ACGM Preview v3 3-25-2013

2013 AmSAT Annual Conference and General Meeting Preview Ambassadors for Good Use: Fostering Community, Diversity,
and Growth Pre-ACGM June 2627, 2013 ACGM June 2830, 2013 Roosevelt University, Chicago, IL Greetings! It is with great excitement that I invite you to explore this Preview of our offerings at this years Annual Conference and General Meeting of the American Society for the Alexander Technique! This years conference theme, Ambassadors for Good Use: Fostering Community, Diversity, and Growth, is an invitation to look inward to the health of our profession and our work together, as well as outward to the many people and fields who can benefit from our shared commitment to the Alexander Technique. The city of Chicago provides not only a beautiful and elegant backdrop to our time together but it is truly a vibrant city that never ceases to offer an array of memorable experiences. Carrying nicknames such as The Windy City, The City of Big Shoulders, and The Second City, Chicago entices its visitors with its colorful history and thriving arts and entertainment scene. Whatever you choose to take advantage of while you are here, you will not be disappointed! Registration for this years ACGM opens April 1st at noon EDT and we hope you will take advantage of not only early registration prices but the opportunity to sign up for workshops, private lessons, and special events. On behalf of the 2013 Chicago ACGM Planning Committee, we look forward to welcoming you to Chicago in June!
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Lisa DeAngelis Planning Committee Chair
Special Events
Thursday Evening 6/27/2013 Welcome Reception Please join us for a fun and social start to the ACGM! Held at the historic Blackstone Hotel just a few short blocks from Roosevelt University, this opening night reception will give conference attendees the chance to catch up with old friends and become acquainted with new colleagues. The evening will include music and dancing, some light refreshments, a cash bar, and the first opportunity to buy raffle tickets for a number of exciting prizes. Registration: The opening night reception is included with full conference registration. Friday, Saturday, & Sunday 6/28/2013 6/30/2013 9:00 a.m. 12 noon Business Meeting The business of the ACGM is the business meeting! Taking place on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday mornings, the business meeting is our chance to discuss, deliberate, and vote on the important issues facing the AmSAT community. Membership will receive packets outlining the resolutions and amendments brought forward this year, so that members may educate themselves. Time will be allotted for questions and collegial discussion, as well. Please bring your voice and considered opinions to the business meetings as we make decisions that will have a lasting impact on our profession. Friday Luncheon: 20-Year Teachers with Trainees This by-invitation-only luncheon in Roosevelt Universitys beautiful Spertus Lounge is for teachers in their 20th-year of teaching and those who are currently in-training. Come enjoy lunch and conversation together! Friday 6/28/2013 6 p.m. 9 p.m. Ganz Hall, Roosevelt University Public Forum: The Alexander Technique and Integrative Medicine The Alexander Technique is increasingly utilized in Western Medicine clinics and hospitals, part of a growing trendto Integrative Medicine, which combines traditional allopathic practices with complementary therapies and educational methods. The Forum explores opportunities and challenges for Alexander Technique teachers interested in workingin Integrative Medicine. Keynote speakers are Laurel Podulke, staff Alexander Technique teacher at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, and Dr. Lynne Shuster, Director, Mayo Clinic Office of Womens Health. They will discuss the use of the Alexander Technique with fibromyalgia patients, the Mayo Clinics current and anticipated research into the Alexander Technique, and information on how to conduct and publish research on the Alexander Technique. The Forum will also include a panel of Alexander Technique teachers currently working with a range of health issues: Elizabeth Buonomo will speak of her work with attachment trauma; Caitlin Freeman on autism spectrum disorders; Lisa Levinson on her work with chronic pain and illnesses such as lupus and scleroderma at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center; Mary Derbyshire on working with the elderly; and Rebecca Ferguson on addiction, post-mastectomy/reconstruction surgery body mechanics, and trauma. Registration: Priority will be given to AmSAT ACGM members. The Forum will be open to the public and will include invitations to local Integrative Medicine providers and professionals. 2 This ACGM 2013 Preview v. 3 is a draft document: workshop dates and times are subject to change.
Friday 6/28/2013 12 noon
Special Events
Saturday Evening 6/29/2013 Lake Michigan Boat Cruise, Dinner, Silent Auction, and Fireworks! Hop aboard one of Chicagos entertaining boat cruises for the opportunity to see the city from the beauty of Lake Michigan! Full dinner (drinks included) will be offered, as well as a silent auction and the final opportunity to purchase raffle tickets for any number of exciting and unique offerings.* The night will be capped by spectacular fireworks off Navy Pier! Registration: There is an additional fee for this event. Pre-registration is required and space is limited. *Members with items to donate for the silent auction or raffle should contact Lisa DeAngelis at deangelis.lisa@gmail.com. Sunday 6/30/2013 10:45 a.m. 12 noon The F.M. Alexander Memorial Address Galen Cranz, Professor of Architecture at the University of California Berkeley, will give the F.M. Alexander Memorial Address. Professor Cranz is a sociologist, designer, author, lecturer, and certified teacher of the Alexander Technique. Her research specialties are social and cultural processes in architecture and urban design, as well as body conscious design. Professor Cranz is author of The Chair: Rethinking Culture, Body and Design, which received the Achievement Award from the Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA) in 2004. She is a founding member of the international Association for Body Conscious Design and lectures worldwide on this topic. The F.M. Alexander Memorial Address will conclude Sunday mornings business meeting. Special Focus Lunchoen Panel Goddard Binkley and John Dewey: Chicagos Alexander Technique History This panel discussion will pay tribute to Goddard Binkley and John Dewey. Goddard Binkley trained with F.M. Alexander. His own training course was held at Roosevelt University, site of this years ACGM. John Dewey was chair of the Department of Philosophy, director of the School of Education, and head of the Laboratory School at the University of Chicago. He was deeply influenced by his work with F.M. Alexander and wrote introductions to three of Alexanders books. Members of the AmSAT community who trained with Goddard `Binkley will be featured on this panel. Registration: This bring-your-own-lunch event is included in full conference registration or Sunday one-day registration. Ongoing Dates and times TBD Private Lessons The following teachers will be available for private lessons: Malcolm Balk, Rose Bronec, Michael Frederick, John Henes, John Nicholls, Daria Okugawa, Giora Pinkas, and Ann Rodiger. ACGM Online Resource For the latest on the 2013 ACGM, visit http://www.amsatonline.org/members/committee/ acgm-2013-annual-conference-and-general-meeting.
