Nanette Walsh
2025 Year in Review
Dear Friend of Sapientia, As we head into this holiday season, we wish to extend our deepest gratitude for your support of Sapientia, which has allowed us to share the freedom intrinsic to the Alexander Technique with our NYC community and beyond. This year, we’ve worked tirelessly to preserve AT’s rich lineage, protect AT as…
How Judy Stern turned the tide for the Alexander Technique, and help for back pain
In anticipation our our event honoring Judy Stern this Sunday, I spoke about her advocacy for the Technique, and shared a practice of Judy’s for turning around an upper back spasm. I hope you can join us on Sunday!
Annual Appeal & Year in Review
Dear Friend, At Sapientia Initiative, we are dedicated to human freedom; that is, freedom to be and become the fullness of who we are— individually and collectively. It might not come as a surprise that, at Sapientia, we think one of the best means for engendering this kind of freedom is the Alexander Technique: it…
Serious about Science and AT
— an announcement from Nanette Walsh, our Executive Director — We are serious about modern science and AT. Why? Oh so many reasons! First of all, it aligns with our threefold mission: to preserve the unique origin and essence of the Alexander Technique; protect AT as a profession; and propel AT’s relevancy and potency as…
All are welcome.
Sapientia Initiative is a call to consciousness— grounded in a technique we know as Alexander. We breathe and we move— it’s no abstraction— and though words are important— it’s when enfleshed they most matter. Enfleshed thoughts— and wishes too— with practice, can mean something more— something new. There’s no how to “do it”— and no substitution—…