more on betterATbeing /Alexander Technique

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$ 0 - free introductory lesson, $50 value

$50 - one regular lesson per week

$70 - two regular lessons per week

(frequent lessons = better learning and better value)

to schedule lessons with Elizabeth Hurwitt, AT instructor, certified by the American Society for Alexander Technique (AmSAT)

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You save money with betteratbeing / Alexander Technique.
To promote this new practice, fees are the lowest you will find anywhere among AmSAT-certified teachers, who have undergone a three-year training at the highest international standards.
Discounted fees for two or more lessons per week will speed your progress and give you further savings.
One lesson per week is the minimum recommended. We absorb AT work best through frequent practice.

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,

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.
Teachers with a Carrington teaching approach are hard to find in the U.S., and worth seeking out.
This profoundly effective hands-on teaching emphasizes the engagement of the postural muscles via the body's elastic, opposing pulls, encouraging a widening as well as lengthening back, and freeing the rib cage for deep and natural breathing.
You will not find anyone working in the Carrington approach offering lessons at more affordable rates than those offered by betterATbeing.

Special equipment or attire is not 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, as you exercise your powers of observation and intention.
Over the course of your lessons, you will become aware of your own counterproductive habits; learn how to stop them; and begin to think about and do things in new way.

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 you) to function optimally.
With time and practice, you will integrate improved use into your daily life, for greater ease in all you do.

As you study AT, you will learn to resist debilitating, habitual reactions to internal and external stimuli, and make new and better choices.
These changes and more are made possible by the positive effect of AT on general functioning: better balance, breathing, circulation, digestion, mood and clarity of mind. And the benefits of AT increase with every minute you invest in practicing it.

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