Guest Teachers

Jeremy started his Alexander training in England in 1976 with Paul and Betty Collins at the School of Alexander Studies in Highgate. After qualifying, he taught at the E15 and Rose Bruford Performing Arts schools in London before returning to Australia in 1982.

In Sydney, he taught regularly at the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA), The Actors Centre and The Actors College, while also regularly visiting the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA), The Conservatorium of Music and many other leading art institutions around Australia. 

During this time he founded two Alexander Technique teacher training schools in Sydney and Melbourne – directed by other teachers. The Department of Immigration told Jeremy it had a 6-inch file full of applications for Alexander teachers to immigrate to Australia.

Next, at a residential conference where Erika Whittaker debuted her return to teaching - Jeremy established the Australian Society of Teachers of the Alexander Technique (AUSTAT). From 1988 to 1993 he travelled throughout Europe and America, leading seminars and giving presentations to performing artists, business leaders, peer groups and the general public.

From 1986 to 2003, Jeremy was the Editor and Publisher of DIRECTION, an international Journal on the Alexander Technique which is now being offered by Jean Fischer at Mouritz Press.

In 1998 Jeremy met Jaldhara, the mother of their children Grace and Angelica, and decided to settle in Kyoto and start an Alexander Teacher Training school in Japan. He initially named it ATA in honour of Don Burton’s trendsetting school of the 1980s in London. ATA eventually evolved into BodyChance and before COVID-19 hit, there were 120+ trainees in the school – making it by far the largest school in the world.

BodyChance grew to this size as a result of Jeremy making a conscious decision to support his family by building his business. At 43 he embarked on a long-term project to become a master of business technology and over the next 20 years spent a lot of money and time studying his personally designed MBA. At first Jeremy taught his own trainees how to gather students. Alexander's Discovery flourishes in Tokyo today because his trainees use business skills learnt while training at BodyChance.

Out of this experience, Jeremy formed ATSuccess and began coaching Alexander teachers and trainees the world over. During this time Jeremy conceived and developed his 12-Point Plan for becoming a successful teacher. Peter Jacobson – before starting MBMS – worked with Jeremy in ATSuccess and then went on to build the world’s largest online Alexander Training Organisation –Total Vocal Freedom. Many of today’s most commercially successful teachers have had some contact with ATSuccess.

In 2018 Jeremy embarked on an expensive and ambitious program to introduce Alexander's Discovery to corporations in Japan. He was about to sign an annual contract with a large corporation when COVID happened and the project stopped.

In 2023 he sold his school – BodyChance - to Zen Place, a Japanese corporation specializing in Pilates & Yoga education in over 130 Studios in Japan. Jeremy accepted a 5-year contract to continue as the BodyChance’s Director in Tokyo and Osaka. He writes a (sometimes) Daily blog which you can join at this link: https://www.alexandertechnique.co.jp/mailmagazine

Christos Noulis introduced Somatics for Musicians© in Greece in 2003 giving lectures, masterclasses, workshops and regular lessons to musicians, which aim at improvement of quality in movement and realization of their physical capabilities. 

He began studying the piano at the Macedonian Conservatoire under Maria Georgiadou and graduated with a First Class, First Prize Piano Diploma. He was accepted by means of audition at the Royal College of Music, UK, as an “Exhibition” scholar in the classes of Niel Immelman and Ruth Gerald. He obtained a Diploma in Teaching DipRCM and graduated with a First Class BMus(Hons)RCM degree. As a “Leverhulme Trust” scholar he pursued advanced performance studies at the Royal College of Music and graduated with a Masters degree in Advanced Performance MMus(RCM) in piano performance. His doctoral research at BCU, Birmingham Conservatoire was a seven-year project which examined the effects of Somatic Education on Piano Performance. He also studied the piano regularly with Carmen Bravo-Mompou, Domna Evnouhidou, Ruben Lifschitz, Stéphane Lemelin, Roger Vignoles and Valeria Szervansky. 

