Alexander Technique

Mindful movement, freedom in breathing, intelligent postural support

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The Alexander Technique can help you reduce strain on your body and your being in the performance of everyday tasks as well as of special skills.  Find us in Canberra, A.C.T. where we are also Alexander Technique teacher-training specialists.

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Effective reduction in pain

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Improvement in postural coordination

Long lasting results

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Carrying improvement through everyday life

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“I will forever be grateful for the powerful teachings of Michael and Léonie at Freedom in Action. You have helped me to give myself my life back! Learning the Alexander Technique has been a truly transformational experience and has put the power of healing back within ME! Gone are the daily, anxiety-producing headaches that plagued me for years and the dependence on ibuprofen for relief. Gone is my fear that I will someday be an old lady who can barely move and cannot pick up my grandchildren. Gone is the frustration of powerlessness to eliminate or  minimize the back, hip, and buttock pains.”
Catherine Durney

Public servant

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About us
Michael and Léonie have helped thousands of people to overcome, mitigate and manage a range of common, and not so common back, neck and associated problems. They have a particular interest in problem-solving in workplace environments, with musicians and with sportspeople.
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Resources

Workshops and Seminars for Teachers and Trainees 1

A Series of Face-to-Face Mentoring/CPD Workshops (subject to Covid contingencies)   for Alexander Technique teachers and trainees with Michael Stenning and Léonie John A sequence of two workshops per year over three years – Come to one workshop or ideally build across...

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What do we like about the Alexander Technique?

What do we get out of it? What are the AT goodies? Agency - the Alexander Technique  empowers us – we can be in our own ‘driver’s seat’, making conscious choices (in the moment) rather than being run by unconscious habit. This provides all the downstream benefits...

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“Primary Control” Part 1

“Primary Control” Part 1

I am putting inverted commas around our concept, because people mean different things by it. E.g. if you had asked me 35 years ago, I may have waffled vaguely about the head and neck. Now I would say more precisely that the ‘PC’ is a relationship between the head,...

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