The
Teachers
Head of Training:
John Hunter
Main Assistant:
Dorothea Magonet
Regular and visiting teachers:
Judith Kleinman
Peter Buckokee
Philippa Castell
Glynn MacDonald
Charlotte
Rolleston-Smith
Maret Mursa Tormis
Julia Outlaw
STAT Moderator:
Lucia Walker
All the teachers in the school are
certificated by STAT or overseas societies affiliated to
STAT.
Head of Training:
John Hunter
 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.
He 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.
His other interests
include philosophy, psychology, comparative religion,
movement and dance, music, amateur dramatics, gardening,
woodcarving and literature.
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Main Assistant:
Dorothea Magonet
 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.
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Regular and
visiting teachers:
Judith Kleinman
 Judith
was trained as a classical musician and teacher at The Guild
Hall School of Music. She has played with many of the London
Orchestras and Chamber groups
She went on to train as an
Alexander teacher with Mr Macdonald and
Shoshanna Kaminitz.
She teaches at the Royal College of
Music and the junior Royal Academy. Judith teaches at the
LCATT and WATC Alexander training schools.
Recently
she had worked at Dartington Summer school with singers with
the NYO and at Oxford University with instrumentalists.
Judith also teaches Tai Chi.
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Peter
Buckoke
 Peter Buckoke qualified from Eleanor and
Peter Ribeaux’s training school in 1989. He took lessons
from Patrick Macdonald, Walter Carrington, Marjory Barstow
and Bill Williams in the years after his training.
Peter
runs the Alexander department at the Royal College of Music
in London. He is a professional double bass player and gives
Alexander workshops connecting the technique with music at
many institutions.
He lives in London with his wife
Judith Kleinman and their two sons, Harry and Abe. In his
spare time he looks after nine colonies of bees.
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Philippa Castell
 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.
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Glynn MacDonald
 Glynn
MacDonald trained in the Alexander Technique at the
Constructive Teaching Centre in 1972.
She has
taught at performance schools and theatres around the world
including LAMDA and the Central School of Speech and Drama.
She is currently Master of Movement at
Shakespeare's Globe, and works with Globe Education to
provide sessions for undergraduates and continuing
professional development for teachers.
Glynn has
written two books on the Alexander Technique.
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Charlotte Rolleston-Smith
 Charlotte’s
interest in the Alexander Technique began in 1980 when she
chanced on Dr Barlow’s book “The Alexander Principle”, and
became intrigued by Alexander’s ideas.
She had her first
lesson with the author of that book, with subsequent lessons
from Rosemary Nott. She qualified as a teacher of the
Technique in 1986, having trained at the New Alexander
School in Hampstead run by Robin Simmons and Margaret
Farrar, who had in turn been trained by Walter and Dilys
Carrington.
Charlotte has taught full-time for most
of her 22 years as a teacher and now has an extensive
practice in the Tunbridge Wells area.
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STAT Moderator:
Lucia Walker
 Lucia
qualified as an AT teacher in 1987 after training with Dick
and Elisabeth Walker. Since then she has taught individuals,
groups and on teacher training courses in Europe,
America and Japan. She also continues to work as an
independent dance teacher and performer specialising in
improvisation.
In teaching Lucia likes to use games,
discussion, touch, stillness and activity to explore
Alexander's principles in ways that are relevant and
enjoyable. She loves the way Alexander work supports the
ability to find greater wholeness and confidence in our
lives.
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