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Balance Arts Center
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The Balance Arts Center is a school dedicated to teaching the Alexander Technique and focuses on providing better balance, coordination, strength, and breathing. They offer a variety of classes, workshops, and training programs for students to learn and apply the principles of the Alexander Technique to different activities.

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Balance Arts Center

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AT Winter Intensive: In-Person Fundamental Track

Balance Arts Center

Alexander Technique Winter Intensive A 5-day program for self-discovery in the Alexander Technique! Join us for a week-long intensive to deepen your understanding and embodiment of the Alexander Technique. The Balance Arts Center faculty will guide you to a new and more nuanced understanding of how the AT process as taught at the BAC can help you enhance every aspect of your life and art form. Winter Intensive Features:  Online &...

(26) All levels 18 and older
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Headache Workshop

Balance Arts Center

Learn to find the ground and release tension in your neck and head that leads to headaches and accompanies them. Discover a way to work with the beginning signs of stress and tension that may lead to headaches. Learn to consciously work with your thinking and your body once you have a headache. The principles of the Alexander Technique will be explored and applied during this workshop. Releasing and directing the head, neck, and back will help you...

(26) All levels 18 and older
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AT Winter Intensive: Online Fundamental Track

Balance Arts Center

Alexander Technique Winter Intensive A 5-day program for self-discovery in the Alexander Technique! Join us for a week-long intensive to deepen your understanding and embodiment of the Alexander Technique. The Balance Arts Center faculty will guide you to a new and more nuanced understanding of how the AT process as taught at the BAC can help you enhance every aspect of your life and art form. Winter Intensive Features:  Online &...

(26) All levels 18 and older
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Alexander Technique Summer Intensive (In-person)

Balance Arts Center @ 151 W 30th St, New York, NY

Embark on a summer of self-discovery! Deepen your understanding and embodiment of the Alexander Technique through these weeklong intensives. Guided by internationally renowned faculty, you will get a big-picture understanding of how the AT process can help you grow in every aspect of your life and art form.  Discover how to optimize your full potential, refine your artistry, and bring your whole self to the present moment. Summer Intensive...

(26) All levels 18 and older
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Floor Class

Balance Arts Center @ 151 W 30th St, New York, NY

Is to present movement through the lens of the Alexander Technique. She has combined her knowledge and experience of the Alexander Technique, Bartenieff Fundamentals, Feldenkrais, Yoga and various dance techniques in creating this class. Work with the whole body coordination to find your balance and center through an extended session on the floor. Focus on your breathing, ease, coordination and directions. Work slowly and carefully to build your...

(26) All levels 18 and older
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Balance Arts Fundamentals in Flow

Balance Arts Center @ 151 W 30th St, New York, NY

Fundamentals in Flow is a 90 minute class that guides you through fundamental movement patterns that help improve balance, coordination, and establish a sense of flow and connection in your mind and body. Led by Ann Rodiger this class will meet on Zoom which you can join by phone or computer. Visual demonstration is available in case you are new to class.

(26) All levels 18 and older
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Ballet + Alexander Technique = bAlleT

Balance Arts Center @ 151 W 30th St, New York, NY

bAlleT is a beginning/intermediate level ballet class that incorporates both the principles of classical ballet and the Alexander Technique which leads to the free-flow of easy, efficient movement, as well as clear dynamic actions. The class is designed for students to discover the "how" and allows for the time to notice, and, ultimately, to consciously apply these principles before, during and after moving. Each class may include a "lie-down,"...

(26) Beginner 18 and older
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Arias and Songs: Body, Mind and Creativity

Balance Arts Center

Work your arias and songs with an integrative approach to body and mind. Work toward freeing excess tension.  Use attention and your senses to access the free flow of yourself through voice, physical action, and thought.  Build a technique that lets you be both aware and involved. Watch as others make discoveries that can help you understand and improve your own performance. Warm up activities and individual coachings are included in the...

(26) All levels 18 and older
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Practice Your Presence

Balance Arts Center

Your presence is an important influence on the outcome of your meeting, class, or social interaction both on and offline. A little bit of attention can go a long way in upping your game! This online class series will help you learn how to bring your best presence to interactions in your work life and daily life. In these classes you will practice and learn how to:  Recognize habits that may be in the way of your best presentation. ...

