Dr. Gabriella Minnes Brandes, Alexander Technique
Gabriella Minnes Brandes, Ph.D., has been teaching the Alexander Technique for over 30 years. She has maintained an active practice at the Alexander Technique Centre in Vancouver since1 990. She has been invited to run Alexander workshops for musicians, singers, and horseback riders, engineers (among others) as well as workshops for Alexander teachers. For over a decade she taught the Alexander Technique in the Theatre department at Capilano University. Her research interests focus on connections between music making, performance and the application of concepts of the Alexander Technique, creativity and Alexander Technique, as well as the connections and tensions between Alexander Technique and Mindfulness. Gaby has presented
her work in many conferences nationally and internationally. Gaby works extensively in collaboration with musicians, voice, movement and acting instructors. Gaby’s workshops and private lessons are experiential, focusing on the application of the Alexander Technique in different contexts. She encourages students to explore, experiment with, and reflect on their
habitual patterns, and seek effective and efficient ways of using themselves in any activity that they take on. She is an active member of Alexander Technique Canada, Society of Teachers of the Alexander Technique (UK), American Society of Teachers of the Alexander Technique, and Alexander Technique International. For almost twenty years Gaby was the co-director of the
Vancouver School of the Alexander Technique, a three-year course, CANSTAT recognized school, training people to become Alexander teachers. She also holds a Ph.D. in education which informs her teaching and her research.
More information available at:
https://sites.google.com/view/alexandertechniquecentre
her work in many conferences nationally and internationally. Gaby works extensively in collaboration with musicians, voice, movement and acting instructors. Gaby’s workshops and private lessons are experiential, focusing on the application of the Alexander Technique in different contexts. She encourages students to explore, experiment with, and reflect on their
habitual patterns, and seek effective and efficient ways of using themselves in any activity that they take on. She is an active member of Alexander Technique Canada, Society of Teachers of the Alexander Technique (UK), American Society of Teachers of the Alexander Technique, and Alexander Technique International. For almost twenty years Gaby was the co-director of the
Vancouver School of the Alexander Technique, a three-year course, CANSTAT recognized school, training people to become Alexander teachers. She also holds a Ph.D. in education which informs her teaching and her research.
More information available at:
https://sites.google.com/view/alexandertechniquecentre
