Alan Bowers
Alexander Technique in Portland
Hello, I am Alan Bowers.
I’ve ben teaching the Alexander Technique for 20 years, and I am still a student of the technique as much as its teacher. Every day offers proofs of its efficacy.
In my work, Alexander Technique has been life-changing for several highly successful singers and actors, a professional gardener, a sign painter, a well-known acting coach, flutists, cellists, voice teachers and a host of others.
The Alexander Technique comes alive in the meeting of our intentions, in our aspirations, our inspiration, and mindful expansion. Open your hands and spread your arms outwardly toward a mighty congregation. Now, let those same arms open you to the world. Don't you feel that?
That's Alexander Technique. It's alive in you.
It is a life force, and the skill involved is in getting out of its way.
Alexander Life Hint
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Live in the letting, in your expansion. You contract for many reasons, crowding, perceived threat, verbal assault, pressures, unwelcome contact. You–turtle like–withdraw into your shell.
Come to you self. Claim the moment. Expand. Your torso doesn't need to colonize your extremities, your head, your legs, your arms. Liberate them. Let them away. Deliver the weight of your shoulders to the ground without slumping.
Your spine will welcome its job of supporting your head and shoulders. You can feel it. Let your neck deliver your head to the sky. Live in the along said poet Gwendolyn Brooks. Live in the letting. That’s more of Alexander Technique than you might expect.
Alexander Technique - work with Alan
The Alexander Technique class you'll always remember! Movement liberated, skills discovered, limbs released.
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A game changer for our students...
While serving as an Artist-in-Residence at the University of Las Vegas, Mr. Bowers’s work was a “game changer” for a significant number of our students. His teaching style possessed a gracefulness and ease that immediately allows focused and intense learning. I was impressed by his organic understanding of the myriad issues faced by musicians of all types...
Tod Fitzgerald, Associate Dean of the College of Fine Arts,
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Alexander Technique provides skills you will use for life!
Are you ready to unlock the power of Alexander Technique?
I offer private lessons for Alexander Technique in Portland, OR and classes for groups of vocalists and instrumentalists nationwide.
Discover skills you'll embody, wear home, and benefit from each day.
Experience the immediate impact of Alexander Technique as ingrained habits are replaced with mastered movement, newfound skills, and liberated limbs.
Alexander Technique provides skills you will use for life!
Are you ready to unlock the power of Alexander Technique?
I offer private lessons for Alexander Technique in Portland, OR and classes for groups of vocalists and instrumentalists nationwide.
Discover skills you'll embody, wear home, and benefit from each day.
Experience the immediate impact of Alexander Technique as ingrained habits are replaced with mastered movement, newfound skills, and liberated limbs.
The habits of a life-time can be bypassed and replaced in a moment. Let me show you how. You may call it miraculous.
The Alexander Technique could have been called a method. It is not.
Music and Alexander Technique are a natural alliance, a conjoined fluency that invites many, myself included to its teaching. Technique is art, skill, wholly divorced from the drudgery of method and system. Shakespeare had it right: “The play’s the thing.”
Music and Alexander Technique are the conjoined impetus of play.
These skills will forever alter the way you live, perform and play.
