Mio's on-line class has really helped my confidence grow in the 'Hands-Free' area of AT teaching, which is incredibly helpful to me in group scenarios, and for on-line teaching, both of which I use in my teaching practice.

It's also offered me more ways of being able to layer light and joyful qualities to the way I teach Alexander's Technique. I like to make it fun as much as possible! My perspective has certainly widened and it's been a lot of fun!

The class is a pleasure every time, and my learning has grown exponentially! I'm delighted and I always look forward to the next week. 

Angela Bradshaw

I was really glad to have the opportunity to encounter the Primal Alexander études again a year later and see how much they have evolved. I’m so grateful to have gotten more information on these really effective tools that I can experiment with in my classes.

What I found most valuable was the opportunity to see how other people were bringing these tools into their own lives and experiments. The Facebook group between classes was incredibly valuable. It  really helped me stay with my own experiments and it was also really valuable to see what other people were up to.

The group assembled was wonderful and the whole way the teaching process has been honed over time really makes me look forward to having the opportunity to learn more soon.

Tory Matsos

I really enjoy and have greatly benefited from the way Mio’s teaching has influenced and enhances my awareness especially when I’m working in person hands-on with my students. 

We have a great time in Mio’s class laughing with happy delight at catching a habit of movement or thinking.  It’s fun to be looking for and discovering those subtle habits through using Mio’s Primal Alexander teaching.  The instant inhibition, using this process, leads to the mental state of open-ended curiosity about what’s happening at the moment.

I highly recommend Mio’s class to all Alexander teachers whether you want to learn to use if to learn to observe subtle changes in your students without using your hands or if you want to refine your presence and ability to use your hands in your teaching.

Eileen Troberman

When I began attending classes, Mio’s emphasis on self-observation and wondering about ease began to spill over into my daily life in very practical ways. My understanding of the Technique became much clearer – to the point that one of the most stressful years of my life also became one of the best, as I learned how to infuse a sense of Ease into any experience.

Over recent months, I have watched my technique transform and my musical expression deepen with unimaginable ease, and Mio has empowered me with tools to continue doing this for myself. I am now comfortable calling myself a “violinist” again, and I know this is only the beginning – which I find extremely exciting!

Jennifer Roig-Francoli

For many months, before I use any hands-on contact, I begin teaching all my lessons with Mio's Primal Alexander Hands-Free approach to teaching the Alexander Technique.

The experimentation at the heart of Primal 

Alexander puts students in charge of improving their own coordination and makes them much more successful at it.

Students routinely report being calmer and more at ease during their lessons and the activities we do in class becomes their homework, giving them a clear idea about what to do between lessons.

This whole process has also helped me listen and communicate much more clearly when I do put hands on, making my hands on  work much more effective.

Jim Froelich

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Mio is a fun and engaging teacher. He is excellent at really applying the Alexander technique while he teaches a group. He won't let you get away with half thinking in activity. The constructive changes are instant and lasting that's what I find most important and stimulating while learning with him.

Working with Mio for the last year or so, I've enjoyed experiencing the ease, simplicity and intelligence of my body's natural coordination. This class gets to the core of Alexander's thinking process rather than the procedural techniques he passed on.

I have been studying A.T. for the past 12 years now and Mio's approach is simply the most direct, clear and global one I've come across.

Eleni Vosniadou

Since working with Mio my way of understanding AT has gotten so much deeper. I feel a lot calmer these days and I can see things more as they really are. I’m much less judgmental and I'm beginning to understand just what "Non-Endgaining" really means! My self-confidence has grown a lot, and no matter what happens, I'm able to deal with things much more constructively.

In our classes we experience an incredibly warm and tender atmosphere which in my experience is very rare. Mio is great at teaching without ever making you feel like you’re wrong. We freely share our experiences and what we're learning and that makes our personal changes even more powerful. There is truth here.

Akiko Kodate

What can I say about Mio? Well, for starters, no single person has had a more profound effect on my physical well being. Meeting him was the beginning of a long period of being pain free. And not pain free in the sense that someone healed me...but pain free in the sense that I now have ‘control’ over my own well being.

What Mio teaches is that A.T. is something you both do for yourself and allow to happen. I’ve spent most of the last decade trying to forget everything I ever learned, from yoga directions to Alexander’s classic directions...All you have to do is Notice the Ease...It’s so much more effective and simple!

I hope in this life everyone has a chance to work with him. Thanks, Mio!

Bruce Winstone

Before taking online lessons, I thought there might be a lot of things that could not be conveyed online. The opposite is true. You regain your natural coordination learning online and you learn how to do it yourself.

Mio’s teaching is very specific and easy to understand. He respects what a student says but clarifies our misunderstandings . In general , I feel calmer and not so distracted by the things going on around me. I feel gratitude, joy and even sadness more clearly.

Learning in a group class, what I found most valuable was realizing I’m not alone. That made me feel very safe. I now share my experiences with others with confidence. I used to think A.T. was just a tool for doing things better. Now I realize that it's more about learning how to “be” as a human being.

Eriko Miyauchi

Before Mio’s class I couldn’t imagine learning A.T. online.To me, A.T. was about how I moved my body. With online lessons I’ve found that the key is my thinking. By experimenting and observing I can improve myself by myself and the speed of change is amazing!

I can take a lesson anywhere even in a hotel room on business. I’m much more relaxed and can express my emotions more easily around people. I used to get stressed by demanding too much of myself and had a vague sense of anxiety about my future. Now, thanks to the class, I'm feeling that as I get older my future will be bright, it will be fun and it will always be full of new wonders.

Satoshi Sashida

One of the most interesting things for me about our online class is how supported I feel. Our group is very consistent and to see everyone's changing from week to week is very powerful and affirming.

Having others witness your challenges and your growth reinforces the benefit of using these ideas in your life. While I've only met these people online, through our shared experiments and improvement, I've come to count them as my friends.

I've worked with Mio off and on for over 30 years now. He creates an open environment where the most important thing is to learn by experimenting. It becomes impossible to fail because anything that moves you even a bit closer to the truth is success!

Laura Donnelly

I very much appreciate working with Mio. He's supportive, easy going and clear in his teaching. I feel at ease and comfortable in his classes and find his methodology and exercises playful and empowering. Working with Mio helps me to continue to learn and grow. I'm so happy I found him!

Jacek Kaleta