Sally Ahner - Alexander Teacher
Alexander Lessons in the Nashville, Tennessee Area
615.397.7488 sallyahner@hotmail.com
My Work
My work focuses on helping people discover and become who they really are. The Alexander Technique helps that happen in sometimes amazing ways, and I also use other tools, sometimes in combination with Alexander's work:
MUSIC - Music has the ability to help people express the emotion that often is locked up inside them. This music may be their own or someone else's. Finding one's voice is a central part of this, even if one is not a singer.
STORY/MYTH - Stories of all types shape our lives, but sometimes we are unaware of them. Discovering one's formative stories is crucial to knowing one's Self.
DRAMA/ART/DANCE - Although my training has been centered around music, dance, drama, and art have played a large role in my own self-expression and self-discovery, and I use them to explore the inner landscape. The focus is not on producing a work of art, but using art as a means of self-revelation.
ENERGY WORK - Balancing and clearing a person's energy field often has a restorative and revelatory effect not achieved by other means. Energy work can open whole new realms of experience and lead to a greater sense of the Divine in all things.
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"In Truth, I am ..."
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The Performer and the Body
This is my title for workshops and classes in which I focus on the needs of the individual performer. While the Alexander Technique figures large in this class, any or all of the tools mentioned above can come into play.
The Artist's Way
Julia Cameron's excellent book on recovering creativity helped me find my own, and I draw heavily on it to help others do the same.
Relevant education information:
B.A., Salem College (Winston-Salem, NC);
M.A., Eastman School of Music;
Alexander teacher training at the Alexander Alliance in Philadelphia, Bruce and Martha Fertman, directors.
The Franz Schubert Institut (Baden-bei-Wien, Austria);
Vanderbilt Graduate School (Religion);
School of Healing Arts (Nashville, TN)
"Sally's work with me has really had an amazing impact on my singing. My new awareness of where my shoulders are helped. My voice teacher and I discover that at the last minute of breath intake, I was pulling my shoulders back like a little soldier - as if that was going to help me take in more air. Now I don't have to struggle to take in breath, and the Faure I just performed got rave reviews."
– J. Austin, Kipp & Associates consultant and singer
"In the spring of this year, I was standing in front of NATO as a consultant synthesizing the outputs of a three day workshop and outlining the next phase of action. The whole speech came clearly to me in one picture, and I was able to articulate it extemporaneously. I attribute my enhanced clarity of mind to the Alexander Technique work that I have been doing with Sally."
– M. A. Kipp, Kipp & Associates consultant
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