Cindi Kim has been teaching the Alexander Technique since 2013. She qualified under John Nicholls and was his teaching assistant on his teacher training course from 2013-2016. Cindi first took lessons in the Alexander Technique as a dance student and then again decades later after having developed repetitive stress injuries, bilateral thoracic outlet syndrome, and frozen shoulder. Training in the Alexander Technique helped Cindi finally end her cycles of strain and injury. 

Before teaching Alexander, Cindi studied Laban Movement Analysis and Bartenieff Fundamentals at LIMS, Kinesthetic Anatomy with Irene Dowd, Gyrotonic at White Cloud, and Pilates for injury prevention and dance conditioning. After teaching Gyrotonic and Pilates in LA and NYC, Cindi obtained an M.F.A. in Dance Performance and Choreography and studied film at The New School. Curious to explore how Buddhist contemplative practices and neuropsychology could inform her Alexander teaching, Cindi completed Nalanda Institute’s year-long Contemplative Psychotherapy certificate program integrating neuroscience and the practice of embodying wise compassion.  

Cindi approaches the Alexander Technique neither as a form of exercise nor relaxation therapy but as a means for experiencing better postural support, fuller breathing, more mobility, and a calmer yet enlivened sense of the whole self. Students learn to transform patterns of excess muscular tension that have become unconsciously limiting and often injurious by redistributing muscular tone strategically within the body and employing more of the body’s deep spinal muscles. With hands-on guidance in chair and table work, students learn to improve their coordination and performance increasingly on their own. Over time, students can discover greater internal connection and support while experiencing a gently expansive sense of themselves and the world around them. Cindi is profoundly moved by how the work offers a way of organizing and inhabiting the body that empowers individuals to expand their capacity and choices. Inspired by her students’ progress and the Alexander Technique’s ability to create openings for positive change and new possibilities, Cindi finds Alexander work a rich life practice in continuing our becoming.

Cindi welcomes all human beings! In addition to supporting performing artists (and performing arts enthusiasts!), she loves working with all individuals on aging well, coping with health challenges, and experiencing a greater sense of well-being and hope.

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