The Alexander Technique provides a doorway into a more playful and whole connection of the body and mind. As students and teachers of the technique we are looking for a sensation of ease and encouraging the body's natural buoyancy and balance with the environment. The method can be used to rehabilitate injuries, ease trauma, or as a starting place for everyday activities, sports, and the performing arts. It is essentially a practice of re-learning how to learn; how to learn movement, how to learn an art, how to learn Pilates, so that there is less unwanted tension and more natural ease and grace.
Margi Sharp Douglas, owner and founder of the Pilates Garage, has been certified to teach Alexander under master ATI (Alexander Technique International) teacher Chloe Wing in New York City. An MFA graduate of Columbia University's acting program, Margi has been practicing the Alexander work as a performer but also as a movement teacher. Margi is a founding member and teacher for Magis Theatre Company and has been teaching the Alexander work to her fellow Magis actors, incorporating it into their vocal and physical warm ups for several years. She has also found the work invaluable to many of her Pilates clients at the Pilates Garage.
We are now offering Alexander sessions with Margi at the Pilates Garage as such:
1. Initial private Alexander session - 1hr $70
2. Follow up private Alexander session - 45minutes $65
3. Combination Alexander and Pilates sessions - 1 1/2hrs $105
Read more about Margi or about the Alexander technique.
Here's what some of our clients are saying:
I learned from our Alexander work to align my spine naturally. My injuries responded immediately, and I was walking two to three miles a day, pain-free, within a couple of months. As important as is Margi's seemingly inexhaustible knowledge of anatomy is her absolute confidence that your body can "get there," and the magical way in which she teaches it to do so. -- Diane Tosh, Alexander student.
My work with Margi has helped me to get out of my head and back into my body, to free up places where energy is blocked, and has given me access to a freer flowing connection between myself and others. This was not happening before I did Alexander work with her. There's something powerful happening here!" -- Casey Groves, Alexander Student and Professional Actor.