Bruce Fertman

I work with people from all walks of life, including artists from varied disciplines. I help artists learn how not to hurt themselves, how to be less anxious, and how to recover expediently from injuries. I help them become sensitive, powerful, and free.
I've worked with members of the Berlin Philharmonic, Radio France, The National Sympho­ny, and for the Curtis Institute of Music. I've worked with singers, conductors, choral directors, and instrumentalists.
For 6 years, I taught Movement for the Actor at Temple and Rutgers Universities. For 13 years, I taught for the Five College Dance Program in Amherst, Massachusetts. Recently, I worked with the Argentine Tango community in Buenos Aires, and in Germany.
I taught for the School of Physiotherapy at The University of Goettingen, in Germany, for ten years. I've worked with the physically challenged which, in one way or another, is all of us.



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I have taught annually in Japan for 20 years, coaching students and teachers of traditional Japanese arts. I studied Japanese Tea Ceremony at Uresenke in Kyoto, Japan for 8 years, as well as Aikido. For 36 years I have practiced T'ai Chi Chu'an, and for 30 of those years, I have taught Tai Chi.
In 1982, I co-founded the Alexander Alliance, an intergene­rational, multicultural community which conducts teacher training programs in the Alexander Technique, in Tai Chi Chu'an, in The Walking Way, and in The Peaceful Body.
I apprenticed under Marjorie L. Barstow for sixteen years, the first person certified to teach Alexander's work. I am the Director and Senior Teacher for the Alexander Alliance International, for the Alexander Alliance Germany, and for The Movement School in Santa Fe.
I have literally touched humanity, and humanity has touched me. I love people. I respect them. I am moved by them, by their courage, and by their goodness. My life has been a labor and a privilege.