Alexander Technique in the Blue Mountains
Evidence‑based movement learning for people who want less strain and more confidence in everyday life.
Learn practical skills that help you move with clarity, ease, and natural support.
Why learn Alexander Technique?
The Alexander Technique is a practical way to improve ease, coordination, balance, and natural support in everyday movement.
🌿 Movement
If you suspect that the way you move is affecting your health, wellbeing, posture, balance, or performance, the Alexander Technique offers a practical way forward.
• An Alexander teacher can help you notice how your movement patterns relate to common issues such as back or neck discomfort, repetitive strain, or tension‑related headaches.
• You learn how to change these patterns so your movement aligns with your body’s natural design.
• You develop skills to prevent harmful habits before they take hold.
🌱 Aging
Alexander Technique skills support your:
• flexibility
• joint mobility,
• uprightness,
• balance, and
• fluid movement.
Once learned, these skills can help you unwind long‑held habits and move with more ease, flexibility, and natural support.
🌬️ Breathing
If you feel your breathing could be easier or more responsive, the Technique can help you:
• Explore how tension patterns around the ribs and diaphragm influence your breathing.
• Discover the body’s natural support system for effortless breathing.
• Allow breathing to adapt to your activity rather than forcing deep or “correct” breaths.
🎭 Performance
If distraction, tension, or anxiety interfere with your ability to perform—whether in the arts, sport, work, or daily life—the Technique teaches you to:
• Stay present with your thinking and awareness.
• Modulate attention to maintain effective state control.
• Reduce excess tension so effort matches intention and performance becomes more reliable.
Well‑known performers and athletes who have studied the Alexander Technique include Hugh Jackman, Judi Dench, Keanu Reeves, Hilary Swank, John Cleese, Madonna, Sting, Paul McCartney, Linford Christie, and John McEnroe.
🎒 A lifelong resource
The Alexander Technique is a skillset you learn and keep. It reveals solutions that aren’t always intuitive, yet once understood can be applied immediately in many areas of life. These skills become a lifelong resource for supporting ease, vitality, and natural coordination.
A lesson with Michael Shellshear
A lesson with Michael Shellshear mAUSTAT, ATI, Adv. Dip Alexander Technique introduces you to skills that support clearer, easier movement in daily life.
Do not wait; the time will never be ‘just
right.’ Start where you stand, and work
with whatever tools you may have at your
command, and better tools will be found as
you go along.
– George Herbert
Move with confidence
Working with a teacher is often a quiet turning point. Your awareness widens, you notice the forces shaping your movement, and new choices begin to open — choices that change how you meet the world.
You don’t need to be in pain to benefit. Many people come simply to move more freely, feel clearer, or reconnect with a steadier sense of themselves. As your coordination changes, the way you sit, stand, walk, speak, and act can begin to reorganise from the inside out.
If you are living with pain, this work offers a way to relate to it differently. Not by pushing through, but by learning how to move with less strain and more ease.
Curious what this could look like for you?
A short conversation is often the simplest way to get a feel for the work and whether it’s the right fit.
Book a free 10‑minute call with Michael
Become an Alexander Technique Teacher
Blue Mountains Alexander Technique offers a Teacher Training Program approved by the Australian Society of Alexander Technique Teachers (AUSTAT) and recognised by the International Institute of Complementary Therapists(IICT). It’s a flexible hybrid program, combining in‑person learning with online classes.
If you feel called to this work, whether for personal transformation, professional development, or a new vocational path, now is a good time to explore your options.
Take the next step, find out more
Visit our “Become an Alexander Teacher” page to learn more about the program and how it might support your path. Start your discovery below.
Blue Mountains Alexander Technique Noticeboard
Workshops and events
We run face to face classes all day Monday. You are invited to drop in to our two-hour session from 1:30pm until 3:30pm on Mondays. That will usually be a one-hour class on BodyMapping with Jane followed by a one-hour class with Michael. Drop-in-Mondays are great for anyone who wants to come along and refresh some Alexander skills, get some fresh new ideas that they can work with and enjoy sharing the learning experience with others. The drop-in class, as the title suggests, requires no follow up or other commitment. You can come to a class as you please. Cost…
We run face to face classes all day Monday. You are invited to drop in to our two-hour session from 1:30pm until 3:30pm on Mondays. That will usually be a one-hour class on BodyMapping with Jane followed by a one-hour class with Michael. Drop-in-Mondays are great for anyone who wants to come along and refresh some Alexander skills, get some fresh new ideas that they can work with and enjoy sharing the learning experience with others. The drop-in class, as the title suggests, requires no follow up or other commitment. You can come to a class as you please. Cost…
Start learning Alexander Technique immediately!
You can begin to learn Alexander Technique today from wherever you live. Click on the link and enrol in our 14-part eLearning. You’ll be surprised how much better you feel over 14 days of working with Alexander Technique ideas. There’s no cost, the course is totally free and without obligation. We hope that you’ll love the Alexander work and want to have lessons with us as well. Check it out now!
Videos and Radio interviews
Training your mind with Alexander Technique.
Listen to a radio Interview with Michael and Robyn Cathchlove from Radio Blue Mountains
Michael and Jane Shellshear
Learn from expert teachers with over three decades of teaching experience each. Senior practitioners who have taught thousands of people, who train teachers of Alexander Technique and who are available to help you gain the most from Alexander Technique lessons.
What people say about learning with Michael and Jane.
“Michael Shellshear is a masterful Alexander teacher. He guides one into freedom, not just physically but also on a deeper level. The knowledge he imparts about Alexander’s teachings and its relationship to the human experience will remain with you for a lifetime.”
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