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Alexander Technique Lessons

Blue Mountains Alexander Technique Leura NSW

Michael Shellshear provides you with the kind of insight that only comes from decades of working with people to create improvement. How are your movement habits affecting your health and wellbeing?

Michael will show you new information about your movement that is accurate and informative. You’ll be guided to observe and understand how your movement is connected to your health and wellbeing.

Alexander Technique teachers are trained to observe how your movement impacts your whole human system.

Michael can assist you to develop a framework for overcoming destructive movement habits.

Choose which learning option suits you best below and follow the links to get started.

Lessons

Work with Michael to discover how the Alexander Technique can support your goals. Michael will begin by taking a brief history and observing how you move and use yourself in everyday activities. Together, you'll discuss your needs and develop a plan for learning and applying Alexander Technique principles to the specific situations, activities and interests that matter to you.

The aim of the lessons is to improve the coordination and organisation of yourself as a whole person in activity. As your body and mind work together more effectively, you may experience reduced tension, greater ease of movement, and improvements in overall functioning and wellbeing.

Use the button below to schedule a lesson with Michael at his Leura Studio.

Body Mapping for Musicians

Musicians can work with Jane online to find support and buoyancy using 6 main places of balance. To conserve energy in playing by mapping your whole arm. To include ease of breathing in your approach to playing. To perform in dynamic relationship to the ground. To connect deeply with yourself, the music and your audience.

Jane is Australia's only licensed ABME Body Mapping Educator. That means that she has undergone rigorous training and assessment with the Association of Body Mapping Educators in the US and that she is a practising, qualified musician. That background makes a lot of difference.

Use the button below to schedule an online Body Mapping session with Jane.

Online Lessons

Learn with Michael online to discover how the Alexander Technique can support your goals. You'll need a computer with fast Internet access and a web camera. You'll be using zoom to talk live with Michael. Wherever you live in the world you can benefit from learning with a teacher with more than 35 years experience. As well as a number of Alexander Technique qualifications, Michael has adult learning qualifications (Certificate IV TAE, Diploma Vocational Education). that means that your zoom lesson with Michael will be well structured for you to learn. Once your lesson is completed you will receive a video and summary notes. This means you can benefit throughout the times in between lessons.

Use the button below to schedule a lesson with Michael at his Leura Studio.

Online session

Alexander Workshops

Workshops ar a regular feature of our calendar year at Blue Mountains Alexander Technique. People love workshops because they provide a social and informative introduction to the Technique. You learn greatly from seeing others learning. Workshops at Leura are always limited to a maximum of 8 participants which means that everyone gets lots of personalised guidance.
"Michael has extraordinary skill in Alexander Technique and his group classes are a joy to attend. Dave Starr"
Use the button below to discover when our next workshop is being held. Hope to see you there.

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eLearning

We've prepared some brilliant Alexander Technique themed eLearning for you to learn and develop your Alexander skills. Out free Introductory eLearning provides you with 10 lessons, one lesson per week is a generous offering to augment lessons with your teacher or to take you through a self guided learning journey. Movement Intelligence presents four independent courses for people wishing to undertake CPD, for teachers wishing to expand skills and for advanced students. Each of the courses has hours of material. The Body Mapping Course is aimed directly at musicians. It is beautifully illustrated with great exercises. Informed Teaching Program is for teachers. Use the button below to explore our eLearning site.

Explore eLearning

Student lessons

As part of our teacher training program, opportunities are available for members of the public to have lessons at a reduced cost in our Leura studio. You may work directly with trainee teachers under supervision or take part in lessons where trainee teachers observe and learn alongside you.

Many people enjoy the collaborative atmosphere these sessions create. Every lesson is supervised by a senior teacher, and the combination of multiple perspectives can provide a rich learning experience. Availability is limited and places are often in high demand, but the reduced cost and unique educational setting make these lessons an attractive option for many students.

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Student lessons

"Michael is gentle, insightful and absolutely passionate about Alexander Technique. I was happy to work with him to absorb elements of the philosophy and practice of this liberating process."

Peter Thompson

Former Radio National Host.Director Centre for Leadership

Body Mapping for Musicians

With 40 years experience as a professional musician and movement practitioner, Jane has developed a unique approach to performance skills and offers bespoke healthy movement solutions that lead to free; expressive music making.

The study of Body Mapping teaches musicians how to identify the source of ineffective or harmful movements you may be making that can cause performance-related tension, fatigue, injury, technical limitations or performance anxiety.

By clarifying your ‘body map’, you can establish a foundation for your technique and communication that is based on movement that is efficient, elegant, direct and powerful.

Learn the “art of movement in music” and take your performance and teaching to new levels.

Body Mapping info

eLearning

eLearning is a convenient and enjoyable way to learn about Alexander Technique at any time from anywhere. We have developed a large range of courses for people at all stages of their Alexander Technique development. Try our free introductory course.
Our Movement Intelligence Program has four courses for advanced students and first year trainee teachers that provide from ten to forty weeks of discoveries, presentations and experiments.
Our Informed Teaching program is eLearning for year two and three teacher trainees. There are nine courses spanning up to eighty weeks of teaching strategy, developmental work, language skills and more. You can choose to do just one course or all nine.

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Alexander Technique Teacher Training Program

Our Teacher Training Program offers full and part-time training. It’s an innovative course that offers a foundational program called Movement Intelligence. This program can be taken as the beginning stage of training to become an Alexander Technique or it can be used by anyone wishing to gain an advanced and profound investigation of Alexander Technique principles. If you decide to continue to train our Informed Teaching Program provides you with very sophisticated teaching skills, analysis, communication, marketing and business skills to move you forward into a professional Alexander Technique practice.

Movement Intelligence
The Movement Intelligence Program prepares you for transition to teaching Alexander Technique by immersing you in the experience, the theory and the communication of Alexander principles.
Training is provided by online classes, in-person intensives, eLearning and self-guided reading and research. By the end of this program :
• You will be highly skilled in employing Alexander Technique in your activities.
•You will be able to explain Alexander Technique clearly and in an appropriate way for diverse audiences
• You will have a strong foundational understanding of Alexander's writings
• You will have gained significant anatomical and neurological knowledge, expression and understanding

Informed Teaching
While you continue to deepen your own implementation of Alexander Technique, this program teaches you masterful strategies for working with students from all walks of life. You learn to break down and analyse teaching methods of first generation Alexander Teachers, meet and learn from senior Alexander teachers from Australia and around the world.
By the end of this program: • You have developed teaching outcomes and teaching strategies to assist you in teaching Alexander Technique to individuals and groups.
• You have presented Alexander Technique introductory and orientation sessions to a number of groups.
• You are conversant and experienced in 'best practice' management of individual Alexander students over a course of lessons.
• You are able to plan and implement marketing, design web material, write copy, conduct media interview, make video material for Instagram and TikTok; write promotional material, news articles, pamphlets and brochures to enhance your business.

Teacher Training

Blue Mountains Alexander Technique

We invite you to learn with us. Our training school sits within a deciduous mountain garden in Leura, in the Blue Mountains of NSW . It’s a calm, spacious environment designed to support deep learning.

Across 35 years of teaching, ongoing study, and continual refinement, we’ve shaped a learning experience that offers adults a clear, beneficial, and thoughtfully structured journey into the Alexander Technique.
We offer you a learning path underpinned by respect and a great love of learning and improvement.
Whether in-person or online, we hope that you will enjoy and benefit from our professional caring service.

35 Years Experience

IICT accredited & Insured

Continual learning

Beautiful Learning Environment