Jeremy Cohn
Jeremy Cohn
About
Jeremy Cohn, founder and lead instructor of Quietude, has a passion for facilitating growth for clients and helping them to unlock new levels of excellence and ease in their performance. Jeremy is a 1600-hour AmSAT (American Society for the Alexander Technique) certified Alexander Technique Teacher with over 10 years of teaching experience who has worked with Grammy award-nominated musicians, actors who are core cast members of major streaming shows, Olympic-level athletes, and C-suite executives from fortune 500 companies, as well as a diverse set of individuals from many different walks of life.
In addition to his work with Quietude he is an Adjunct Professor of Instruction in Columbia College Chicago’s School of Theatre and Dance and has facilitated programs at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Chicago-Kent College of Law, Morton College, Roosevelt University, The Illinois Association of String Teachers, the Old Town School of Folk Music, Green Shirt Studio, and the Revival Improv Theatre among others. He holds degrees from Boston University and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.
He was certified as an Alexander Technique instructor under Master Teacher Daria Okugawa (ATTiC). He has completed continuing education in Jessica Wolf’s The Art of Breathing and is a certified instructor of Malcolm Balk’s The Art of Running, a specialized application of AT work to walking and running.
When was the last time you felt fully relaxed in your body? When was the last time you felt genuinely unplugged and present? What if you could not only experience this, but carry it with you wherever you go? |  |
The Alexander Technique (AT) is a sophisticated somatic method that can help you to improve your posture and breathing and interrupt patterns of physical tension that come up in stressful situations. Learning the Alexander Technique can help you to cultivate calm, communicate with clarity, and ground you when the going gets rough. AT utilizes a specialized type of bodywork that can help you to sense and release tension and teach your body how to reset and recalibrate itself when strain arises. The process involves a deep examination of how to coordinate your whole body with ease in any task, and how to use this ease to meet the demands of the moment. It promotes balance, adaptability, and the ability to respond rather than to react to stressful situations.
We start with deep learning on how your breathing and posture functions, and exercises that help you to relax and integrate your body and breath into a coordinated whole. We then look at how to use these systems to resist the pull of stress and tension, and apply exercises and ideas to your chosen field of performance and everyday life.
