Balanced Posture

Michelle LaPlace Obrecht's understanding of pain comes from first-hand experience. During her graduate studies in the 1980s at the University of California, Berkeley, Michelle experienced a serious car accident, leading her on a search for relief from her daily discomfort. After trying different traditional as well as alternative medical approaches, her examination of the Alexander Technique proved to be the most interesting and the most effective.

After completing coursework for her doctoral degree in history, she enrolled in the Center for the Alexander Technique in Menlo Park, California, completing a three-year, 1600-hour intensive training course in 1991. In California, she continued studying Alexander Technique privately with Frank Ottiwell, who for the past 35 years has trained actors in the Technique at the renowned American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, where she first opened up her private practice.

Moving to Michigan in 1998, Michelle began teaching Alexander Technique to singers at the University of Michigan's Residential College, and opened up a private studio located in the heart of downtown Ann Arbor on Main Street. In 2002, she began giving lessons in the University's School of Music on North Campus, where she works with instrumentalists and vocalists. In Fall 2004, she will teach an undergraduate seminar in the Alexander Technique at the Residential College, which will encompass not only private lessons but reading, research and group activities, open to any student on campus. Her private practice over the years has attracted students from many walks of life seeking relief from pain and a way to move more freely, including dentists, equestrians, computer programmers, musicians, pre- and post-partum women, senior citizens, artists, cashiers, dancers and many others.

Michelle is also certified in Acupressure, which uses gentle finger pressure to unblock tension based on the ancient Chinese system of meridians. Her other courses of study have included Jin Shin Jyutsu (Japanese acupressure), cranial sacral therapy, and the breathing re-education principles of Carl Stough. She has attended Alexander training workshops and seminars in New York, Boston, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Cincinnati, the University of Arkansas and the University of Illinois.

Michelle is married, has a nine-year-old daughter and currently lives in Scio Township.



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		Michelle LaPlace Obrecht's understanding of pain comes from first-hand experience. During her graduate studies in the 1980s at the University of California, Berkeley, Michelle experienced a serious car accident, leading her on a search for relief from her daily discomfort. After trying different traditional as well as alternative medical approaches, her examination of the Alexander Technique proved to be the most interesting and the most effective. After completing coursework for her doctoral degree in history, she enrolled in the Center for the Alexander Technique in Menlo Park, California, completing a three-year, 1600-hour intensive training course in 1991. In California, she continued studying Alexander Technique privately with Frank Ottiwell, who for the past 35 years has trained actors in the Technique at the renowned American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, where she first opened up her private practice. Moving to Michigan in 1998, Michelle began teaching Alexander Technique to singers at the University of Michigan's Residential College, and opened up a private studio located in the heart of downtown Ann Arbor on Main Street. In 2002, she began giving lessons in the University's School of Music on North Campus, where she works with instrumentalists and vocalists. In Fall 2004, she will teach an undergraduate seminar in the Alexander Technique at the Residential College, which will encompass not only private lessons but reading, research and group activities, open to any student on campus. Her private practice over the years has attracted students from many walks of life seeking relief from pain and a way to move more freely, including dentists, equestrians, computer programmers, musicians, pre- and post-partum women, senior citizens, artists, cashiers, dancers and many others. Michelle is also certified in Acupressure, which uses gentle finger pressure to unblock tension based on the ancient Chinese system of meridians. Her other courses of study have included Jin Shin Jyutsu (Japanese acupressure), cranial sacral therapy, and the breathing re-education principles of Carl Stough. She has attended Alexander training workshops and seminars in New York, Boston, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Cincinnati, the University of Arkansas and the University of Illinois. Michelle is married, has a nine-year-old daughter and currently lives in Scio Township.
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