About Michael Veilleux

Michael Veilleux is a nationally board-certified Alexander Technique teacher and Reiki Practitioner with a background in dance and performing arts. He teaches students to optimize their movement potential, and empowers them to change how their bodies look, feel and function.

As a movement education expert with a holistic approach to health and wellness, Michael works with people of all ages and occupations, including post-operative patients, to recognize the source of movement problems and habitual tension patterns that cause pain, injury and malfunction, and provides the education and tools needed to achieve desired results.

Michael has led numerous workshops, including: Reversing the Affects of Aging; Living Pain-Free for cancer survivors; Working Out Without Tensing Up for gym-goers and personal trainers; Live Pain Free, Practice Pain Free for body-workers and wellness practitioners; Free Jaw, Free Neck for people seeking relief from chronic headaches, neck/back pain, ringing in the ears, teeth grinding/clenching, TMJ, vocal issues, and breathing problems.

Michael is an adjunct lecturer for the LEAP Program for dancers at Saint Mary's College, and adjunct teacher in the Teacher Training Program at Manhattan Center for the Alexander Technique. Previously, Michael was on faculty at the Pacific College of Oriental Medicine in NYC, volunteered his services at Special Programs in Occupational Therapy Services for children, and appeared as a guest lecturer at "Family Matters - National Fertility and Adoption Convention" on how to prevent stress from compromising a woman's chances of conceiving or miscarrying.

Michael has a private practice in NYC and at Studio Yoga in Madison, NJ, and is the owner of The Awakened Self studio for mind-body wellness. He is currently pursuing a Master's degree in Occupational Therapy.