Alexander Technique

How what we wear can fit, inspire and enhance our movement and performance. Kate Conklin X Sumissura

I continue to consult, study and coach with my mentors. I do this because everything I do- singing, teaching, living my life- is a life-long learning endeavor.

The old feeling can’t happen in a new process.

Listening exercises to get your ears in ship-shape shape.

“I’ve been trying this technique out and find it incredibly useful, a real shift of view: I view myself with more measured, impartial and compassionate eyes…”

By appropriately coordinating the vocal mechanism, one can quite easily call up different colors and emphasize specific spectral resonance without diminishing the others.

What does “just right” actually mean?

…learning the Alexander Technique is not like buying a muffin. You are not given an end result, you are learning how to do for yourself, that’s why they are called lessons.

“My commitment is to truth not consistency.”
Mahatma Gandhi

“I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free.”

“I gave you a recipe Madame, I did not teach you how to cook.”
Georges Auguste Escoffier

An extremely useful and practical guide.

To innovate you need flexible, stable framework.

“The point is: What are you satisfied with?” Bill Evans

Resiliency means the ability to reliably sing or move with any quality you wish, no matter how robust or delicate.

“The way it is is always in relation to the way you are.”
– Alan Watts

“Are you alive? Can you move and do you?”
– Ann Herbert

Michelle Jenneke dances to get ready to run hurtles. It’s a superb example of a studied rehearsed routine, using humor and the life of the mind to focus and feed yourself for performance.

As I sang each show, I had the view of a lifetime; seeing these astounding humans performing extraordinarily, twice a night, 10 shows per week. I wondered. How are they doing what they’re doing?