In 2018, I began my MFA in Professional Acting at The Bristol Old Vic Theatre School (BOVTS) in Bristol, England. Before beginning my Masters Program, I believed that my whole attention would be entirely set on acting once my course started. What I didn’t expect at all was that I would also be utterly enthralled and engaged with another type of work, the Alexander Technique.

During those early classes, I watched with awe as my fellow classmates seemingly and consistently changed in front of my eyes. From an outside perspective, it was as if who they were became more clear and resonant. Alongside this, almost every student (including myself) reported experiencing a newfound ease and efficiency when going into their daily activities that had not been experienced prior to this class.

At the end of my time at BOVTS, I decided to pursue becoming an ITM Alexander Technique Teacher, with the intention of understanding the profound work better for myself, and to learn how to help people help themselves.

People often ask me what positive benefits I’ve seen within myself after being a student (and now a Teacher) of this work for years, and I’ve consistently found that to be a difficult question to answer. The list of positives are quite long and people, understandably, have to go on with their day! However, very recently I came up with a succinct answer to this question that, I’m hoping won’t keep a person from catching their bus or making it to their dinner reservations: My thinking and my movement are less constrained and less rigid than before, and, in everything I do, I now have a greater access to a sense of flexibility which allows for innumerable possibilities. Whether that be in acting, singing, playing guitar, lifting weights, or even managing stressful situations, I now have a reliable and reasoned process which offers me so much more ease and freedom than I ever previously thought would have been possible.