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more on betteratbeing / alexander technique

what's in a name

When we use our AT skills to approach each activity creatively, our quality of life improves. We get better at being. That's what inspired the name for this teaching practice: betterATbeing.


Alexander Technique re-educates our senses, our thinking, and our way of doing everything we do, helping us learn to start each moment anew.

invest in yourself

classic teaching approach

invest in yourself

$ 0  - Zoom introduction, 30 minutes


$65 - One one-hour lesson per week


Discounts are negotiable based on advance commitment to multiple lessons.


Meeting at least once weekly and practicing in the interim will help you retain what you are learning, and give you more value for your time and money.


Meeting twice or more per week, if scheduling permits, will greatly increase your proficiency.


Call 646-208-0187 to schedule lessons with Elizabeth Hurwitt, for AT instruction certified by the American Society for Alexander Technique (AmSAT).


betterATbeing is a relatively new practice welcoming new students. Fees are the lowest you will find anywhere among AmSAT-certified instructors.

anyone can benefit

classic teaching approach

invest in yourself

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 avoided.


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

classic teaching approach

classic teaching approach

classic teaching approach

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 profoundly 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.


what happens in a lesson?

what happens in a lesson?

classic teaching approach

No special equipment or attire is required for Alexander learning — just teacher and student in comfortable clothing; a table, a chair, and a mirror.


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,  stop them; and start thinking about and doing things in new and better ways as you exercise your powers of observation and intention.


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.

is this a treatment?

what happens in a lesson?

can I study remotely?

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.

can I study remotely?

what happens in a lesson?

can I study remotely?

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, in ways not possible with a purely visual assessment.


The two-way communication of touch is a powerful exchange that cannot be replicated if teacher and student are not together, in real space and time.


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

COVID-19: SAFETY FIRST

commitment to wellness and quality

betterATbeing is committed to maintaining an environment that provides for the best possible health outcomes and the best possible learning conditions. In-person,  hands-on lessons (conducted with impeccably clean hands) are the only service on offer at betterATbeing. There is no remote teaching because the best learning experience is to be obtained by receiving lessons in person.


The health protocols in place in the studio make hands-on lessons as safe as getting your hair cut at a salon. Your teacher has been vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus. Lessons are taught individually, not in groups. The practice has been reduced to just a few students until the pandemic abates, and all students have also been vaccinated. Bring your vaccination card to your first lesson; your teacher will present hers to you.


To avoid any and all risk - especially if you are immune-compromised or aged 65 or older, or living with someone who is - the best choice is to stay at home. You must use your good judgment, and do what is comfortable for you. 


The whole point of AT lessons is to improve your quality of life. betterATbeing strives to create the healthiest, most comfortable and most effective learning process available anywhere.    

hands-on lessons - impeccably clean hands

All in-person, hands-on lessons are conducted with freshly soap-washed hands in a carefully monitored, sanitized environment with sound health protocols in place. 

masks, sanitizing and good sense

  • Anyone who is not feeling well, in any way, should stay home, and may not visit the teaching studio.
  • Students, teacher, and all those visiting betterATbeing are required to wear masks.
  • Before entering the teaching studio everyone must wash hands in the washroom, using the WHO approved, 20-second hand-washing process, then apply hand sanitizer on re-entering the studio. 
  • The teacher undergoes the same double-cleansing process each time a student arrives. 
  • Gloves are available to students and teacher. 
  • All tables, chairs and high-touch surfaces are wiped down with hand sanitizer before and after each lesson 

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