WHO AM I?

Hi, I’m Tracy Einstein, M.AmSAT, SEP. I want you to feel empowered in your body to do what you love. I’m known for a grounded, organizational touch, and nerdy-yet-intuitive approach to the work of the Alexander Technique and Somatic Experiencing®.

A life-long mover, I grew up dancing, playing soccer, singing, and acting. I was led to AT seeking holistic care after a series of shocks left me feeling trapped and “stuck” in my body & emotions.  After trying many modalities, the slow, mindful work of the Alexander Technique began to bring me back home to my body, rewire my nervous system and movement patterning, and give me  a renewed sense of grounding and possibility. After finishing 1600 hr teacher training in NYC, I became the youngest  assistant to the BAC Teacher Training Course, and joined the Alexander Technique Faculty at American Academy of Dramatic Arts in NYC. Over the last 7 years, I’ve enjoyed working with people to resolve performance “blocks,” expand emotional and imaginative capacities, settle in their bodies, navigate hyper-mobility, and recover from surgeries. After seeing how emotional blocks often shifted through AT, I sought out further training in Somatic Experiencing® Trauma healing to gain skills for resolving trauma that’s held in the body. 

Using light touch, we’ll work together at your own speed, untangling holding patterns in your body brought on by stress, and giving you more awareness of your unique body and how you move through the world. I’ll accompany you as you learn  how to use your body in a way that cooperates with your unique structure, avoids wear-and-tear on your joints and muscles, and offers a greater sense of pleasure in motion. 

Our bodies can hold imprints from traumatic experiences that keep us veiled in auto-pilot survival patterns, that brilliantly protected us back then, but mal-adaptively separate us from connection with the present moment now. We may feel hijacked by our bodies under certain circumstances, unable to access connection & creativity in the moment. Our work together will skillfully and slowly work to free the stuck places and make way for a more flexible and responsive nervous system. By contacting the disruption in the Autonomic Nervous System, hearing its messages, and giving it space-time to unwind, it is possible to shift the “autonomic foundation” upon which life is experienced, and feel like yourself again. At home in your body, you increase your resilience, and can respond creatively (rather than reactively) to life.  

A recent transplant from NYC, I’m psyched to be living in Northampton, MA with my young family. When I’m not teaching, I enjoy slow mornings with my toddler, riding my bike, theater projects,  and getting to know my local community. 

Credentials.

• 1600 hr Alexander Technique Teacher Training, Balance Arts Center, NYC

• 3 year Somatic Experiencing® Professional Training Program through SEI

• 34 hr Ehlers-Danlos Syndromes / Hyper-mobility Spectrum Disorder Alexander Technique Training, NYC

• Reverence + Repair: Honoring our Lineages a Workshop for Somatic Practitioners with Marika Heinrichs & Stevie Joye Leigh

• Trauma Through A Child’s Eyes Playshop with Maggie Klein

• Pilates & Movement for Top Surgery, with Sofia Engelman @ Queer Body Pilates

• Lincoln Center Teaching Artist Development Lab, NYC

• NeuroAffective Touch®: A Somatic Toolkit for Healing Emotional & Relational Trauma with Dr. Aline LaPierre, on Embodied Philosophy

• Art of Breathing w Jessica Wolf (in-process) 

• BA, Columbia University (studied Core Curriculum, Dance, Physics, East Asian philosophy, etc.)

Member: Somatic Experiencing International®, American Society for the Alexander Technique 

Faculty Member: American Academy of Dramatic Arts, Adjunct at UMass Amherst, Balance Arts Center for the Alexander Technique, Completely Ridiculous Conservatory , Play Incubation Collective, Little Roots Family Music

Select Teaching Experience

• Associate Faculty of Alexander Technique and Movement
  American Academy of Dramatic Arts, NYC, since 2017 - present

• Adjunct Faculty of Acting for Dancers: Embodied Resilience, UMass Amherst, Spring 2024

• Faculty of Alexander Technique, Completely Ridiculous Conservatory, 2020 - 2022

• Faculty of Alexander Technique and Acting, Balance Arts Center for the Alexander Technique, 2017 - 2020

Guest Lecturer of Alexander Technique & Somatic Resources

• UMass Amherst Dance Department, Fall 2024

• UMass Amherst Theater Department, Spring 2024 & Fall 2024

• Barnard College Dance Department, 2023 & 2024

• The Darrow School, 2023

• Fairfield University Theater Department, 2019, 2021