“The only thing you have to offer another human being, ever, is your own state of being.”
- Ram Dass
Contemporary Alexander Technique Teachers Oregon
Jonathan Berg
(he/him)
NE Portland
503.310.5426
Lyra Butler-Denman
(she/her)
SE Portland
503.208.4455
lyra@atpdx.org
My work facilitates developing a deeper relationship with yourself and a dynamic experience of living in your body. I love working with the way our bodies wear our personal histories, past injuries, internalized supremacies and inferiorities, social “norms”, and belief systems. I believe that ease, wholeness, and balance are inherent to the human body, and that equity, justice, and liberation are inherent to the social body. I bring awareness and choice to the habitual ways we interrupt our innate resources (individually and socially), and reacquaint my students with their innate brilliance, ease, and freedom.
Rebecca Harrison
(she/her)
NE Portland
503.240.3997
In her kind and intuitive style, Rebecca helps people change long-standing patterns, learn how to navigate life with greater wisdom and compassion, non-forcefully and effectively process trauma, and to move with more connectivity, power and ease. Rebecca has been doing somatic work with individuals and groups for the past 20 years, and has been a certified Alexander teacher for the past 7. In addition to the Alexander work, Rebecca brings studies of meditation, non-dualistic psychology, MCD (mindful compassionate dialogue), and a lifetime of study in various movement and somatic forms.
Bradley Hogle
(he/they)
Salem
503.507.2575
bradhogle1@gmail.com
At the center of my work is a desire to support people in finding harmony with themselves, their communities, and the natural world. I’m curious about how we all got where we are, and how we get where we’re going next. This curiosity has led me through the worlds of bodywork, movement education, and meditative techniques over the last fifteen years. I am currently studying Daoism and the classical Chinese healing arts.
Tahni Holt
(they/she)
NE/SE Portland
503.708.5801
hello@tahniholt.com
I am a dance artist and somatic teacher who is deeply curious about the sentient world and my entanglement within it. I have spent most of my life tending to the things that grow between the cracks. It is in this liminal space where one touches upon the things that cannot be named and finds new meanings for the things that are. I bring 20+ years of studying and teaching movement and somatic forms that deeply integrate and inform my Alexander practice. I love teaching Contemporary Alexander to others, as it is an honor to support significant change in ones’ personhood in whatever unique ways those changes take shape.
Linda K Johnson
(she/her)
SE Portland
503.709.0952
I am dance artist, somatic educator, mother, and passionate lover of plants. Now in my fourth decade of creating and teaching, I have devoted my entire professional life to the study of movement, presence, and embodiment. I love working with individuals through the Contemporary Alexander Technique to support their unabashed embrace of their full, stunning selves.
Beate Kilber
(she/her)
Beate is a German native with a background as a professional dancer, massage therapist and a Waldorf language instructor. Her life long passion for the human body, movement, Argentine Tango, and teaching all come together in her personal, movement oriented Alexander Technique lessons.
DeeAnn Nelson
(She/they)
DeeAnn’s current curiosity around her work stems from a lifetime of dance, somatics, movement and exercise, Gyrotonics, Gyrokinesis, and Pilates. She is currently deeply interested in the work of Bonnie Badenoch and Kelly Clancy.
DeeAnn has appreciated having the language and skills of the Contemporary Alexander Technique. These skills provide a beautiful container for the co-creation of lessons along with an enhanced ability to explore the wonder and awe of human potential.
Kelli May
(she/her)
SE Portland
503.522.2892
kellikessler@gmail.com
Kelli Kessler May came to the Alexander Technique after being in movement studies professionally since 2001. Pilates, GYROTONIC, and Massage Therapy have been her work for 15 years. She has enjoyed adding Alexander Technique to her skill set as it provides an opportunity to work with people addressing the use of their whole being in the activities of their daily lives.
Katie Twombly
(she/her)
Beaverton
503.703.7950
katie.crescendoyourhealth@gmail.com
The essence of my contemporary alexander work is connection, organization, balance and harmony both in the saddle and in life. My focus has primarily been with the equestrian community, but I also do unmounted sessions in my home studio as well as off site visits as needed by the client: work place assessments, other non equine related activities and personal use issues.
Ally Yancey
(they/she)
SE Portland
505.448.9703
aelyblue@gmail.com
Ally is a body geek and pedagogical enthusiast. Dancing for their entire life and teaching for half of it, they are driven by a passionate curiosity for the delightful, infinite puzzle of the human mindbody.
They are so enchanted by Alexander work because it has not only deeply developed their dance teaching practice, but also profoundly shifted how they live as a human in the world. This shift—finding greater access to personal agency, embodiment, and magic in their life—lead them after years of personal study, to join the Contemporary Alexander School teacher training program in 2018.
Ally’s dream is to teach and collaborate with those shaping the future: culture shifters, activists, emergent strategists, artists, movers, researchers, queer community, teachers, and boundless others who are curious about how we as individuals relate to the world around us.