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Sunday 6/30/2013 12:30 p.m. 1:30 p.m.
Choose Chicago
Pre-ACGM : Wednesday 6/26/2013

9:00 a.m. 12 noon 12 teachers Malcolm Balk is available for private lessons The Art of Running Malcolm Balk We all think we know how to run. After all, its as natural as putting one foot in front of the other. Too often, though, an activity which should be pleasurable and fulfilling leads to frustration and injury. Physical and mental barriers can stop progress far short of full potential, whether youre a regular runner or new to the sport. Learn how to achieve and maintain fitness without injury and how to over-come self-imposed limitations. Malcolm Balk qualified as an Alexander teacher with Patrick Macdonald in 1984. Malcolm is a well-known Level 4 running coach and still competes in his veteran category. In 1991 he brought running and the Alexander Technique together when he developed the Art of Running workshops, which are enjoyed by runners all over the world. Malcolm is the author of two books:Master the Art of RunningandMaster the Art of Working Out. Staying Free On the Stage: Acting Meets the Alexander Technique Daria Harper Okugawa During this workshop we will become familiar with the long list of things actors are responsible for as part of their profession and how any one of these aspects may become part of what an Alexander Teacher may be asked to assist with. We will discuss how to find out what specific obstacles the players may be facing and how to work with the director. We will look at structures you might use to set up working and what specific things you can do to address the problems with the time you are given. Daria Harper Okugawa is an actor and Alexander Technique teacher in Chicago. She obtained her BFA in acting from Carnegie Mellon University in 1978 and her MFA in acting from the University of Virginia in 2011. She trained at Alexander Technique Associates in London and built a private practice in Los Angeles before opening a teacher training course in Charlottesville, VA, in 1987. She opened Alexander Technique Training in Chicago in the fall, 2012. She has had the good fortune to work with teachers such as Walter Carrington, Peggy Williams, Patrick Mc Donald, Marjorie Barstow, Marjorie Barlow, Jean Clark, Joan and Alex Murray, Frank Ottiwell, John Nicholls, Ann Mathews and many others along the way. Integrating the Alexander Technique into a Medical Setting Laurel Podulke This workshop explores the over-arching scope, complex questions and challenges, and practical aspects of successfully integrating the Alexander Technique into a medical setting. In this workshop Laurel Podulke details her ongoing (and many years long) process of successfully integrating the Alexander Technique into the clinical practices of the Mayo Clinic. Laurel welcomes an open discussion and free exploration of ideas for teachers wishing to branch out into the medical realm. Laurel Podulke is a 2005 graduate of the Alexander Training Institute of Los Angeles (ATI-LA). Laurel holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Theatre Arts from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. She currently leads the Alexander Technique program at Mayo Clinics Dan Abraham Healthy Living Center (DAHLC). Up with Gravity : Learn How to Harness the Power of Gravity to Release Tension and Lighten Up Robert Rickover Gravity is all too often considered a source of limitation and discomfort. In this workshop you will learn simple techniques for utilizing the gravitational field to actually improve the way you sit, stand and move. You will also learn how to incorporate this constructive use of gravity into your Alexander Technique teaching. Robert Rickover graduated in 1981 from the School of Alexander Studies in London where he later served on the faculty. He studied for over fifteen years with master Alexander teacher Marjorie Barstow and frequently assisted her with group teaching.
