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The Teachers:
John Hunter
(Spring
and Summer Courses)
 John has
been involved in the Alexander work since 1978.
After qualifying with Misha Magidov at the North
London Teachers' Training Course in 1984, he taught
as an assistant trainer there until 1991. Since that
time he has been involved in teacher-training at all
levels, as a visiting teacher in numerous schools
and running post-graduate classes and courses in
London and elsewhere. More recently he started a
summer-school in Spain for teachers, students and
pupils.
From 1984 to 2004 he taught the Alexander Technique
at the Royal Academy of Music.
John is a
former Chair of STAT and current Chair of the
Friends of the Alexander Technique, a UK charity
dedicated to helping develop a sense of community
among people who are studying or teaching the
Technique.
In
January 2009 he opened the Westminster Alexander
Training Course, a STAT approved three year teacher
training programme.
His
other interests include philosophy, psychology,
comparative religion, movement and dance, music,
amateur dramatics, gardening, woodcarving and
literature.
Dorothea Magonet
(Spring
and Summer Courses)
 Dorothea
became interested in the Alexander Technique in the
early 1970’s during her Physiotherapy training.
After six years of working as a Physiotherapist at
the Middlesex Hospital, London, she trained to
become an Alexander teacher.
Since
her qualification from the North London Teachers'
Training Course (Misha Magidov, 1983) she has worked
with students at the Royal Academy of Music, London,
and at her private practice.
She assisted on the North London Teachers' Training
Course for one year and has regularly taught as a
visiting teacher on training courses in London,
Manchester, Kendal and Amsterdam. In 2007 she became
the moderator for the Cumbria Alexander Training
Course.
In 1995
she was elected onto the Council of the Society of
Teachers of the Alexander Technique (STAT), Great
Britain, and served as Honorary Secretary and Chair
of the Society. She also served as Chair of the
Training Course Committee and was involved in the
process of Voluntary Self-regulation of the
Alexander Technique profession. She is a member of
Friends of the Alexander Technique.
Her
other interests are sculpture and Fine Art and she
is currently finishing a BA Hons in Fine Art at
Goldsmith’s College, London.
Philippa
Castell
(Spring and Summer Courses)
 Philippa began practising yoga
and meditation in her teens. When she had her first
Alexander lesson on a yoga retreat in 1984, she was
intrigued by the unfamiliar experience of ease and
calm confidence it brought, which led her to
re-examine her previous end-gaining approach to
yoga and life in general. She qualified as a teacher
in 1990 and shortly afterwards returned to South Wales where she
now has a busy teaching
practice at home, at the Royal Welsh College of
Music and Drama in Cardiff and on the
Performing Arts course at Swansea Metropolitan
University.
Over the
last four years Philippa has been closely involved
with the organisation and running of the
residential courses in Spain and, more recently, in
Wales. Her other interests include yoga, chi gong, singing,
cooking gardening and country walks.
Tim Soar
(Spring Courses)
 Tim Soar grew up
in London and began his career as a musical instrument
maker. He still maintains an active interest in Early Music
as a recorder and viol player. Tim trained as an Alexander
teacher with John and Carolyn Nicholls in Brighton from 1990
to 1993, and has lived in South Wales since qualifying. As
well as his private practice in Swansea, Tim teaches music
students at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in
Cardiff, and is a regular visitor to Denmark as a guest
teacher for the Alexander Technique network Friends of the
Alexander Technique Denmark.
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