of the American Center for the Alexander Technique where she completed over 1600 hours of training. Amira is also certified in the Art of Breathing, a post-grad program for Alexander Technique teachers. She believes it benefits her teaching and her students when she is continually engaged in the learning process herself. Amira teaches individual lessons and group classes in Manhattan and Park Slope. For more information please visit the Bio page of her website, www.amiraglaser.com/about

Gal Ben-Or was born in 1963. He is married and the father of three children. He graduated from the School for Teachers of the Alexander Technique directed by Shmuel Nelkin inJerusalem. He was certified as a teacher of the Alexander Technique in 1987. As a senior teacher of the Alexander Technique, he has developed a unique approach to teaching children, adolescents and parents, according to the principles of the Alexander Technique.

George Lister is a teacher of the F. M. Alexander Technique, certified since 1994 by the American Society for the Alexander Technique (AmSAT). In addition to his private practices in San Francisco and Redwood City, California, he is the director of training of the Northern California Center for the Alexander Technique, a training course for the Alexnader Technique certified by AmSAT. He is also a regular visiting teacher at the Constructive Teaching Centre, London.

As a classically trained actor, I have been exposed to many different techniques for mind and body awareness. At Juilliard, in addition to the intensive voice and speech training, I studied Mime, Tai Chi, Pilates and Stage Combat. But only the Alexander Technique was offered every year. It is used as the foundation for all voice, speech and movement study because of the physical and mental balance it creates within a person. I draw upon this experience when teaching people how to release unnecessary stress and tension or how to improve their speech. For artists this means enhanced ...