Connected Conversations: Alexander Technique and Smart Yoga
The ASO Newsletter - Edition 63
Working together to enable greater understanding of the Alexander Technique through disciplined inquiry.
Introduction
In this 63rd newsletter, ASO team member Erica Donnison speaks with Alexander Technique teacher Rossella Buono about how she brings together AT and yoga in her work. Trained as a “smart yoga” teacher through David Moore in Melbourne, Rossella reflects on her path into the Alexander Technique and how this later informed her integration of yoga into her teaching.
The conversation explores how these two practices can inform one another in supporting coordination, awareness, and practice, alongside broader questions around how AT principles may be understood, applied, and developed across related disciplines.
Additional Resources
Link to the above mentioned Smart Yoga class and video page with David Moore: https://www.alexanderschool.com.au/online-classes-workshops
About
Rossella Buono lives and works between her home in Italy, her adoptive home in the UK, and Australia, where she trained with David Moore in Melbourne. She co-directed the Berlin 12th International Alexander Technique Congress with Andreas Dirscherl in 2022. In 2024, she gave the FM Alexander Memorial Lecture at the STAT AGM.
Rossella is the author of For the Love of Games with Anne Mallen, with beautiful illustrations by Melbourne artist Isobel Knowles. This collection of games and activities, part original and part collected over the years, offers a resource for AT teachers to begin working with groups, or add depth and variety to an existing group-based practice.
Rossella is also the co-creator and co-curator of Authors – not your Usual Book Club with Jana Boronova, and assistant to David Moore’s Smart Yoga and AT training courses in Melbourne. A keen proponent of collaboration, she has worked with Luke Hockley to offer the workshop Learning How to Learn, Jeremy Chance’s AT Success course and many more.
Her interest in training courses has taken her to New York, Denmark, Germany, Ireland and all over the UK, to share work and present on the topics of marketing, activities, anatomy, working with groups and social media.
Rossella has a gift for organising, a dynamic personality and a down to earth approach to things, allowing her to join the dots leading to new content and collaborative projects. She sees the Alexander Technique as an effective and sustainable model of personal and social development. Bringing an inclusive and practical spirit to all her activities, Rossella aims to realise the Technique’s value as a resource to as many people as possible. To learn more visit: www.alexandertechnique.space
Erica Donnison is part of the ASO team.
Thank You
Thank you to Rossella Buono, for her contribution to this post. To our community, thank you for being here—your participation matters.
To support ASO you can: share this post, Subscribe to our Newsletter via Substack, or send us thoughts and comments via email. We’d love to hear from you.