Lyra Butler-Denman

Lyra Butler-Denman is an Alexander Technique Teacher, dancer, actor, and visual artist. She's been studying Alexander Work for almost two decades, first as a young dancer finding efficiency, strength, and presence, and later after a spine injury that left her severely incapacitated. Alexander Technique not only restored her health, function, and dance career after the injury, but also allowed her to awaken to a stronger, smarter body and a deeper understanding of herself. Lyra works with the way our bodies wear our personal histories, past injuries, culture, social “norms”, and belief systems. She is interested in the dismantling the internalized supremacies and inferiorities that live in our bodies. Lyra enjoys working with a diverse clientele in terms of identity, lived experience, activities, and areas of interest. She studied at, and is certified by, the Alexander Alliance US (Alexander Alliance International, Contemporary Alexander School) where she is now on faculty. Lyra is heterosexual, white-identified, cis-gender woman and uses the pronouns she/her/hers.