Begin here if you’re new to somatics or returning after a long time away.
These classes help you reconnect with your body, breath, and internal cues.

Get Back in Your Body: An Intro to Somatics
Somatics is the art of listening to your body as a trustworthy guide. In this intro, you’ll learn how states shape performance and teaching—and how small, kind experiments create durable change. No perfectionism required. Just curiosity, clarity, and care.
(Self-paced. On-demand videos + PDF workbook.)

Posture Reset: Relief for Back & Neck Tension
If you end rehearsals with a tight neck, aching low back, or a ribcage that feels “stuck,” you’re not alone. This class helps you replace bracing with coordinated, breathable support. Using Body Mapping, you’ll update your internal map of posture so the head, spine, and ribs can move as designed—reducing strain while improving tone and stamina. No forcing. Clear information, small experiments, real relief.
(Live 6-week course with replays available)

Performance Anxiety & Overwhelm: Get Calm Under Pressure
When pressure rises, the body does what it knows: speed up, shut down, or over-function. This course offers simple, body-based tools to recognize your state and shift toward steadier performance. We’ll pair Body Mapping with nervous-system skills you can use in rehearsal, backstage, and onstage—without shaming yourself or fighting your biology.
(Live 6-week course with replays available)

You’ve already started your somatic journey. Now you’re ready to deepen it. These classes offer practice-based learning, embodiment labs, and system-wide clarity.

Unlearn Tension: Alexander Technique for Musicians
When habits take over, we push, brace, and hope for the best. Alexander Technique offers a kinder route: notice, pause, choose. In this introduction, you’ll learn simple directions and experiments to reduce strain, improve coordination, and bring more choice to your playing, teaching, and daily life.
(6-week Live class with replays + guided practices, performance class)

Pain-Free Technique: Neck, Shoulders, Arms & Hands
If your “technique work” equals more effort and less ease, this class reframes the map. You’ll clarify how the head, spine, shoulder girdle, and arm spirals actually coordinate, so sound and accuracy improve while effort drops. Expect clear anatomy-in-action, tiny experiments, and immediate wins you can feel.
(6-week Live class with replays + guided practices, performance class)

Breath Support Without Pushing (Winds & Voice)
What is support? How do we support? If you ask 100 people these questions, you’ll get 100 different answers. Let’s explore why! This course clarifies how the diaphragm, ribs, and spine coordinate so breath can respond to your musical intent. You’ll trade bracing for buoyant support, expand resonance, and keep endurance—without squeezing for sound.
(6-week Live class with replays + guided practices, performance class)

For those ready to embody this work on a deeper level.
These are advanced intensives and community-based cohorts.

Becoming mBODYed – Professional Certification Cohort
A comprehensive 3-year journey in somatic pedagogy, performance coaching, Alexander Technique, and Body Mapping—designed for musicians, educators, and healing professionals ready to lead this work.
(Includes 22-live cohort sessions, mentorship, unlimited 1:1 coaching, retreats, performance labs, and certification pathways.Application and personal interview required.)

Keep Unlearning Tension: Ongoing Alexander Technique Practice

An ongoing space to deepen your Alexander Technique. For experienced students wanting continued practice, coaching, and community—through a somatic, trauma-informed lens. Rolling meetings; join when you’re ready. (on-going)

BETA Courses, Retreats, and Performance Labs
Pop-up online or in-person events to explore somatic integration in artistry and teaching. (various lengths as appropriate to the content, usually live, zoom meetings)

Impostor Syndrome Through a Somatic Lens; Fall 2025

Trauma-Informed Teaching for Musicians; January 2026

Performance Class: Fridays at Noon PT. Free for anyone enrolled in mBODYed.