I spent 10 years working in the NHS before deciding to train as an Alexander Technique Teacher/Practitioner. I realised I was spending far too much time hunched over a desk, restricting my breathing and generally using myself badly. This is a habit inflicted upon us from school age, and not a good one.
Backache was a regular feature of my life, and after trying multiple treatments (physio, chiropractic and osteopathy) I chanced upon a method of self education called the Alexander Technique. I immediately liked the idea of doing something for myself, rather than having something done to me. My first session was revelatory, I knew I had found something rather special. No more being manipulated, manhandled and contorted in the name of "treatment"!
I completed my training at the worlds oldest and most respected Alexander Technique training school, The Constructive Teaching Centre in Holland Park, London. All STAT registered Alexander Practitioners have undergone at least a 3 year, full time course of study and are fully insured as well as being bound by a Code of Conduct.
Now I practice privately at a number of locations, as well as being one of the few practitioners working within the NHS. I teach the AT to musical Scholars and pupils/staff at the London Oratory School in Fulham, as well as conducting classes in the AT for Hounslow Adult and Community Education. I also provide AT lessons for staff at British Airways international HQ near Heathrow, and also at BSkyB in Brentford. I work in private practice from Morden, Surrey as well as in the Putney Bridge Clinic in Putney.
