Alexander Technique and Yoga

Location: 9th Square, Downtown
January 24th, 2010
1:30 - 3:00 PM
$25
This workshop is limited to 20 people,

About the Workshop

The Alexander Technique & Yoga
The Shoulder Girdle and Arms
A Workshop with Rachel Bernsen, Nationally Certified Teacher, M.AmSAT, ACAT

The Alexander Technique helps me relax and feel more comfortable in my body. I am more at peace in my own body.
-Bohdana Smyrnova, Filmmaker and student of Rachel’s

Invite freedom and comfort into your Yoga practice! The Alexander Technique offers you the means to get the maximum benefit from your asanas. Proven to increase range of motion, the Alexander Technique helps you undo excess tension that gets in the way of effective muscular release (muscles naturally lengthen when we stop tightening them), allowing you to elongate with ease into the pose instead of strain.

Rachel will introduce the principles of the Alexander Technique through its application to basic poses. In this class we’ll focus on finding freedom in the shoulder girdle and arms in weight bearing and in shoulder and chest opening asanas. Explore how the practice of yoga can be transformed when we engage our mind, creating opportunity for change.

Developed over 100 years ago by F.M. Alexander as a way to deal with his own recurring vocal problems, the Alexander Technique is now an effective and widely used self-care method for relief from back and sciatic pain, injury recovery, stress reduction, improved performance skills, and much more.

All levels welcome.

About the Instructor

Rachel Bernsen is a nationally certified teacher, M.AmSAT. She received her certificate from the American Center for the Alexander Technique (ACAT) upon completing a three year / 1600 hour training program. She has a private practice and teaches group classes, workshops and master classes in New Haven, CT and in New York City. She is on faculty at Movement Research in NYC where she teaches the Technique to dancers. Rachel serves on the board of the American Society for the Alexander Technique (AmSAT). She holds an MFA in Dance from NYU, Tisch School of the Arts. She continues to perform, choreograph, and write about performance and has received residencies and fellowships for her work. She is also a long time student of yoga and maintains a daily practice.
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