You've Taken Your First Steps—
Now Let's Learn to Walk
The Beautiful Beginning of Something Much Deeper
What you experienced in our introduction was real, profound, and absolutely worth celebrating. You touched something fundamental about how your mind and body can work together.
And now the real journey begins.
Why the Etudes Need You (And You Need Them)
What you experienced was like learning your first few words in a new language. Beautiful, meaningful, and absolutely essential—but just the opening notes of a much richer conversation you're about to have with your own nervous system.
You see, ease isn't always easy. Learning to access genuine ease consistently is one of the most nuanced skills a human being can develop.
In our two weeks, you learned that the piano has keys and makes beautiful sounds when you touch them thoughtfully. The 5-Week Etudes Intensive is where you learn to actually play music.
The Hidden Complexity You Can't See Yet
Even students who've been working with the basic question "Where else do I seem to be easing a bit?" for months often discover they've been missing crucial elements.
"I realized I was using my medical training to analyze what was happening instead of simply being curious about it. That shift changed everything."
These aren't failures—they're the natural evolution of learning something this sophisticated. But without proper guidance, these crucial refinements often never happen.
The Dangerous "Comfortable Drift"
Here's one of the most challenging aspects of this work: When you drift off course, it often feels like you're doing better, not worse.
Your nervous system will find ways to create a semblance of the results you're seeking, even when you're gradually moving away from the true principles. You might feel relaxed, but miss the alive awareness that makes the work transformative.
I call this "comfortable drift"—and it's almost impossible to catch on your own.
The Group Magic You Haven't Experienced Yet
In the Etudes Intensive, you'll discover phenomena that sound impossible until you experience them:
- How watching someone else do an Etude with true curiosity can improve your own coordination without you doing anything
- Why certain Etudes work better when practiced in the presence of others who understand the principles
- How the group's collective attention creates a field of possibility that supports individual discovery
"It's like the difference between humming alone in your room and singing in a choir. The same voice, but suddenly you can hear harmonies you never knew were possible."
What the 5-Week Intensive Actually Teaches
This isn't about learning 19 different exercises. It's about developing 19 different ways of exploring the fundamental relationship between attention and coordination.
Week 1: Foundation Precision
Master the true depth of the Cycle and Mj. Discover what genuine curiosity feels like versus intellectual questioning. Learn to recognize when you're trying versus when you're allowing.
Week 2: Movement Integration
Explore Walking Meditation, Simple Reach, and Points of Light. Discover how to maintain experimental awareness during dynamic activity without creating effortful monitoring.
Week 3: Voice and Breath
Dive deep into Voice Touch principles. Learn how speaking and breathing reveal coordination patterns that are invisible in silence.
Week 4: Advanced Applications
Work with Simultaneity, First Bus, and Observer/Observed. These Etudes reveal the sophisticated timing and attention skills that create effortless integration.
Week 5: Teaching and Integration
Learn to guide others in basic Etudes and integrate all 19 into a personal practice that evolves with your growing understanding.
⏰ Critical Learning Window
The next 8-10 weeks are crucial. This is when your nervous system either consolidates the new patterns you discovered or gradually returns to its previous default settings.
What Individual Practice Can't Provide
Real-Time Feedback
Catch when you drift into old patterns without realizing it
Skilled Modeling
See what genuine curiosity and ease look like in different body types and personality styles
Expert Troubleshooting
Get help when Etudes don't seem to work or create unexpected responses
Supportive Community
Encouragement during inevitable learning challenges and witness to your discoveries
What Students Discover
Join the Next Group
Five consecutive weeks, two 90-minute sessions per week
Small group size (maximum 12 people)
Progressive curriculum with lifetime access to recordings
About the cost of 3-4 individual Alexander lessons,
but designed to give you a complete system for life
The real question isn't whether you can continue alone—it's whether you want to discover how much deeper this work can go with proper support and systematic training.
The Group That's Waiting for You
This is your community of fellow explorers—people like you who are curious, intelligent, and ready to go deeper than surface-level techniques. Together, you'll discover things that would take years to find alone, if you found them at all.