About Us
Gunda Fielden
Co-Head of Training
Gunda graduated from AZAT Berlin in 1996. She has taught on training courses for much of her time as a teacher, working at AZAT (1996-1999), teaching voice work at BATTSA in Bristol (2008-2011), and working as Deputy Head at CCARE in Totnes (2014-2019). She took over as Head of CCARE in 2019 and changed the name to ATTSW.
Gunda has huge experience of one to one lessons as well as workshops and professional development work for teachers.
Before becoming an Alexander Technique teacher, Gunda worked in the theatre as a Director and Stage Manager and ran acting workshops. She has a particular interest in voice work – helping people reclaim the natural ease and resonance of their spoken voice, and is a strong advocate of the Technique’s role in positive ageing and a better experience of pregnancy and childbirth.
Ruth Rootberg
Co-Head of Training
Ruth Rootberg trained with Missy Vineyard at the Alexander Technique School New England in Amherst, Massachusetts and was certified by the American Society for the Alexander Technique in 2003. She has been a World Teaching member of STAT since 2006.
Ruth has been teaching privately since she qualified and has offered many workshops to the public and also to teachers at professional conferences. A trained singer and actor, Ruth is a Designated Linklater Voice teacher and Laban Movement Analyst.
Ruth enjoys writing about the Alexander Technique and has published three volumes of interviews with senior teachers entitled Living the Alexander Technique. Ruth won first prize in the Mouritz Award for Writing on the Alexander Technique in 2024 for her article, Working on Yourself. She has published other articles in both AmSAT Journal and the Alexander Journal.
Please use the link below to view Ruth’s website.
Shella Parry
Bristol Lead
Shella has been teaching the Alexander Technique since 1987, in Bristol, Derbyshire, Isle of Wight and now Clevedon, and on the ATTSW course since June 2023.
Over the years she has taught many groups: dentists, potters, teachers, HFHolidays, musicians and singers, and those in pain.
She also took part in the major research trial published in 2008 which reported how the Technique was still helping with back pain a year after the trial. She likes bringing her wide experience of using the Technique to make lessons very practical.
Please use the link below to view Shella’s website.
Alison Roper-Lowe
Assistant Head of Training
Alison first had Alexander Technique lessons over twenty years ago and is fascinated by how it can continue to change how you feel in yourself and your interactions with other people. She trained with Danny McGowan and Gunda, graduating in 2017 and teaches in Totnes.
She is particularly interested in how AT can transform education and parenting, and has worked with teachers and parents, children and teenagers both individually and in a school setting.
Glen Park
Teacher
Glen Park has been teaching the Alexander Technique for over thirty years. She has given talks and run workshops in Europe, America, Australia and Japan, working with the general public, and with specialist groups such as actors and drama students, therapists and body practitioners of various types. She has also worked as a visiting teacher on several Alexander teacher training courses.
Her successful book, The Art of Changing (1989) is a thorough introduction to the Alexander Technique. In the second part of the book she looks at the body from psychological and energetic perspectives, introducing the chakras as a means of understanding the relationship between mind and body.
Please use the link below to view Glen’s website.
John Hunter
External Assessor and regular Visiting Teacher
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 was 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; running post-graduate classes, courses, and a summer-school in Spain. He taught the Alexander Technique at the Royal Academy of Music from 1984 to 2004 and conducted a STAT approved Teacher Training Course in Central London from 2009 to 2016.
He is a former Chair of STAT and current Chair of 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.
Please use the link below to view John’s website.
Coni Fabiani
Visiting Teacher
Coni was born in Patagonia, Argentina. She has a background in Musical Arts and, through her training as an Alexander Technique teacher, she transformed her way of teaching and relationship with music.
Now in Spain, she combines social work and the AT, leading lessons with refugees at Fundació Mescladís and integrating the principles into a culinary training program to enhance well-being and creativity.
Please use the link below to view Coni’s website.
Helmut Rennschuh
Visiting Teacher
Helmut first encountered the Technique when applying the art of “non-doing” to his piano playing, and trained at AZAT Berlin (1993-1996). He has a degree in Physics and Mathematics and has 4 years school teaching experience at a Steiner school in Weimar, Germany.
He has been teaching one to one lessons, group classes, and at the music academies in Weimar and Leipzig. He has written three books on the Technique: Das Richtige geschieht ganz von allein (The Right Thing Does Itself), Klavierspielen, Alexander – Technik und Zen (Piano Playing, Alexander Technique and Zen), and Innehalten (Inhibition).
He extended his studies working with many teachers including Peter Grunwald (Conscious Vision, Naturally Better Vision). From 2010-11 he trained in Voice-Dialogue and Conscious Body Training in Berlin.
Please use the link below to view Helmut’s website.
Trisha Hemingway
STAT Moderator
Trisha is the Moderator for our Training Course, and trained with Walter and Dilys Carrington during the 1970s. She has specialised in work with performers and has over 45 years of experience teaching the Technique.
Trisha has taught in Sweden’s Helsingborg State Theatre, the Gothenburg Opera House and, more extensively, a 5 year project with Umeå’s concert musicians and opera singers in Norrlands Symphony Orchestra in the far north of Sweden. She has mentored and worked alongside Scandinavian teachers for more then 20 years, and has been a well known figure in the AT world for years.
Frances Borden
Training Course Teacher in Training
Frances is an artist who studied Painting at Chelsea College of Art & Design, before later training to teach the Alexander technique at Bristol Alexander School and at ATTSW.
She has been a major prizewinner in the Portrait Award at the National Portrait Gallery on three occasions, and in numerous other exhibitions. She has used the Technique to re-establish, fortify and maintain the primacy of her connection with painting and values teaching as a licence to keep learning.
Please use the link below to view Frances’s website.
