With a background in the performing arts, Natacha Osorio has been teaching the Alexander Technique since 1991, when she qualified as a teacher at the Constructive Teaching Centre for Alexander Technique in London. Over the years, she has worked extensively in her private practice, teaching people from all walks of life. She has also worked in various drama training institutions including Central School of Speech and Drama and Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts. This has given her the opportunity to investigate, develop and practise the Alexander Technique in relationship to vocal and physical work. She has also been able to exploit her experience in pregnancy and childbirth when teaching the Alexander Technique.

Brita Forsstrom has been running a private practice since 1984. She has extensive experience of group introductory teaching including The City Lit (AT for Actors and Performers), Enfield Teachers Centre, Royal Free Hospital School (2nd year medical students) and YMCA Gym. Brita gives workshops and consultations in the work place (e.g. Tommy Boy Music, St. Luke's Advertising Agency, Axa Insurance, BFI and The Guardian). She has also taught at drama schools, worked with choirs (Sweden and Singapore), and currently assists in training teachers at The Alexander Technique Studio. Brita is co-author of /The Alexander Technique for Pregnancy and Childbirth/, Gollancz 1995).

Michelle Cole (MSTAT) trained with Walter and Dilys Carrington. She has been working at the Bloomsbury Alexander Centre since 1998 and also works in South East London and Docklands. She has experience of working with pupils from a wide range of backgrounds including office workers, health workers, teachers, musicians and other performers. She has also run introductory workshops for companies and organisations including Credit Suisse and the Royal London Hospital.
 
She is a keen cyclist and has travelled extensively; often with the bike! Michelle has a website at www.gooduse.com

Isie Weskin comes from a background in secretarial work and admin.  Qualifying in 1984, she went on to establish a very busy practice at Neal’s Yard Therapy Rooms, Covent Garden, teaching people from all walks of life: from opera singers, musicians, dancers, actors, to office workers, lawyers, taxi drivers and hairdressers. Since then she has been working from her home in Nottingdale (between Holland Park and Shepherd’s Bush) and the Bloomsbury Alexander Centre.  She taught a mental health group in a Jewish Care Centre, The Kadimah Centre, in Stamford Hill for 2 years.  She has kept her skills up to date by working extensively with most of the 1st generation teachers who trained with F.M. Alexander himself, as well as with her contemporary colleagues.  Her primary interests are cultivating her 4 allotments in Chiswick, playing different styles on the guitar, and for 2 years she has played steel pan with her local steel band Pan Necktar, playing in the streets of Nottinghill at carnival time.

Alan Bignell (MSTAT) first came in touch with the Alexander Technique some 20 years ago and, after having more lessons than he cares to remember, trained with Misha Magidov at the North London Alexander Teacher Training School. In addition to his work at the Bloomsbury Alexander Centre, Alan has specialised in giving Alexander lessons to employees within their work place. Among the organisations he has worked with are ICI, the German Embassy and Grey Worldwide. A French and Portuguese speaker, Alan has a very simple, down to earth approach to the Technique which is perhaps best illustrated by his web site at www.a-bignell.demon.co.uk

Alun Thomas, MSTAT GRNCM, has a background as a professional violinist. He has given recitals on BBC Radio 3 and played concertos and chamber music with a number of well known groups at music clubs and societies throughout the UK. He has also played in principal positions with a number of the major symphony and chamber orchestras in this country. He studied at the Brighton Alexander Training Centre with John Nicholls and at the Alexander Re-education Centre with Ron Colyer. He has also studied with a number of the 'first generation' AT teachers including lessons over a number of years with Anthony Spawforth who trained with F.M. Alexander himself. He is currently writing a short book based on his years of experience as a performer and teacher on 'String playing and the Alexander Technique'. A long interest in the work of the teacher J. Krishnamurti has led Alun to an interest in the educational value of the technique and its important place as a platform for any quest involving understanding our difficulties and the search for deeper meaning in daily life. As well as the performance aspects of the work Alun is also interested in the technique as it relates to 'medical' problems such as chronic pain, respiratory difficulties and aspects of voice work. He likes to make learning the technique a fun experience that stimulates questions and curiosity. He gives evening classes on a regular basis at the Bloomsbury Centre and also teaches in Windsor, Berkshire.

Louisa Gnafkis is also a piano teacher and has acquired a rich teaching experience for over 15 years. In 1993, she begun intensive study of contemporary dance and has since studied many forms of movement in Greece, New York and London: Body Mind Centering(tm), Contact Improvisation, Authentic Movement and Ideokinesis.

Louisa studied shiatsu, which continues to inform her holistic view of the person. She went to London to study the Alexander Technique, and graduated from Misha Magidov's North London Teachers' Training Course in 2001. She has also studied the Alexander Technique with other significant Alexander teachers, like Ted McNamara, Maya Galai and Glen Park. She recently completed training in healing using Subtle Energy Intergration. She lives and works in London, and also teaches in Athens, Greece.

