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Having challenges implementing your New Years’ resolutions? Feeling stressed or overwhelmed? Try out the Alexander technique!
Our Community Class is back in person from 4:00-5:00 pm on the following Fridays: February 17th & 24th; March 3rd, 10th & 31st, April 14th, 21st & 28th 2023
This is a drop-in class, 200 Councill street in Boone (behind Earthfare), open to ALL!
Suggested donation: $10-20. Proceeds go to a fund supporting any and all bodies who might not otherwise have access to learning the Alexander technique. No one turned away for lack of funds. If you are new or want more info, click here to submit a contact form.
Do you experience discomfort in your day-to-day life, in simple activities such as sitting or walking, working, texting, reading, or writing…?
Do you ever feel stuck? Like you’re not progressing into being all you know yourself to be? Not yet living your potential you know to be possible?
Are you stressed and pressed for time? Always rushing and never feeling complete?
Have you ever considered the importance of your role in all of this? As in the impact of how you use your whole self (mind, body, soul) has on these things?
Every other Friday, come to join us for an hour and experience the Alexander Technique! PAUSE, take a breather, a moment to JUST BE as we explore these and other ideas together through fun and practical activities related to your daily ones!
This is a community event. People from all backgrounds and walks of life are welcome to this ongoing Alexander Technique class.
New to the Alexander Technique?
Book your introduction lesson now!
We also offer:
Group classes on demand!
For instance, you gather a group of your friends or colleagues and learn the Alexander technique together. It’s a great way to support and encourage each other in the learning process. Can be in person or online. For more information: contact us
What people are saying!
The Community Class was my first introduction to the Alexander Technique. Through the Community Classes I began learning to become more aware of my body and how I use it. I continue to attend because each session provides me with a unique opportunity to explore how I can experience more freedom of movement doing many everyday activities.
Nita Matzen, Community Class Participant
Every time I attended a Community Class I came away with an incredible new way of sensing and being in the world. It was so powerful that I enrolled in Corinne’s summer intensive and am now in the training program.
Lauri Wilson, Summer immersion course 2019 participant and teacher in training
Gift Certificates available!
Contact us to find out more.
Did you know?
According to recent studies, lessons in the Alexander Technique are the most cost-effective way to treat chronic back pain.
“My participation in the Career and Life Enhancement Training Summer Immersion Alexander Technique Course was one of the best summer workshops I have ever experienced. A significant takeaway for me was that the summer course provided an extended, in-depth exploration of my body and how I walk. The Summer Immersion Course facilitated my beginning to sense and change the way that I walk so that I am more fluid and move with greater ease. I experience less pain in my knees and the overall tension in my body is greatly reduced. Furthermore, I find that I am more connected in the moment to my body, my movements, and my overall self.”
~Nita Matzen, Summer immersion course 2019 participant
“Every time I attended a Community Class I came away with an incredible new way of sensing and being in the world. It was so powerful that I enrolled in Corinne’s summer intensive and am now in the training program.”
~Lauri, in training at Light in Being, 2019 summer intensive participant.
“My time in the 2019 Summer Immersion Course was invaluable. Each teacher brought their own history and perspectives, offering us rich intellectual paradigms, emotional insights, and embodied experiences, both subtle and profound. I came away from the course with practical exercises for health and ease, tools to learn and grow, and a deeper connection to myself and to the world around me.”
~Daniel, in training at Light in Being, 2019 summer intensive participant.
“Corinne is able to convey new and familiar ideas and directions with words and a shared visual (computer screen) in such a way that I have an experience in lessons that is similar to receiving hands-on. The time spent meeting with her in this way has allowed me to simultaneously sharpen and soften my observational skills and notice more about myself and my surroundings; this has been fun to learn and develop, and I’m curious how it will continue to unravel.”
~Will, AT student at Light in Being (online), 2019 Summer intensive participant.
Some past offerings:
Career and Life Enhancement with the Alexander Technique!
An Online Summer Immersion Course with Light in Being Alexander Teacher Training Faculty.
