ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE
Integrative Alexander Technique
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Integrative Alexander Technique is the foundation of all offerings at Kinetic Muse Studio, and you can study this powerful learning process as its own practice to support all your own endeavors. The Alexander Technique champions this key discovery: The quality of the movement between your head and spine—which accompanies everything you do—directly affects the quality of movement in your whole system. You can learn to consciously cooperate with this movement, enabling you to perform your activities with more freedom and fluency. This is great news! Integrative Alexander Technique practice promotes constructive thinking, intention, and action as you live your life. Your natural coordination is enhanced or restored, giving you facility and confidence in pursuing the activities you care about and responding to the moments in your life.
The Integrative in Integrative Alexander Technique celebrates that the way Matt approaches this process is immediately practical, placing the activities you wish to explore front and center in your own unique journey of discovery. Matt is fortunate in having apprenticed for more than 20 years with Cathy Madden, master teacher and champion of this integrative approach, an innovation of her own mentor, Marjorie Barstow, the first graduate of F.M. Alexander’s inaugural teacher training. He holds Alexander Technique International certification and has trained students and performers in this learning methodology at the university level since 2014. The elegantly simple practice of Integrative Alexander Technique supports whatever you wish to do. Anything that a human being could possibly do can “go better” using this conscious process: playing the piano, ironing, juggling, skiing, pole vaulting, triathlon, going up stairs, jumping rope, horseback riding, gardening, shooting free throws, cooking—anything! You can arrive to your session with your virtuoso violin concerto, your tennis racquet, or your knitting. Discoveries on the path of learning are individual to each student and may include (and are not limited to) greater freedom and ease, enhanced imagination and creativity, and relief from various hindrances or discomfort. Repeatable success, freedom of choice, and enjoyment are the happy results as you make this process your own! |
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Coordinated, whole-self intention and action •
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