What is the Alexander Technique?
The Alexander Technique is an educational method used for changing faulty habits, relieving chronic tension and stress, and improving mobility, alertness, performance and choice. People practice the Alexander Technique for a variety of reasons. The most common reason is to relieve pain by learning better coordination of the musculoskeletal system. Another common reason is to enhance performance. Athletes, singers, dancers and musicians use the Technique to produce fuller breath, richer voice, and speed and accuracy of movement. The most far-reaching reason people study the Technique is to achieve greater conscious control of their reactions.
Constance Clare-Newman
Constance Clare-Newman has studied the Alexander Technique since 1990. She graduated from ATI-SF (FrankOttiwell, Director) in 2001 and has been teaching full time since then. Constance has taught for several San Francisco Bay Area performing arts organizations, including classes at ACT, Asian American Theater Company and the Academy of Art University, where she is currently faculty in the actor training program.
Constance has over twenty-five years of extensive experience in various movement disciplines.
As a dancer, Constance performed professionally in the Bay Area with Anne Bluethenthal and Dancers and Purple Moon Dance Project. She has studied dancetechniques ranging from Hawkins to Cunningham to Corvino.
Asa dressage trainer, Constance rode professionally throughout California and spent four years studying in Europe. She trained horses and riders through the international levels of the Federation Equestre Internationale (FEI).