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If you want to learn about the Alexander Technique, this site was made for you!
I’m a full-time, Certified Alexander Technique teacher offering Alexander Technique lessons and Alexander Technique group classes in Manhattan, New York City, New York.
Use the Alexander Technique to improve your posture, stop back pain and neck pain, and reduce your stress.
Mark Josefsberg
“With good humor, specificity, and charm, Mark makes a challenging technique accessible and fun!” Kyra Sedgwick, Emmy-winning actor. (”The Closer”)
“I really enjoyed our Alexander Technique lessons, learned a lot, felt lighter, more balanced and my neck pain is better. You have a true healing presence and great knowledge and skill.”
-Martin Ehrlich M.D., M.P.H. Medical Director, Beth Israel Continuum Center for Health and Healing.
Email: Mark@MarkJosefsberg.com
Phone: (917) 709-4648
Small group Alexander Technique classes-Saturdays from 4:30PM-6:00PM.
1133 Broadway, between 25th and 26th streets, room 213 in NYC.
Please contact me to reserve your space. Class limited to four.
Traditionally, Alexander Technique lessons are taught privately. However, Alexander Technique group classes offer a few advantages… The first advantage of group Alexander lessons is price. The cost for Alexander Technique Saturdays, a very small Alexander Technique class, is $35…
I have a stiff neck. We say we have a stiff or sore neck, as if someone gave it to us and now it’s ours. In Alexander Technique terms it might be more accurate to say “I’m stiffening my neck.” Of course if you say it that way you sound insane…
There is really only one way to improve posture, and I can say it in one word: The Alexander Technique. Ok, that’s three words, but one idea.
Most people think they know how to improve posture, but it is not the best way to improve posture, nor is it a permanent way to improve posture. Here’s what most of us know about improving posture: ‘stand up straight!’ ‘Sit up straight!’ We’ve all heard things like ‘suck your stomach in, push your chest out, put your shoulders back, stick your chin back’ etc. This is not the way to improve posture. This is a way to have military posture…
I think F.M. Alexander (1869-1955), the developer of the Alexander Technique, would be fascinated by the emerging evidence of how thinking affects our brain, how our brain affects our body, and how our body affects our brain. Detailed brain imagery demonstrates that thinking is not a purely mental process; it is physical as well. Measurable, physical changes occur in our brains ‘just’ by thinking. In other words, we don’t just think. We change our brains, in function and structure, with our minds and bodies…
