Institute for Music and Health

Director of Music and Movement

Judith Muir M.M. M.AmSAT., is a senior Alexander Technique teacher with twenty eight years of international experience. Originally from the UK where she trained with Walter Carrington, one of the most influential Alexander Technique teachers in the world, she moved to the USA and became a founding member of the American Society of Alexander Teachers (AmSAT), as well as Vice-Chair of the American Center for the Alexander Technique, New York. She is currently Director of an AmSAT approved teacher training course and has helped train students to become certified teachers of the Alexander Technique on three continents. Her past and present students include members of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, New York City Opera, flutist Sir James Galway, and actors Greta Scacchi and Chris Noth.

For the past twelve years she has been teaching the Alexander Technique at Bard College as Associate Professor of Theatre, having previously taught at the Actors’ Movement Studio in New York City, Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of the Arts, and the Powerhouse Theatre Apprentice Program, Vassar College.

She is strongly committed to developing her teaching and over the years has explored and incorporated many holistic approaches to her work. These include the birthing trauma and breath work of Robert Fulford DO; the evolutionary development procedures of Raymond Dart MD; and most especially, the work of holistic medical pioneer John Diamond MD, whom she has personally trained with for the last fourteen years.

Her background as a professional musician gives her an insider’s perspective on many of the issues faced by performers and strongly influences her teaching. Trained at Manhattan School of Music and The Royal Academy of Music, London, she is a distinguished clarinetist who has performed classical and jazz concerts internationally, including Carnegie Hall, St. Martin’s in the Fields, London, and Wigmore Hall in London. She is Director of Movement and Music at the Institute for Music and Health in the Hudson Valley, New York.

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