Michael Frederick

Michael D. Frederick is an internationally recognized teacher in the field of psycho-physical re-education. He trained as an Alexander Teacher in London with Walter & Dilys Carrington and in America with Marjorie Barstow (all master teachers trained by F.M. Alexander in the 1930s). Michael was certified in England by The Society of Teachers of the Alexander Technique (STAT) in 1978. 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 Chennai/Madras, India. Michael also trained as an actor at The Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, Bristol, England. As founding director of the first three International Congresses on the Alexander Technique, Michael has organized and taught over 250 workshops in the U.S. and Europe since 1978. He is the Creative Director of the Alexander Technique Congress Association (ATCA), which is based in England. 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 niece) and Elisabeth Walker in San Francisco, Basel, and Paris. He has conducted presentation skills seminars for upper-level corporate management in such companies as Du Pont Corporation, Merck Pharmaceuticals, and AMOCO. He is the former Chairman of the American Society for the Alexander Technique (AmSAT). He is now Co-Director and on the Alexander Training Institute-Los Angeles Board of Directors. Michael teaches in Los Angeles, Ojai, and Santa Barbara, California. Michael attended the International Academy of Continuous Education near Oxford, England, from 1972 to '74 under the direction of J.G. Bennett. He studied Sufism (Islamic Mysticism) in the mid-1970s with master teachers Suleyman Hayati Dede, Sheikh Muzaffer Özak, Hasan Shushud in Turkey, and Sheikh Muhammad Nazim in London. From 1976 to 1978, he taught theatre at the Brockwood Park School in Hampshire, England, founded by educator philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti. From 1986 to 1992, Michael was the Co-Director of the David Bohm Dialogues series that took place annually in Ojai, California. Michael is an avid "Ham Radio" operator with an Extra Class License from the FCC. He loves vintage radios and transmitters. His call sign is K6QXZ. He also collects vintage typewriters. Michael was voted the best Alexander Teacher in Los Angeles Magazine’s "Best of LA."