PROFESSOR
Since 1974 Sarah has been a professor of acting, a theatre movement specialist and an Alexander Technique teacher. She studied more than forty somatic systems for unlocking the freedom and ability that comes with mind/body unity. She was Director for two graduate degree programs for actors where she applied her special system of psycho-physical approaches to acting and other performing arts.
HER LIFE’S WORK
When she began to study acting at Southern Methodist University Sarah Barker was introduced to the Alexander Technique and the Human Potential Movement. Working with Marjorie Barstow, she knew she had discovered a thread that would stitch all of her studies together into a unified approach. The revolutionary idea that one could use conscious awareness and intention to change one’s whole experience of life and art became the basis of her career. Her life’s work has been to help others realize their potential through these techniques.
HER TEACHING
She understands the inner obstacles one encounters with traumatic injury and how to work with the impulses, reflexes and patterns beyond direct conscious awareness and control, deep in the nervous system. With this knowledge, Sarah helps her students discover their own inner abilities and the power to change their quality of moving and living.
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WHERE IN THE WORLD IS SARAH?
COACHING AVAILABLE
Columbia, SC: Private Coaching sessions with Alexander Technique and Gyrotonic Expansion System are available. Please use the contact form to request a time.
SOMATIC PRACTICES
Sarah Barker has experience and, in many cases, extensive training in more that 40 somatic practices. Somatics is a field which emphasizes the education and development of the psychological interpretation of physical perception and experience. The term signifies approaches based on the soma, or “the body as perceived from within,” including Alexander Technique and Feldenkrais, physically based psychotherapy and spiritual practices. In theatre and dance somatic practices help the performer derive a significant portion of artistic expression from the performer’s internal sensation and imagination.
