Back in April of 1985, I attended a lecture-demonstration on the Alexander Technique. As I sat listening to the teacher talk about the technique, I was enthralled.
As a matter of fact, I fell in love at first sight!
I’m not sure how that happened, because I didn’t receive any hands-on work that day. In other words, I didn’t have a direct experience of the Alexander Technique. In addition, I knew very little about it. But somehow I knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that it was going to be really important in my life. I knew that it was going to be my life’s work.
And thankfully, I turned out to be right. Ever since that wonderful day, I’ve had a love-affair with the Alexander Technique. I took private lessons for 3 years, and then, in 1988, I began the training to become a teacher. The training took three years and involved 1600 hours of class time. Then , in 1991, I began teaching. I’ve been teaching now for almost 21 years.
Among many other benefits, the Alexander Technique has transformed the way I approach sports. It’s also helped me heal the chronic low-grade depression I suffered from in my early life. And best of all, it’s given me work that I find richly rewarding. I get to work one-on-one with many wonderful students!
Even today, I still feel blessed to have work that I enjoy so much. Whenever I teach, I invariably feel much better. The Alexander Technique gives me a feeling of well-being, calm and quiet strength. Best of all, it makes me feel as though I have a spine.
I work with all of the groups listed under “Who Can Benefit from the Alexander Technique?” in the section called “What Is The Alexander Technique.” 
I do have two areas of specialization, though. First of all, I work with a lot of athletes – and especially with horseback riders and skiers. I myself am a life-long athlete: I’ve been riding since I was six and skiing since I was nine. When I work with athletes, I teach a combination of the sport and the Alexander Technique. For example, I work with riders both in the office and on the horse — and I work with skiers both in the office and on the ski slope. I enjoy showing these athletes how they can benefit from the Alexander Technique while they’re actually doing the sport.
If you’d like to learn more about my own sports background, you can read my article The Alexander Technique and Sports Performance. If you’d like to learn more about how I work with riders, you can read my article Improve Your Ride with The Alexander Technique. If you’d like to learn more about how I work with skiers, you can read my article The Alexander Technique and Skiing.
Second, with a small number of clients I do a combination of the Alexander Technique and psychotherapy. Let me emphasize that I only do this interdisciplinary work when someone specifically requests it. In addition to my Alexander Technique certification, I hold a Master’s Degree in Counseling Psychology from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and for ten years I taught psychology at the college and high school levels.
I find that in some cases the Alexander Technique can help a person grow emotionally and psychologically, as well as physically. As I said before, that was certainly true in my case. To find out about how the Alexander Technique helped me in this area, you can read my article “The Psychological Benefits of the Alexander Technique.” If you want to read a case study in which I did a combination of Alexander Technique and psychotherapy with a client, you can go to my article The Alexander Technique and Psychological Growth.
The main thing is that I’m hoping to create a safe, warm environment for all my Alexander students, so you can learn and make positive changes in your life.
I have three offices where I work — in Cambridge, MA., Maynard, MA. and Wilton, N.H.