Alexander Technique Institute
Suite 4 / 188 Pacific Highway, North Sydney, Australia 2060
Alexander Technique InstituteSuite 4 / 188 Pacific Highway, North Sydney, Australia 2060 |
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Director / Head of TrainingDiana Devitt-Dawson A.T. R.N./Midf., M. AUSTAT, M. STAT (London), M. AmSAT, M. ASPAH  Diana Devitt-Dawson Diana, a Tasmanian by birth, is a second generation Alexander teacher with 27 years continuous teaching experience. Diana is a healthcare professional R.N./Midwife. She has extensive Orthopaedic experience from post-graduate studies in Vancouver, Canada and from the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital Hospital, London, U.K. In 2008 Diana undertook a training for health professionals in MBSR (Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction) in New York with Professor Jon Kabat-Zinn, (See www.umassmed.edu/cfm). Diana undertook the three year, full-time Alexander Technique Teacher Training course in London and graduated as a teacher in 1984. She studied with Mr. Patrick Macdonald, M.A. (CANAB.) and his assistant, Shoshana Kaminitz. While in London, Diana continued lessons with other 1st generation Alexander teachers including, Marjorie Barlow, Wilfred Barlow, M.D., Walter Carrington, Margaret Goldie and Elizabeth Walker. In 1985 Diana began teaching at The Alexander Institute in central London, under the directorship of Wilfred Barlow M.D. (Consultant Rheumatologist) and his wife Marjorie Barlow (Alexander's niece) author of An Examined Life. Wilfred Barlow studied with F.M. Alexander while completing his medical training. Barlow is author of The Alexander Principle (see Recommended Reading). In 1987 Diana returned to Australia and set up a private practice in Melbourne where she met and began having lessons with another 1st generation teacher, Erika Whittaker. In 1990 Diana retuned to London to assist Mr. Patrick MacDonald on his last teacher training school, in Lewes, Sussex. She returned to Melbourne later that year. In 1996 Diana moved to Sydney with her husband Geoff Dawson (psychologist). With the assistance from an Orthopaedic specialist, she set up the Alexander Technique Institute in the British Medical Association House, Macquarie Street, Sydney where she held a successful private practice for seven years. Special Interests:-
Continuing Professional Development - CPD. In 2004 Diana presented at the 7th International Congress for the F.M. Alexander Technique in Oxford, England. Diana's paper entitled, 'Talking' Hands - From the Conceptual into Reality is published in the 2004 Oxford Congress papers. Available from :- office@stat.org.uk In 2007 Diana presented at ACAT the American Centre for the Alexander Technique in New York where she gave lectures, workshops private lessons and instructed trainees. She also taught in Boston at Ruth Kilroy's Alexander Teacher Training school. In 2008 Diana returned to New York for a further teaching visit. She also undertook an MBSR Intensive (Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction) Training for Health Professionals in Mind/Body Medicine with Professor Joh Kabat-Zinn from the University of Mass. Medical School. See www.umassmed.edu/cfm In 2009 Diana presented a workshop at the AUSTAT Conference, in Wynyard, Tasmania. 
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