About Barry Kantor
My name is Barry Kantor, and I have been teaching the Alexander Technique ever since I left a ‘traditional’ career in 1994, after qualifying as an Alexander Technique teacher in London. My commitment at Alexander Technique Cape Town is to help you to release old habits that may be hindering your health and personal development. This gentle yet extremely successful technique is designed to make you feel better, move better, and even look better.
Alexander Technique Cape Town is a caring place, created for you to experience the benefits of this remarkable technique. Alexander Technique is not a passive treatment, but a self-help tool you can learn to apply anywhere and anytime. To find ways to move more easily, with greater lightness, and with freedom from discomforts and pain, contact me here.
Lesson information
Private & Personal
Lessons are one-on-one and tailored to your individual needs.
Convenient & Flexible
Each session is 45 minutes and available online, Monday to Friday.
Learn Together
Join our Saturday group sessions, designed for experienced pupils who enjoy practicing in community.
The Story of Alexander Technique
F.M. Alexander was an actor who had a promising career before chronic laryngitis intervened that threatened his future. When doctors couldn’t find the cause of the problem, he set about finding a solution on his own. He spent a full decade in close self-examination of his movements and found that the source of his difficulties lay in his unconscious reactions to stress. Eventually, he was able to transform his unconscious ways of responding into a self-awareness that gave him more options and self-control. This not only cured him, it gave him freedom from pain and a lighter way of being.
Barry teaching Alexander Technique to Kung Fu specialist and businessman, Andrew Sneath
Benefits of Alexander Technique
Release ingrained stress-patterns
Let go of feelings of tightness, anxiety, and reactivity that keep the body and mind on edge.
Ease long-term discomforts
Relieve niggling aches and pains, support posture problems, and soften destructive body-armouring after injury.
Overcome obstacles to efficiency
Address cutting off, inability to concentrate, and single-pointed attention that limit clarity and performance.
Find inner quiet and clarity
Experience a calm mind, mental focus, and a steady foundation for daily life.
Grow in wholeness and choice
Strengthen communication, integration, and the freedom to respond rather than react.
Move with ease, lightness, and flow
Discover poise, grace, and improved performance in work, art, and relationships.
Reconnect with yourself
Restore sensitivity to your body, your needs, and your emotions, lifting the fog of numbness.
Improve posture and movement
Develop natural alignment, ease of balance, and freedom in everyday activity.
Breathe with freedom and ease
Release restrictions in the chest and diaphragm, allowing natural, unforced breathing that supports calm, energy, and presence.
Blogs
How we deal with the world reflects how we deal with ourselves
Any direction will do (though some are more constructive than others)
What Alexander means to me
Testimonials
My Alexander Technique teacher Barry encourages me to occupy and own my space. While walking. While standing. While sitting. While driving. Everywhere. As I do I feel a shift. A looseness. Freedom. Walking big and sloppy. Strutting my stuff. It feels wonderful. Comfortable. Liberating.
The awareness of how much I’m holding on is growing. That in itself is freeing. In a weird way it helps me feel that I can own my space. And doing so might even free others too…
Going to Barry for Alexander lessons has given me exactly what I was looking for: The pain in my shoulder has reduced by 80% and I have full mobility again – after only eight lessons.
Interestingly, the Alexander Technique also helps manage my fear of flying. Before taking Alexander lessons, I used Rescue Remedy when I had to fly, and would often still experience anxiety. Now, I am able to fly without distress or medication.
Also, I am able to use the Alexander Technique to help me in challenging situations – for example, I don’t enjoy public speaking, which is often required in my line of work, but now I have learnt to simply be easy and natural about things, deal with it as it comes.
Thank you Barry for this gift, and also your kindness and wisdom.
“It’s hard to pinpoint the effects of Alexander Technique. In the short term, directly after classes I usually feel a freedom and openness to the world which lasts a few hours. Over months there has been a gradual lightening effect on all aspects of life:- emotionally, physically, in relationships and at work. A growing awareness of what is really there instead of my old illusions. I wouldn’t say life has become easier. But my approach to things has shifted towards a greater commitment, sincerity and acceptance. So experiences have become more and more valuable.”
“In my profession as a manufacturing jeweller I have often complained about pains in the lower back area as well as in my shoulders, which I have come to understand to be ‘self-inflicted’, through improper use of my body.
“Ever since I became an Alexander student with Barry, I am no longer plagued by these complaints because thanks to his teaching, I have learnt to use my body properly; and in the case of a temporary re-occurrence I now know how to heal myself by following certain instructions from the Technique. An occasional visit to feel Barry’s magic touch makes me feel even better.”
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