Alexander Technique Workshops for Musicians
10am - 4pm - Sunday Oct 13th & 27th
5hr workshop including 1hr lunch break
Full Fee: $150/day
Low Income: $120/day
Open to all skill levels
Workshop structure
These workshops are designed to be self-contained, allowing participants to attend either one. They are also complementary, building on each other to deepen your understanding of the Alexander Technique. Whether you're new to the Technique or looking to expand your practice, you can join one or both sessions based on your interests and schedule.
Oct 13th - Finding balance: sitting, standing, and playing
This workshop focuses on fine tuning balance in all aspects of a musician’s posture, whether sitting, standing, or playing. Through the principles of the Alexander Technique, body mapping and guided movement sequences, participants will learn how to reduce tension, improve alignment, and develop a more balanced approach to their instrument, rehearsal or performance.
Oct 27th - Flowing connection: breath & movement
This workshop focuses on developing freer, more fluid movement and breath control, while exploring the importance of a deeper sense of support from the ground and spine to help musicians achieve greater ease and coordination in their practice and performance. Participants will learn to release unnecessary tension and cultivate clarity and space to enhance their technical skills and musicality in practice and performance.
Taught by AUSTAT-certified Alexander Technique teacher Karen Anderson, these workshops introduce the AT principles used by musicians worldwide to enhance practice and performance, prevent injuries, and overcome performance anxiety.
What to Bring:
Yoga mat
Your instrument (Piano is available in the venue)
Your music stool
Discounts:
Join Both Workshops before Oct 1st: Use code TEMPO for 10% off
Low Income:. Use code MORE for 20% off or reach out to discuss payment plans
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The Technique was developed by Australian actor and orator, F M Alexander at the turn of the 20th century. It started as a solution for a performer’s voice problem and nowadays its application has widened into the education field and medical areas. The Alexander Technique is considered an integral part of the performer’s training and is taught at performing arts and music schools, colleges and universities around the world.
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Karen Anderson is an Alexander Technique Teacher based in Melbourne. She trained aerial, acrobatics, clowning, dance, hand-balancing and contortion throughout Europe and was a professional circus artist, teacher, co - founding director of the award winning Dublin based PaperDolls aerial performance company.
As an Alexander Technique Teacher, Karen maintains respect, warmth and a playful energy, refined by many years in the community and arts industry working with and supporting artists and communities. She also draws on years of movement experience in martial arts, yoga, and performing and always brings her Irish wit. For Karen, working with students in gaining freedom from old patterns and with artists in realising their brilliance is a constant source of inspiration and joy. To her, the Alexander Technique is a quiet and profound life changer.
Karen graduated from the School for F.M. Alexander Studies, Melbourne and is registered with the Australian Society of Teachers of the Alexander Technique (AUSTAT). She runs a private practice and teaches at 16th St Studio and Howard Fine Studio.
These classes are held on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nations. We pay my respects to their Elders past, present and future. This always was and always will be Aboriginal Land.