Erik Bendix

Erik Bendix trained as an Alexander Technique teacher in the 1990s with Frank Ottiwell, Joan and Alex Murray, and Walter Carrington. Erik assisted on Vivien and Neil Schapera’s Cincinnati training for five years, worked with musicians with Vivien Mackie, helped represent the Technique at the 2012-13 Embodied Mind conferences in Paris and Gargonza and taught Alexander Technique in Taiwan and at Pomona College. He is trained in both Dart Procedures© and Body-Mind Centering℠, disciplines that explore how movement develops in infants. He trained in BMC® with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen in the 1990s and became a BMC® Teacher in 2012. Erik created The Learning Curve workshops to explore scoliosis, and developed his own Ease on Skis alpine ski teaching method based on the Technique. He has taught Ease on Skis at many workshops, has written a book and filmed a documentary on his ski method, and now trains Ease on Skis teachers. He is currently working on project about the origins of human uprightness and the legacy of Raymond Dart and the Murrays. Trained as a philosopher at Oxford and Princeton, Erik is a published poet and is known worldwide as a folk dance teacher.