Current Offerings
a humans guide for coming back to yourself
Saturday February 21 // 10am - 12pm // WildHeart Arts & Wellness Center
While we can’t always choose what happens in life, we do have a choice in our responsiveness…how we respond, and the pace at which we respond.But what if we tend to overdo our response to the stimuli in our lives? Responding to most things as if it was a tiger in the room. This can keep us in a startle response, accumulating holding in our body rather than allowing space for our inner aliveness. As humans, we have to make a conscious choice to change the direction of the startle response and come back to ourselves. The path back is through the body. To find the body again, we begin with space. Space holds the body.
In this Alexander Technique based workshop, together we explore how to meet our responsiveness to life in a new way. How we come back to ourselves matters, it’s where growth is.
Restorative 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.