June 15th through July 17th, 2020, 5 classes a week for 5 weeks!
This training is based on and inspired by a series of courses that Tommy Thompson offers several times a year in Cambridge, MA. Participants learn to articulate and apply Alexander’s principles and concepts to their life and work. AT teachers and trainees will deepen their teaching skills in relation to those engaged in their professional and creative endeavors.
Such themes as POISE, OBSERVING and ORIENTING, INVITING and WITHHOLDING DEFINITION, SUPPORT, and PRIMARY MOVEMENT, BREATHING, SOUNDING, EXPERIENCING, and LEARNING from the HEART with KINDNESS will be explored in depth. At the conclusion of the 5 weeks, you will:
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- have a practical, experiential, and embodied understanding of the principles of the Alexander Technique.
- leave with the tools to apply the concepts to and within your own field of expertise
- be able to articulate the principles to others in your communities.
- experience well-being and a joyful outlook on Life.
- have given yourself a gift of self-development.
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Teaching from the Heart, an Alexander Technique Workshop with Tommy Thompson from Boston:
Teaching from the Heart is a state of mind. You use your hands differently. There are receptors in our fingers and hands which are connected to centers in our brain responsible for conveying love, compassion, and positive states of social engagement. I began to consider the supportive quality of contact through touch that a teacher conveys to a given person during a lesson matched with the simple act of holding someone’s hand in unconditional support. And I remembered what my wife had said to me once. “When you hold my hand I know that all is forgiven”. It’s really a beautiful thing to say and truly an offering of unconditional support. How often, even when a teacher does not consciously wish to be corrective, does the person we are teaching feel corrected or mistaken about choices they made prior to this new experience? Could an Alexander teacher instill a non-judgmental, compassionate touch already built into the system within the quality of their touch? Could the new experience be more readily accepted by the student as an already existing part of their identity now becoming less foreign to them? In the same breath could not the teacher also incorporate both the inhibitive and directive cues embedded in this unconditional touch? This would require both heart and reasoning.
With this in mind, I devised an experiment that has led to a series of exercises and will be at the heart of this workshop. It will give both teacher and student a way of contact through guided touch, which conveys the same innate sense of compassion and unconditional support as the simple act of holding one’s hand. When all is viewed as forgiven, then previous use and the ensuing choices stemming from that use melt: it is neither right nor wrong. The new choices tend to be more appropriate given the circumstances. Teaching from the heart helps the person find total acceptance of whatever they have done. It helps the student to be able to look at choices, even bad ones, and the consequence of those choices, without a sense of identity. With this in mind, we will explore the “heart” in teaching.
Friday and Saturday, September 28-29th, 2018
Light in Being – Alexander Technique en Anjou
“Exploration sons et mouvements”
Atelier de Technique F.M. Alexander avec Corinne Cassini les 7 et 8 Janvier 2017 à la Possonnière
L’association Spirales invite ses adhérents à une exploration qui prolonge et approfondit les pratiques de danse sensitive et de yoga. Cet atelier est également ouvert à tous ceux qui ont envie de bouger, et d’utiliser leur voix plus librement.
Samedi 7 Janvier 2017 de 14h à 19h et
Dimanche 8 Janvier de 10h-17h30 (avec pause 13h-14h30)
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Dans l’atelier “Exploration sons et mouvements” nous allons :
Nous rendre compte de l’influence de la pensée et des émotions sur le corps, les mouvements, la voix…
Découvrir et utiliser des outils permettant de laisser derrière nous les pensées et émotions qui nous empêchent d’exprimer librement cette unité profonde qui est la nôtre.
Faire des expériences pratiques et sensorielles de connexion avec notre corps en mouvement et les sons qu’il peut produire, pour vivre, en conscience, une expérience de spontanéité et de créativité.
