Alexander Technique

Alexander Technique

The Alexander Technique offers a practical and intelligent approach to improving our co-ordination in any activity we are engaged in. Learning to move with more ease and grace enhances our mental and physical wellbeing and supports our ability to respond constructively to life’s challenges. This approach has been developed over the last 100 years and is now taught in many countries.

Alexander Technique sessions use verbal, visual and tactile guidance to encourage clients towards new ways of co-ordinating movement, creating ease in the tasks of everyday living. Movements such as sitting and walking, as well as more complex tasks, such as playing a musical instrument or public speaking, are addressed according to a client’s particular need. The technique empowers us to discover our innate capacity to find strength and balance in motion.

Who can benefit?
• Anyone who is interested in enhancing their wellbeing and preventing skeleto-muscular pain or injury.
• People managing conditions such as chronic pain, repetitive strain injury, Parkinson’s disease, asthma and arthritis.
• Performers and athletes seeking to enhance their skills.

Fees
Individual Lessons  -  $55 (1 hour)
Concession rate - $45 (1 hour)
 
Jennifer Danielewski 
Dip Alex Tech, BSc (Hons), PhD, AUSTAT Member

m: 0438 701 250
e: jen.danielewski@iinet.net.au
w: http://www.alexandertechniqueforlife.com.au
t:  11am-8pm Tuesdays, 9am-8pm Wednesdays.

Jen Danielewski is a teacher of the Alexander Technique, and works part time in molecular genetics, an area in which she has a PhD.   She came to the Alexander Technique after years of dealing with injures from a car accident.  After significant improvement in her own condition as a result of learning the Alexander Technique, she decided to train as an Alexander Teacher.

Jen is committed to helping people learn how the technique can support the management and recovery of a range of health issues, from back pain to improving posture and general wellbeing.  From her own experience, she is particularly interested in helping people rehabilitate from injury and manage chronic pain.

Jen also has a long term interest in applying the Alexander Technique to yoga, and has practiced yoga in this way for over 6 years.   She has found that an Alexander approach to co-ordination can support and enhance the practice of yoga, and assist people to adapt their practice in a way that suits their body’s structural needs.

For Jen the joy of teaching the Alexander Technique comes from sharing the profound benefits of this simple yet life changing technique.  It is inspiring to be part of an educational process that empowers people. 

Jennifer currently teaches in private practice.  She is a member of the Australian Society of Teachers of the Alexander Technique (AUSTAT) and as a recognised provider, offers rebates for a range of health funds.
 

Kate Barnett
Dip Alexander Technique, BA (Hons), AUSTAT Member, InterPlay Leader

m: 0431 221 004
e: katmab@gmail.com
t: 10am to 7pm Mondays, 10am to 7pm Thursdays

Kate Barnett teaches the Alexander Technique in private practice and at the School for FM Alexander Studies in North Fitzroy. Her teaching approach supports finding ways to make daily tasks and activities more interesting and easeful, and assists the development of rest and replenishment skills. She has an ongoing interest in ways that the performative process can be enriched by an Alexander approach, and extends this to other creative activities such as writing.

Kate maintains a deep awareness of factors involved in chronic pain conditions. Her own introduction to the Technique came through long-term illness and anxiety issues, and incorporating an Alexander approach in her life has brought powerful and continuing changes. Her experience in this area forms the bedrock of her teaching.

A long-term student of yoga, Kate is currently working towards a certificate for teaching Alexander Yoga. She is increasingly delighted by the inter-relating principles that exist within Alexander and Yoga, and enjoys working with students to assist their personal yoga practice, or tailor an approach for specific needs.

Kate’s work is also inspired by principles from InterPlay. (For more information about InterPlay visit www.interplayaus.com). She is an accredited InterPlay group facilitator, and offers workshops that support Alexander explorations as part of easy play-based improvisations in movement, stillness, story and voice.

Anne Mallen
Dip Alex Tech, BA (Hons), AUSTAT member

m: 0408 024 881
e: mallenanne@gmail.com
t: 10am to 7pm Fridays, 11am to 6pm Sundays

Anne loves sharing the Technique with other people. Her teaching style is based on encouragement and gentle guidance, helping students to change postural and movement habits that are causing pain, stress or discomfort. 

Anne’s own discovery of the technique came after she suffered a shoulder injury. The technique not only helped get rid of the pain but greatly improved her overall health. 

She has worked in an  office for more than 20 years and is keen to help people with the various problems that can arise from sitting at the computer for hours.  She also has experience working with older people.

Anne did the three year full-time training course at the School for FM Alexander Studies in Melbourne.

Anne runs both group and individual lessons.

Rossella Buono
Dip Alexander Technique, AUSTAT Member

 m: 0435 946480
e:  rossella@rossellabuono.com.au
w:  www.rossellabuono.com.au
t: 9am-7pm Saturdays

Rossella Buono moved to Melbourne from Italy in 2007 to undertake her training at the Melbourne School of FM Alexander Studies. Earlier studies include a degree in Literature and Philosophy and vocational training as a social worker for people with special needs. Rossella was first introduced to the Technique as a means of her own rehabilitation after breaking her leg in an accident – and found herself in a love affair! She felt an instant affinity with the work and was delighted with the changes she experienced. She decided to enroll in the intensive teacher-training program because she felt it offered a unique opportunity to recover her own health. As her training progressed not only did this happen, but she realised how much she enjoyed working with people in this way, and developed a passion for sharing and publicising the Technique. Rossella wants as many people as possible to be able to meet the opportunities of the Technique. She is interested in working with anyone and everyone, individually and in groups, and loves to tailor her teaching to help people with whatever interests or activities they want to explore. She continues to explore the potential of the Alexander Technique in her own life across a wide range of contexts and applications.

Rossella has health insurance accreditation.