Yoshi Inada MSTAT MD LRAM
Yoshi started his career as a medical doctor, graduating from Tokyo Jikei University of Medicine in 1989. Realising a few years later, while training as a neurologist at Kantoh Teishin Hospital in Tokyo, that he wanted to concentrate on music, he moved to London to study bassoon at the Royal Academy of Music, where he first encountered the Alexander technique. He subsequently trained with Peter & Ellie Ribeaux and has been practicing in London since 2000. Yoshi has a wide range of experience of martial arts including judo and tai-chi, and he is a qualified Bowen Technique practitioner.
Yoshi has given many presentations on the Alexander Technique in London and abroad. Venues and organisations include Sky TV, Charing Cross Hospital, Cannon Health Clubs, Richmond upon Thames College, Bhavan (Indian music college), The Bridge Theatre training company, Rio Tinto, STAT student network, Harley Street Clinics, Escuela Municipal de Musica y Danze de Arona(Teneriffe, Spain) and The Group of Japanese Theatre Actors (Tokyo).
Because of his background, as an Alexander teacher Yoshi is interested both in working with pain sufferers and with performing artists. He teaches Alexander Technique at Trinity College of Music (Junior Dept), Redroof Film & Televison School and Kingston Grammar School (Music Dept) in London.

Geoffrey Higginson qualified at the Ribeaux school in Fulham in 1987 and has since studied with Bill Williams, Patrick Macdonald and Margaret Goldie. He teaches at the Oxford teacher training school and has worked with numerous musicians, mainly violinists and cellists. At present he also works in West Ealing (020 8579 5209) and Kingston-upon-Thames (020 8546 2426). Geoffrey's background is in mathematics, having a Ph.D from Imperial College, London. Visit Geoff's website.

Maya Galai trained with Patrick Macdonald, qualifying in 1983. She has been working on training courses for many years, having been a staff member of the courses run by Misha Magidov, Peter and Eleanor Ribeaux, and Stephen Cooper. She has travelled widely as a teacher, especially in Italy and in her home country of Israel.
Maya has worked at the Bloomsbury Alexander Centre since 1989 and was a Director of the Centre from 1993 to 2005. She has a broad experience of teaching the Technique in Educational establishments including the Middlesex Polytechnic Performing Art Department and the Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts.

Clare trained at the Constructive Teaching Centre with Walter and Dilys Carrington. She continues to visit the school regularly to teach and to participate in postgraduate activities, as well as the bridge tournament. Clare is medically qualified, and is happy to work with people with medical problems, and also with doctors, dentists and other health professionals who would like to integrate Alexander work within a relevant theoretical framework. She is happy to work with people from all works of life, the physically active and the desk bound, and enjoys making the Alexander Technique relevant to activities such as walking, running, swimming and playing bridge.

Antonella Cavallone BA MSTAT first came to the Alexander Technique in 2002, via lessons at the Bloomsbury Alexander Centre. Thus inspired, she decided to train as a teacher herself and embarked upon fulltime study at the STAT-accredited Victoria Training School for the Alexander Technique. As well as teaching private clients, she has run group workshops and introductory presentations/lessons, including in Italy, at the Back Care Show at Olympia, and at the Marchmont Street community festival in Bloomsbury.

Antonella also teaches at ArtsEd School of Performing Arts and at the CityLit. She is a member of STAT and the Friends of the Alexander Technique, a charity which aims to encourage a sense of community amongst those interested in the technique at all levels.

Antonella arrived in London from southern Italy in the early 1990s and completed a Bachelor of Arts in History of Art and Film at Birkbeck College, University of London. Originally from Puglia, a crossroads of history, she has a keen interest in the classical traditions of the Ancient Greeks and Romans. She also enjoys gardening on her shared allotment, cooking Italian-style, walking in the countryside and enjoying the wealth of culture London has to offer.

Cristina Codina Llavina is a qualified Alexander Technique teacher and a member of The Society of Teachers of the Alexander Technique (STAT) with experience in teaching both individuals and groups from all walks of life: women only classes, mixed classes with ages ranging from 16-60, children's groups, and has three years of experience assisting in the Alexander Technique department of the Arts ED School of Acting.

Joe came to the Alexander Technique due to chronic neck and shoulder pain. Amazed that after a few lessons the pain began to subside and eventually disappear he saw no other option than to train and subsequently qualify as a teacher of the Alexander Technique. Joe has a background in sport and is a qualified Shaw Method swimming teacher. He also plays and teaches the guitar and counts among his Alexander pupils the world renowned acoustic finger style guitarist Duck Baker.