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Find out more about lesson pricing, cancellation policy and other questions of time, money and value

betterATbeing deliberately keeps per-lesson fees reasonably priced and makes ongoing lessons increasingly affordable as they continue. 

And negotiable fee reductions for multiple lessons are intended to make it affordable for most students to take lessons regularly and achieve sustainable outcomes.

The cost of lessons does not indicate their value. The joint investment between student and teacher made over the course of a series of lessons can yield substantial positive change that accrues with time.

Call (646) 981-9330 to schedule lessons with Elizabeth Hurwitt, for AT instruction certified by the American Society for Alexander Technique (AmSAT).

Actors, singers, dancers, athletes and people seeking recovery from injury or chronic pain are those most likely to study Alexander Technique (AT). 

But  AT can have benefits for anyone.

Learning AT helps us overcome harmful habits of excessive tension, breaking life-long patterns of doing things the hard way.

Alexander Technique teaches us a skill set that facilitates the way we go about all the tasks involved in leading our daily lives and doing our jobs.

As we hone our AT skills, the more able we become; chronic pain and discomfort can be minimized or subdued entirely.

Many people studying AT also experience a lift in their mood as well as their posture.

The teaching approach at betterATbeing comes from Elizabeth's training in a teaching lineage leading from AT founder F.M. Alexander through Walter Carrington, to whom Alexander entrusted the continuation of his training practice.

Carrington's uniquely effective method of teaching emphasizes the engagement of the postural muscles via the body's elastic, opposing pulls.  The teacher's  inquiring, guiding touch speaks to the entire individual with each placement of the hands, encouraging a widening as well as lengthening back, and freeing the rib cage for deep and natural breathing. 

The Carrington approach grounds the student in fundamental AT principles that are universally applicable in everything you do. Teachers trained in and dedicated to Carrington's teaching legacy are not easy to find in the U.S. and are worth seeking out.

No special equipment or attire is required for Alexander learning — just teacher and student in comfortable clothing; a table, a chair, and a mirror. You can read more here on how to prepare for a lesson.

With verbal instructions and gentle touch, your teacher will lead you through new kinesthetic experiences.

You will learn to pay special attention to the relationship between your head, neck, back and limbs.

Over the course of your lessons, you will become aware of your own counter-productive habits; learn how to stop them; and start thinking about and doing things in new and better ways.

No. Student and teacher collaborate closely in Alexander work. Your participation is necessary for its success.

Your teacher's verbal and hands-on guidance and above all your own direction (self-guided thinking) set the process in motion.

With your teacher's help, you will learn to reorganize your use (your management of the whole pyscho-physical system that is your self) to function optimally. 

With Alexander Technique, time and practice will help you integrate improved use into your daily life, for greater ease in all you do.

Not at betterATbeing.

As an AT student with betterATbeing, the most important understanding you will gain, in each lesson, is directly conveyed by the guiding hands of the teacher.

As your teacher, I depend on my hands to carefully monitor how you are using your body and mind, in ways not possible with a purely visual assessment. The two-way communication of touch is a powerful exchange, for which there is no effective substitute.

For these reasons, a shared spatial environment is by far the best one for AT learning, and the only one offered by betterATbeing.