Biographies of our regular teachers
Karen Wentworth
Karen
Karen trained as a teacher of the Alexander Technique 1973-77 with Walter and Dilys Carrington. Between 1951 and 1973 Karen worked as a dancer and actress in numerous dance and theatre companies in the US. Since 1977 Karen has been teaching the Alexander Technique full-time. For several years she pioneered the Technique in many states in the US as well as in Canada. Subsequently she taught for several years the London Theatre School, the Drama Studio, ALRA, and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. She was a regular teacher at the Constructive Teaching Centre for over 20 years. She was Director of the Aalborg Teacher Training Course in Denmark, 1984-87, and has been Director of the Alexander Technique Studio since 1997. In the last 12 years she has also been teaching in several European and South American countries.
Alison Harper
Alison
Alison trained 1987–90 at the Constructive Teaching Centre, London. She is a BA graduate in Fine Arts 1977 and gained a Master of Fine Art 1979. She has been a full-time teacher of the Technique since 1990, and has taught in health clinics and in adult education. She is a co-founder of the Alexander Technique Studio's teacher training course where she also gives individual lessons. She also teaches in West Wickham and in Pimlico.
Jean M. O. Fischer
Jean
Jean trained 1984-87 in Denmark. In addition to his private practice he has taught at the Alexander Technique Studio since 1997, at NETCAT teachers' training course in Leeds 1991-96, and has also worked on other teacher training courses. He ran STAT Books for many years, is a former Congress Director, and has served on the F. M. Alexander Trust and STAT Council. He is currently centre manager at the Constructive Teaching Centre. Jean has annotated and edited several books on the Alexander Technique under his own imprint, Mouritz.
Sandra Leal
Sandra
Sandra qualified from the Constructive Teaching Centre in 1989 and is teaching full-time. She has a private practice in North London, and has taught the Alexander Technique at a GP surgery, Mount Vernon Cancer Support Centre, Mountview and Marymount College drama schools, and North London Collegiate School for Girls in Edgware. She has been teaching at the Alexander Technique Studio since 1997. Sandra's website.
Trish Wade
Trish
Trish trained with Walter and Dilys Carrington 1998-2001 at the Constructive Teaching Centre. She currently teaches in Ealing, West London, and also at the University of London Union. She has been teaching at the Alexander Technique Studio since 2001. Trish's website.
Wilfrid Murray
Wilfrid
Wilfrid trained originally as a pianist at the Royal College of Music 1969-73. He undertook the Alexander training at the Constructive Teaching Centre 1985-88 and established a private practice in South West London as well as teaching widely in the adult education sector. In 1998 he gained a Masters degree in Performance Studies at The London College of Music, specializing in the application of the Alexander Technique in piano playing. He has been teaching at the Alexander Technique Studio since 2000. He also teaches at the Malden Centre in Surrey, Morley College and the London College of Music.
Thomas Pope
Thomas
Thomas studied languages (Edinburgh University) and music (Guildhall School of Music and Drama). His first course of Alexander lessons were with Astrid Cox, then with Ron Murdock and Glynn MacDonald. He later joined Walter and Dilys Carrington's Training course, completing it in 1994, since when he has been teaching the Technique mainly from his home in Tufnell Park, North London.
Hidemi Hatada
Hidemi
Hidemi is a professional singer and a graduate of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. She qualified as an Alexander Technique teacher in 1996 with Walter and Dylis Carrington. She has been teaching at the Alexander Technique Studio since 1997, and at the London Centre for Alexander Technique and Training since 2007. Hidemi regularly gives workshops in the Technique as well as individual lessons. She is a registered Alexander Technique teacher of the British Association for Performing Arts Medicine.
Brita Forsstrom
Brita
Brita has been running a private practice since qualifying in 1984 at ATA in London, where she taught for two years. She has extensive experience of group introductory teaching including at The City Lit (Drama and Music Dept), gives workshops and consultations in the work place and has also worked with choirs in Sweden and Singapore. She has been a Council member and Chair of STAT and on STAT committees. She is co-author of The Alexander Technique for Pregnancy and Childbirth (1995). Brita has been teaching one day a week at the Alexander Technique Studio since 2001.
Roger Kidd
Roger
Roger qualified as an Alexander Technique teacher in 1993. Since 2003 he has been an assistant director of the London Centre for the Alexander Technique in north London. He also teaches in Finsbury Park, and is a Craniosacral therapist. Roger has been teaching one day a week at the Alexander Technique Studio since 1997.
Lee Warren
Lee
Lee trained at the Alexander Technique studio and qualified in 2000. He was the resident Alexander Technique teacher at The Actors Centre for ten years, and has taught and lectured at most drama schools in London. As well as teaching the Technique, he performs as a magician, working at weddings and private parties. He is a co-director of Invisible Training, a bespoke consultancy working with the skills of theatre and the Alexander Technique to improve communication and presentation in the corporate world.
Beatrice Leadbetter
Bea
Beatrice trained 2004-2007 at the Alexander Technique Studio where she now teaches on the teachers training course. She teaches the Alexander Technique at a clinic in South West London and in private practice. Beatrice also teaches the violin and piano at schools in South London and in private practice to children and adults. She qualified as a teacher of the Suzuki Method for violin in 2009. She uses the Alexander Technique in her music teaching.


Visiting teachers
Sharon Higginson
Sharon
Sharon qualified as a State Registered Nurse at St George’s Hospital, London in 1981, after which she studied Theatre at Dartington College of Arts, specialising in Choreography. She trained to be an Alexander Technique teacher in Totnes with Jeanne Day 1986-89. Since 1990 she has been teaching Alexander Technique full-time in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne. She was a regular visiting teacher at The Alexander Technique Studio 1998-2006, where she is currently the Course Moderator. During the 1990s she led creative movement workshops and since 2004 she has co-directed Humshaugh Youth Theatre Group.
Jan Pullmann
Jan
Jan trained 1984-87 in Denmark. He is teaching in private practice in Hamburg, Germany. He is founder and director of the 'Schule für F. M. Alexander-Technik, Hamburg' since 1997. He is a moderator for ATVD e.V. and STAT. He teaches regularly at the Alexander Technique Studio and at Mary Holland's training course in Munich. He also gives workshops and teaches on the training courses in Montevideo and Buenos Aires. His hobbies are dancing (Tango Argentino and Salsa) and playing boules, what the French call petanque.
Alice Olsher
Alice
Alice trained at the Drama Studio in London 1972-1973, and subsequently worked as an actor. She trained as an Alexander Technique teacher with Walter and Dilys Carrington 1987-90. She regularly assisted on their teachers training course until 2005 when she moved to San Diego, California. In San Diego she ran a teachers training course 2008-11. She has been a regular visiting teacher at the Alexander Technique Studio since 1997.
Jean Clark
Jean
Jean became an Alexander teacher in 1969. She co-directed a teachers training course in North London for nine years and subsequently ran her own training course for three years. Throughout her years of private teaching she has also been a visiting teacher in schools and congresses of the Alexander Technique throughout the world. She has been a STAT moderator since its inception and was the Alexander Techniqeu Studio's moderator 1997-2010. She has a particular interest in the work of Professor Raymond Dart on developmental movement and how it correlates with Alexander’s discoveries.