Teacher Training
Founded in 1997, the Alexander Technique Studio offers a 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 foundation for students to use the Alexander Technique both for their own continuing growth and teach its benefits to others.
This can lead 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 supportive learning.
The emphasis throughout the course is on learning to explore your own use through a process of prevention (inhibition) and direction. The purpose is to develop more accurate sensory appreciation and enhance proprioception. We encourage this by practicing daily activities through Alexander Technique 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.
For this reason, it is important that a person has had a series of private lessons with their chosen teacher before committing to teacher training.
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.
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