Barbara Conable, founder of Andover Educators and an internationally renowned teacher of the Alexander Technique, took a break from retirement recently to present Body Mapping at the Xhurch. Developed for musicians by Barbara’s late husband, William Conable, professor of cello at the Ohio State University School of Music—Body Mapping teaches that each of us has a self-representation of how our body is structured, and that how we use our bodies follows accordingly. Consequently, musicians with a faulty or inaccurate body map are prone to inefficiency and injury. Body Mapping is a technique to consciously correct and refine one’s body map to produce efficient, coordinated, effective movement.
