Lynne Conway
Lessons in the Alexander Technique and Tai Chi
About me
Alexander Technique
My professional life has been as a research scientist and in the pharmaceutical industry. I started Alexander lessons in 2014 and started the full time teacher training a few years later. Now I am passionate about introducing others to the Technique. I continue to be fascinated with how the Technique fits into current thinking in neuroscience, psychology and anatomy and this interest flows into my teaching.
I am also passionate about continuing my exploration of the Technique for myself and my teaching. I attend Alexander Technique conferences wherever possible and participate in post graduate work with a range of international and local Alexander teachers.
I am accredited with Australian Society of Teachers of the Alexander Technique (AUSTAT)
Tai Chi
I have been learning traditional Yang Style tai chi since 2015 with Charles Leong, a disciple of Xi’an-based Master Zhao Youbin. I have attended advanced classes with Master Zhao in Xi’an, Thailand and Australia. Charles fosters and supports a large group of tai chi enthusiasts that learn and practice together across much of Melbourne. More details of the wider group can be found at Traditional Yang Style Taijiquan.
I have been teaching tai chi since 2020. I use insights from my Alexander Technique practice to help students to develop tai chi forms of grace and ease.
“Many of the principles of Tai Chi are similar to those of the Alexander Technique. If the principles of each were the same, there would of course be no reason to study both of them. The Alexander work brings students’ attention to their habitual ways of using themselves, and teaches a process by which any activity can be approached with conscious awareness of those habits and the alternatives. Tai Chi presents its practitioners with fascinating challenges in movement and attention, challenges that ask us to fundamentally change our habitual way of being. The Alexander work is a very powerful tool helping us to make those changes.” Stacy Gehman
The Alexander Technique and tai chi are entirely complementary. Both are pathways to balancing body and mind in stillness and in movement with each enhancing the other.