Corinne Cassini, spécialiste de la Technique F.M. Alexander :
Corinne Cassini est une praticienne certifiée de la Technique F.M. Alexander par Alexander Technique International (ATI). Ses premiers contacts avec la Technique datent de 1994 lors de ses études de violoncelle aux USA. Entre 2006 et 2009, elle suit une formation pour professeurs et approfondit ensuite sa formation auprès de Tommy Thompson à Boston en tant qu’assistante de son programme de formation de professeurs de la Technique Alexander. Corinne enseigne actuellement la Technique Alexander aux musiciens à l’Université des Appalaches à Boone en Caroline du Nord. Elle dirige également une formation de professeurs de Technique Alexander et enseigne individuellement et en groupe. Au Canada, en France, en Italie et aux Pays-Bas, elle donne aussi des conférences, dispense des cours individuels et anime des ateliers.
Pour plus d’informations pédagogiques sur l’Atelier ou des séances individuelles entre le 3 et le 12 Janvier 2017 en Anjou, contactez Corinne Cassini par email dès maintenant: corinnecassini@gmail.com. 50 euros/séance d’une heure. Tarifs étudiant/chômeurs possible.
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Ce que la Technique Alexander peut nous apporter :
En plus de l’harmonie posturale, du soulagement de souffrances physiques et émotionnelles, la Technique Alexander a un impact sur l’inconscient et sur le déblocage de traumatismes (ceux-là qui nous ont fait prendre ces postures inadaptées). Il ne s’agit pas d’apprendre des techniques posturales, mais de faire en sorte que ce que nous faisons, et la manière dont nous le faisons, redevienne naturel à travers le fait de nous reconnecter à notre ressenti et à notre créativité. Il s’agit ainsi de dépasser les barrages émotionnels entre nous-même et nos sensations. Et ce déblocage va bien au-delà de conséquences posturales et du bien-être physique : cela mène avant tout à un bien-être intérieur, à une libération de la créativité et à une unité profonde entre toutes les parties de nous-même.
F.M. Alexander, le créateur de la Technique Alexander
Né en Tasmanie en 1869, F.M. Alexander, acteur accompli à Londres, s’est guéri de ses problèmes de respiration et de voix enrouée après des années d’auto-observation, d’expérimentation et d’application, créant ainsi la méthode qui porte son nom et qu’il a enseigné par la suite jusqu’à sa mort à l’âge de 85 ans en 1955.
Alexander Technique Immersion Course at Sorrento GuitarFest, Italy, July 20th-24th 2017.
As part of Sorrento GuitarFest Masterclasses, Light in Being-Alexander Technique is offering a residential Alexander Technique course for teachers, trainees, and students interested in working with musicians on the beautiful Amalfi coast in Italy.
Light in Being – Alexander Technique à Angers
“A la rencontre de notre Potentiel”
Conférence et Atelier de Technique Alexander les 27 et 28 Mai.
Corinne Cassini est de passage en France, en terre angevine :
Conférence « Introduction à la Technique F.M. Alexander »
Vendredi 27 Mai à 19h-21h30 Salle Agora
« A la rencontre de notre Potentiel » Atelier* de Technique F.M. Alexander.
Samedi 28 Mai de 10h à 17h30 Salle Agora
Conférence : 10 € / Atelier* : 80 € / Conférence + Atelier* : 85 €
Salle Agora, Centre de Bien-Etre Agora Zen
Conférence:
En plus de l’harmonie posturale, du soulagement des souffrances physiques et émotionnelles, la Technique Alexander a un impact sur l’inconscient et sur le déblocage de traumatismes (ceux-là qui nous ont fait prendre des postures inadaptées).
Il ne s’agit pas d’apprendre des techniques posturales, mais de faire en sorte que la manière dont nous faisons ce que nous faisons redevienne naturel en nous reliant à notre ressenti.
Il s’agit ainsi de dépasser les barrages émotionnels entre nous-même et nos sensations. Et ce déblocage va bien au delà de conséquences posturales et du bien être physique : cela mène avant tout à un bien-être intérieur, à une unité profonde entre toutes les parties de nous-même.