(26) All levels 18 and older
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Strategies for Stability & Coordination (In-Person)

Balance Arts Center

Strategies for Stability & Coordination: An EDS & Hypermobility In-Person Class Series This 4-class series, for those with EDS & Hypermobility, will guide students towards improved proprioception, coordination, and help find a better relationship to gravity. By exploring these strategies one can find better overall balance enabling you to negotiate your daily activities with more ease and less pain.  Class will include: ...

(26) All levels 18 and older
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Introduction to the Alexander Technique (Online)

Balance Arts Center @ 151 W 30th St, New York, NY

Curious about the Alexander Technique and want to learn more? Join our Introduction to the Alexander Technique class series! Led by Ann Rodiger, classes will explore basic principles of the Alexander Technique that guide you toward finding a better balance and dynamic body posture that you will learn to apply to all of your activities. These classes will help you discover how to interact with yourself and your environment in an easier and more...

(26) Beginner 18 and older
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ATchoirNYC

Balance Arts Center @ 151 W 30th St, New York, NY

This choral experience is open to all people who enjoy singing with others! Each evening will begin with an extended whole-body 'tune-up' using principles of the Alexander Technique and we will explore exercises in vocalization while learning about our anatomy in motion. The second part will be a choral rehearsal where we will learn music and sing in a variety of genres and styles from baroque to modern, from classical to world music, culminating...

(26) All levels 18 and older
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Postgraduate Alexander Technique

Balance Arts Center @ 151 W 30th St, New York, NY

Open to all certified Alexander Technique teachers.

(26) All levels 18 and older
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Audition Preparation, Posture & Presence Intensive

Balance Arts Center

Prepare for your auditions with a new awareness of how you present yourself. Receive feedback on and guidance to improve how your posture and presence affects your performance. In this workshop you will develop strategies for coping with anxiety during the rehearsal and performance situations. A mock audition will allow you to practice your new tools and awareness.  This intensive is developed through the principles of the Alexander Technique...

(26) All levels 16 and older
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The Diamond-Dart Meridian Sequence

Balance Arts Center @ 151 W 30th St, New York, NY

Is a system of developmental movements and affirmations developed by holistic medical pioneer John Diamond M.D. You will learn the twelve postures involved in the sequence, their associated organ, emotional correlations and affirmations as well as the transitional movements between each posture. Benefits: Raise your Life Energy (Chi)  Minimize the effects of stress  Increase flexibility and posture  Improve co-ordination, breathing...

(26) All levels 18 and older
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Freedom to ACT: 2015

Balance Arts Center

Explore, discover and experience ways to develop skills and awareness to keep your acting vibrant and lively. The Alexander Technique provides a foundation for your study and practice of any acting method. It is fundamental and indispensable for the development and refinement of your craft.  This year we are pleased to offer a focus on The Art of Breathing with Jessica Wolf. We will all receive instruction from Jessica and have the opportunity...

(26) All levels 18 and older
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Pause and Rest

Balance Arts Center

A half hour, body mindful, meditation that will help guide you to a deeper physical connection including better alignment, greater breath support, and an overall easier presence.  Please have a piece of floor available to lie down on (with yoga mat if you prefer) and some books for underneath your head.

(26) All levels 18 and older
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Performance Anxiety Workshop (In Person)

Balance Arts Center

Learn strategies to manage your performance anxiety through the mind-body principles of the Alexander Technique! In this workshop you will practice and learn how to use your mind-body awareness and attention to connect to the ground, direct your breathing, and take in the space around you so that you can present your best self and artistry during performance. You will have a chance to put these strategies to use while performing for others. ...

(26) All levels 18 and older
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AT Music

Balance Arts Center @ 151 W 30th St, New York, NY

AT Music is an introductory three-week workshop for vocalists and musicians highlighting the student’s anatomical understanding of themselves, the instrument, and the interplay of the two within the context of the Alexander Technique.  Students will receive hands-on work and individual coaching sessions from Ann Rodiger, with the assistance of Miles Mandwelle.

(26) All levels 18 and older
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Walking Well

Balance Arts Center @ 151 W 30th St, New York, NY

Refine your balance and coordination to master the art of walking with this class that combines gentle warm-ups, body movements, and the Alexander Technique. Explore dynamic balance, whole-body posture, and intentional walking practices to integrate new habits of movement and awareness. Join us to enhance your hip joint mobility, balance strategies, spatial thinking, and more.

(26) All levels 18 and older
No upcoming schedules
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