About
The Alexander Technique is a way of learning to work with your own design rather than against it. Stop struggling with yourself, your activities and the world.
FM Alexander discovered a way to deal with habits of mind and body that restrict our freedom, limit our skills, and generate stress, pressure and discomfort.
The technique is used to recover from injury and to improve performance. Over a longer term it leads to greater self-awareness, self-knowledge and the capacity to choose what is good for you.
We notice, with growing amazement, very striking improvements in such diverse things as high blood pressure, breathing, depth of sleep, overall cheerfulness and mental alertness, resilience against outside pressures, and also in such a refined skill as playing a stringed instrument.
Nikolaas Tinbergen, Nobel laureate
The Alexander Technique has been studied by doctors, physiotherapists and neuroscientists for more than fifty years. The evidence is strongest for long-term pain, and newer research is starting to show how the work does what it does.
BodyMinded draws on this research alongside Greg’s training in exercise and sport science.
Founder of BodyMinded · Senior international trainer · Sponsor (assessor) for Alexander Technique International (ATI)
Master of Exercise and Sport Science, First Class Honours, University of Sydney · AUSTAT certified
Greg has been studying and teaching the Alexander Technique for around 40 years. He found the work as a young professional dancer dealing with injuries and tension, and it changed how he moved, and how he lived, from the very first lessons.
Since then he has taught thousands of lessons, trained Alexander teachers over many years, and worked with musicians, performers, sportspeople, teachers and anyone wanting to move with more ease. He has studied anatomy and physiology, biomechanics and motor control, with a particular interest in how intention and attention shape coordination.
Today Greg is a senior international trainer and a sponsor (assessor) for Alexander Technique International (ATI), assessing new teachers for certification. He teaches regularly in Alexander Technique schools overseas, including in Japan and Korea, and mentors trainees who ask for his support. He is AUSTAT certified and a regular presenter at performing arts health, music education and wellbeing conferences.
Greg teaches in Wentworth Falls in the Blue Mountains, online, and as a guest teacher and speaker wherever he is invited.
