Erik Bendix is an AmSAT-certified teacher of the Alexander Technique. He trained with Frank Ottiwell and with Joan and Alex Murray, and spent three months at the Carrington’s course in London. He helped organize the 2001 AmSAT AGM, assisted Vivien Mackie’s work with musicians, and spent five years assisting on the Alexander Technique of Cincinnati training course. Inspired by Steven Shaw’s work with swimmers, he has developed his own ski teaching method based on the Alexander Technique. He is one of few teachers with training both in the Dart Procedures and in Body-Mind Centering®, a developmental movement discipline founded by Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen. Trained as an academic philosopher at Oxford and Princeton, Erik is known as a teacher of world dance traditions, and lives with his wife in Asheville, North Carolina.
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"Erik Bendix is a wonderful teacher, both in terms of the physical instruction he gives in the lessons and in terms of his insight into how our ways of dealing with life get translated into how we use our bodies."