Learning with Yvette Daoust

Photo The view from the teaching room in spring
Tailor-made Alexander teaching
At Barn Hill Alexander, lessons are one to one: you get my complete attention and you can learn in privacy.  Each lesson includes a quiet time lying on a table while I put hands on and encourage you to release. My teaching room is peaceful and overlooks my garden. 

What you learn at Barn Hill Alexander
The technique helps you to:
  • rediscover your natural balance and coordination
  • move more lightly, easily and gracefully
  • move without stressing your joints
  • cope better with all forms of stress

The Alexander pause that refreshes
We all tend to overcomplicate life. If we pause, we can choose. It might be a choice to move more simply when getting into or out of a chair for example, or walking, or opening a heavy door. In a lesson you look at such ordinary movements afresh. It might also be a choice to stay calm and quiet in the face of stress. Practising quiet in your movements can be a good path to finding emotional quiet.

Using your energy more efficiently
As well as gradually lessening stiffness or pain, Alexander lessons can be energising: when you waste less energy tensing up, you have more to spend on your loved ones, on your work, on what you value most in life.

How to get here

PhotoWalking with grace and panache
By public transport from Preston Road Station on the Metropolitan Line or
Wembley Park Station on the Metropolitan and Jubilee lines.

By car -- there is onstreet parking.

Click here for a map and here for travel information

Cost

First lesson (one hour) £60.00            Follow-up lessons (40 minutes) £45.00         I accept cash or cheques.
A pupil says

it is no exaggeration to say my lessons with yvette have been life-changing.

i have become much more centred in myself physically and emotionally.

life has become more enjoyable.

I have a lighter freer more pleasurable
experience of day to day living.

my relationship with my body has become better and using the technique means I can now do more and enjoy what I am doing
in a way I never thought possible.

the lessons have in a gentle way deepened my relationships, giving me a deep sense of peace and enabling me more and more
to appreciate the joy of living.

J McCartney, artist and poet


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Widening your awareness