Current Offerings
awakening to reciporcity
Saturday July 26 // 1-4 pm // WildHeart Arts & Wellness Center
Wherever you are in this moment, something beneath you is offering you support. What if you allow yourself to soften into that support? As we awaken to reciprocity, we reconnect with the ongoing support that is always there in our relationship with ourselves, between one another, and with the environment around us. When we hold unnecessary tension in our body, it can limit the depth and ease of our participation in this ongoing exchange.
This Alexander Technique based workshop will hold a safe space that allows you to meet yourself where you are. Through AT mind / body awareness games and experiential anatomy, you’ll tune into new choices that deepen your trust to not hold yourself still. This workshop invites you to reconnect to your multidimensional self, create space in your mind / body to receive support through reciprocity, and bring a sense of easeful freedom as you move throughout your day.
Freedom in Movement through The Alexander Technique
Weekly group class // Tuesdays at Alchemy Wellness Center // Beacon NY
Past Offerings
Beacon
Walking Lab
Transform how you walk
one step at a time.
When: 3 Wednesdays: 10/9, 10/16, 10/23
Where: Long Dock Park in Beacon
picnic tables on the River Center side of Long Dock
Cost: $60 for the series $22 drop in
Venmo: @elizabeth-castagna
Time: 8:30am - 9:30am
Note: If you are someone who is injury free this first series of Beacon Walking Lab is for you. Coming soon will be BWL for folks who are recovering from injury or surgery.
Description:
Hi, I’m happy to share with you my Beacon Walking Lab. Hour long classes that will guide you to explore and discover easy, fluid movement while walking.
These restorative walks take place outdoors and are lead through The Alexander Technique practice. If you give them a go, you’ll re-learn walking and see it’s more than feet and muscles, it’s a whole-body movement which integrates your mind and body.
Also, these walks are empowering because you’ll learn how to pause, notice your own walking tendencies, and have an opportunity to transform them. You’ll subtract unnecessary tension or effort to reconnect to an underlying ease that’s always been there.
At the same time, you’re getting to know yourself better! We explore body mapping anatomy, breathing in movement, balancing awareness, and how to find support from your senses and environment while walking.
Join me on Beacon Walking Lab, you’ll see that it's not just about counting steps; it's about how you move through each one.
Online Series:
A Playful Discovery of
The Alexander Technique
3 Class Series Wednesday mornings 10/30, 11/6, , 11/13
When: 10/30, 11/6, , 11/13
Time: 9:30am - 10:45am EST
Where: Online on ZOOM (register for Zoom link)
Cost: $80 for the series
Exchange: Venmo: @elizabeth-castagna
Discover a newfound freedom in movement.
This fun, experiential series focuses on restorative,
injury-free movement for people who want to deepen their self-awareness, release unnecessary tension, and feel better in their body.
What is The Alexander Technique? The Alexander Technique is a process that allows you to get to know yourself better, to be more present, and to discover how you can move with greater ease.
Better Balancing Chair Class
3 Friday mornings
9/20, 9/27, 10/4
When: 3 Friday mornings 9/20, 9/27, 10/4
Time: 9am - 10am
Where: Beacon Performing Arts Center
329 Main Street Beacon
Cost: $60 for the series // $22 drop in
Exchange: Venmo: @elizabeth-castagna
Exercise for Better Balance is an easygoing movement
chair class to deepen body awareness and explore
injury-free movement.
Discover a newfound freedom in movement while still feeling safe and supported. This restorative chair class begins with a gentle warm up integrating breath awareness and then moves through whole body movement sequences from smaller to larger while seated. We then learn how to go from sitting to standing with ease and while standing explore balancing coordination. Brain Gym movement sequences are incorporated for unifying the left/right side of the brain/body supporting organized movement. You’ll leave the class feeling embodied and with new tools to bring freedom to activities of your daily life.
This class is taught through the Alexander Technique, Body Mapping and Brain Gym processes.
Staying with yourself; deepening awareness
Workshop for Actors
When: Sunday March 19th
Time: 2pm - 4pm
Where: MOVE Cold Spring
37 Chestnut St, Cold Spring, NY 10516
Cost: $55
Exchange: Venmo: @elizabeth-castagna
Description:
Develop agency for clearer connections, learn a mindful state to stay with yourself and check in with your body before taking actions or making choices. We perceive the world through how it changes us and by deepening your self awareness you empower yourself to connect with what you are doing as you do it. In this workshop we will explore what it’s like to have a more unified field of awareness and restore a sense of wholeness allowing connection with yourself, others, and your environment in a new way. Together we’ll learn a practice for stay with ourselves as we respond to any situation.