David Moore
David Moore, Director at the School for F.M. Alexander Studies, graduated from Australia's first Alexander technique training course in Sydney in 1985. After graduating, he spent some weeks each year for a number of years studying with senior American teacher, the late Marjorie Barstow.
Since then he has established private practices in New Zealand and Melbourne, run many residential courses in Australia, Italy and New Zealand, and taught classes and intensive workshops in the UK, Germany, Japan, Italy, Taiwan, China, Sweden, Czech Republic and the USA. In 1999 he set up an Alexander Technique Teacher Training course which is approved by the Australian Society of Teachers of the Alexander Technique. This 1600-hour training course runs over three years.
He is also a registered senior teacher with Yoga Australia and a yoga teacher trainer. Since the start of the pandemic lockdowns he has run an online training course for yoga and Alexander technique teachers which runs of 32 weeks and is now into its second intake.
Prior to studying the Alexander technique, David did many years of yoga practice. He spent over seven years in India and Thailand, including over two years in Thai meditation monasteries, and two years in Madras, studying with TKV Desikachar at the Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandaram. In Sydney he studied Iyengar yoga for four years with Martin Jackson from 1991 - 1994, including undertaking a teacher training course with Martin in 1994.
He is a senior registered teacher with Yoga Australia, He teaches classes applying the Alexander technique to yoga, and is the author of "Smart Yoga: Apply the Alexander Technique to Enhance Your Practice, Prevent Injury, and Increase Body Awareness".At the start of the panedmic he established on online training for yoga and Alexander teachers, which runs over 36 weeks and which is now running with a second intake.
He also has a strong interest in voice and performance, and has run numerous classes and workshops for singers, storytellers and public speakers.
David is available to run workshops throughout the world in the Alexander technique, or in applying the technique to yoga or voice.
Introductory One Hour Lesson: $110 (GST Included)
Subsequent One Hour Lessons $130
Half-Hour Lesson: $75 (GST Included)
A course of 10 lessons paid in advance (minimum of 2 lessons per week): $700 (GST included)
Generally, the first session is a full hour, and subsequent lessons are 30 minutes.