who are we ?
who are we ?
Faculty
Vicky Panagiotaki - Co-Head
Alexander Technique Teacher, Dance Educator, Founder and Director of Alexander Technique Center Athens Greece, Faculty Member of the Drama School of the National Theater of Greece.
Vicky Panagiotaki was born in 1964. She studied History and Archaeology (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens), Classical - Contemporary Dance (D. Grigoriadou Higher Professional School of Dance), Theatre and Play Pedagogy (Universität der Künste, Berlin) and Alexander Technique (Ausbildungszentrum für F.M. Alexander-Technik, Berlin) under the direction of Daniel McGowan.
She was trained in the Body Control system (based on J. Pilates' teachings), and has attended intensive seminars in Improvisation, Body-Mind Centering, and Butoh Dance with Masaki Iwana.
She has taught Dance-Movement-Improvisation at the Universität der Künste Berlin (UdK), Ufa-Fabrik Berlin, Staatliche Europaschule Berlin (SESB), and Alexander Technique at Dock 11-Berlin and in numerous drama schools in Athens, including the Drama School of the National Theater of Greece.
She has presented the Alexander Technique in academic study programs (Department of Music Studies, University of Macedonia; Department of Primary Education, Postgraduate Program, NKUA).
She has taught and applied the Alexander Technique in Greece working with actors and performers in numerous performances, including off-theater productions and the Athens and Epidaurus Festival.
In 2020, she founded the Alexander Technique Center Athens, a STAT-approved Teacher Training Center.
Ruth Rootberg - Co-Head
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 (AmSAT) in 2003. She is also a member of STAT.
Ruth has been teaching privately ever 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 also a Designated Linklater Voice Teacher and Laban Movement Analyst.
Ruth enjoys writing about the Alexander Technique. She has published two volumes of interviews with senior teachers, Living the Alexander Technique, and will have a third published in spring 2025.
In 2024, Ruth won 1st prize for her article “Working on Yourself” in the annual Mouritz Award for Writing on the Alexander Technique.
She has also published articles in both the AmSAT Journal and the Alexander Journal.
Ruth spends some time each year in Devon, England, and has recently joined the faculty of the Alexander Technique Training South West.
Gunda Fielden - Co-Head
Gunda is the Head of Training at Alexander Technique Training South West, in Totnes, Devon. Gunda trained in Berlin with Danny McGowan, graduating in 1996. She has taught on training courses for much of her time as a teacher, working in Berlin at AZAT from 1996-1999, teaching voice work at BATTSA in Bristol from 2008-2011, and working as Deputy Head of Training at CCARE in Totnes from 2014-2019. In addition to individual lessons Gunda has considerable experience offering Professional Development work for trained teachers. Before becoming an Alexander Technique teacher, Gunda worked in the theatre as a Director and Stage Manager as well as running acting workshops for young people. 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.
Michael Stenning - Co. Head
Michael Stenning is a Canberra-based Alexander Technique teacher with 40 years’ experience, who established the Canberra Alexander Teacher Training School in 2016.
Michael is a musician who used the Alexander Technique to rehabilitate himself and resume playing after his career as a trombonist was interrupted due to tension and stress.
Alongside training teachers and offering CPD, he maintains the private teaching practice he established with his Alexander Technique teacher partner, Léonie John, in 1985.
Over the last 20 years, Michael has run CPD workshops for Alexander Teachers in Australia, Denmark, Argentina, Uruguay, the USA, and the UK.
Michael has developed Alexander Technique programs for:
people in screen-based work
musicians
sportspeople
He maintains a keen interest in music and endurance sports and is interested in the practice and performance of any kind. He has worked extensively with instrumentalists and singers.
He is a former Chair of the Australian Society of Teachers of the Alexander Technique.
Michael is the author of Embodying Practice: A Guide for New Teachers of the Alexander Technique (2025).
Yoodong Kim graduated from the three-year Alexander Technique Teacher Training Course (KATA) in Korea in 2017. He graduated from the Theater Department of the Korea National University of Arts.
He is interested in actors and the performing arts in general, as well as in holistic education and integrated ‘psycho-physical’ growth and healing.
