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Benefits:

  • Learn how to change harmful tension habits. These harmful tension habits are interfering with your success.

  • Tap into your clear, productive, and efficient use of your body language, voice, and thinking

  • Remain calm in high-stakes situation so you can think and act creatively

  • Manage stress effectively

  • Diminish anxiety, pain, and fear responses

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What are Alexander Technique lessons like?

People who have taken AT lessons

Many renowned performers including Ben Kingsley, William Hurt, Jeremy Irons, James Earl Jones, Sting, Paul McCartney, Robin Williams,Kevin Kline, Paul Newman, Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Juliette Binoche, Kenneth Branaugh, Michael Caine, and Hillary Swank have used the Alexander Technique as their secret weapon on stage and on screen. Other proponents of AT were Aldous Huxley (author), John Dewey, Dr. Nikolas Tinbergen (Nobel prize winner), Sir Stafford Cripps, George Bernard Shaw, Sir Charles Herrington and James Harvey Robinson.

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Who is F. M. Alexander?

Bio for Sharon Jakubecy

I began studying the Alexander Technique (AT) 12 years ago because it relieved chronic and debilitating pain in my hip. However, I decided to become an Alexander Technique teacher when I recognized that I had become much calmer and better able to deal with a very stressful job teaching children with autism.

During my career as an AT teacher, I have witnessed hundreds of students come in for a lesson slouched, stiff, miserable and in pain. After a lesson, which is about an hour long, students feel light, calm, and are smiling. Alexander lessons help people to recognize how they hold their breath and tighten their musculature, pulling down on the whole structure, when they are stressed, anxious and worried. As a teacher, I offer instruction on how to release these tension patterns, let their body move with their breath and release to a more balanced and aligned homeostasis. This calms the nervous system, their mood changes, and they don't have pain.

I am an AmSAT (American Society for the Alexander Technique) board certified teacher since 2003. I have helped writers, doctors, teachers, singers, actors, cellists, and business executives achieve peak performance. I am also on the faculty at Stella Adler Studio, American Academy of Dramatic Arts, and X Repertory Theatre Company in Los Angeles. The LA Opera, Women in Theater, The Dating Coach, Vox Humana, Unknown Theater, and Children's Hospital have sought me to teach workshops for their organizations.

RESEARCH on the AT

Randomised controlled trial of Alexander technique lessons, exercise, and massage (ATEAM) for chronic and recurrent back pain “Lessons in the Alexander technique offer an individualized approach designed to develop lifelong skills for self-care that help people recognize, understand, and avoid poor habits affecting postural tone and neuromuscular coordination.” British Medical Journal 2008;337:a884
Read the study (http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/337/aug19_2/a884)

Economic Evaluation of the ATEAM study published in the BMJ
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/337/dec11_2/a2656

Topics Sharon can discuss:

  • Achieve Peak Performance
  • Poise and Presence: Alexander Technique and the Actor
  • Communicate with Confidence
  • Managing Stress Creatively
  • Recognizing the causes of Back Pain and how to alleviate it

Steven Ladd

"After I decided to come to Sharon for help with my lower back pain, I'm floored by the changes I've undergone. I don't suffer from back pain any more, after decades of it. My overall stress levels have dropped significantly, and I've developed an extraordinary sense of body awareness. But perhaps the greatest change was the profound sense of emotional energy that I now have to draw from. Sharon's teachings are nothing short of a godsend. My friends notice the change, but they can't pin down just what it is. I recommend her without hesitation. Thanks again Sharon!"
Stephen Ladd, Screenwriter