Time, Money, and Value

Call (646) 981-9330 to set up a lesson.

• Your initial 20-minute phone consultation is free
• Your first 1-hour lesson costs $70. Lessons 2 through 6 cost $65 each. Each additional lesson costs $60. 
• Payment may be made in cash, by check, or online payment, at the end of each lesson. 

Call (646) 981-9330 to cancel a lesson-- as soon as you know you can't make it.

• There is a $15 charge for cancelling less than 24 hours in advance.
• Lessons cancelled less than 12 hours in advance must be paid for in full, with reasonable exceptions at the teacher's discretion.

betterATbeing is proud to offer a high-quality Alexander Technique learning experience, in the form of private, hands-on lessons. 

This is the most effective and cost-efficient way to learn the Technique. Virtual lessons can't compare with hands-on lessons.

Teacher and student must wear a mask, and agree not to show up on site if they have symptoms of any kind.

COVID-19 safety is determined according to regulations applied to hair salons, which pose a similar level of risk. If you are now visiting a hair salon, you will be just as safe visiting the betterATbeing studio for an AT lesson.

AT lessons cost less, and are worth more, the more often and the longer you take them. Meeting at least once weekly is recommended.

Meeting twice or more per week will turn up the volume on the learning experience, and fees are discounted by agreement.

Between lessons:

• Email your teacher with questions.
• Daily practice reinforces your skills.
• Twice-daily sessions of semi-supine "active rest" (a self-directed process) refresh and guide you for better self-use in your upright activities. 

Learning Alexander Technique is comparable to taking up a musical instrument. How many lessons you will need depends on what you want to achieve. 

But here are some useful benchmarks:

• One lesson will tell you quite a bit about what AT is like and how it works;
• Three to six lessons will provide an introduction to AT principles you can practice yourself. Then you can decide whether you would like to continue studying;
• Six lessons can offer significant benefit for back pain, per a major peer-reviewed study.

Thirty AT lessons is the number frequently cited as the minimum needed to firmly establish better use of the self, which can be maintained with continued practice in daily activity. 

Thirty lessons may sound like a lot. But it's not. 

Not when you consider that most people beginning lessons have developed habits of bad self-use over a period of decades - a lifetime.

Changing your habits won't take a lifetime. 

And each lesson takes you that much farther toward a more graceful engagement with every task you take on.

Many people find they enjoy AT so much that they continue their lessons long after their first 30 lessons are over.

There is always more to learn. And the more you improve your AT skills, on your own or with your teacher, the more you will appreciate being alive.

AT doesn't get boring. No matter how long you practice it, it's always new.

Best of all, as you learn it, AT will become yours. It comes with you, wherever you go, to use whenever you need it most. Always.