After graduating from the Alexander teacher training course, he continued studying the Alexander Technique for ongoing development in Germany, the UK, and Australia.
He was the representative of the Alexander Technique Yangjae Education Center in Korea, and now he runs Somayuj, a community for holistic growth and healing.
Yoodong translated the Alexander Technique book by Bill Connington, Physical Expression on Stage and Screen: Using the Alexander Technique to Create Unforgettable Performances..
Yoodong Kim - Assistant Teacher
Lucia Walker is an experienced Alexander Technique teacher and movement artist based in Wales, with over 40 years of experience in AT and Contact Improvisation. She trained in Oxford with her parents, Dick and Elisabeth Walker, who studied directly with F. M. Alexander from 1938 to 1947, and qualified as a teacher in 1987. Her teaching combines Alexander Technique with movement, improvisation, and awareness-based practices. Lucia continues to teach, perform, and direct in the fields of Contact Improvisation and Instant Composition, exploring creative presence and embodiment. She also works with vision (through ALTEVI) and Nonviolent Communication to support deeper listening and more conscious response. Lucia teaches individuals, groups, and teacher trainees internationally, and has a particular interest in working with performers—musicians, actors, dancers, and singers. She has been involved in teacher training since 1990 and has served as a STAT moderator since 2007, currently supporting programs in the UK and South Africa.
Lucia Walker - Moderator
Faculty
Gunda Fielden - Co-Head
Gunda is Co-Head of Training at Alexander Technique Training South West, in Totnes, Devon. Gunda trained in Berlin with Danny McGowan, graduating in 1996. She has taught on training courses for much of her time as a teacher, working in Berlin at AZAT from 1996–1999, teaching voice work at BATTSA in Bristol from 2008–2011, and working as Deputy Head of Training at CCARE in Totnes from 2014–2019.In addition to individual lessons, Gunda has considerable experience offering Professional Development work for trained teachers.Before becoming an Alexander Technique teacher, Gunda worked in the theatre as a Director and Stage Manager as well as running acting workshops for young people. 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.
Vicky Panagiotaki - Co-Head
Alexander Technique Teacher, Dance Educator, Founder and Director of Alexander Technique Center Athens Greece, Faculty Member of the Drama School of the National Theater of Greece.Vicky Panagiotaki was born in 1964. She studied History and Archaeology (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens), Classical - Contemporary Dance (D. Grigoriadou Higher Professional School of Dance), Theatre and Play Pedagogy (Universität der Künste, Berlin) and Alexander Technique (Ausbildungszentrum für F.M. Alexander-Technik, Berlin) under the direction of Daniel McGowan.She was trained in the Body Control system (based on J. Pilates' teachings), and has attended intensive seminars in Improvisation, Body-Mind Centering, and Butoh Dance with Masaki Iwana.She has taught Dance-Movement-Improvisation at the Universität der Künste Berlin (UdK), Ufa-Fabrik Berlin, Staatliche Europaschule Berlin (SESB), and Alexander Technique at Dock 11-Berlin and in numerous drama schools in Athens, including the Drama School of the National Theater of Greece.
She has presented the Alexander Technique in academic study programs (Department of Music Studies, University of Macedonia; Department of Primary Education, Postgraduate Program, NKUA).She has taught and applied the Alexander Technique in Greece working with actors and performers in numerous performances, including off-theater productions and the Athens and Epidaurus Festival.In 2020, she founded the Alexander Technique Center Athens, a STAT-approved Teacher Training Center.
Ruth Rootberg - Co-Head
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 (AmSAT) in 2003. She is also a member of STAT.Ruth has been teaching privately ever 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 also a Designated Linklater Voice Teacher and Laban Movement Analyst.Ruth enjoys writing about the Alexander Technique. Her third volume of interviews in the series Living the Alexander Technique was published June 2025. In 2024, Ruth won 1st prize for her article “Working on Yourself” in the annual Mouritz Award for Writing on the Alexander Technique.The article is published in Poise Journal.She has also published articles in both the AmSAT Journal and the Alexander Journal.Ruth spends some time each year in Devon, England, and has recently become Co-Head with Gunda Fielden of Alexander Technique Training South West.
