David Moore

David Moore is the Head of Training at the School for F.M. Alexander Studies in Melbourne and the Melbourne Yoga Centre. He graduated from Australia's first Alexander technique training course in Sydney in 1985.

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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 1998 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 to four years.

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.

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He is a registered senior teacher  with Yoga Australia and a yoga teacher trainer. At the start of the pandemic he set up and ran two online training courses for yoga and Alexander technique teachers which ran of an over 32 weeks. He now teaches two sessions of yoga every week online, besides regular classes in Melbourne.

David travels widely running workshops and retreats in Europe and the UK every year in the European summer season.

He is the author of "Smart Yoga: Apply the Alexander Technique to Enhance Your Practice, Prevent Injury, and Increase Body Awareness"

Areas of Specialisation

In addition to applying the Alexander Technique to yoga, David has extensive experience in:

·       Vocal and breathing coordination

·       Neurological conditions including Parkinson’s disease and multiple sclerosis

·       Performance enhancement for musicians and actors

·       Chronic pain management

·       Injury rehabilitation

·       Postural re-education

·       Integration with resistance training