Alexis Steeves
Living with, for and from your body is where it’s at. Our bodies really are ourselves. We are not projects of improvement or a series of broken mechanisms. We are living beings rapidly responding to the forces – personal, social, environmental, gravitational – that surround and contain us. Our navigation of this complex chaos is a wildly unique expression. Every awkward fumble, clever compensation and gesture of grace.
Alexis is a lifelong dancer, longtime bodyworker and enthusiastic teacher.
She promotes well-being through, the SI 12 Series, private yoga and therapeutic massage. While her techniques vary, her approach is consistent and reflects her 16 plus years as a professional. She listens closely to the goals of clients and works with them to make a plan for addressing pain and revitalizing energy. This includes support for rehabilitation, performance, pre and postnatal care and moments of personal transformation. Alexis also invites clients to explore empowered and pragmatic embodiment through private yoga sessions. She is especially excited by the, simultaneously, restorative and educational properties of this way of working. Alexis utilizes dynamic language and movement vocabularies for depicting anatomy, evoking movement and inspiring personal curiosity. She fervently believes that everybody is doing the best they possibly can with the information they have – and – we are all just a few breaths and informed adjustments away from greater ease and insight.
Education and Experience
Alexis received a certification in the Structural Integration 12 Series, with Tom Myers, Lou Benson and Larry Phipps at Myers’ flagship Anatomy Trains school in Maine in 2013. She studied therapeutic massage at The Desert Institute of the Healing Arts in Arizona where she was a teaching assistant for Yoshi Nakano’s Shiatsu course. In 2003 she achieved a New York State License in Massage Therapy. She is a member of Associated Bodywork and Massage Professionals.
Alexis is a Katonah Yoga inspired teacher, having studied, most closely, with Abbie Galvin and Dages Keates since 2012. She taught yoga as a guest instructor at the Bard High School Early College Queens, for three semesters. From 2008 – 2012 she taught yoga for dancers and general health education at the Tallinn University. She also held a public open level class in the Estonian capital for three years. Lara Benusis was the first teacher who inspired her to approach yoga as a life practice in 2004.
Alexis is a performing dance artist producing work with her collaborators HAM (high art moment) and an ongoing solo performance titled Dead Reckoning. With a BA concentration in choreography from Bard College Alexis has developed movement curriculums in a variety of private and group settings for over 20 years. She taught dance technique, emphasizing embodied performance and anatomy, at the Tallinn University Dance Department in Estonia from 2008 – 2012.