No-tech Gift Provides 'Cheap' Comfort for the REST of Your Life

No gift gadget can possibly resolve the underlying causes of your discomfort or pain. At a price cheaper than an MRI or a snazzy, black leather massage chair, the Alexander Technique and the Feldenkrais Method can provide comfort and relief for the rest of your life.

(PRWEB) December 6 2003--

Shopping Jeopardy

Answer: Comfort

Question: What most people wont find under the Christmas tree or on any of the nights of Hannukah or Kwanza.

Even if someone drops 2000 bucks on the black leather massage chair that bumps and kneads your knotty bits, chances are that 'comfort will still be just one more fantasy on your wish list. Unless youre lucky enough to receive a Gift Certificate for The Center.

Washington, DC movement specialists, Andrea Higgins and Lynn Brice Rosen, got tired of hearing from companies and conservatory departments about the economic cost of injuries and chronic pain. Instead of disconnecting their phones, they custom designed The Center. This 12-week, 21-hour workshop series is geared towards pre-professional dancers, musicians, singers, and actors ages 16 and older. Its mission: to help performing artists approach their training more intelligently, with greater ease and comfort.

The Center series will take place in Washington at 4501 Connecticut Avenue NW, #213 (Van Ness/UDC Metro). Group workshops are scheduled on Jan. 11, Feb. 8, and March 14 from 2:00-5:00; 12 hours of individual, private lessons will be scheduled with each teacher. Class size is limited but the first two readers who register before December 15 will receive a 10% discount.

Training and performing with chronic pain and injury is as common onstage as in the gym. The chronic injuries that sideline performers and end their careers are often the result of a lack of clear information about what the body can and cannot do. Performers who train with a mixture of excess mental tension and unnecessary physical effort get injured in ways that no expensive massage chair can ever repair.

According to Higgins, when performers experience and honor ...the way the body functions in training, rehearsal, and performance situations they can access their potential for achieving higher levels of technical proficiency and artistry. And they do this with greater confidence and ease."

This could make a critical difference for upcoming college, conservatory, and company auditions. Sylvia Alimena, National Symphony Orchestra musician and conductor of the Eclipse Chamber Orchestra, says that, Musicians without pain play better, concentrate better, and have better moods." So do singers, dancers, and actors.

Get someone to gift you a place at The Center... and develop your Comfort Zone for the studio, stage, and the rest of your life.

Andrea Higgins, formerly a professional ballet dancer, is a Pilates instructor who holds a masters degree in dance and is certified as a student teacher of Awareness Through Movement® through the Feldenkrais Guild of North America.

In just two weeks, Andreas course made a lifelong impact on our students

understanding of their bodies and how they function as they strive for stronger technique.

Individual weaknesses have dissolved and there is more complete knowledge of fluidity

And motion than we have ever seen before in these students."

Diane Cypher and Robert Kelly, Directors

The Studio, School of Classical Ballet

Santa Cruz, CA

Lynn Brice Rosen, a certified teacher of the Alexander Technique and member of AmSAT, has a private practice in Washington DC. She completed her training in Tel Aviv in 1991 and taught in Jerusalem until 1996. She has taught at the Peabody Conservatory and with the Baltimore Opera Studio.

The Alexander Technique has made pain-free guitar

playing a reality, after years of trying a host

of other cures for forearm injuries."

J.C.-Guitarist

The Alexander Technique definitely helped

my performance anxiety

before the audition."

M.M.-Actor

For information and registration contact:

        Lynn Brice Rosen

        group@art-in-movement.com

        202:333-7702

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