Body Blueprints
For performers, educators, and anyone with a body.
Movement follows your internal body map. When that map is off, we bend from the wrong place, brace unnecessarily, and ask a few joints to do the work of many leading to stiffness, fatigue, and injury.
In this experiential, on-your-feet workshop, you will:
Release tension patterns: Identify and let go of habits that limit your range, stamina, and artistic expression.
Understand body mechanics: Align your mental body map with actual anatomy for easy standing, walking, breathing, and performance.
Prevent & work with injury: Gain clear, safe principles to protect your joints, relieve strain, and move safely through recovery.
Immediate teaching & life tools: Walk away with simple verbal cues and movement practices you can use in your studio, classroom, or daily routine right away.
The workshop is based in Alexander Technique (body awareness and how to unlearn physical habits) and body mapping (aligning our mental image of our bodies with actual anatomical reality).
You’ll learn how the body is built, how its parts coordinate into the whole, how learned habits can be changed, and how to apply these ideas for yourself and your students.
November 14th
3pm - 6pm
Pig Iron Studios
(1417 N. 2nd St, Philadelphia PA)
$45 Community Support: for those from the global North or those with access to savings, investments, or inheritance.
$25 Discounted: for BIPOC folks, those from the global South, low income/working class folks, or those with less access to wealth.
$35 Regular: for those who don't see themselves in the other levels. (This level covers costs.)
who am I?
I’m an artist who has been teaching movement and Alexander Technique for over 15 years. I’m a faculty member of the Contemporary Alexander School (Alexander Alliance International) and Harmonia Alexander Collective. My research is grounded in relationality, living systems, and liberatory practice. I believe it is our nature to be free, and my work facilitates returning to our nature. My work provides tools to access innate coordination, movement, and ease in the actions of daily life. I work with trauma and belief systems, the way they act on our bodies and our physical experience and the way our bodies wear our personal histories, past injuries, and culture.
I’ve been studying Alexander Work for over two decades, first as a young dancer finding efficiency, strength, and presence, and later after a spine injury that left me severely incapacitated. Contemporary Alexander Technique not only restored my health, function, and dance career after the injury, but also allowed me to awaken to a stronger, smarter body and a deeper understanding of myself. I have MFA in Devised Performance from the Pig Iron School at Rowan University and have taught movement and Alexander Technique at Meadowmount School of Music, the Pig Iron School, UT Austin, The University of the Arts, and Swarthmore College among others. I am obsessed with mycelium, anatomy as metaphor, how dams affect rivers over time, and what happens when we remove them.
who are you?
You are curious and interested in exploring how you are embodied. You may want less of something (chronic pain, trauma) or more of something (professional skill, presence, artistry, tools to work with your students’ physical capacity and injuries). You may be interested in…
Finding more pleasure in the experience of being alive
Deepening your art or craft as a musician, dancer, athlete, chef, craftsperson, etc.
Developing a deeper relationship with yourself and a dynamic experience of living in your body
Developing a more accurate, functional, and detailed map of your anatomy.
Exploring how the social body (culture, belief systems, identities, practices, etc.) have shaped how you are in your individual body
Creating awareness and choice around how the way you are in your body affects your work, culture, relationships, and impact on the world