The Alexander Technique can help you:

  • Improve balance, coordination, and skills of everyday living
  • Learn to age gracefully
  • Reduce chronic pain, in your back, shoulders, neck, hips…
  • Find mindfulness in everyday living
  • Overcome performance anxiety
  • Improve your speaking voice for everyday and performance
  • Achieve mastery in performing arts and sports

Whoever you are, whatever your age, you can use the Alexander Technique to feel better, improve your posture and coordination, and use your body more mindfully. The question is, how soon would you like to start experiencing these benefits?

Ruth Rootberg helps people in the Amherst, Massachusetts area learn to harness the full power of their brains so new patterns of movement occur, creating ease and comfort in activity. Can she help you?

Contact Ruth / Schedule a Lesson

Her clients live or work in or near Amherst, Northampton, Florence, Greenfield, Belchertown, Hadley, South Hadley, Granby, Pelham, Belchertown, Holyoke, Leverett, Shutesbury, Sunderland, Whately, Deerfield, Hatfield, Williamsburg, New Salem, Wendell, Orange, Montague, Turners Falls, Brattleboro, Springfield, Longmeadow, and other communities in Hampshire, Franklin, Hampden and Hampshire Counties, Massachusetts, and Windham County, Vermont.

New!

Living the Alexander Technique
Volume II
Aging with Poise

by Ruth Rootberg

Living the Alexander Technique Volume II: Aging with Poise

Eleven Alexander Technique teachers—Nelly Ben-Or, Shaike Hermelin, Giora Pinkas, Barbara Kent, Vivien Mackie, John Nicholls, Michael Frederick, Ron Dennis, Ruth Murray, Ilana Machover, and George Lister—speak with Ruth Rootberg about their lives, their work, and their approach to using their Alexander skills as they face the challenges of aging with vitality, curiosity, poise, and passion.

“These stories will provide inspiration for anyone who is curious about how to age with grace.”

—Michael J. Gelb
Author of Body Learning and Brain Power


“A veritable goldmine! There are nuggets of wisdom, insights, experience and enthusiasm to be found in every one of these interviews.”

—Anne Battye
Alexander Technique teacher


“Her book is a treasure trove filled with stories of lives well-lived.”

—Judith Stern
Alexander Technique Teacher and Physical Therapist


Available Now at: Levellers Press, Amazon, iTunes, Nook, Kindle, Kobo, and GooglePlay.

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