What is Alexander Technique?

Alexander Technique offers a body-mind approach to improving your health and well-being. Whether you’re experiencing pain, stress, or seeking better performance, here are some key benefits:

  • Pain Relief: Alleviate back and neck pain, and prevent recurring tension patterns.

  • Performance Enhancement: Ideal for performers, Alexander Technique enhances presence, clarity, and ease on stage.

  • Stress Reduction: Gain tools to find calm and remain centred during life’s challenges.

Why?

People learn Alexander Technique to enhance their music, balance, voice, calm, body-mind-spirit connection, posture, yoga, exercise programs, wholeness, performance, walking/ running, breathing.

Or to address challenges with pain, fatigue, attention, recurrent injury, stress, anxiety, recovery from injury/illness.

Or just for curiosity, for the amazing physics, for the joy of self-discovery, for the awe-inspiring moments when everything is connected and effortless flow happens.

When, whether, and with whom to try the Alexander Technique is a personal decision that you make when you're ready.

Find out how Alexander Technique might suit you, your needs and wishes and whether I or another teacher is a good fit for you.

Book an initial consultation with me and then decide.

About Cathy Dowden

Cathy has a practical approach, teaching people the sustainable self-care skills of Alexander Technique to add to their strategies for achieving physical, mental and emotional wellbeing. 

My story:  After a 35-year (fairly stressful) career as a social worker in rehabilitation, disability and university education, I discovered the Alexander Technique 10 years ago. “Learning Alexander Technique changed my life, reversing some premature ageing and poor mind & body health trends”. Motivated by these benefits, I completed a three-year full-time training course at the School of FM Alexander Studies in Melbourne, earning an Advanced Diploma of Alexander Technique Teaching in 2018.  I am registered as Teacher member of the Australian Society for Teachers of Alexander Technique (AUSTAT) (add link to website)

Since then, I have established my practice at 27 Sydney Rd, Coburg, and now also at the Wellness Centre, East Brunswick Village on Nicholson St, East Brunswick. I have worked with a diverse range of clients, including musicians and seniors, to improve their posture and movement. I also assist in teaching the Alexander Technique at VCA/University of Melbourne.  My approach is supportive and tailored to help participants integrate these techniques into their daily lives for better health and well-being.

Diversity is wonderful.

I respect everyone’s unique culture and diversity of all types - abilities, gender, health, attention, creativity, sexuality, neurodiversity. 

In Alexander Technique, we constantly start from where we are right now. At whatever age, body shape, wellness, mental state, physical challenges, learning capacity that we have right now.  

I love how this picture of me shows me grounded and light, enjoying simply being there, at that moment, with my dear friend. This authenticity is from Alexander Technique applied to my daily life. That’s what I teach.