Embrace the Grace of Your Body and Voice

“I have learned the Alexander Technique from Darci Balkcom. She is a wonderful teacher and a delightful person. Every session was enlightening, beneficial, and inspiring. Her many years of performing and teaching and her knowledge of how the body moves best, form the basis for her teaching excellence. I cannot imagine a finer teacher.” - K. Storch, Retired Businessman

“Darci is a gifted and experienced teacher as well as a positive and supportive coach. Her remarkable knowledge of the human body is unique in my experience of voice teachers. It would be easy to believe she brought knowledge from previous lifetimes to be so wise and perceptive in this one. I believe rather that she has studied extensively and observed closely, and has remembered and used this knowledge for many years. She brings this broad experience, careful analysis and joyful coaching to every session. It has been a pleasure to watch and hear myself grow with her guidance.” – David M., Composer and Singer

“Darci is a marvelous voice teacher and a certified Alexander Technique teacher, and she brings both areas of expertise into every lesson. I first met Darci at a choir workshop, where she did brief Alexander Technique mini-lessons with several of the singers. I was so impressed with the positive changes I witnessed in everyone's singing (including my own), that I contacted her to take private lessons. I had been a lifelong singer, but I was suffering with serious vocal problems. There was nothing physically wrong with my larynx (confirmed by an ENT and speech therapist), yet for several years, I hadn't been able to sing due to pain and coughing fits. Working with Darci changed that. I saw improvement in my singing during every lesson. Some changes were small and some were extraordinary. We steadily peeled away the layers of stricture I had been placing on my voice. I had to unlearn several "techniques" -- some learned, some misunderstood, and some that just didn't serve me anymore. I also had to make friends with my older, more mature voice.Through my lessons with Darci and new, "Alexandrian" ways of practicing, my singing voice improved dramatically. Along the way, as I learned to be aware of how I was using my body, most of my aches and pains went away as well. My headaches, my lower back aches, my plantar fasciitis -- they were all rooted in excess tension. As I learned how to use my body more efficiently, the excess tension eased, and those problems no longer plagued me. I am so excited by the amazing things I learned from Darci that I have begun training as an Alexander Technique teacher! I highly recommend Darci and the Alexander Technique to help you find your optimal performance in singing and every activity.”

- Suzanne L., Alexander trainee