The Alexander Technique is a form of neuromuscular re-education that integrates body and mind to relieve stress, tension, and pain. With restorative and educational elements it serves as a toolbox for those seeking to develop ease and efficiency in their movements, calm and presence of mind, and enhance overall well-being.

Benefits include:

• Freedom of Movement: Achieve greater ease and flexibility.
• Improved Focus and Awareness: Heighten your mental clarity and presence.
• Enhanced Breathing: Breathe more deeply and efficiently for better health.
• Ease of Learning: Facilitate general learning and master specialized skills in performing arts, dance, and sports.

The Alexander Technique is particularly effective for addressing chronic conditions and pain, especially in the back and neck, and improving structural issues. It helps transform ingrained patterns of overuse and cultivates skills to support graceful aging. Additionally, this practice teaches you to redirect your efforts towards greater balance, comfort, and ease, nurturing and deepening your body-mind awareness. It fosters joy, courage, fuller self-expression, and inspired living.

Spaciousness & The Gift of Listening

Truly listening has the power to heal and this is something most of us have experienced. Being witnessed, being heard, receiving open and generous attention are moments of deep connection with our fellow humans, animals, beings, the world. It can gift us with a sense of openness, and help us find peace with where we are in this moment, lessening our sense of struggle.

The Art of Aging Gracefully

Lengthening and widening is our innate way of being, no matter what age. If it is not true for you at this time, it is within you. As a part of you, it is your natural way of functioning and accessible to you always, no matter what age or state of health you are in.

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Balance & Ease for Living and Creating

What is the Alexander Technique....

You would like to....

• bring more balance to your life, learn to slow down, relax and better take care of yourself and your needs
• improve coordination, overall wellness and vitality
• confidence and ease in daily living
• address back pain, neck tension, knee or hip pain, and improve longstanding movement & structural challenges?
• improve flexibility and stability of movement as you age
• manage stress, pain or anxiety and nurture a deeper awareness so you can handle life challenges with more calm
• you spend long hours at your desk and computer and want to better manage neck, back and shoulder tension.
• as an avid learner, you love to make the most of yourself and your abilities, are curious and excited to learn new things: you might be surprised to discover a whole new layer of body/mind awareness!‍

"After a year of working with Loba, I continue to improve in so many ways.  The Technique, especially as applied by Loba, is very effective and liberating.”

Carol Miller, retired teacher

"Having taken Alexander lessons from Loba Chudak I was surprised to notice after about half a year of weekly lessons that the way I did simple things, how I moved, had fundamentally changed.  Instead of rather quick, violent, jerky motions, I was moving in a slower, more fluid fashion with less attendant stress and anxiety.  I can attribute this change only to the surprising effectiveness of the Alexander Technique.

The Technique quickly breaks the habit of reacting to external and internal events in panic or with anger and allows appropriate responses to be chosen. I found Loba to be a skilled & caring instructor."

Fred Lawrence, Prof. Emeritus of Engineering, UIUC

"When I first began working with Loba I was experiencing anxiety, mild depression, pain due to a neck injury and tennis elbow. Through her program I have gained a new awareness for how I am using my body throughout the day. I have learned to respond in new ways, releasing tension, making changes and improvements in the moment.

The pain in my elbow cleared up very quickly and the improvements in my tennis and golf game are remarkable. The increase in choices and my understanding of them have greatly improved my quality of life, my interactions with others, as well as my overall physical and mental health."

Nancy Dankle, Marketing Expert

What other people say

How it can it help you:

• aging - skillfully work with physical changes as you age. Improve balance, range of motion  and restore confidence as you regain stability and move with more ease.
• spending long hours working at desks and computers you want to improve the way you sit and reduce the attendant stress, neck and back tension.

• habitual patterns of overuse, reduce back pain and structural challenges, chronic conditions, back, neck, shoulders, hip & knee issues.
• incorporate awareness into your daily life, learn to relax, slow down and improve your ability to stop to take care of yourself

• reliably access your place of equilibrium, efficiency, and balance in your tennis game, golf swing or any other sports activity. Tweak your skill and maintain your performance at a high level.
• as a musician, reduce, prevent and reverse repetitive strain injuries, improve your daily practice towards greater efficiency, and work with performance related stress & anxiety,

Why is it for you?

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Restorative Movement

Balance, Flexibility, Stability

Relaxation Restoration

Awareness & Mindfulness

Pain Reduction

Graceful Aging

Calm, Confidence, Focus

Hi, I am so glad you stopped by. ‍

This page gives you a brief introduction to the main modality, the Alexander Technique, I use to support your wellbeing and create more flow and confidence in your life and body. Further down you will find the locations I am serving, how you can work with me, and how to get in touch. Thank you for your interest,

A grouping of 6 appointments guides you to deepen and nurture your ability to relax, connect with your body and begin to to understand the relationship of your body mind connection. With an emphasis on how you use your body as a whole and the impact on your musculature, movement and state of mind, you will begin to cultivate a new body awareness. You will learn and apply tools to deal with pain and nurture a more balanced way of being in your body throughout your day.

Closing the gap between the idea of bringing more awareness to your every day life and the challenge of creating the space in your body, mind and environment to make it happen.

Ongoing support and inspiration to continue to nurture a transformation towards more balance, equilibrium and ease. Develop the inner mental & emotional space, steadiness and presence to lessen the impact of stress, so you can meet the demands and challenges of your life with more skill, ease and equilibrium. Putting less strain on yourself you will deepen your access to your problem solving skills and cultivate a new way of being present with yourself and others. Meet old habits with a new skill set, access new choices and restore spaciousness in your life.

Stress Reduction - Relaxation - Mindfulness Coaching.

Body Learning one-on-one

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