9:00 a.m. 12 noon 20 teachers & 3rd-year trainees Repeats Sunday 9:00 a.m. 10:30 a.m. (trainees) Daria Okugawa is available for private lessons
9:00 a.m. 10:15 a.m. 20 teachers, trainees & associates Repeats Thursday 10:45 a.m. 12 noon
9:00 a.m. 12 noon 20 teachers, trainees & associates
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10:45 a.m. 12 noon 20 teachers, trainees & associates Repeats Thursday 10:45 a.m. 12 noon Practical Applications in Teaching the Elderly Mary Derbyshire For the past 10 years I have worked extensively with the elderly and would like to share with you my observations and work. We will explore practical applications for your older students: how to get up from the floor, how to roll over from prone to supine, how to increase range of motion. You will learn ways to improve balance and simple tools to help develop a dynamic walk. Mary Derbyshire was first exposed to the Alexander Technique at 20, studying theatre in London. Selfconscious and nervous, she often felt un-coordinated and ill at ease. The Technique taught her to be more confident and clear thinking. While pursuing her acting career, she began experiencing acute neck and back pain. She returned to the Technique and immediately found relief. At this point, she decided to be come a teacher. She started her training with Tommy Thompson in Cambridge, MA, and completed her training with Beth Stein in Chicago, IL. She has had active practices in Chicago, Dublin, Ireland, and now Little Compton, RI. Grounding, A Force between Teacher and Student Caren Bayer This workshop will explore how grounding and stabilizing will open the connection between teacher and student. We will develop a sequence from freeing the wrist to unwinding the arm, neck and ribcage in order to facilitate ease for dropping into the ground and building directional pathways up-wards. Caren Bayer is the director of the Manhatton Center for the Alexander Technique, and has maintained a private practice in New York City since 1984. She received her certification in London from Patrick MacDonald, and her postgraduate certification from Rivka Cohen. Caren was a faculty member at the Rivka Cohen School for the Alexander Technique and the Institute for the Alexander Technique under Thomas Lemens. She has been on the faculty of Pacific College of Oriental Medicine and currently has a teaching affiliation with the New School for Social Research. As a former dancer, and longtime student of the martial arts, yoga and meditation, Caren brings 30 years of movement research and awareness to her teaching. Mindfulness for Musicians Sandra Bain Cushman In 1985, Robert Fripps Guitar Craft began to use the Alexander Technique as a means of educating guitarists. Frank Sheldon was the Alexander teacher for Guitar Craft for the first 21 years; he traveled to three continents developing his work in the guitar circle. My student teaching took place on a Guitar Craft course in West Virginia, and my first professional job was teaching with Frank on a week-long course in 1990. I still teach for Robert and the Guitar Circle of North America. The Guitar Circle is a special form. As many as 100 acoustic guitarists play together in concentric circles. The question that currently defines the work of Mr. Fripps school is: How do we work with others, and specifically in the Guitar Circle? Twenty-seven years in the guitar circle have brought forth a way of working that is unique and illuminating. Beyond addressing the physical demands of the guitarists, the Alexander Technique is a way of developing presence and accountability within each individual and within the group. This workshop will present approaches to the Alexander Technique which have been used on Guitar Circle courses in the US, Mexico, and Europe. We will experiment with qualities of attention evoked by the AT directions: balance, animation, span, integration, opposition, and poise. We will work in the circle with boomwhackers (hand-held colorful percussion tubes), applying familiar AT procedures in this unfamiliar context. And we will play! The circle is as fun as it is challenging. The circle promotes good will and camaraderie even as it shows us our failings (losing our attention) and foibles (wasting energy in habitual gestures and behaviors). Dare to join in! Sandra Bain Cushmans passion for unlocking creative potential began with her theater studies at Cornell University in 1977 and has been a certified teacher of the Alexander Technique since 1990. Sandra is Co-Chair of AmSATs Membership Committee, and she has worked with Robert Fripps Guitar Craft, now Guitar Circles of North
1:30 p.m. 4:30 p.m. 20 teachers
1:30 p.m. 4:30 p.m. 20 teachers & 3rd-year trainees

America, South America and Europe, from 1988-1990 and from 2000-present. In July of 2010 Sandra graduated from Jessica Wolf s Art of Breathing training. In October of 2011 she published Mind Body 40 Days, an AT-based support guide for those beginning mind-body practices. 1:30 p.m. 4:30 p.m. 20 teachers, trainees & associates Banish Burnout: Rekindle the Flame and Rise Above Pain! Jennifer Roig-Francoli Inspiring and uplifting spirits, melting into mysterious seas of sound, communicating with others...these are experiences that motivate musicians to devote their lives to art. Unfortunately, its easy for artists to lose sight of dreams and ideals, and get disconnected from our ultimate purpose. The worst scenarios result in deep personal dissatisfaction and burnout, along with physical pain and injury; yet, so much pain can be prevented by returning to the source of our inspiration. In this workshop (designed especially for musicians and those who work with them, but also applicable to other art forms), we will address how AT can help prevent burnout and injury, and how it can help musicians recover the healthy joy of music-making if it has been lost. Well discuss obstacles that confront students and professionals and how to stop falling into habitual patterns that lead to psycho-physical suffering. We will give ourselves time to explore essential questions such as: why do musicians make music, and where does it come from? What does it mean to be a successful artist and what are the obstacles to success? How can we use our whole selves and our instruments to best advantage, in practice and performance? We will put our musings to practical