For more than 35 years, Annie
Stackhouse has been teaching people how to move, dance, and align
their bodies in a way that helps them to achieve better health.
Creator of the
Stackhouse Technique™ – Annie utilizes
yoga, Pilates, modern dance, functional anatomy and
fun to
help people achieve better posture alignment, freedom from chronic
pain, and an improved sense of well-being!
As a Movement Educator, Annie embodies
a rich history of training, practice, and research around movement
and posture alignment and how proper attention to both can optimize
health. Specifically, Annie holds a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degree
in Dance from Smith College, trained in Laban Movement Analysis, and
she has served as an associate professor of Dance in the Five College
Dance Department in Western Massachusetts. She has also written a
book on yoga for children titled, On a Mountain, and she has
conducted research studies on the link between movement efficiency
and aging.
Annie comments, “Research has proven
that posture or skeletal alignment and movement performance are
completely interdependent: improvement of either one automatically
leads to improvement in the other.†She states that improvement of
posture will help improve joint flexibility, optimize energy, and
improve your figure.
As a retreat and workshop leader and
keynote speaker, Annie is a teacher at heart and loves working with
both individuals and groups. For more than 20 years, she has traveled
between Nantucket Island, Massachusetts and Maui, Hawaii working as a
Movement Educator, and she continues this important journey today.
"As I work with people, I keep
finding new ways of exploring the rich connections between movement,
therapy, and fitness, and I love helping people of all ages enjoy the
many physical and psychological benefits of exercise and intentional
movement," Annie said. She adds, "I specialize in helping people
who do not usually enjoy exercise find joy in the process!"
To schedule an appointment with Annie,
or to inquire more about her work and how it may benefit you, please
contact her at annie@anniestackhouse.com
"Every joint has specific
ways of operating…movement is not arbitrary." - Annie
Stackhouse