Shona Innes is a qualified teacher of the Alexander Technique and is a member of the Australian Society of Teacher of the Alexander Technique Inc. She finished the 3 year Alexander Technique Teacher Training course, under the direction of Duncan Woodcock, in Melbourne Victoria in 1998.

Shona has danced from a young age and has worked with movement as a performer and educator since 1980. She has taught functional anatomy, movement fundamentals, Ideokinesis and Improvisation, principally at the Victorian College of the Arts and Victoria University tertiary dance and performance programs.

Original Home, 1999, by Ros Warby

Shona continues to be involved as a performer in the work of individual dance artists and theatre makers in Melbourne. She appeared in Jude Walton's work NO HOPE NO REASON at the Melbourne International Festival 2004. In 2005 Shona performed in Eleventh Hour’s season titles ‘The Shining Sun is Up”, and in 2006 acted as movement advisor for Eleventh Hour’s production of Shakespeare’s Winter’s Tale.

In many respects, Shona sees the Alexander Technique as a deepening and refining of her understanding of human movement and balance. In her work, the Alexander Technique provides a framework, method and view point which integrates the many aspects of her movement teaching experience. Shona's central abiding interest in movement, has been the bodily experience of equilibrium and its effect on thinking and action. Her understanding of this relationship continues to deepen and be refined through her study and teaching of the Alexander Technique.

For Shona, one of the beauties of the Alexander Technique is the elegance of its principles and the fact that its wisdom is discovered through experience. For each student of the technique, the inherent intelligence of their own body/mind becomes quickly self evident. With the help of their teacher, students discover the principles of the technique within their own experience of the very ordinary and elemental aspects of daily activity.

Alexander Technique is a framework which can be effortlessly adapted to individual needs - from the very immediate concerns of someone with an aching back, to someone wishing to improve the way they relate to stresses at work and in daily life.

Aside from the arts field Shona also works as a therapy assistant in a residential rehabilitation unit for people with acquired brain injury. She also practices mediation in the Soto Zen tradition in Melbourne, as a student of Zen Master Ekai Korematsu Osho. www.jikishoan.org.au.

Contact Shona : atinnes@alphalink.com.au or 0421 285 338

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