BA, MFA, Dip(DMT), MPS, MAPS, MCCOUNP, AUSTAT, DTAA, PACFA Reg. Clinical
Teacher of the Alexander Technique – Counselling Psychologist – Dance Movement Therapist
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Jane Refshauge has a background in the performing arts and psychology. She has studied, performed and taught dance and movement disciplines, that have developed from the premise that the body is a “psycho-physical-spiritual unity”. She has worked within professional dance studios, tertiary and secondary educational institutions, and psychiatric hospital settings. She lived in NYC and studied Ideo-kinesis with Andre Bernard, Body-Mind Centring with Bonnie Bainbridge-Cohen, Kinetic Awareness with Elaine Summers and the Alexander Technique with June Ekman, Marjorie Barstow and Eva Karczag among others. In 1979 she met and worked with Deborah Hay and was invited by her to become a founding member of The Deborah Hay Dance Company in 1980. In 1984 she completed her MFA in Acting and Performance at the Tisch School of the Arts, NYU. On returning to Australia in 1984 Jane lectured in Kinesiology and Kinetic Awareness at the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) in the School of Dance. She qualifed as a teacher of the Alexander Technique in 1989 trained by John and Carolyn Nicholls. She undertook an internship in Dance Movement Therapy at Princeton House, a unit of the Medical Centre at Princeton, New Jersey, under the supervision of Barbara Harrison. Jane’s Dance Movement Therapy Diploma was completed under the direction of Dr Marcia Leventhal in 2003 with the International Dance Therapy Institute of Australia (IDTIA). She completed her degree of Master of Psychoanalytic Studies with the School of Psychology and Psychiatry in the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences at Monash University in 2010. She currently works in private practice as a counselling psychologist utilising the Alexander Technique, Dance Movement Therapy and movement re-integration modalities.