application with hands-on AT work, with or without musical instruments. Jennifer Roig-Francol is an Alexander Technique teacher and professional modern and baroque violinist in Cincinnati, Ohio. She is the owner of Balance & Harmony Alexander Technique, and teaches AT as a faculty member at the University of Cincinnati CollegeConservatory of Music and Xavier University. She performs regularly with Adastra, a Period Instrument Duo, and Apollos Fire. As a research investigator at Cincinnati Childrens Hospital Medical Center, Jennifer designed and implemented a successful pilot study in 2009-2010 which taught AT to surgeons who perform laparoscopic skills. Her co-authored paper on this research was presented at two major medical conferences across the US, won second prize for clinical research paper submissions from the American Academy of Pediatrics in 2010, and was published in the Journal of Urology in October 2011. Jennifer is the founder of both the Alexander Technique Study Group of Cincinnati and The Alexander Technique Guild of Ohio. Understanding UP and Its Potential for the Voice: Discover the Hanging Vocal Structures Jane Heirich This workshop will be an active participation session. We will work with partners to use a variety of activities while making different sounds (hiss, hum, whispered vowel, sung vowel, reciting poetry, etc.). We will study the way in which all the vocal and respiratory structures hang from the skull and the spine. Learning not to interfere with these freely hanging structures is crucial for healthy breath and voice. We will play with a particular type of directional thinking, e.g. up and down simultaneously and continuously. Retired from the Residential College, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), Jane Heirich maintains a studio for teaching private voice and/or Alexander Technique lessons. Since 2005, she has directed an AmSAT teacher-training course (ATAA). Her book, Voice and the Alexander Technique: active explorations for speaking and singing, published by Mornum Time Press, is in its 2nd Edition (2011). When not traveling and teaching in New Zealand and Australia (April & May 2012) she can often be found at her restored 1894 Steinway grand piano. AmSAT P O Box 2307 Dayton, OH 45401-2307 800.473.0620 937.586.3732 info@amsatonline.com
1:30 p.m. 4:30 p.m. 12 teachers, trainees & associates
Pre-ACGM: Wednesday 6/26/2013

1:30 p.m. 2:45 p.m. 30 teachers, trainees & associates Using the Web to Promote Your Practice Imogen Ragone and Robert Rickover Learn how to take advantage of the Web to promote your practice at very little cost to you. Well cover the basics of website hosting, search engines, domain names, social media and everything else youll need to know. Participants will learn specific tips on how to make their web sites more effective. Imogen Ragone trained at the Alexander Technique Centre of Virginia, graduating in 2006. After moving to Wilmington, Delaware, she took two online courses in web design and created her own website. Over the past three years Imogen has designed attractive and effective websites for well over 30 other Alexander teachers (alexandertechniquewebsites.com). In 2010 she took an additional course in designing websites using WordPress, which can be edited by the customer. Imogen is also active on social media, and has taken course on operating in the social media world more effectively and efficiently. She is passionate about using the web as a tool to promote the Alexander Technique and gain a wider audience for our work. Robert Rickover graduated in 1981 from the School of Alexander Studies, London, and is one of the first Alexander teachers to successfully use the web.He is creator of The Complete Guide to the Alexander Technique and a number of other Alexander Technique websites including: BodyLearningCast.com, a site devoted to Alexander Technique podcasts, and most recently AlexTechExpress.com a mobile-friendly addition to the Complete Guide. Robert also blogs and uses social media, Twitter and Facebook in particular, to promote the Technique. Front Crawl: The Stroke of Spirals Dan Cayer Conventional front crawl tends to be a flat locomotion across the water. In this dry-land workshop, we will experience how propulsion can occur through subtle shifts in body weight when a lengthening back supports the limbs. This can relieve pressure and pain on the shoulders and neck, which bear a large burden in the conventional stroke. Participants will be able to apply this choreography to enjoy a more intuitive swimming. Come see why front crawl can be a wonderful practice of spirals. Dan Cayer works in the field of pain, injury, and stress. After a serious injury left Dan unable to work or perform household tasks like cleaning dishes, he began studying the Alexander Technique. Certified by ACAT in NYC, Dan now teaches the AT as a method of recovering balance and well-being. He is also trained as a teacher in the Art of Swimming, showing students how to undo the habitual tensions and fear responses that impede progress in the water. Engaging Curiosity and Dialogue: Your Introduction of the Alexander Technique Morgan Rysdon In this interactive workshop, successful strategies for introducing the Alexander Technique will be shared. Teachers will work in pairs and as a group to learn practical approaches for communicating in ways that promote curiosity and cultivate interest in the Technique. Through discussion, demonstration, and exploration, attendees will examine how they can connect this Technique and themselves to those around them; walking away with useful and creative tools to engage in dialogue with ease, creativity and excitement. Morgan Rysdon enjoys introducing the work to new audiences and seeks to build supportive networks within the Alexander Technique community. She holds a BA in acting and received her teaching certification from ACAT in NYC. Interested in proactively supporting her professional community she sits on AmSATs Membership Committee, ACATs Fundraising Committee and serves as the coordinator for ACATs monthly hands-on demonstrations. She has a private practice in Hoboken, NJ and Manhattan, and assists a weekly Parkinsons classes at the Jewish Community Center (JCC).
3:15 4:30 p.m. Teachers, trainees & associates Repeats Thursday 9:00 a.m. 10:15 a.m. Sunday 2:00 p.m. 3:15 p.m.
