Your Instrumental Body

Today is my birthday, and later today I'm going to send out a coupon code for Alexander Technique offerings to celebrate!

Now is your chance to join my mailing list and get the special discount code (which will expire on Sunday - so you have time to shop!).

Come celebrate my 50th birthday by exploring ease and efficiency with me!

PS. You don't have to be a singer/performer/musician to reap the benefits of this work! There are so many ways that this work can help people integrate the whole body - mind, body, and nervous system!

Feel free to reach out or drop me a note below if you have any questions!

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Throwback to one of the most powerful trainings of my life — working with horses and riders in Albuquerque, NM as part of my Alexander Technique post-grad training. 🐴

Horses are prey animals. Their nervous systems are always on — always scanning, always ready to bolt. You cannot fake calm around them. They feel your tension before you even get close.

So before we could connect with a horse, we had to regulate ourselves first. Zoom out. Take in the whole picture. Get quiet inside.

And when we did? The horse trusted us. Their body softened. Old tension patterns — held there purely for protection — finally had permission to release.

That's exactly how it works with people, too.

Trauma (physical or emotional) puts the nervous system into protection mode — muscles grip, breath gets shallow, and fight/flight/freeze kicks in. As an Alexander Technique practitioner, I don't push past that. I co-regulate with you, moving at the pace your nervous system can handle, until your body feels safe enough to shift.

Horses reminded me just how universal that language is. 🙏

While limited spots remain - there's still time to register for The Integration Lab this Saturday at 10 AM in Colorado Springs!

This class is intentionally small so that each participant will have the opportunity to experience the magic of this co-regulation through individualized turns.

PS. Don't try this on your own. We worked with horses under the supervision of horse professionals. I'm using this as an example of the training and work I've done to be able to work with my human clients.

Your future body is quietly being shaped by what you do today.

Not by dramatic changes.

But by repeated patterns.

How you sit.
How you respond to stress.
How you move through your day.

Most people don’t realize they’re building tension habits until pain shows up later.

The good news?

Small awareness shifts now can change that trajectory.

This is the heart of the Integration Lab:
learning how to notice and shift the habits your nervous system has been running on autopilot.

Because your future self deserves a body that feels capable, coordinated, and trustworthy.

Who needs to calm their Nervous System down with all of the chatter in the world these days - and the stress?

I'll be leading a Nervous System Reset ONLINE this week on Wednesday at 11:30 AM Mountain Time.

Join from your office at lunchtime, your home, or even your car!

While it is helpful to have a place to lie down (like the floor with a yoga mat or towel) - it is not required.

Come as you are, and spend 30 minutes nurturing your Nervous System to help you get through another crazy week.

Deets below!

What small movement practice have you found most helpful in your daily life?

If you’ve been curious about this work — this is the place to begin.

The Integration Lab™ is where we explore how your body was designed to move, breathe, and function with greater ease.

This work helps:

• reduce chronic tension and pain
• improve balance and coordination
• free your voice and breathing
• restore trust in your body

You do not need to be a singer to benefit.

You simply need a body — and curiosity.

Next in-person Integration Lab™
Saturday, March 14
10:00am
Colorado Springs, CO

Space is intentionally limited.

Link in bio to learn more.

For many years, people came to me because they wanted help with their voice.

But something unexpected began to happen.

People started coming to me who weren’t singers.

They were recovering from surgery.
Living with chronic pain.
Navigating physical or emotional transitions.
Trying to feel at home in their body again.

And I began to see the same patterns.

The body adapts to protect us.

But those protective patterns can also keep us stuck.

Using the same principles that help free the voice, I watched people rediscover coordination, ease, and trust in themselves.

That’s when I realized something important:

This work was never only about singing.

Singing is one doorway.
But it’s not the only one.

Your Instrumental Body is expanding.

Singers will always be at the heart of my work.

And I’m also opening the door wider.

There was a time when singing — the thing I loved most — stopped feeling reliable.

On the outside, everything looked fine. But inside, something had changed. I found myself trying harder and harder to recreate sensations I couldn’t quite access anymore. The more I tried, the more disconnected I felt.

I didn’t understand it then, but my body was protecting me.

Discovering the Alexander Technique changed my life — not because it fixed me, but because it helped me understand how to stop interfering with my body’s natural coordination.

Over time, my voice became freer. But even more importantly, I began to feel at home in myself again.

I learned to trust my body.
I learned to trust my voice.
I learned to trust myself.

That experience led me to complete a 1,600-hour Alexander Technique certification, and it continues to shape everything I do today.

This work gave me my voice back.

But it also gave me something much bigger.

—

Amy
Your Instrumental Body