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Grae 🏳️‍🌈♾️ Alexander Technique Teacher & Performance Coach

@thismighthelp.us

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💙💀Learn to be comfy in your body and perform at your best!
🫡 10 yrs experience, AmSAT-certified
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Your next chance to get cutting edge comedic advice from the world's most advanced human-powered artificial intelligence is this Friday at @finestcityimprov with @artificial.improv, programmed (directed) by yours truly taken in San Diego, California by @thismighthelp.us

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The Tuesday Improv Lab continues! Now offering an Alexander Technique drop-in before as a little experiment. Join us! Send me a message for deets. taken in Crest, California by @thismighthelp.us

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3 months ago

@artificial.improv cast out to see @kimsconplay at @theoldglobe -- so much fun, okay see you! by @thismighthelp.us

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5 months ago

A rare picture of both of us together! Life with kids means we're almost always taking a photo of the other person with the occasuonal together selfie. From a lovely wedding last summer. by @thismighthelp.us

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Effort, and letting go of effort, was the major theme that came out of this week's Tuesday Improv Lab.
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When we first learn how to do something, it's usually an effortful experience -- we work hard to put the pieces together, to do things right. Sometimes that effort is physical, sometimes mental, sometimes emotional, often a big mix.
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But then we learn, and we no longer have to expend so much effort to do what we want to do.
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A funny thing happens, though, where it feels wrong to do something without effort, wrong to enjoy the pleasure of something done easily and skillfully. Maybe we've come to associate effort with doing something well, conflating the two. Or maybe it goes deeper -- we live in a culture that values effort for effort's sake. Rise and grind, y'know? It's moral, puritanical.
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And it can go deeper than any one skill. For many of us, effort is like a security blanket -- a habit that feels like it protects us, even if it also limits us. Because unnecessary effort wastes our energy and limits our expression. Performance feels forced and stilted, and strain is transmitted to the audience whether they know it consciously or not.
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So, what to do with it? Identifying it is the first step. Understanding it -- asking what purpose the effort serves, what it's trying to protect you from -- might be the second. And third, relating to it as a part of yourself, perhaps expressing gratitude for it, before asking if you might try something else...
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If you might allow yourself to do less work, in body and mind -- even a little bit, as an experiment. Not ignoring or repressing it, but releasing it.
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As an #AlexanderTechnique teacher, this is territory I work in all the time, and #improv is a rich place to explore it too.
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Today's lab also featured a delightful scene of two men arguing about their marriage at an aquarium, while a guppy mistakenly placed in the saltwater tank navigated an octopus and a couple of barracudas.
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Good times.
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If you'd like to join me at the lab, send me a message for the details. by @thismighthelp.us

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Field Day with @finestcityimprov was so fun yesterday! I took a bunch of photos, but it was a big turnout and I'm not social media connected with a bunch of people anyway, so sharing this link here for anyone who wants 'em. by @thismighthelp.us

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Basically, it's become an improv-focused artists' salon.
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What started as a weekly drop-in class has become something else, where chill hang-out vibes meet deep improv experimentation in a safe, curated space with some great people.
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Folks are getting feedback and reps tailored specifically to their questions, needs, and personal creative voices.
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Everyone supports, processes, and plays together. It's just lovely.
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There is room for more people to join us, but my goal isn't to sell out a class, and I've shifted to a pay-what-you-want model (money helps make it possible to do more stuff, but it's not the point, and you don't have to pay me).
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I want to foster this unique space and continue to gather a community of growth-minded artists, and preserve what we've come to love about the Improv Lab.
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I feel lucky to host this every Tuesday, starting at 7pm, in my little studio (just out of town, in east county off the Greenfield exit on the 8.)
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If you might like to experience this for yourself, send me a DM for the details, and let me know where you're at in your improv/artist life. (thanks to this trio of labmates who are letting me use this pic from this last Tuesday!)
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#sandiegoimprov #sandiegocomedyscene #sandiegotheater #improv An actor sits on another's lap, looking serious, while a third actor tries to keep from laughing behind them. They are lit by stage lights and a large piece of art depicting a brain with googly eyes hangs behind them. taken in Crest, California by @thismighthelp.us

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And the beginning of bouquet season!

#socalgardening #buttercup by @thismighthelp.us

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7 months ago

91 degrees in February and Spring has sprung, at least for my Violette de Bordeaux fig, cherry and peach trees!

#southerncalifornia #socalgardening #homeorchard taken in San Diego, California by @thismighthelp.us

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7 months ago

Two spots left! Register @mockingbirdimprov -- and I think lower price spots are still available if finances are a barrier to access!

#improv #actingcoach #alexandertechnique by @thismighthelp.us

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8 months ago

One week out from the first Tuesday #improv Lab! 🎭

A weekly drop-in if you want to get out of your head and into stronger two-person scenes.

✅ Two-person scene reps (the core building block of good improv, and where we can work on fundamentals and your habits)
✅ Focused side coaching (so you can put notes into action immediately and find your own fun)
✅ Improv nerdery (so you understand what's actually happening and build your own process + voice)

Tuesdays 7–9pm, starting Jan 13
$15 (and if that’s a barrier, DM me)

At my little studio -- DM me “Lab” for the address or register at link in bio.

(This one is for San Diego area folks. If you're interested in an online class, let me know! I'll run it if there's enough interest.)

Black & white means this is serious and classy.

#improvisation #improvcomedy #improvclass #sandiegotheatre Grae holds a handheld spotlight, pointing it at his scene partner on stage. A bentwood chair sits in the background. Text advertises for Grae's Tuesday Improv Lab. by @thismighthelp.us

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9 months ago

It's my birthday, so I'm going to be a lil self-indulgent and share this video of folks saying nice things about working with me.

#alexandertechnique by @thismighthelp.us

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