The Alexander Technique, Past Life Regression, Healing Bodywork, Reiki & Yoga
New York, NY
| Monday | 10am - 5:30pm |
| Tuesday | 10am - 5pm |
| Wednesday | 12:30pm - 5:30pm |
| Thursday | 10am - 5:30pm |
| Friday | 10am - 6pm |
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My learning about the bodymind has come through a wide range and depth of studies, activities and many years of experience, capped off by the three year teacher certification training of the Alexander Technique. If there's a single process that teaches someone to facilitate healthful change through touch and movement training, in my cumulative experience of many modalities, it's the Alexander Technique. From the classroom and self study to the stage and inner screen, every phase of my life has in-formed my integration and coordination. The right use of my movement is transmitted to the student's whole self through their head/neck/back relationship, assisted by my hands-on thinking.
Cate's Healing Scoliosis and Art Story:
At the age of 14, I proclaimed to my parents I wanted to be an actor and I set about auditioning at the local community arts center. Simultaneously we discovered my spine was diverting from its straight path, the early beginnings of S-curve scoliosis. Since I had always been a mover/dancer (ballet and modern), I begin stretching on the living room floor constantly and made up exercises to counteract the developing pain. I refused to allow a cast or Herrington rod, amazingly, my parents let me handle it.
I arrived in NYC after college graduation and two years post- grad studying acting in London, I auditioned for 5 years with an agent but was not artistically fulfilled. I turned to writing poetry and then painting showed up, then someone introduced me to Contact Improvisation(dancing) and I performed at downtown venues. I continue to show work at Dixon Place. I became licensed in massage therapy in 1991 which afforded a flexible schedule for continuing my arts and delving deeply into healing my spine and heart. The healing and art work was intertwined and interdependent, for example, a painting I did based on an image that came to me while receiving bodywork, became the cover of my first published collection of poetry, Separation and Return. I came to uncover, release and unwind the deep emotional pain that was stored in the tissues through several kinds of healers and somato-emotional work. In pursuit of my own healing gave me many insights and compassion into working with others, ‘healer heal thyself’. By giving up the putting on the masks of character, my choice for living in a body with less pain, had me deconstructing my own masks! AdditionalIy I was certified in: Cranio-Sacral®, Body-Mind Centering®, Reiki, Pilates, Yoga and Deep Memory Process®; diversifying my bodywork and movement practices in tandem with my personal healing process.
