Quietude (n.)- a State of Being Calm and Peaceful
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When was the last time you felt truly relaxed in your body?
When was the last time you felt genuinely unplugged and present? What if you could not only experience this feeling, but carry it with you wherever you go? |
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You want to relax your shoulders, but you don't know how. Your muscles are constantly tight and stiff. You feel reactive and can't seem to slow down. We can help.
The Alexander Technique (AT) is a sophisticated somatic method that can help you to improve your posture and breathing and interrupt patterns of physical tension that come up in stressful situations. Learning the Alexander Technique can help you to cultivate calm, communicate with clarity, and ground you when the going gets rough. AT utilizes a specialized type of bodywork that can help you to sense and release tension and teach your body how to reset and recalibrate itself when strain arises. The process involves a deep examination of how to coordinate your whole body with ease in any task, and how to use this ease to meet the demands of the moment. It promotes balance, adaptability, and the ability to respond rather than to react to stressful situations.
We start with deep learning on how your breathing and posture functions, and exercises that help you to relax and integrate your body and breath into a coordinated whole. We then look at how to use these systems to resist the pull of stress and tension, and apply exercises and ideas to your chosen field of performance and everyday life.
The Alexander Technique (AT) is a sophisticated somatic method that can help you to improve your posture and breathing and interrupt patterns of physical tension that come up in stressful situations. Learning the Alexander Technique can help you to cultivate calm, communicate with clarity, and ground you when the going gets rough. AT utilizes a specialized type of bodywork that can help you to sense and release tension and teach your body how to reset and recalibrate itself when strain arises. The process involves a deep examination of how to coordinate your whole body with ease in any task, and how to use this ease to meet the demands of the moment. It promotes balance, adaptability, and the ability to respond rather than to react to stressful situations.
We start with deep learning on how your breathing and posture functions, and exercises that help you to relax and integrate your body and breath into a coordinated whole. We then look at how to use these systems to resist the pull of stress and tension, and apply exercises and ideas to your chosen field of performance and everyday life.
The Alexander Technique is not very well known, but it has had a profound impact on my life. That’s why I spent 1600 hours and three years certifying as an accredited practitioner and have been working with clients for over 10 years. I come from a high-level performing arts background, and my clients include Grammy award winning musicians, Olympic level athletes, actors on major streaming shows, and C-suite executives. What ties this diverse group together is the need to be confident, connected, and relaxed under pressure. I hope you will give AT a try and see how it can help you to come home to your body.
•Do you want to feel more at home in your body?
•Do you have trouble being poised and relaxed in tense situations?
• Do you want to breathe more fully and easily?
• Do you want to move with more ease and coordination?
• Do you want to learn how to embody your values and project calm and confidence?
If this sounds like you, the Alexander Technique might be able to help!
•Do you have trouble being poised and relaxed in tense situations?
• Do you want to breathe more fully and easily?
• Do you want to move with more ease and coordination?
• Do you want to learn how to embody your values and project calm and confidence?
If this sounds like you, the Alexander Technique might be able to help!
Offerings
Individual Sessions
Our most personal exploration comes in the form of one-on-one private sessions. Typically these include a strong body work component along with personalized exercises and application to real-life situations. An individual session can help you to prepare for a specific objective or a series of sessions can help you build lasting skill. You can also just come in for some relaxation and to promote ease and wellness in your everyday life! Body work is done on a massage table or in simple stationary forms like sitting and standing and then is taken into everyday activities and practical problem-solving scenarios.
We offer a special ‘Discovery’ session for first time clients to experience AT work for themselves. We then offer coaching packages that give clients access to a series of sessions, or clients can book individual sessions as they wish.
Our most personal exploration comes in the form of one-on-one private sessions. Typically these include a strong body work component along with personalized exercises and application to real-life situations. An individual session can help you to prepare for a specific objective or a series of sessions can help you build lasting skill. You can also just come in for some relaxation and to promote ease and wellness in your everyday life! Body work is done on a massage table or in simple stationary forms like sitting and standing and then is taken into everyday activities and practical problem-solving scenarios.
