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Sydney Opera House
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FM Alexander working
F.M. Alexander
THE ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE INSTITUTE
offers:-


  • Individual Alexander lessons
    (learn how to self-work)


  • A Traditional Alexander Teacher Training Course (training over three years)
    (see Training School)

The Alexander Principle
The Alexander Principle
by Wilfred Barlow M. D.
The Orion Publishing Group

MISSION STATEMENT Offering people of all ages a practical re-education process in learning how to unlearn harmful habits of use that interfere with natural poise, balance and freedom - for the whole person.
DIRECTOR / HoT Diana Devitt-Dawson  R.N./Midf., M. AUSTAT, M. STAT (London), M. AmSAT (USA), M. ASPAH. M. AIMA
AUSTAT, The Australian Society of Teachers of the Alexander Technique www.austat.org.au
STAT, The Society of Teachers of the Alexander Technique (U.K.) www.stat.org.uk
AmSAT, American Society for the Alexander Technique www.amsat.ws
M. ASPAH, Australian Society for Performing Arts Healthcare www.aspah.org.au
M. AIMA, Australasian Integrative Medicine Association Inc. www.aima.net.au
News Flash! The British Medical Journal, August 2008
published research trial results into the effects of
Alexander lessons for chronic and recurrent back pain.
Click here to read study

A Science and an Art
Learning how to Unlearn


  • "...Mr. Alexander has done a service to the subject by insistently treating each act as involving the whole integrated individual, the whole pycho-physical man.  To take a step is an affair, not of this limb or that limb solely, but of the total neuro-muscular activity of the moment--not the least of the head and the neck."
    Sir Charles Sherrington, O.M. F.R.S. from
    Will & Reflex Action, Cambridge
    University Press, 1946.

  • Professor John Dewey saw the Alexander Technique as a way of achieving "Vital Freedom." and "The teachings of Mr. Alexander bears the same relation to education that education itself bears to all other human activity."

  • "After practicing the Alexander Technique, my family and I have noticed with growing amazement striking improvements in such diverse things as high blood pressure, breathing, depth of sleep, overall cheerfulness and mental alertness, resilience against outside pressures, and a refined skill in playing a stringed instrument."
    Professor Nikolaas Tinbergen,
    Scientist, 1973 Nobel Prize
    for Physiology/Medicine

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