F.M. Alexander, le créateur de la Technique Alexander
Né en Tasmanie en 1869, F.M. Alexander, acteur accompli à Londres, s’est guéri de ses problèmes de respiration et de voix enrouée après des années d’auto-observation, d’expérimentation et d’application, créant ainsi la méthode qui porte son nom et qu’il a enseigné par la suite jusqu’à sa mort à l’âge de 85 ans en 1955.
Atelier* de Technique F.M. Alexander
« A la rencontre de notre Potentiel »
Etes-vous vraiment à l’aise avec vous-mêmes ou êtes-vous plutôt stressés ?
Etes-vous souvent dans un bien-être intérieur ou manquez-vous de confiance et d’harmonie intérieure ?
La nature de nos pensées et de nos émotions, et donc la qualité de notre attention lors de nos activités professionnelles et journalières, sont en lien direct avec notre capacité d’exprimer authentiquement ou non qui nous sommes, de nous relier ou non à notre potentiel.
Dans cet atelier* vous allez :
-Vous rendre compte de l’influence de la pensée et des émotions sur le corps et la coordination.
-Apprendre à utiliser des outils permettant de laisser derrière vous les pensées et émotions qui vous empêchent de sentir une unité profonde en vous-même.
-Faire des expériences pratiques et sensorielles de connexion avec votre potentiel.
Atelier* : 80 €
Conférence + Atelier : 85 €
*Si vous ne connaissez pas la Technique FM Alexander, Corinne Cassini vous conseille vivement de venir à la conférence du vendredi pour faire l’atelier ensuite. Vous pouvez aussi vous inscrire à la conférence et décider après de faire l’Atelier s’il reste des places, le groupe étant limité à 10 personnes.
Corinne Cassini, spécialiste de la Technique F.M. Alexander :
Corinne Cassini est une praticienne certifiée de la Technique F.M. Alexander par Alexander Technique International (ATI). Ses premiers contacts avec la Technique datent de 1994 lors de ses études de violoncelle aux USA. Entre 2006 et 2009 elle suit une formation pour professeurs et approfondie ensuite sa formation auprès de Tommy Thompson à Boston en temps qu’assistante de son programme de formation de professeurs de la Technique Alexander. Corinne enseigne actuellement la Technique Alexander aux musiciens à l’Université des Appalaches à Boone en Caroline du Nord. Elle dirige également une formation de professeurs de Technique Alexander et enseigne individuellement et en groupe. Elle donne aussi des conférences, cours individuels et ateliers au Canada, en France, en Italie et aux Pays-Bas.
Sound and Movement Exploration: April 2nd and 3rd, Yoga Studio: 129 Shanthi Way, Boone, NC.
Whether you already sing and dance or not or have always wished you could, this workshop can change your life.
Are you present for your own life at the moment it is happening? Have you tasted the delicious flow of spontaneity without worry or vigilant fear of being a fool? In a relaxed, non-judgmental, yet stimulating atmosphere we will deepen our understanding of how we use ourselves and how to improve this use with the tools of the Alexander Technique. As we move away from our ‘doing’ or critical thoughts and experience the wisdom in our bodies, we may be very surprised. You will leave this workshop with new inspiration, with tools of how to practice and play the instrument of your being.
Session 1: Set your voice free, April 2nd 12-5pm with Deborah Jeanne Weitzman (click here for her website)– Exploring spontaneity, joy, and the courage to authentically be who you are with the Alexander Technique.
Session 2: Sound and Movement Exploration, April 3rd 12-5pm with Corinne Cassini and Deborah Jeanne Weitzman–Enhancing freedom and power in all creative activities with the Alexander Technique.
Spring Equinox Retreat & New Moon Transformation
Explore the principals of the Alexander Technique, Shamanic Teachings, and experience a New Moon Purification Lodge
March 20-22, 2015 @ Spirit Canoe Lodge in Ashe County, NC
Our personal stories and mythologies can create identity and become how we define ourselves, often perpetuating unwanted patterns. This is not who we really are. Who we really are is who we are becoming in the present, moment to moment informed by the learning’s of our past while we ‘with hold definition’ of who we think we should be….to please others, to be successful, to be loved etc… Defining ourselves by our past experiences or stories limits our potential.