We offer a special ‘Discovery’ session for first time clients to experience AT work for themselves. We then offer coaching packages that give clients access to a series of sessions, or clients can book individual sessions as they wish.
Workshops and Group Work
Group programs can provide meaningful opportunity to build skill with the support of others through playful exercises in targeted educational programs that address specific activities or issues. Want to learn to improve your public speaking and body language, release stress and tension, or improve your particular field of performance? AT can help.
We partner with a number of local and national organizations to curate specialized programs as well as offering our own Studio Group Sessions.
Group programs can provide meaningful opportunity to build skill with the support of others through playful exercises in targeted educational programs that address specific activities or issues. Want to learn to improve your public speaking and body language, release stress and tension, or improve your particular field of performance? AT can help.
We partner with a number of local and national organizations to curate specialized programs as well as offering our own Studio Group Sessions.
Consulting
Bring us to your workplace to achieve objectives such as stress management, improved executive presence, workplace tension prevention, and performance coaching. We have experience building significant value and delivering concrete results for professionals performing at the highest level.
Our clients include the University of Chicago Booth School of Business as well as C-Suite consulting for numerous Chicago-based companies.
Bring us to your workplace to achieve objectives such as stress management, improved executive presence, workplace tension prevention, and performance coaching. We have experience building significant value and delivering concrete results for professionals performing at the highest level.
Our clients include the University of Chicago Booth School of Business as well as C-Suite consulting for numerous Chicago-based companies.
Meet Jeremy
Jeremy Cohn, founder and lead instructor, has a passion for facilitating growth for clients and helping them to unlock new levels of excellence and ease in their performance. Jeremy is a 1600-hour AmSAT (American Society for the Alexander Technique) certified Alexander Technique Teacher with over 10 years of teaching experience who has worked with Grammy award-nominated musicians, actors who are core cast members of major streaming shows, Olympic-level athletes, and C-suite executives from fortune 500 companies, as well as a diverse set of individuals from many different walks of life.
In addition to his work with Quietude he is an Adjunct Professor of Instruction in Columbia College Chicago’s School of Theatre and Dance and has facilitated programs at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Chicago-Kent College of Law, Morton College, Roosevelt University, The Illinois Association of String Teachers, the Old Town School of Folk Music, Green Shirt Studio, and the Revival Improv Theatre among others. He holds degrees from Boston University and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.
He was certified as an Alexander Technique instructor under Master Teacher Daria Okugawa (ATTiC). He has completed continuing education in Jessica Wolf’s The Art of Breathing and is a certified instructor of Malcolm Balk’s The Art of Running, a specialized application of AT work to walking and running.
In addition to his work with Quietude he is an Adjunct Professor of Instruction in Columbia College Chicago’s School of Theatre and Dance and has facilitated programs at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Chicago-Kent College of Law, Morton College, Roosevelt University, The Illinois Association of String Teachers, the Old Town School of Folk Music, Green Shirt Studio, and the Revival Improv Theatre among others. He holds degrees from Boston University and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.
He was certified as an Alexander Technique instructor under Master Teacher Daria Okugawa (ATTiC). He has completed continuing education in Jessica Wolf’s The Art of Breathing and is a certified instructor of Malcolm Balk’s The Art of Running, a specialized application of AT work to walking and running.
Media
The Alexander Technique on Good Morning America
Read our Feature in Voyage Chicago
Listen to our Podcast with Scapi Magazine
Read our Interview on Parkbench.com
Our Blog on 'The Daily Actor'
The Alexander Technique on Good Morning America
Read our Feature in Voyage Chicago
Listen to our Podcast with Scapi Magazine
Read our Interview on Parkbench.com
Our Blog on 'The Daily Actor'