Pre-ACGM: Thursday 6/27/2013

Thursday 9:00 a.m. 12 noon 20 teachers & trainees Salute the Sun without Shortening your Spine: the Alexander Technique and Yoga Sheila Bandyopadhyay Yoga can be physically taxing, and there are many asanas (poses) that may seem contrary to the Alexander Technique. Even experienced yoga teachers may use language and encourage manipulations of the body that compromise the integrity of the head, neck and back relationship. In fact, some Alexander teachers may have been put off by yoga for this very reason. This workshop is predicated upon the experience that the Alexander Technique can strengthen yoga practice in exciting ways. As Alexander teachers and students we have a unique insight in the internal flow of direction through our physical bodies; this flow of direction can deepen yoga practice both in asana and meditation. This workshop will include yoga practice, demonstration, and discussion. Participants will be guided through various yoga asanas, including the basic sun salutation, with careful attention to the Alexander principals. We will work experientially with a Hatha-based yoga practice, and will take time to break down various poses in order to engage in them without compromising Use. Beyond the group yoga practice, we will address the integration of Alexander with yoga from a practical teaching standpoint. We will look at how to help yoga students practice with more Alexander awareness, and brainstorm how we might raise consciousness about AT in the yoga community. We will close our workshop with an Alexander-infused meditation. This workshop is designed with an intermediate yoga practioner in mind and for Alexander teachers who work with yogis. Participants should be dressed to move freely and may wish to bring their own yoga mat, blanket and/or blocks. There will be time during the workshop for questions and troubleshooting. Sheila Bandyopadhyay is an Alexander teacher and theatrical movement specialist. A resident of New York City, Sheila spent the 2011-2012 academic year as the Assistant Professor in Movement and Dance at the FSU/Asolo Conservatory for Actor Training in Sarasota, FL. In New York, she is on the faculties of the Linklater Center and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Additional teaching with: Shakespeare & Company, NYU Gallatin, the Upright Citizens Brigade, Break-through Studios, and Emerson College. Sheila completed her Alexander Technique Certification in 2008 under the direction of John Nicholls and Nanette Walsh at ATNYC, where she subsequently served as an assistant faculty member. Sheila has been practicing yoga for over 12 years and regularly teaches Alexander-infused yoga in her movement classes. She holds a Masters Degree in Movement and Physical Performance from NYUs Gallatin School and trained in physical theater with DellArte International. Sit Down, Stand Up! Rose Bronec and Rick Carbaugh In Mans Supreme Inheritance, under Notes and Instances (Mouritz, pp. 174-175), F.M. describes sitting and rising from a sitting position. In this writing, he refers to a transition balance point as a frog dance. This position is similar to a babys developmental movements as they learn to support themselves on first their hands and knees and then hands and feet. In the workshop, we will explore the developmental transitions from belly crawling to independent sitting, and then from sitting to creeping to clambering to standing. We will end with Alexanders sitting and standing. Mere childs play! Rose Bronec and Rick Carbaugh are co-Directors of Alexander Technique Urbana, founded in 1999. Rose trained with Goddard Binkley at the Chicago Center for the Alexander Technique in 1980. Rick began training with Goddard Binkley in the late 70s and certified with Joan and Alex Murray at Alexander Technique Center Urbana (1994). For more information about the city of Chicago, we recommend visiting Choose Chicago, www.choosechicage.com; Smart Destinations, www.smartdestinations.com/ chicago; and Chicago Metromix, chicago.metromix.com.
9:00 a.m. 12 noon 10 teachers & 3rd-year trainees Rose Bronec is available for private lessons

9:00 a.m. 10:15 a.m. Teachers, trainees & associates Repeats: Wednesday 3:15 p.m. 4:30 p.m. Sunday 2:00 p.m. 3:15 p.m. Front Crawl: The Stroke of Spirals Dan Cayer Conventional front crawl tends to be a flat locomotion across the water. In this dry-land workshop, we will experience how propulsion can occur through subtle shifts in body weight when a lengthening back supports the limbs. This can relieve pressure and pain on the shoulders and neck, which bear a large burden in the conventional stroke. Participants will be able to apply this choreography to enjoy a more intuitive swimming. Come see why front crawl can be a wonderful practice of spirals. Dan Cayer works in the field of pain, injury, and stress. After a serious injury left Dan unable to work or perform household tasks like cleaning dishes, he began studying the Alexander Technique. Certified by ACAT in NYC, Dan now teaches the AT as a method of recovering balance and well-being. He is also trained as a teacher in the Art of Swimming, showing students how to undo the habitual tensions and fear responses that impede progress in the water. Autism and Alexander Technique: Using the Technique to Help People with Autism Spectrum Disorders Caitlin Freeman Currently in the United States, 1 in 88 children has been diagnosed with an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). The number of adults being diagnosed with ASD is also increasing. This condition ranges from mild Aspergers Syndrome to severe Autism, but most individuals with ASD experience sensory processing challenges, such as extreme sensitivity to sound, light, touch, and movement. These individuals often have difficulty taking in information from their senses and integrating this data into a meaningful whole. The Alexander Technique is ideally suited for helping people with ASD form sensory integration and body awareness, and comprises a system of physical and vocal training that is especially beneficial for people on the Autism Spetrum. The Alexander Technique is also effective at helping individuals with ASD manage the stress of their overactive nervous systems. This workshop will explain these sensory processing issues from the perspective of an Alexander Technique teacher who has herself learned to manage these sensory challenges. Participants will learn practical strategies for helping individuals with ASD achieve sensory integration and stress relief. Caitlin Freeman, M.AmSAT, is a faculty member in the Theatre Department at Point Park Universitys Conservatory of Performing Arts in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She received her B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College in music and theatre arts, and graduated from the Alexander Technique School New England (ATSNE), directed by Missy Vineyard. Caitlins overall goal is to empower individuals using the Alexander Technique, music, art, drama therapy, and music education. Caitlins specialty is using the Alexander Technique, voice training, and theatre coaching to work with individuals on the Autism Spectrum. Your Elevator Pitch! Speak about the Alexander Technique with Confidence and Inspiration Sharon Jakubecy In 2 minutes, you want to inspire curiosity in potential new students so they want to sign up to take lessons with you. Speaking about the Alexander Technique can get complicated and confusing for someone isnt familiar with it. Describing your work as at AT teacher with confidence and inspiration will give you credibility as an expert. In this workshop, Sharon will give you simple guidelines for an elevator pitch that has impact. With a clear formula for creating an elevator pitch, you will practice in partners and in front of the group so that you feel confident and prepared to speak to potential students, business partners, and media outlets. Sharon Jakubecy is an AmSAT certified Alexander Technique instructor in Los Angeles, who, for the past 10 years, has helped performers eliminate pain and perform with power. She was on the faculty at Stella Adler Studio and American Academy of Dramatic Arts and has worked with companies including OCoaching, Human Coach Learning and Consulting, the LA Opera, Women in Theater, Vox Humana, Colburn School of Music, Grammy School of Music, and Childrens Hospitals. She has grown her Alexander Technique practice with her website, social media, articles, interviews, speaking events, and corporate trainings.
