Alexander Technique Portland

Alexander Technique Portland Alexander Technique lessons, workshops, and teacher training in Portland, OR

Join us to explore specific yin practices for our bodies, minds, and spirits where somatics and justice meet. Registrati...
02/18/2025

Join us to explore specific yin practices for our bodies, minds, and spirits where somatics and justice meet.

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This session is designed to offer rest in real-time breathwork, access to resource, and tangible accessible practices for finding more ease and resilience in your body. This online offering is led by Lyra Butler-Denman, an artist, somatic practitioner and Contemporary Alexander teacher, moderated by Sonali Sangeeta Balajee founder and co-director of the Spiritual-Social Medicinal Apothecary (SSoMA), and hosted by SSoMA’s House of Yin.

Lyra’s work lives where somatics and justice overlap, centering functional anatomy, living systems, and the neurobiology of change. She partners with social change organizations as well as individuals to develop new ways of thinking, new levels of individual and community care, and alternatives to extractive and oppressive practices.

Sonali works at the intersection of spirit, politics, belonging, equity, and deep transformative change. She is the founder of Our Bodhi Project, a spiritual and political project that supports healthy movement-building and organizing through deepening our critical analyses, centering the health of all living systems, and enlivening the connection between social and collectively spiritual wellness.

The suggested donation for this session is $60 (which contributes to our two speakers’ costs) or $75 (which helps us cover the costs of administration and technical support). We are grateful for any support. If you are not in a position to do so, just register - everyone is welcome.

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This one will be a little different! While it will include lots of experiential information about the movement and mecha...
01/14/2023

This one will be a little different! While it will include lots of experiential information about the movement and mechanics of your body, and how to be easeful in it, it will also be looking at the relative tension or ease of the larger social body and your relationship with and inside of it.

We are shaped by our conditions, our experiences, and our belief systems (chosen and inherited). We are both deeply interconnected and diverse. Our bodies are changed by our environment and the way we are embodied changes the spaces we’re in. This class will be focused on finding ease, pleasure, and belonging in your individual body and as you relate to the world.

There will also be plenty of play, time for your specific needs, desires, and questions, and a guest teacher!

As always, all classes will be recorded if you can’t attend live.

I’m really excited about this one, I hope you’ll join me!

My job is to help people rediscover their body as a fiesta! This is the part of Alexander Technique that I really love, ...
11/12/2022

My job is to help people rediscover their body as a fiesta! This is the part of Alexander Technique that I really love, helping folx find a more pleasurable experience of being alive in a body.

WHAT - Alexander Technique is the hands-on study of habits, awareness and choice. It uses touch and direction to identif...
11/11/2022

WHAT - Alexander Technique is the hands-on study of habits, awareness and choice. It uses touch and direction to identify patterns that are no longer serving us, dismantle them if we choose, and access innate ease, balance, comfort, efficiency, and brilliance. Learn more here.

WHO - Me: I’m an artist and teacher and have been studying Alexander Technique for more than two decades. I came to the work after a spine injury left me severely incapacitated and stayed because along with relieving my pain, it allowed me to have a more delicious experience of being alive (and it turns out I really like teaching). I use she/her pronouns.

You: You may want less of something (chronic pain, trauma) or more of something (professional skill, presence, artistry). More than fixing things, you want to learn tools to create change and choice in the quality of your life.

WHEN - December 19th

WHERE - The beautiful Bodypathways studio (510 Bainbridge St, Philadelphia, PA 19147)

HOW - Schedule by sending an email to Lyra@atpdx.org

Philly lessons are open! I’m officially bicoastal.  Link to book in bio. (PDX, I’ll see you in December 😘)              ...
10/30/2022

Philly lessons are open! I’m officially bicoastal. Link to book in bio. (PDX, I’ll see you in December 😘)

I'm on a bit of a tear lately about how every one of our patterns and habits are developed as life-saving strategies. Ou...
10/30/2022

I'm on a bit of a tear lately about how every one of our patterns and habits are developed as life-saving strategies. Our bodies and nervous systems never do anything "bad" or "wrong", they only do things in order to save our lives. And as social creatures so much of survival is about belonging, because we literally can't survive on our own. I'm so curious about the patterns we adopt in order to belong, which may or may not be serving us now but which were vitally important when they were created. My personal work recently has been all about the patterns I developed in response to my female socialization and my female-bodied adolescence in the 90s. Much of my recent work with clients has been about working with patterns that are responses to racialized, gendered, sexuality, and class experiences. All of it ultimately boils down to belonging I think. I'm finding that knowing that, my students and I both approach the pattern that is no longer serving us differently, with less judgement, less guilt, and less shame. And then we can learn to choose something else, to set it aside with gratitude for all it's done for us, and to discover new ways to find the belonging that is innate and life giving.

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East Portland, OR

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 7:30pm
Tuesday 9am - 7:30pm
Wednesday 9am - 7:30pm
Thursday 9am - 7:30pm
Friday 9am - 7:30pm
Saturday 9am - 2pm

Telephone

+15032084455

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