MEET ELIZABETH

Alexander Technique (AT) lessons are a collaborative endeavor, an exciting process of discovery for student and teacher. My training and background prepare me to lead you steadily through a course of gentle, hands-on, experiential learning, expanding your understanding of yourself, reducing unnecessary muscular tension, and helping you to meet the challenges of your environment—beginning with gravity—with poise. My own continuing work with AT continues to astonish, delight and sustain me, and I want to share its benefits with you. 

I started AT in my twenties, as an avocational singer, hoping to learn to breathe more freely. AT has set me on a journey that is still taking me far beyond those initial expectations. I pursued private lessons for ten years with Pamela Anderson (at that time, the Director of the American Center for Alexander Technique). Eventually realizing that I wanted a deeper knowledge of the Technique and myself, I undertook teacher training with Tom Vasiliades, and completed the 3-year, 1600-hour program required for teacher certification by the American Society of Alexander Teachers, of which I am an ongoing member. I began my own teaching practice in 2017.

In between my first AT lessons and my teacher training, I spent a couple of decades as a music journalist and manager of intimately scaled performing arts companies. I learned to describe indescribable experiences, and observed a lot about human behavior, especially under stress. All my work with words, music and performers still guides me in helping my AT students to grasp elusive concepts, re-write their own inner scripts, and sustain their own presence, awareness and intention throughout that most demanding of acts: life.

Beginning in 2025, I have been enriching my own AT practice through participation in programs with the Center for Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC), which involve loving-kindness meditation. I am finding the meditations and principles of mindful self-compassion are increasingly relevant and beneficial to my teaching of Alexander Technique, which like MSC combines mindfulness with the intention to do oneself good.