Barn Hill Alexander     

Dr. Yvette Daoust    MSTAT


 ... Yvette is a fine teacher for even the most  physically unaware; she just gently gets on with things - a slight repositioning of the head here, a verbal suggestion there - till you slowly manage to apply the general approach for yourself. 




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Teaching

I began learning the Alexander technique  twenty-five years ago.  It cured my stiff neck!

I have been teaching it since 1995 at Barn Hill Alexander. I also taught the technique at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office for ten years.

    

Training and professional membership

I trained as a teacher with the late Walter Carrington, one of the first teachers trained by F.M. Alexander.

I'm a member of STAT, the Society of Teachers of the Alexander Technique.

STAT is the oldest and largest professional body of Alexander teachers worldwide, founded in 1958 to maintain and improve professional standards.  Teaching members have completed a three-year full-time training course, are fully insured, are subject to regular CRB checks, and are bound by the Society's Code of Professional Conduct.

Publications

Travelling loose with the Alexander technique,  GoArticles.com, April 2007

Posture, Poise and Positive Health,   Statnews, October 2006.

Roger Planchon, Director and Playwright, Cambridge University Press, 1981

"Roger Planchon et les problèmes du théâtre populaire" in Lodzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe: Les problèmes des genres littéraires, 20 z. 1 (38), Lodz 1977    

 

Other experience

I first came to London from Canada to do postgraduate work in literature at the University of London.

After being awarded my PhD I worked for some years for the British Council, teaching English in the Sultanate of Oman, and later travelling to Algeria, Germany, Morocco, South Africa, Sudan and Tunisia.

I enjoy gardening, music, films, theatre and teaching.

Mme Daoust, enseignante professionnelle et délicate, m'a simplement fait mieux comprendre comment m'asseoir à l'ordinateur et au piano de sorte que je me serve de moins d'énergie, ce qui a vite atténué la tension au cou et aux épaules.
 
Cécile Mellamphy, Retired university administrator, Canada