As a piano soloist and chamber musician, Christos has participated at the Bach Marathon organized by the ABRSM, the Athens Festival at Epidaurus, the 1st International Piano Festival, the Spectrum Forum for contemporary British composers, the Bienne festival in Switzerland and Thessaloniki Piano Festival. He has premiered works by Astrinidis, Theodorakis, Koukos, Constantinidis and a plethora of Greek composers as well as Alwin Gayle, Roger Redgate, Thomas Sleeper, Alan Cassar and Heitor Villa-Lobos amongst others. He has recorded the complete piano works of Maria Georgiadou and piano works by Costas Bravakis.

Since 1998, Christos Noulis has had to reconsider his understanding of technique, movement and performance, following a personal RSI syndrome which led to paralysis. His movement rehabilitation was guided by Rolfer Jenny Crewdson, who introduced him to a different perception of physical movement and technique. He studied and applied a multitude of available traditional and alternative methods of therapy and re-education in the UK, Greece, France, Switzerland and Canada. In 2000, he expanded his professional interest in the area of performing arts medicine. Having been initiated to Yoga at a young age by his mother this came naturally. He studied Rolfing movement with Jenny Crewdson and Hubert Godard, Body Control and Pilates with Alan Herdman and Tai Chi and Qi Gong with Michael Palmer and Brad Shultz.

Christos trained with Lionel Brannigan for two years and became a certified Pilates instructor in the Rehabilitation Pilates Method®. Following a two year comprehensive training course under the supervision of Jirna Kallidis he became a certified Yoga Therapy (P.E.I.) instructor.

His Alexander Technique journey started at the Royal College of Music, in the classes of Judith Kleinman and Peter Buckoke and later he studied privately with Anne Rees, Kerry Woodward, Annabel Breakfield and Peter Nobes.

In 2003, Christos had the opportunity to meet Penny O’Connor, who was his most significant Alexander inspiration and became his mentor. Ever since, he has attended her Greek workshops on the island of Alonissos and as of recent has been assisting her in running the workshops. Christos has also attended many educational workshops and specialized postgraduate courses in the Alexander Technique with Penelope Easten and Tommy Thompson. He trained for four years in the Interactive Teaching Method for the teaching of the F.M. Alexander Technique under Doctor Donald L. Weed.

Christos is professor of piano and Alexander Technique at the Macedonian Conservatoire, external lecturer in the Alexander Technique and Somatic Methods at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki as well as professor of the Alexander Technique at the University of Macedonia.

To learn more about Christos and his work, you can find him here.

Donna Reid lived and worked as a singer in Europe (under her maiden name of Donna Sarley) for nine years, specializing in contemporary opera. Among her credits include the premiere of Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Montag aus Licht at La Scala in Milan, Italy and the premiere of Soltanto il Rogo by Franco Mannino in Agrigento, Sicily. She has also sung at the Téâtre des Champs-Èlysèes in Paris, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and the Alte Oper in Frankfurt. Her recordings include the original cast CD of Montag aus Licht and several songs by Franco Mannino with the composer at the piano. She has appeared on television for the WDR in Germany and the RAI in Italy.

In 1993 Donna became a singing pupil of Cornelius L. Reid, noted vocal pedagogue and author of six books on singing. In 1994 Donna became Cornelius’s assistant and in 1996, his wife. She assisted Cornelius in the numerous master classes he presented in the United States, Canada, and Europe and acted as translator during those classes given in various cities in Germany and Austria.

Donna taught singing at The American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York City from 1995 to 2014. She has also taught masterclasses in Bridgetown, Barbados (Operation Triple Threat), Pomaz, Hungary (Adam Gyorgy Castle Academy), Paris, France (Broadway in Paris), Frankfurt, Germany (Free Your Voice Institute), and Montespertoli, Italy (International Singing Academy).

Donna was a member of the vocal quartet, Amici Cantanti from 2006-2014 which performed numerous concerts in the New York area and recorded two CD’s, one entitled “In Between” the other “Christmas Present.” Both are available on iTunes. Donna continues to enjoy concertizing with the trio Vox Ventis which includes her two dear friends, Margaretha Bessel, soprano and Kevin Chavez, oboe. They have performed in New York City; Frankfurt & Kronberg, Germany; and Pomaz, Hungary. She currently maintains a private Studio in New York City.

Visit Donna's YouTube channel to learn more about her work.