Michael D. Frederick is an internationally recognized teacher in the field of psycho-physical re-education.

He trained as an Alexander Teacher in England with Walter & Dilys Carrington and in America with Marjorie Barstow (all are master teachers trained by F. M. Alexander). He studied in the U.S. and Israel as a Feldenkrais Practitioner with Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais, and has extensive training in the Yoga tradition of T. K. V. Desikachar from Madras, India. Michael also trained as an actor at The Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, Bristol, England.

Founding director of the first three International Congresses on the Alexander Technique, he has organized and taught over 150 workshops in the U. S. and Europe since 1978. Michael worked for two years at the Los Angeles Philharmonic Institute, and taught for over a decade in The Old Globe Theatre’s MFA Acting Program at the University of San Diego.

From 1994 to 2000 Michael organized Alexander Technique Master Classes with Marjory Barlow (F. M. Alexander’s neice) and Elisabeth Walker in San Francisco, Basel and Paris. He conducts presentation skills seminars for upper level corporate management in such companies as Du Pont Corporation, Merck Pharmaceuticals and AMOCO. He is former Chairman of the American Society for the Alexander Technique and is now on the Board of Directors of the Alexander Training Institute, LA.

Currently Michael teaches in Los Angeles and Santa Barbara, California and was voted best Alexander Teacher in Los Angeles magazine’s “Best of LA”.

You can contact Michael at (800) 260-5133 or (310) 880-7700, or send him an email here.