Alison Jane Taylor
voice | movement | therapy
Alison Jane Taylor is an artist, music educator, Certified Alexander Technique Teacher, and a Registered Psychotherapist . (Click here for more information about exploring therapy with Alison.)
Her performing, teaching, and studies have taken her all over North America and the United Kingdom. Alison has had a career as a versatile performer as soprano soloist, with roles in opera, musical theatre, choral singing, and ensemble work. She frequently conducts workshops that explore the integration of voice, movement, and wellbeing.
After maintaining a private studio for over 20 years, where she taught SenseAble Singing - a fusion of vocal technique, movement, and Alexander Technique principles - Alison now brings her experience of embodied voice and movement to her work with voice educators and therapists. She was recently on faculty at Toronto's George Brown College and Centennial College teaching Voice Work and the Alexander Technique as part of their acting programs. She continues to explore how arts education and the movement exploration can benefit people of all ages and experience. She offers one:one sessions, workshops and presentations throughout Southwestern Ontario and across Canada. In the summer of 2016, she had the privilege of presenting Alexander Technique workshops for musicians at the Dramatic Vocal Arts Intensive in Sackville, NB (Vicki St. Pierre, founder). The skills of self-assessment Alison teaches can optimize a person’s performance, be it as a musician, actor, or anyone looking to move and live with more ease and vitality.
Alison’s integrated voice and movement work, integrated with her training in Gestalt therapy and Developmental Somatic Psychotherapy, offers an experiential approach to address postural issues, eliminate unnecessary muscular tension, maximize breath and vocal efficiency, and inform presence and response-ability for practitioners working with students and clients. Through experiential learning and experimentation, Alison collaborates with her clients to uncover interferences in movement patterns that may be bringing you out of the present moment with yourself and your clients. The SenseAble approach is about integrating the whole person’s experience by building awareness around how and why you move the way you do, in order to experience vitality and connection in all areas of life.
Alison is very interested in the intersection of arts education, movement education, and psychotherapy, and continues to explore somatic education via many disciplines. In 2025 she completed training in Developmental Somatic Psychotherapy with Ruella Frank. She has enjoyed being a member of the Total Vocal Freedom for Singers Academy program, where she concentrated on the application of the Alexander Technique to singing and performance. Her attendance at the Alexander Technique 10th International Congress in Limerick, Ireland, in 2015, allowed her to work with esteemed teachers such as Michael J. Gelb, Vivien Mackie, and Caren Bayer. In July 2016, Alison completed the VoiceCare Continuing Education: Personal Voice Course at St. John University, Minnesota. Alison continues her professional development through studying Wholeness in Motion with Babette Lightner.
Alison is a Registered Psychotherapist and a graduate of the 5-year training program at the Gestalt Institute of Toronto. She works in private practice at Present Sensing Psychotherapy. Her therapeutic work offers clients opportunities to explore new ways of thinking, feeling, relating, and being in the world, from a safe and supported place, using bodily sensation and present-moment awareness as a way to be grounded, present, and enlivened.
Alison became a Certified Alexander Technique Teacher in 2009 at the Toronto School of the Alexander Technique (Elaine Kopman, director). She earned her Bachelor of Music Degree and Bachelor of Education Degree from Western University in London, Ontario.
Born in London, Ontario, Alison enjoys nature walks, board games, crochet, and baking.
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