9:00 a.m. 12 noon 20 teachers & trainees
9:00 a.m. 10:15 a.m. 10 teachers & 3rd-year trainees

9:00 a.m. 12 noon 20 teachers, trainees & associates Repeats Sunday 9:00 a.m. 10:30 a.m. (trainees) 9:00 a.m. 10:30 a.m. 20 teachers, trainees & associates Repeats Saturday 9:00 a.m. 10:30 a.m. (trainees) Working with Groups Robert Rickover This workshop will demonstrate effective ways of teaching the Alexander Technique in a group setting. You will learn how to work with individuals in a manner that is helpful to the group, and which use the observations of group members to assist the student youre working with. Robert Rickover graduated in 1981 from the School of Alexander Studies in London where he later served on the faculty. He studied for over fifteen years with master Alexander teacher Marjorie Barstow and frequently assisted her with group teaching. Growing your Practice with Motivation and Ambition Morgan Rysdon This inspirational workshop will show you how to energize and realize the dreams you have for your ideal practice. With the help of your family, friends, social networks, and community your private teaching practice can grow as large as you can imagine. Teachers will create long-term and short-term goals for themselves that are ambitious and realistic. Together teachers will work to brainstorm action plans on how to execute these goals in an efficient and successful way. Acquiring and maintaining personal motivation and ambition will be discussed and tools will be provided for teachers to explore on their own. Resources (both local and web-based) will be shared, community building will be emphasized, and motivation will be ignited! Morgan Rysdon enjoys introducing the work to new audiences and seeks to build supportive networks within the Alexander Technique community. She holds a BA in acting and received her teaching certification from ACAT in NYC. Interested in proactively supporting her professional community she sits on AmSATs Membership Committee, ACATs Fundraising Committee and serves as the coordinator for ACATs monthly hands-on demonstrations. She has a private practice in Hoboken, NJ and Manhattan, and assists a weekly Parkinsons classes at the Jewish Community Center (JCC). Practical Applications in Teaching the Elderly Mary Derbyshire For the past 10 years I have worked extensively with the elderly and would like to share with you my observations and work. We will explore practical applications for your older students: how to get up from the floor, how to roll over from prone to supine, how to increase range of motion. You will learn ways to improve balance and simple tools to help develop a dynamic walk. Mary Derbyshire was first exposed to the Alexander Technique at 20, studying theatre in London. Selfconscious and nervous, she often felt un-coordinated and ill at ease. The Technique taught her to be more confident and clear thinking. While pursuing her acting career, she began experiencing acute neck and back pain. She returned to the Technique and immediately found relief. At this point, she decided to be come a teacher. She started her training with Tommy Thompson in Cambridge, MA, and completed her training with Beth Stein in Chicago, IL. She has had active practices in Chicago, Dublin, Ireland, and now Little Compton, RI. Is the Alexander Technique something like yoga? Which one should I do? Deni Jones Has a potential student or interested passerby ever asked you these questions? Yoga and the Alexander Technique are two distinct disciplines, techniques, sciences, systems, yet they are also similar and have a similar intent. Yoga is about moving into stillness, mind, body and soul. Yoga asana (postures) should be practiced according to the Sacred Texts of yoga: with steadiness and ease, effortless effort. Does any of this sound familiar? In yoga practice, less is more, negating effort and over-effort are what we are after. We seek to find the spaciousness in stillness. Practices allow us to be more by doing less, be centered and at one, to be present. Our yoga practice often finds us trying too hard, getting in our own way, forcing with unnecessary tension and stress to get it right. In this workshop we will go through an asana (posture) practice and employ the fundamentals/elements of the Alexander Technique. Further to our own practice, we will look at ways in which we can offer practical help to our students who practice yoga and/or teach yoga. There will be time for discussion/questions and answers as well as asana practice. All levels of yoga experience are welcome! Deni Jones has taught yoga for over 35 years and came to AmSAT as a Teaching
10:45 a.m. 12 noon 20 teachers, trainees & associates Repeats Wednesday 10:45 a.m. 12 noon
10:45 a.m. 12 noon 10 teachers & 3rd year trainees Repeats Sunday 3:30 p.m. 5:00 p.m.

