Polly Waterfield trained as a violinist, a Suzuki violin teacher, and an Alexander teacher. In 2006 she established an Alexander department at Uppingham school in Rutland where she still teaches. With Catharine Gunningham, in 2013 and 2015, she organised Spirit of Youth, a forum for teachers working with young people. She is one of the co-ordinators of the Alexander in Education group. She works with the choral scholars of the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge. Expressing what we do as teachers is a powerful interest and she has written many articles for StatNews and
the journal Conscious Control.