David Moore's Canterbury Workshops
with Rossella Buono
10 - 12 July, 2026
Private lessons 9 & 10 July, 2026
Venue - Concorde House Clinic
Fee: £75 for Friday foot workshop
£195 for weekend workshop
£255 for Friday evening and weekend workshop
Early-bird discounts available up 31 May = £65, £175 and £225
On this visit David Moore is offering a Friday evening workshop and a day and a half weekend workshop
Heal your feet - Walk with ease - Friday 6 - 9pm
This practical workshop explores effective methods for alleviating common foot dysfunctions—including plantar fasciitis, flat arches and bunions—as well as knee pain. Participants will be introduced to key principles of the Alexander Technique to deepen their understanding of how whole‑body balance and coordination directly influence the feet, knees, and overall movement health.
We will examine everyday walking patterns and how they shape the way gravitational forces travel through the feet, legs, and entire body—either supporting healthy function or contributing to strain and injury. Through guided exploration, participants will learn how subtle changes in coordination can dramatically improve comfort, efficiency, and resilience.
The workshop also includes practical anatomy, hands‑on explorations, and simple exercises designed to re‑awaken and re‑activate the feet. These practices offer accessible tools that participants can integrate into daily life to support long‑term foot and knee health.
Develop strength, balance and flexibility
Saturday 10am - 5.30pm, Sunday 9am - 12.30pm
(90 minute lunch break)
Timetable for the workshop
Saturday Morning - the foundations of coordination
Focus: The basics of coordination based on the Alexander Technique.
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Exploring ease, balance, and efficiency in everyday activities
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Identifying habitual patterns that contribute to postural distortion, pain, and restricted movement
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Beginning the process of reversing these patterns through guided practical work
Saturday Afternoon — Strength, Flexibility & Whole‑Body Integration
Focus: Deepening the morning’s learning through more complex movement
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Applying principles from Smart Yoga and complementary movement disciplines
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Developing strength and flexibility through coordinated, whole‑body movement.
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Exploring habits around voice and breathing, and how they relate to overall use
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Alexander technique games and exercises with Rossella
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Sunday Morning — Resilience, Strength & Bone Health
Focus: Building long‑term resilience
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Practical work aimed at developing strength and dynamic stability
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Movement strategies particularly relevant for participants concerned with bone density
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Integrating the weekend’s learning into sustainable daily practice
David Moore has been teaching the Alexander technique and yoga for for 40 years and runs training courses for Alexander teachers and yoga teachers in Melbourne, Australia. He is a registered Senior Teacher with Yoga Australia and is the author of "Smart Yoga: Use the Alexander technique to enhance your practice, prevent injury and increase body awareness."
Rossella Buono has been teaching Alexander Technique since 2010, when she graduated in Melbourne and her interest in yoga and Alexander is based on her experience working with David Moore. She relocated to Italy in 2025, but still visits Canterbury regularly.
Working with a wide range of people, Rossella has applied the Technique to improving the lives of people with issues such as back, neck or shoulder pain, fibromyalgia, Parkinson’s disease, sciatica, asthma, stuttering, anxiety and stress. She has also enjoyed attaining tangible posture and movement improvements for musicians, sportspeople, office workers, and the elderly.
Rossella was first introduced to the Technique as a means of her own rehabilitation, after breaking her knee in an accident – and found herself benefiting greatly from the approach. After eliminating residual pain and regaining sustainable, coordinated mechanical function, Rossella decided to train as an Alexander Technique teacher. Since then she has worked to offer others the same opportunity for the elimination of pain and improvement of overall quality of life
What people are saying about David Moore and Rossella Buono
"I have now been working as a yoga teacher for almost ten years and I have had the pleasure to work with many differently bodied people, including lots of people in chronic pain. I have seen the wonders that yoga has done in gently untying the emotional, physical and mental knots that people's lives, habits, choices and luck have created. I am and will be forever grateful to yoga's incredible transformative power. And yet, sometimes in my teachings, I would feel stuck in giving the right advice to students with certain deeply ingrained physical habits of coordination. My yoga teacher training did not prepare me for that level of analysis. Last July, I had the pleasure to host David Moore and Rossella Buono, in a six hour workshop at our studio in English Yoga Berlin. They brought the Alexander Technique into yoga and into my life. They provided me with the missing link" - Pinelopi -teacher at English Yoga Berlin
I have lived with chronic pain for many years and this yoga has helped me so much. Each teacher has adapted poses for my needs and taught me how to tune into the needs of my own body. Can't thank David and the other teachers enough, - Marid Thorpe - yoga student, Melbourne
Great yoga teachings, learning to perform the moves and stretches in keeping with the design of the body, and how we're meant to move. Love it! - Helene Goldberg - Alexander teacher in Melbourne
What people are saying about the book "Smart Yoga"
Smart Yoga is a useful guidebook on navigating the Alexander Technique with yoga practices. The book is filled with diagrams and photos throughout to complement the text.
The book explores tadasana, floor stretches, squatting poses, standing poses, twists, forward bends, backbends, hip openers, inverted poses and plank variations in great depth. I would recommend the book to anyone curious about the Alexander Technique and wanting to go into more details on the principles underpinning the methods as it relates to various yoga poses.
It’s great to get another layer of perspective applied to poses, especially in preventing injury and building greater body awareness. I found the background and development of the Alexander Technique fascinating and can see how it would complement yoga practice. - from Yoga Today, the magazine of Yoga Australia
"This book is a must-read for modern day yogis searching for optimum coordination in poses to help them avoid the trap of trying to do yoga poses in a way that reinforces harmful patterns of thinking and movement" - From Amsat News - magazine of American Society of Teachers of the Alexander Technique. - Suzanne Faulkener
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