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"Beret Arcaya has been my Alexander Technique teacher for almost two years, and I eagerly endorse her teaching. She combines patience, empathy, integrity, insight, humor, compassion, and intelligence with a wisdom that comes from experience as she embodies the rigorous honest standard of self-examination that she teaches. Her lifelong passion for vocal excellence, informed both by Garcia's method and by her training with top first-generation Alexander teachers, makes Beret perhaps the most authentic teacher of the Technique alive today, in the sense that she is able to use the full range of behaviors that lead Alexander to his great discoveries, including of course sight and touch, but also the uniquely human faculty of voice as a deep
manifestation of what makes us individuals. This complete set of tools was critical to Alexander's own story as he makes clear in his books, but has been all but forgotten in the passage of time and in our end-gaining culture of fragmented systems of "healing" (including, sadly, much of what is now practiced under FM's name). I consider myself eminently fortunate to have the opportunity to learn from Beret's genius and to experience her deeply caring humanity."
 "Five years ago I was physically and emotionally stooped. My neck and shoulders hurt terribly, the tingling in my fingers was constant, and my elbow and wrist hurt after long periods of walking, standing or sitting".
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