Welcome to the Balance Arts Center!
The Balance Arts Center teaches mindfulness and awareness in action through the principles and practices of the Alexander Technique. This process allows you to optimize your full potential and bring your whole self to the present moment by consciously integrating your mind and body.
Balance Arts Center
At the BAC we teach awareness in action in private lessons, group classes, specialized workshops & conferences, and our teacher training course.
Trainings:
Trainings:
- Alexander Technique Teacher Training Course (1600 Hours)
- Performing Artist Teacher Training (1600 Hours)
- Performing Artist Certificate (300 Hours)
- AT Principles Certification Levels 1-3 (6-Day Program)
- Student Visa Program for BAC's Teacher Training Program (M-1 Visa)
Additional Offerings:
- Private Lessons with BAC Founder & Director Ann Rodiger & Additional Faculty
- Group Classes & Workshops
- Alexander Technique Intensives with focuses in music, dance, singing, acting, and more
- Programming and Resources for EDS & Hypermbolity as well as Hip Health
Online Courses
Building Awareness Through the Alexander Technique Lens
Deep dive into a process for building mind-body awareness in an accessible and integrated way through daily guided awareness activities designed to help you better understand your mind and body in action! This five-tiered series allows you to participate as little or as much as you would like within 48 weeks of guidance.
Expand your awareness as you learn how to attend to your thoughts and movement as you respond to stimulus and your environment. As you put the principles of Alexander Technique into practice you will experience how your mind and body are intrinsically connected.
All 5 tiers are asynchronous so they can be started at any time!
Join our Hip Health Forum!
The Hip Health Forum is dedicated to developing and maintaining a friendly online community for those interested in hip health in general and supporting those who have to navigate surgery. We are interested in providing a place for members to develop self agency in their own hip care through the practice and application of the Alexander Technique.
Online Courses & Video Series
- $10
Contemplating a Dip: A Four-Week Awareness Exploration
- Course
- 7 Lessons
This course is designed to introduce you to the world of mind-body awareness in an accessible and integrated way. It will help you discover what you are aware of now and see how you can cultivate more and more of your full potential into your professional and daily life. During these four weeks you will be presented with theory and be guided to uncover your current awareness preferences.
- $50 or 10 monthly payments of $5
Building Awareness Through the Alexander Technique Lens - Getting Your Feet Wet
- Course
- 54 Lessons
Each week you will receive a one-minute audio awareness activity based on that month's theme. These audio minutes will remind you how, when, and what to attend to. Listen at least 3 times a day. Once you start, you may find you are thinking of the awareness activity more and more often.
- $50
Mind & Mend Your Hips - 3 Part Hip Health Video Series
- Download
- 3 files
Mind & Mend Your Hips - 3 Part Hip Health Video series looks first at where your hips are, using skeletons and mapping to understand how to locate your hips. The second video explores how your hips move with the use of fabric straps for feedback. Finally, the third video gives movements for hip recuperation starting with your back on the floor and eventually coming up to standing.
- $100 or 10 monthly payments of $10
Building Awareness Through the Alexander Technique Lens - Ankle Deep
- Course
- 66 Lessons
Building Awareness Through the Alexander Technique Lens - Getting your Feet Wet PLUS a monthly blog.
The monthly blog puts all of your activities into context, increasing your understanding of the principles and theories of the Alexander Technique. We recommend you read the blog twice a week as a way of reminding yourself of the bigger context for your daily activities, bringing you back to the whole.
- $150 or 10 monthly payments of $15
Building Awareness Through the Alexander Technique Lens - Up to your Knees
- Course
- 78 Lessons
Building Awareness Through the Alexander Technique Lens - Ankle Deep PLUS a monthly lie down.
An Alexander Technique Lie Down is a practice that accumulates over time, helping to deepen your rest and release you from long-term habitual patterns. By giving yourself five to ten minutes of active rest you help to reset your mind and body so you may begin your awareness practice anew.
- $275 or 10 monthly payments of $27.50
Building Awareness through the Alexander Technique Lens: Chest High
- Course
- 90 Lessons
Building Awareness Through the Alexander Technique Lens - Up to Your Knees PLUS get feedback on a video monthly.
Receive individualized feedback by sending in a one-minute video of yourself performing an activity of your choice. With this feedback you will explore ways to improve your coordination and use during that activity (walking, running, working at your computer, etc.), using it as your awareness laboratory.
- $500 or 10 monthly payments of $50
Building Awareness Through the Alexander Technique Lens - Deep Dive
- Course
- 102 Lessons
Building Awareness Through the Alexander Technique Lens - Chest High PLUS monthly coaching.
Receiving immediate response coaching is the ultimate way to increase your awareness. This in-the-moment support through monthly coaching sessions allows you to increase your awareness and receive guidance that brings your daily awareness activities into play.
Mind & Mend Your Hips
Learn how to improve your hip health, prepare for and recover from hip surgery, and improve your overall movement through the Alexander Technique. This book guides you to a fundamental understanding of how your body moves providing practical Awareness Building and Movement Activities. This information is useful at any stage of hip health. Topics include developing an accurate body image, how your thinking and movement connect, spatial thinking, sensory awareness, and recuperative strategies. There are accompanying illustrations and videos to lead readers through the actions. There is instruction on the use of mobility aids. There are also several case studies including the author Ann Rodiger's own experience, providing different perspectives on how the Alexander Technique can assist with hip health and recovery from surgery.
Edited by Liz Gessner; Design, graphics, and layout by Morgan Van Gele