History
Lindsay Newitter is an AmSAT-Certified Alexander Technique teacher. She completed her Alexander Technique teacher training in 2007 at ATNYC, a three-year Alexander Technique teacher training course headed by John Nicholls and Nanette Walsh. She is currently an ATNYC faculty member and assists in training new Alexander Technique teachers. She maintains a private practice in midtown Manhattan where she works with people of all ages, including business executives, office workers, health care workers, actors, artists, musicians educators, and pregnant women. Lindsay has been a faculty member at The American Academy of Dramatic Arts, a guest teacher at Fordham University Drama Department, and co-teaches Free Your Body, Free Your Voice with Linklater Method voice teacher Elena McGhee. She has also taught Alexander Technique to people with chronic pain, back injuries, dystonia, and fibromyalgia at Step Into Stride Physical Therapy and Wellness Center in Brooklyn.
Specialties
Do you want help doing everything that you do with less tension, stress and strain and feel more comfortable and energized? Do you have back pain? The Alexander Technique can help - whether you sit at a desk, run marathons, or both! The Alexander Technique is taught through hands on and verbal cues that help people to let go of habitual ways of straining and compressing in their bodies. Each lesson involves practicing activities like sitting, standing, and walking and also includes table work. Students remain fully clothed. Over a series of lessons, students learn how to maintain this new, more balanced state on their own. Lessons are fun, relaxing, interactive, and lead to a feeling of wholeness and clarity. Students are also invited to practice a specific activity that they are often involved in during the lessons such as working on a computer, playing a musical instrument, practicing a speech or piece of dramatic text, pushing a stroller, or carrying a backpack.