From Generation to Generation

For many years, I walked down a road beside my teachers, just as they walked beside theirs. My teachers got old and died before making it to the end of that road. That is the way of it. Now, I walk that road alongside my students. When I met my mentor, Marjorie Barstow, I was 25 and she 75 and in her prime as a teacher. And so it is with me now. Soon, I will be teaching throughout Europe, teaching workshops and retreats for Alexander students, trainees, and teachers. Now is the time...

Back on the Road

Now is the time for me to get back on the road, to travel again, time to teach in person, to be with my students, to have them in my hands, to give to them what my teachers gave to me, and also to give to my students what I have learned from my 62 years of teaching people how to move well through their days. Below, are brief descriptions of what I will be teaching as well as a schedule of where and when I will be teaching, who to contact, and how to sign up.

Teaching by Hand
Learning by Heart

My findings tell me that for us to grow and mature, we need both knowledge and nurturance. Through touch, I help people unharness deep, natural patterns of vitality. Freeing these innate patterns of vitality gives rise to groundswells of energy that strengthen our will to live, love, learn, and work generously and creatively.

The Peaceful Body
For Everyone

A peaceful body is an unafraid body. It senses its source, its larger body, as a baby senses its mother or father cradling them in their arms. A peaceful body is a safe body. A peaceful body is a trustful body. It lets itself be touched by the world, and immediately and fully a peaceful body touches the world back. It doesn’t retain itself, doesn’t withdraw, doesn’t run away. It doesn’t push against, doesn’t fight. It meets. It joins. It receives. A peaceful body is simply open. It senses how it is always in contact, always enjoined, always in touch – a breeze against its face, the warmth of the sun on its shoulders, the ground under its feet. A peaceful body is always in good company.

Leaving Myself in Your Hands
For Alexander Teachers

I have devoted my life as an Alexander teacher to transformative touch, to the effective use of language, image, and metaphor, to helping people reclaim their mammal bodies, to helping them move naturally, freely, powerfully. I teach teachers how to help people apply Alexander's principles in difficult life situations. I have found ways of introducing our work that are beautiful and meaningful.

In Beauty
For Performing Artists

Having worked with members of the Berlin Philharmonic, the National Symphony, Radio France, and at the Curtis Institute of Music, having taught Movement for Actors at Rutgers and Temple Universities, and the Alexander Technique for the Five College Dance Program in Amherst, I am at home helping performing artists rid themselves of fear, tension, pain, and perfectionism.

Healing the Wounded Healers
For Care Givers

Who will take care of the people who take care of people; the mothers, the fathers, the doctors, nurses, hospice workers; the therapists, the teachers, the essential workers? How can we not hurt ourselves when helping others who are hurting? How can we heal our own wounds? These are not questions to be answered. These are problems in need of solutions.

Walking as a Way of Life

In this workshop you will learn to walk well. As it turns out, the skills required for walking well are the same skills required for living well: balance, stability, mobility, strength, suppleness, breath, timing, rhythm, coordination, pace, power, vitality. It makes sense that, metaphorically, to walk means to live. The Diné sing, "Wandering on a trail of beauty, lively, may we walk." We walk for health, for fitness, to help us think and breathe. We walk alongside others in friendship and for social change. We walk for inspiration and for transformation. Learn to walk well, and your life may change forever, for the better.

Alexander's Principles as Seen Through Bruce's Eyes.

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