Course 1: The mBODYed Musician: Exploring Somatics for Musicians

A Gentle Introduction to Alexander Technique, Body Mapping, and Somatic Awareness
A self-paced online course with tools for nervous system integration, embodied learning, and sustainable change

Course Summary:

This foundational self-paced course invites you into the world of embodied learning through three core practices at the heart of mBODYed:

  • Alexander Technique: a practical philosophy of presence and coordination

  • Body Mapping: a tool for realigning movement with accurate internal maps

  • Somatic Education: an experiential approach that centers the body’s wisdom

Whether you're new to somatics or seeking a fresh start, this course provides a trauma-aware, nervous-system-informed path toward greater agency, curiosity, and ease. It introduces the mBODYed approach to nervous system integration, demonstrating how healing and learning occur most effectively when we work with the body—not against it.

This isn’t about fixing yourself. It’s about listening differently, learning slowly, and returning to your body as a source of knowing.

What You’ll Learn:

By the end of the course, you’ll be able to:

  1. Define Alexander Technique, Body Mapping, and Somatics, and understand how they relate to one another

  2. Explore the concept of “soma” and how lived experience differs from anatomy or posture correction

  3. Recognize key patterns of tension, collapse, or over-efforting—and respond with curiosity instead of criticism

  4. Understand the basics of nervous system regulation, including concepts like capacity, overwhelm, and survival states

  5. Practice foundational interoceptive and spatial awareness skills to reconnect with your body gently and safely

  6. Develop a language of choice, pause, and possibility instead of pressure, performance, or perfection

  7. Reflect on how identity and habit are shaped in the body, and how you might begin to shift your way of being

  8. Integrate small, sustainable somatic practices into your daily life, artistic work, or teaching

What’s Included:

  • 6 Self-paced modules (video, audio, and guided practice)

  • Printable journal prompts and reflection questions

  • Gentle movement and awareness explorations

  • Tools for grounding, orienting, and expanding capacity

  • Suggested pathways for next steps into deeper mBODYed work

This Is For You If:

  • You’ve heard of somatics, the Alexander Technique, or Body Mapping—but never had a clear introduction

  • You’re craving a slower, gentler way of learning or reconnecting with your body

  • You want to understand your nervous system and its role in habit, identity, and change

  • You’re a performer, educator, healing professional, or simply a curious human

  • You value trauma-informed, choice-centered learning that honors your pace

Course 2: Mapping the Body – From Tension to Freedom

Reclaiming Ease Through Anatomical Awareness and Somatic Compassion

Course Summary:

This online, synchronous course introduces you to Body Mapping—a powerful somatic practice that helps you uncover and update the unconscious maps that guide your movement. Through guided explorations, accurate anatomical information, and gentle movement practices, you’ll begin to shift long-held patterns of tension and rediscover the natural ease your body is capable of.

Rather than fixing or forcing your posture, Body Mapping invites you to see and sense your body more clearly. As you align your inner map with your true anatomical design, movement becomes more coordinated, breathing becomes freer, and tension begins to soften.

Drawing from the mBODYed approach—combining Body Mapping, trauma-informed education, and nervous system integration—this course supports sustainable change through clarity, choice, and care.

No anatomy background required. Just a willingness to slow down, get curious, and listen differently.

What You’ll Learn:

By the end of this course, you’ll be able to:

  • Define Body Mapping and explain how it differs from posture correction or body control

  • Understand how mis-mappings (inaccurate body maps) contribute to tension, injury, and fatigue

  • Identify and begin to update common mis-mapped areas such as the head-neck joint, spine, shoulders, hips, knees, and feet

  • Explore the six places of balance that support whole-body coordination

  • Experience how body mapping supports nervous system regulation and a deeper sense of safety in movement

  • Reframe habits of tension and over-efforting as protective responses—not failures

  • Integrate anatomical clarity into everyday actions, musical performance, teaching, or rest

  • Approach your body with greater precision, permission, and compassion

What’s Included:

  • 6 Class Meetings. 60 Minutes each

  • 6 Community Performance Classes

  • Printable diagrams, reflection worksheets, and movement prompts

  • Visual body maps to support updated understanding

  • Lifetime access to all content so you can revisit and re-integrate anytime

Who Is This For?

This course is for you if you:

  • Feel like your body is working too hard, too often

  • Want to move with more ease and less effort—but without forcing or fixing

  • Are curious about anatomy, but want it taught in an embodied and trauma-informed way

  • Are a performer, educator, mover, or human seeking sustainable, somatic change

  • Appreciate a flexible, self-paced course with gentle invitations—not rigid instructions

Course schedule:

Thursdays, October 1, 9, 16, 23, November 6, 13

Two options at 1 PM ET/10 AM PT

Community Performance Class:

Fridays 3 PM ET/12 PM PT (No class NOV 21, and Dec 5) Through December 12