Teacher Training
Founded in 1997, the Alexander Technique Studio offers an approved three year teacher training course run by a group of teachers who have been working together for more than 30 years.
The teaching is tailor-made for each individual to maximise their potential and develop their unique qualities and strengths.
The course provides a sound foundation for students to use the Alexander Technique both for their own continuing growth and transformation, and teach its benefits effectively to others. Structural anatomy is an essential part of the course.
This leads to a qualification recognised by STAT (the Society of Teachers of the Alexander Technique).
The school has an experienced and diverse team of teachers committed to accessible, flexible and supportive learning.
The emphasis throughout the course is on learning to explore your own use through a process of prevention (and inhibition) and direction. The purpose is to develop sensory appreciation through inhibition and direction used in daily activities and Alexander games. This process leads to hands on work with one another.
We aim to provide a creative and supportive environment to facilitate the process of change, to stimulate enquiry and personal discovery. We find that students benefit from stability in their daily life as they adapt to the psychophysical changes brought about the Technique.
We have also found that students who come to the course with the desire and commitment to work on themselves tend to benefit more from their training. It is necessary to learn to look after one’s own use in order to become a teacher.
The Director of Training is Karen Wentworth (teaching since 1977 and training teachers since 1984), assisted by Alison Harper (teaching since 1990). There are other experienced teachers with specialists skills in voice, music, acting, creative movement, dance, art, carpentry and swimming. You can read about us here. The best way to find out about us is to visit us. Ideally, you would have had some individual lessons before applying, and will also have had some lessons with the director, Karen Wentworth.
