About Erik Bendix

Erik Bendix (Asheville) is an AmSAT-certified Alexander Technique teacher. He trained with Frank Ottiwell, Joan & Alex Murray, and for several months also Walter Carrington. He has taught anatomy at Alexander training courses for many years, has taught the Technique at music conservatories and academies, represented the Technique at scientific conferences and has developed his…

Phone

828-450-1670

Address of Practice

30 Cumberland Ave., Asheville NC 28801

Individual Lessons

  • In Person
  • /
  • Online

Classes or Workshops

  • In-person
  • /
  • Online

About Erik Bendix

Erik is an AmSAT-certified Alexander Technique teacher. He trained with Frank Ottiwell, Joan & Alex Murray, and for several months also Walter Carrington. He has taught anatomy at Alexander training courses for many years, has taught the Technique at music conservatories and academies, represented the Technique at scientific conferences and has developed his own ski teaching method based on Alexander Technique (Ease on Skis). He is also a published poet, a trained philosopher, a homestead farmer, a translator, an amateur architect, a teacher/trainer of Body-Mind Centering® and is best known as a teacher of international folk dance. Erik loves helping people recover the bounce of their own vitality to become more fully themselves.


Alexander Technique teacher since:

1999

Trained by:

Frank Ottiwell, Joan & Alex Murray, Walter Carrington

Connect with Erik

Phone

828-450-1670


Practice Services

Address of Practice

30 Cumberland Ave., Asheville NC 28801

Region:

  • Online
  • /
  • NC
  • /
  • International

Individual Lessons

  • In Person
  • /
  • Online

Classes or Workshops

  • In-person
  • /
  • Online

Public Speaking:

Yes – Public Speaking

Onsite Training:

Yes

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Professional Alexander Technique societies I belong to:

AmSAT

My favorite Alexander Technique quote:

“The things that don’t exist are the most difficult to get rid of.” 

F.M. Alexander

My favorite AT books or resources:

  • Frank Pierce Jones, Freedom to Change
  • Walter Carrington, Thinking Aloud
  • Walter Carrington, Explaining the Alexander Technique (with Sean Carey)
  • Andrew Rugg-Gunn, Mature Explanation of the F.M. Alexander Technique
  • Ted Dimon, The Body in Motion
  • Joe Armstrong, Directing and Ordering

My post-graduate AT training:

  • 5 years post-graduate training with Neil & Vivien Schapera
  • 6 years refresher courses with Joan & Alex Murray
  • assisting Vivien Mackie’s work with musicians
  • assisting Rachel Zahn through her 2 scientific conferences in Paris & Italy

My other professional qualifications:

  • M.A. (Oxon) in philosophy, politics & economics
  • M.A. (Princeton) in philosophy
  • certified Teacher & Practitioner of Body-Mind Centering®

Other professionals I send referrals to:

  • medical doctors (GP, urology, sports medicine, neurology, dermatology, dentistry, orthodontics)
  • PTs
  • TMJ specialists
  • TCM practitioners & acupuncturists
  • therapists
  • family constellation therapists
  • formative psychologists
  • Gestalt psychologists
  • SE practitioners
  • Craniosacral practitioners
  • Orthobionomy practitioners
  • Feldenkrais practitioners
  • Body-Mind Centering practitioners
  • massage therapists
  • other Alexander Technique teachers

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