The PAAT Training Course
International Alexander Teacher Training (IATT) — REGISTRATION OPEN
Welcome to our international hybrid training programme now accepting applications for September 2025.
Our training offers the opportunity to qualify to teach Alexander Technique while enhancing your own flourishing.
The aim is to equip you with in-depth skill and understanding which can be applied to your own personal and professional life, and from there into teaching others.
We are an international team of teacher-trainers, running a flexible, responsive programme that enables you to train to sector-approved professional standards in a way that fits with your own particular life situation.
We have used our expertise of many years of in-person teacher training and now online teaching, to build a high-quality, resilient curriculum for a time of global uncertainty to ensure your training is rigorous and supportive. In brief, IATT provides a basic distance-learning platform combined with in-person, ‘hands-on’
opportunities, over a period of three years, with a total of 2,400 hours of live and online interaction, individual and group study.
You will need to have a minimum of a year’s experience with the Technique and be highly motivated to engage with its principles in a sustained way. There is the chance to learn specialised expertise around the principles of the Technique, including presence, compassion, sensitive receptivity to others, confidence and kindness in communicating and collaborating, critical thinking and analysis.
Such expertise applies equally wherever you are, in or even after your career. You may wish to refresh and redevelop your practice and join up two career interests, for example, combining Alexander Technique with another professional practice.
For further details, including fees, and an online conversation to find out if this course is appropriate for your needs and experience, please contact the Secretary of the Professional Association of Alexander Teachers (PAAT) here.
You can download a pdf of this summary here.
The PAAT Training Course was founded in 1979 by Brian Door, author of Towards Perfect Posture. Brian Door qualified as an Alexander teacher in 1972 after completing his training with Walter Carrington. Mr Carrington was one of the first teachers trained by Alexander himself.