Reduce pain and improve movement. Feel lighter, stand taller, breathe easier.
Evidence‑based movement coaching for people who want less strain and more confidence in everyday life.
Learn simple, repeatable skills that stop the tightening cycle, reduce recurring pain, and help you move with effortless uprightness.
Why learn Alexander Technique?
🌿 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 identify how your movement patterns may be contributing to back pain, neck pain, repetitive strain, migraines, headaches, and other common issues.
• 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 learnt, the skills can help you to unwind years of accumulated habits . You will learn steps that reduce pain, stiffness, and rigidity.
🌬️ Breathing
If you feel your breathing could be easier or more responsive, the Technique can help you:
• Release tension patterns around the ribs and diaphragm.
• 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 thought 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 sports people who have studied Alexander Technique include: Hugh Jackman, Judi Dench, Robin Williams, Keanu Reeves, Hilary Swank, Jeremy Irons, John Cleese, Madonna, Sting,Paul McCartney, Linford Christie,John McEnroe, Oprah Winfrey, Greg Chapel to name but a few.
🎒 A lifelong resource
Unlike treatment, the Alexander Technique is a skillset that 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 health, vitality, and ease.
A lesson with Michael Shellshear mAUSTAT; ATI; Adv. Dip Alexander Technique will start you on the road to improvement.
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 improves, the way you sit, stand, walk, speak, and act begins to reorganise from the inside out.
If you are living with pain, this work offers a way to soften its grip. 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
Teacher training is an immersive, life‑changing education in how mind and body work together. You learn to recognise the subtle habits that limit you, release the interference they create, and come into a more balanced, responsive way of being.
What you’ll explore
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- • Heightened sensory awareness: Develop a refined understanding of your senses and the quality of attention they make possible. Engage deeply with constructive conscious control and discover how it supports practical neuroplasticity, freer movement, and genuine self‑regulation.
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- • Skilled, sensitive touch: As you let go of your own unhelpful patterns, you learn to guide others. You’ll develop a thoughtful, respectful touch that helps students experience new possibilities in coordination and awareness.
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- • A systems view of dis‑ease: Understand how strain and imbalance emerge as whole‑system patterns and how mindful direction, new approaches, and integrative thinking can shift them.
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Applications now open for Term 1, 2026
If you feel called to this work ,whether for personal transformation, professional development, or a new vocational path, now is the time to explore your options.
Take the next step
Get a clear sense of the training structure, pathways, and possibilities.
Learn about the Teacher Training Program, start yor discovery below.
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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…
In a world that pulls us in every direction, clarity comes from the ability to pause and choose. This practical, hands‑on workshop helps you recognise the moments when tension, habit, and urgency take over—and gives you simple, reliable tools to navigate them with more ease.
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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