Michael Stenning - Co-Head
Michael Stenning is a Canberra-based Alexander Technique teacher with 40 years’ experience, who established the Canberra Alexander Teacher Training School in 2016.Michael is a musician who used the Alexander Technique to rehabilitate himself and resume playing after his career as a trombonist was interrupted due to tension and stress.Alongside training teachers and offering CPD, he maintains the private teaching practice he established with his Alexander Technique teacher partner, Léonie John, in 1985.Over the last 20 years, Michael has run CPD workshops for Alexander Teachers in Australia, Denmark, Argentina, Uruguay, the USA, and the UK. Michael has developed Alexander Technique programs for: people in screen-based work, musicians, and sports people. He maintains a keen interest in music and endurance sports and is interested in the practice of performance of any kind. He has worked extensively with instrumentalists and singers. He is a former Chair of the Australian Society of Teachers of the Alexander Technique. Michael is the
author of Embodying Practice: A Guide for New Teachers of the Alexander Technique (2025).
Yoodong Kim - Assistant Teacher
Yoodong Kim graduated from the three-year Alexander Technique Teacher Training Course (KATA) in Korea in 2017. He graduated from the Theater Department of the Korea National University of Arts.He is interested in actors and the performing arts in general, as well as in holistic education and integrated ‘psycho-physical’ growth and healing.After graduating from the Alexander teacher training course, he continued studying the Alexander Technique for ongoing development in Germany, the UK, and Australia.He was the representative of the Alexander Technique Yangjae Education Center in Korea, and now he runs Somayuj, a community for holistic growth and healing.Yoodong translated the Alexander Technique book by Bill Connington, Physical Expression on Stage and Screen: Using the Alexander Technique to Create Unforgettable Performances..
Contact Yoodong
For inquiries regarding teacher training, private lessons, workshops, or continuing professional development, contact Yoodong Kim at:
📧 info@alexandertechniqueschoolseoul.com
📞 +82 1022720945
Location of IATSS: Room 401, Yuseong Building,
31-1, Myeongnyun 1-ga, Jongno-gu, Seoul,
Republic of Korea
About Moderation
Moderation is an appraisal process for students in training. It provides an external viewpoint concerning a student’s progress and development. The moderator is an independent teacher, external to the school, whose role is to support trainees and trainers. The moderator can offer confirmation to trainees and to trainers of what is on track and going well for a given stage in training. The moderator can also highlight, again either to trainees or trainers, where more attention is needed.
Lucia Walker - Moderator
Lucia Walker is an experienced Alexander Technique teacher and movement artist based in Wales, with over 40 years of experience in AT and Contact Improvisation. She trained in Oxford with her parents, Dick and Elisabeth Walker, who studied directly with F. M. Alexander from 1938 to 1947, and qualified as a teacher in 1987. Her teaching combines Alexander Technique with movement, improvisation, and awareness-based practices. Lucia continues to teach, perform, and direct in the fields of Contact Improvisation and Instant Composition, exploring creative presence and embodiment. She also works with vision (through ALTEVI) and Nonviolent Communication to support deeper listening and more conscious response. Lucia teaches individuals, groups, and teacher trainees internationally, and has a particular interest in working with performers—musicians, actors, dancers, and singers. She has been involved in teacher training since 1990 and has served as a STAT moderator since 2007, currently supporting programs in the UK and South Africa.
Lucia Walker - Moderator
Lucia Walker is an experienced Alexander Technique teacher and movement artist based in Wales, with over 40 years of experience in AT and Contact Improvisation. She trained in Oxford with her parents, Dick and Elisabeth Walker, who studied directly with F. M. Alexander from 1938 to 1947, and qualified as a teacher in 1987. Her teaching combines Alexander Technique with movement, improvisation, and awareness-based practices. Lucia continues to teach, perform, and direct in the fields of Contact Improvisation and Instant Composition, exploring creative presence and embodiment. She also works with vision (through ALTEVI) and Nonviolent Communication to support deeper listening and more conscious response. Lucia teaches individuals, groups, and teacher trainees internationally,
and has a particular interest in working with performers—musicians, actors, dancers, and singers. She has been involved in teacher training since 1990 and has served as a STAT moderator since 2007, currently supporting programs in the UK and South Africa.