What kind of person takes classes to become an Alexander Technique teacher? At first, I believe, it’s the same type of person who decides to take a few Alexander Technique lessons, and there’s no ‘type’ of person. To become a certified Alexander Technique teacher, you enter an Alexander Technique training school. You enter school after studying the Technique with a certified Alexander Technique teacher for some time. The usual requirement is to take more than 30 lessons before taking several ‘audition lesson’ to be accepted to a teacher training program. 

Trainees enter school for the same reason students take lessons. Additionally they may have a love of teaching or a desire to pass on the gift of the Alexander Technique. Often people start lessons because they have pain or discomfort in the back, neck shoulders or hands. Sometimes they seek out an Alexander Technique teacher because of headaches, shallow breathing, bad computer posture, or to reduce stress and tension. People have told me they’ve seen themselves in a picture or video, and are surprised by the way they appear. People will look for an Alexander Technique teacher because they want to present themselves with more confidence in their personal or business lives. Musicians study the Alexander Technique to improve their performance, or to rescue a career threatened by neck, back or hand pain.

The reasons for searching for an Alexander Technique teacher are as varied as the people coming for lessons, or the benefits they could receive. People sometimes see starting results, and decide to stay with the technique for an extended period of time. A point may come where a few of them may want to be even more serious about the technique. They may think “If one or two fortyfive minute lessons a week are doing this much good, imagine three hours a day, five days a week for three years!” That’s the training course, and that’s my story. 

I have had a few students who went on to become certified Alexander Technique teachers themselves. That really frees my neck.

Mark Josefsberg-Alexander Technique NYC

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