Member in 2009. The disciplines/ art forms/sciences of yoga and The Alexander Technique form Denis main work with ATYoga. Deni comes from a Theatre in Education background as well as in performance and directing. She was also a dancer, dance teacher, and English teacher. She lived for the past 38 years in the UK before returning home to the USA. To combine the best of yoga and the Alexander Technique towards ease and clarity in movement and body and spirit are the aims of her work. 10:45 a.m. 12 noon 20 teachers, trainees & associates Repeats Wednesday 9:00 a.m. 10:15 a.m. Integrating the Alexander Technique into a Medical Setting Laurel Podulke This workshop explores the over-arching scope, complex questions and challenges, and practical aspects of successfully integrating the Alexander Technique into a medical setting. In this workshop Laurel Podulke details her ongoing (and many years long) process of successfully integrating the Alexander Technique into the clinical practices of the Mayo Clinic. Laurel welcomes an open discussion and free exploration of ideas for teachers wishing to branch out into the medical realm. Laurel Podulke is a 2005 graduate of the Alexander Training Institute of Los Angeles (ATI-LA). Laurel holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Theatre Arts from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. She currently leads the Alexander Technique program at Mayo Clinics Dan Abraham Healthy Living Center (DAHLC). Working with the Elderly Joan Frost In this workshop we will explore two types of working hands-on when movement choices are limited. One will emphasize inhibition and non-doing, the other requires an active and weight-bearing involvement on the part of the teacher. There the work will be refining the skill of giving strong, supportive contact while continuing to have a free neck, a lengthening and widening back, and limbs flowing with direction. Joan will share how she works with seniors in a group class setting and how she works with sitting and standing when fear of falling is a predominant factor. Participants will then have an opportunity to practice on each other while Joan observes and gives feedback. Joan Frost has been teaching the Alexander Technique for 30 years and has been training teachers at ACAT since 1984, where she was Director of Teacher Certification from 2001-2008. Joan was a founding member of AmSAT and is currently Chair of AmSATs Credentials Review Committee. In addition to being on ACATs senior faculty, Joan has been on the faculties of The Juilliard School and The New School in New York City. Joan has a private practice and teaches groups both in New York and in Connecticut. She has been teaching a class for seniors at The Baldwin Center in Stratford for the past two years. How do we learn? Exploring the legacies of 20th century social and educational reform in relation to the Alexander Technique Edward Bouchard and Lisa DeAngelis John Dewey characterized Mr. Alexanders technique [as a means-whereby in which] one who has had experience of the technique knows it through the series of experiences which he himself has. Hence, he concluded, It bears the same relation to education that education itself bears to all other human activities. Early 20th century educational reformers sought to expand the arena of experiential learning and teaching to all areas of knowledge and life. In this workshop, we will explore the educational approaches of Irene Tasker (at Darlington College in England before she met Alexander), and the progressive educators Carolyn Pratt and Lucy Sprague Mitchell (with whom Alexander interacted in New York City). Their contributions provide insight into how to understand the Alexander Technique as basis for education that we can continue today. Ed Bouchard will outline the historical contexts of Irene Taskers classes for children at Darlington College and the impetus of Caroline Pratts classes at Play School (the school Alexander commented on in Mans Supreme Inheritance, 1918 edition). Related to that material, Lisa DeAngelis will lead us in classes as taught by Irene Tasker before meeting Alexander and Caroline Pratt at Play School. Ed Bouchard has taught the Alexander
1:30 p.m. 2:45 p.m. 10 teachers & 3rd-year trainees
1:30 p.m. 4:30 p.m. Unlimited teachers, trainees & associates

Technique since 1979. He is the co-author of Kinesthetic Ventures: Informed by the work of FM Alexander, Stanislavski, Peirce & Freud, and the editor of Jeroen Starings extensive biographical writings on Alexander. He contributed to the 2000 US Government National Reading Panel report on the scientific evidence supporting cognitive strategy instruction and is currently finishing a biography of Benjamin Drake Wright. Lisa DeAngelis is a graduate of the Urbana Center for the Alexander Technique (Urbana, IL) under the instruction of Joan and Alex Murray. Lisa currently teaches privately in Chicagos downtown (River West) community. She enjoys working with singers and actors as well as people in many walks and stages of life. More recently she has begun working with athletes, professionals who suffer from work-related ailments, and those whose professions sometimes lead to inhibited body use. 1:30 p.m. 2:45 p.m. 20 teachers Teaching the Alexander Technique at a University Susan Cohen This workshop focuses on how to organize a 15-week course including syllabus design and introducing Alexander principles. We will discuss homework assignments and how to grade students. Activities and games will demonstrate how to release tight neck and shoulder muscles through conscious awareness, inhibition, and direction. Susan Cohen trained with Walter and Dilys Carrington. She has taught the Technique at the Shakespeare Theatre and Arena Stage in Washington D.C., and served on the drama faculties at George Mason and Howard Universities. She has taught at Catholic University of America since 1992, Washingtons Studio Theater Acting Conservatory, and maintains a private studio from her home on Capital Hill. In 2006, she completed her training in Jessica Wolf s Art of Breathing. Shinjin Embodied Practices of Movement and Meditation with Alexander Technique Procedures Sumi Komo Through integrating meditative and movement practices with the Alexander Technique we can awaken to Shinjin: the essential unity of body, mind, and heart. This journey leads us to experience effortless effort in everyday activity. Our wrong thinking gets in the way and leads to excessive tension and distortion (misuse). When we allow letting go and enter into a non-doing state of being we begin the process of re-synchronizing, re-integrating and reeducating mind/body. This basic principle brings us to the fully awakened way of being human. The secret is not in the movement but in the readiness to act, to move, to choose, clarity in the moment. Alexander arrived at the only place, and the only moment in time, where change could begin. This place, or this moment in time was the instant that a stimulus to activity reached his consciousness. Sumi Komo trained in the UK with Patrick Macdonald and Shoshona Kaminitz and graduated in 1981. She lived in the UK and trained extensively with Marjorie Barlow. She has been training teachers of the Alexander Technique since 1990. Her work has focused on people of all ages and from all walks of life, especially professional dancers, actors, musicians, martial artists and athletes. She is a Zen Buddhist priestess in the lineage of Maezumi Roshi. She has been teaching Tai Chi Chuan, Qi Gong and Yoga for almost 3 decades. She is an Integral Yoga teacher and trained for the basic level IYI 200 Hour Certification. She has an M.A. in Dance, Psychology and Sports Medicine. She originally trained and danced professionally in New York City with Merce Cunningham, Carolyn Brown, and others in the Cunningham lineage. AmSAT would like to thank the members of the 2013 ACGM Planning Committee: Jill Burlingame, Lisa DeAngelis, Connie DeVeer, Rebecca Ferguson, Karina Lepeley, Amanda MacDonald, Andrew McCann, Holly Rocke, Evelyn Shapiro, and Stasia Siena. We would also like to acknowledge the invaluable help of Board Liaison Meg Jolley and AmSAT Management Associate, Betsy Kemper.
