This month I had the pleasure of teaching an introductory Alexander Technique class for the student choir at Vancouver Community College.  I love combining my background as a professional musician with my long training and experience teaching movement, awareness, and ease.  This class was a perfect opportunity to introduce basic concepts of the Alexander Technique to these aspiring musicians: ideas about fluidity of movement, efficiency of design, natural support, and how we can move without tension or strain.  The class is experiential; highlighting students’ kinaesthetic awareness, having them explore movement, and using visual and tactile learning to understand basic anatomy.  It was a lot of fun as we explored how they can take these ideas into everyday moments and into their music making as well.  I look forward to teaching a longer Alexander Technique class at Vancouver Community College in 2016.

I am always happy to plan and deliver specialty workshops for any group, on Vancouver Island or on the mainland.  In Nanaimo, where I teach privately out of my home studio, there are many community choirs and musicians – I look forward to working with you all!