Daniel Parr

Qualification for an Alexander Technique teacher requires 1600 hours of in-person training, over a period of at least 3 years. Before I started to train to be a teacher in 2017, I’d studied to be an accountant and had a career in corporate investigations. I started having lessons in the Alexander Technique in 2007 to improve stiffness and mobility issues I have encountered whilst practicing martial arts.

The Alexander Technique has helped me identify unhelpful habits in the way that I move and think, it has changed my life and how I relate with people and the environment in numerous ways, and has been the most valuable learning experience I have encountered. My passion is to pass on the principles of the Technique to as many people as possible, to improve their lives in the way that it has improved mine.

As well as running a busy Alexander Technique practice in Sheffield, I also teach a module on the Technique to student doctors at the Sheffield Teaching Hospital and occasionally work with musicians as a visiting Alexander tutor at the Royal Northern College for Music (RNCM) in Manchester. In addition I attend as a visiting teacher at the Alexander Teacher Training school in Manchester (MATTS) on a fortnightly basis.

I also teach Wing Chun Kung Fu both on a one-to-one basis and in groups. This has given me the opportunity to introduce Alexander ideas to hundreds of people and improve their balance and movement as they learn a difficult skill.