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(M.AmSAT) is newly relocated to New York City, having spent the previous decade with a thriving teaching practice downtown Chicago. She has worked with an extensive clientele of musicians, actors, athletes, medical and business professionals, and has coached women through pregnancy and labor. Lisa was involved in The Rediscovering Musician, a independent project focused on the Alexander Technique and musicians of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, conceptualized by Kip Riecken (viola fellow with the Civic Orchestra) and funded by the Negaunee Institute of Chicago. She spent three summers as a faculty member with the Elm City Chamber Music Festival (New Haven, CT) and has presented workshops with the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, at DePaul University, Concordia University, the University of Chicago, and Northeastern Illinois University. For her downtown corporate clients, she offers lunch and learn sessions and ergonomic workplace assessments. She has worked with professional musicians and athletes to help them discover and maintain their peak performance state, has worked with members of the Chicago opera improv group, Forte, and taught as part of Illinois Summer Youth Music (ISYM) at the University of Illinois. She is active in helping to grow awareness of the Technique, and has helped expand and re-establish the community and collaboration of Alexander teachers in Chicago (www.chicagoalexanderteachers.com). She remains active in AmSAT (American Society for the Alexander Technique), currently as co-chair of the 2021 AmSAT Virtual Annual Conference. She is pleased to have contributed her organizational and planning skills to a number of large scale projects including as Planning Committee Chair for AmSAT’s 2013 ACGM in Chicago. She also participated as Organizational Coordinator for Rachel Zahn’s Experiencing the Embodied Mind: High performance psychophysical expertise, subjectivity research, and brain-computer technology which took place in Gargonza, Italy in October of 2013. She has provided administrative and logistical support for various workshops and events, run by Alexander Technique Workshops International and provided on-site logistical support to the Directors for the 2015 Alexander Technique International Congress in Limerick, Ireland.
Lisa is also certified as a New Paradigm Multi Dimensional Transformation practitioner and upon request can speak to you about this transformational energy work. This modality provides an additional tool for the facilitation of change and healing, whether in addition to or as a part of your journey with the Alexander Technique.
Lisa is the current Chair Elect on the Board of Directors for AmSAT, the American Society for the Alexander Technique. She is proud to be an avid supporter of the arts and lend her leadership and visionary skills to various philanthropic endeavors. During her time in the Midwest she was active in the Chicago artistic community, having served for many years as President of the Lyric Opera of Chicago's Young Professionals board while having held an ex-officio seat with Lyric's Board of Directors.
Lisa is a graduate of the Alexander Technique Center Urbana (Urbana, IL), a 1600-hour hands on training and teacher certification course, under the instruction of Joan and Alex Murray.
Her training encompasses the lifelong learnings of the Murrays, and with her teaching she hopes to honor their teaching style and commitment to the Alexander Technique - one devoted to constant learning and discovering. Perhaps most influential of their contributions to the Alexander Technique was their collaborative work with Dr. Raymond Dart, which bore the development of the Dart Procedures.
Prior to her completion of the training course, she completed her undergraduate degree in Music Education at the University of Illinois, where she graduated with highest honors, including the Bronze Tablet Award for Educational Excellence.