Joni Clare

Piano / Vocal / Alexander Technique

Experience:

• Bachelor of Art in Music UW Milwaukee
  • Areas studied: Classical voice, musical theatre, vocal pedagogy, piano, songwriting, composition, improvisation, and extended vocal technique.
• 14 Years playing and performance experience
• 8 Years teaching experience in music
• Certified Alexander Technique with 5 years teaching experience

Ages Taught:

Vocal lessons: 5 and up
Piano lessons: 6 and up

The Alexander Technique is an educational process that usually takes place over a course of lessons and practice with the goal of teaching the person to become aware of and change habitual ways of using the body. The approach focuses on learning mind-body awareness.

The technique is widely used to:
- Improve posture
- Relieve pain (especially for joint-related or spinal issues)
- Enhance performance and coordination in all activities 
- Prevent injury and fatigue
- Make pregnancies more manageable
- Release unnecessary tension
- Find a balanced, flowing, and powerful expression of the self
- Improve coordination and skill
- Improve and enhance the practice of artists like actors, musicians, dancers, and other performers
- Improve and enhance the practice of sportspeople (including golf, swimmers, runners, horse riders, racket sports, cricket and others)