A technique that addresses how we live in ourselves (mind & body fused – not as separate entities), by reconnecting to our self-awareness, pausing to interrupt habits, and using process (rather than focusing on the desired result) as the way to effectively and efficiently encounter our environment & world.
How can I learn the Technique?
Contact Kathy Privatt at kathy.privatt@lawrence.edu or 920-832-7248
- Individual Lessons
- Usually 30 minutes
- Workshops for groups
- For example: Musicians/Conductors, Athletic Teams, Equestrians, Actors, Groups who work in Office Settings
- Embodying Your Faith Sessions
What is Embodying Your Faith?
I like connecting things:
- A lived experience with a play I’m teaching
- A cookie my Mama used to make with a gift for my niece
Maybe that joy in connecting things led me to the ongoing project I call Embodying Your Faith, an integration of my professional pursuits as AT Teacher and Theatre Artist with my ongoing spiritual growth.
Embodying your faith can mean lots of different things. In this case, I take metaphors of the Christian faith back to the physical and observable to explore and maybe (hopefully) expand our relationship to God and to each other. The tool I use to re-embody those metaphors is Alexander Movement Technique. This method teaches its practitioners to coordinate their whole selves, body and mind, to move and engage their world in more aware and efficient ways. Using that approach with faith-based topics offers discoveries and new understandings in a consciously connected community.
Bio
Kathy Privatt is a certified Alexander Movement Technique (AT) Teacher through Alexander Technique International and associate professor of theatre arts. Since 2010, she has been teaching AT classes at Lawrence University (LU), and offering lessons and workshops to the campus and the community. Trained at Chesapeake Bay Alexander Studies, Privatt encourages students to bring activities they’d like to tackle to their lessons. Like the liberal arts variety at the university where she teaches, Privatt enjoys working with people on a wide range of activities/topics: performing arts, athletics, exercise, horseback riding, chronic pain/discomfort and injury recovery, general well-being including adapting to desk jobs, drafting tables, computer work and other electronic devices.