Performance Coaching and Alexander Technique for High Achievers
Helping professionals manage performance anxiety and succeed under pressure through somatic practices
In-Person Services in NYC & Virtually Worldwide
The anxiety of a high-pressure performance, isn’t “just in your head.”
Stress triggers a physical response that you can’t overcome through positive affirmations and visualization alone.
You need embodied experiences to understand how your body reacts to stress, how your mind plays a part, and to finally showcase the skills you’ve worked so hard to develop.
High-Pressure Performance Coaching
You can tell yourself that you are in control all day long and try to convince yourself that you are ready for the stress of the moment, but if you don’t know how your body reacts to a high pressure situation you will not be in control. You’ll be short of breath. You’ll lose a sense of where you are in space. Most importantly, you won’t be able to respond to the moment, you’ll just be reacting.
Habitual reaction is fine if your reaction is trained for the outcome you desire, but if your habitual reaction is to freeze or tighten up, you’ll be disappointed with your results. Without an awareness of your physical reaction to stress, you’ll find yourself saying your lines in the same stale way you rehearsed them. You’ll misinterpret your opponent’s moves and leave too many openings to get hit. You’ll be thrown off by any unexpected questions in the client meeting. When you stop reacting and learn how to respond, you are finally in control.
Why work with me?
My name is Serena Venditto and I’m an AmSAT certified Alexander Technique Teacher working to share what I have learned about performance anxiety with the high-achievers who desperately need my help.
As someone who struggled with being told that I “needed to relax” and that I “wanted things too much”, the mind-body practice of the Alexander Technique was the missing piece I needed to conquer my performance anxiety. Now, I use these same tools to help others understand their stress response so they can show up on the big day with all the talent and skill they have worked so hard to acquire.
“It is not the degree of 'willing' or 'trying', but the way in which the energy is directed, that is going to make the 'willing' or 'trying' effective.”
— F.M. Alexander
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