Gail Barlow

Gail Barlow is the Director of Dolphin Alexander Courses in Richmond, North Yorkshire which she set up in 1990 after completing a 3 year full-time Alexander Technique Teacher Training Course & qualifying as a Teacher of the F M Alexander Technique.

Whilst living and working in New Quay and Aberystwyth, West Wales from 2000 to 2011, as well as her usual individual general practice sessions Gail worked on the Performing Arts Degree Course and on the MA in Performing Arts at Aberystwyth University, the musicFest annual classical music festival run by the university, with Lampeter Chamber Orchestra, with Aberystwyth Heartsong Choir, and with a group of tango dancers in Cardiff. She returned to Richmond in the autumn of 2011 and has re-opened her AT practice, offering private sessions to individuals with back, neck and joint problems at The Wellness Centre in Northallerton.

Drawn to the Technique as a 'last resort' for her own serious back problem, Gail's complete recovery and 'quality of life' transformation inspired her to relinquish her previous career in international industrial market research in order to re-train as an Alexander teacher. She speaks several languages and is an amateur singer, actor, dancer and learned the violin as a child. She is a member of Richmond Operatic Society, Musicality and The Station Singers, is an ex-member of Richmond Amateur Dramatic Society and has performed as a jazz singer with a band for several years.