Private Alexander Technique Lessons

Personalised, one-to-one support for comfortable movement, reduced tension, and confident daily functioning

Private Alexander Technique lessons offer individualised guidance to help you move, sit, stand, breathe, and perform with less unnecessary effort. Working one-to-one allows lessons to be tailored to your needs — whether you’re addressing pain, stress, balance, coordination, performance challenges, or habits that interfere with everyday life.

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How private Alexander Technique lessons work

Private lessons are practical, exploratory, and paced to suit you. Rather than exercises or posture correction, the Alexander Technique is an educational process — helping you recognise and change patterns of tension and holding that affect how you move and function.

Lessons typically involve:

  • Experiential learning about organising your body from ground to crown

  • Learning to cooperate with gravity, rather than resist it

  • A gentle body–mind reset toward a more neutral, supported state

  • Improving your internal “map” of how your body moves, folds, and balances

  • Developing skills you can apply independently, when you choose

Teaching is offered through verbal guidance, demonstration, and gentle hands-on work (always optional).

What we work with in lessons

Everyday activities are used as learning tools, including:

  • Sitting, standing, walking, and lying down

  • Transitions such as getting in and out of chairs, cars, or up from the floor

  • Workplace and daily-use tasks (desk, laptop, phone, kitchen activities)

You’re also welcome to bring specific activities or interests, such as:

  • Musical instruments, singing, or performance preparation

  • Exercise or movement practices

  • Sport-related actions

  • Yoga or other embodied disciplines

Lessons are collaborative, curious, and often playful — focused on learning rather than “fixing”.

Hands-on work and table work

Many lessons include time lying on your back on a massage table, fully clothed. This allows:

  • Reduction of habitual muscular tension, especially through the spine

  • Gentle guidance and movement to support awareness and coordination

  • A quieter environment for noticing change

This is always adapted to your comfort and choice.

Guidance can be without touch if you prefer.

What to expect

You can expect:

  • A safe, respectful, and comfortable environment

  • A lesson shaped around your goals, interests, and pace

  • Time to observe and explore your own movement habits

  • Clear, practical guidance you can apply outside the lesson

Cathy’s aim is not dependence, but skill-building — supporting you to use Alexander Technique principles independently over time.

What to wear

  • Lessons are fully clothed (usually shoes off)

  • Wear comfortable, loose-fitting clothing that allows easy movement

What to bring (optional)

  • Anything you’d like the lesson to focus on (instrument, laptop, sheet music, exercise program)

  • Relevant medical or allied health reports, if helpful

Private lessons and group learning

Private lessons offer personalised attention and are suitable at any stage — whether you’re new to the Alexander Technique or refining existing skills. Many people combine private lessons with workshops or group classes, which offer shared learning, affordability, and ongoing practice.

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Booking and enquiries

Private lessons are available in Coburg and East Brunswick, with limited telehealth consultations by arrangement.