MORE ABOUT JOAN ARNOLD

Joan Arnold is a seasoned teacher of a variety of movement disciplines. Certified teacher of the Alexander Technique and certified yoga instructor in the Anusana style, she has a private practice in Brooklyn and Manhattan. In her 25-year movement career, she has been a dancer, personal trainer, dance and exercise teacher.

After her 1988 graduation from the American Center for the Alexander Technique, she served on its faculty and has taught actors at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, dance majors at Hunter College, guests at the New Age Health Spa, and members of Equinox Fitness Clubs and New York Society of Clinical Hypnosis. She has demonstrated the Technique on CBS This Morning, Fox Cable's FX/MD and the PBS Series "Healthy Living with Jane Seymour."

Her personal essays, celebrity profiles and feature articles on health, fitness, bodywork, spirituality, education and psychology have appeared in a range of magazines, including New York Woman, Shape, Fitness, Self, New Woman, Massage & Bodywork, New Age Journal, More and My Generation.

In collaboration with voice teacher and choral conductor Mark Mangini, she has presented The Body Behind the Voice: Singing & the Alexander Technique for the Greenwich Village Singers and for the Hampton Choral Society in East Hampton, NY.

She has given workshops applying Alexander Technique to yoga for yoga teacher trainees at Brooklyn's Yoga People. She has taught Refining Your Postures: Yoga & the Alexander Technique at Shakti Yoga Center in Staten Island and Yoga Center of Brooklyn. Upcoming workshops will be at the Silver Lake Yoga Studio in Los Angeles and Amrita Yoga In Mahhattan.

Also a mambo dancer, she focuses on helping her clients recapture the inherent pleasure in movement.