1:30 p.m. 4:30 p.m. 20 teachers & trainees Repeats Sunday 2:00 p.m. 5:00 p.m.

1:30 p.m. 4:30 p.m. 20 teachers, trainees & associates Repeats Saturday 9:.00 a.m. 12 noon (trainees) Prone as a Procedure: Micro-spiraling to Lengthen and Widen from the Ground into Standing Clare Maxwell This workshop will be about the benefits of working in a prone, or face down relationship to the floor. For me, prone is one of the major innovations of the Dart Process work initiated by Joan and Alex Murray. Many people avoid this position because our noses and necks can get crunched, so Ive invented a support that I call The Launching Pad that Ive found to be incredibly helpful in alleviating those discomforts. Ill share some of the simple, playful practices that Ive discovered through the process of healing my own related shoulder and hip injuries. You will learn ways to use prone as a support for widening your own back, ways to access your natural rotational freedom within the AT frame work of inhibition, awareness, and direction, and ways to just have fun and improvise with the natural spiraling movements that support us as we rise to standing or release back into the support of gravity. I use prone to begin and end my teaching day often, and I also use it as a possible alternative to supine constructive rest for many of my students. Clare Maxwell is on the faculty of the William Esper Acting Studio and at Movement Research in NYC, where she has her private practice. Clare trained at ACAT in 2000 and certified in 2010 with Jessica Wolf in The Art of Breathing. She is also inspired by the Dart Procedure work of Joan and Alex Murray, and uses developmental movement as a framework within which to explore the principles of the AT. Opposition and Harmony:Balancing Opposing forcesa Vital Skill for Living Giora Pinkas A practical perspective on thePrinciple ofOppositionemphasized by F.M Alexander.Giora will demonstrate certain procedures, explain his thinking processes and, if they wish, have participants practice on him and others for feedback. Giora Pinkas has been an Alexander Teacher for 45 years and a trainer of Alexander teachers for over 35 years. He has taught the Technique in Israel, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, England, France, Ireland, Japan and the United States. Giora trained with Patrick MacDonald, certifying in 1967. In 1974 Giora co-founded in San Francisco the first three-year teacher training course in the United States. In 1983 Giora established The Alexander Educational Center in Berkeley, CA, now internationally respected for its teacher training and postgraduate programs. The Tango of Teaching the Alexander Technique Pamela Slavsky One of the Argentine tangos most evocative elements is the embrace, conduit of the conversation between partners. In this workshop participants will learn some of the fundamental partnering concepts that enable this conversation and some simple tango steps. In the process well explore how the principles of the Alexander Technique impact the relationship between partners. In light of these experiences, well discuss how the principles help us to teach with the most clarity of direction and the least interference. No dance experience or partner required! Pamela Slavsky graduated from the Alexander Technique Training Center in Newton, MA, in 2010 studying with Ruth Kilroy and visiting teacher Rivka Cohen. She has a BA in Social Psychology from UMass Boston. She teaches the Alexander Technique in the Boston area in addition to teaching Argentine tango and other social dances since 2001. She has been teaching tango for the MIT Argentine Tango Club since 2006 and has taught at festivals and for communities all around New England.
3:15 p.m. 4:30 p.m. Repeats Saturday 1:30 p.m. 4:30 p.m. Giora Pinkas is available for private lessons
3:15 p.m. 4:30 p.m. 20 teachers, 3rd-year trainees & associates Repeats Friday 9:00 a.m. 10:15 a.m. (trainees)
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Friday 9:00 a.m. 10:30 a.m. Trainees The Tango of Teaching the Alexander Technique Pamela Slavsky One of the Argentine tangos most evocative elements is the embrace, conduit of the conversation between partners. In this workshop participants will learn some of the fundamental partnering concepts that enable this conversation and some simple tango steps. In the process well explore how the principles of the Alexander Technique impact the relationship between partners. In light of these experiences, well discuss how the principles help us to teach with the most clarity of direction and the least interference. No dance experience or partner required! Pamela Slavsky graduated from the Alexander Technique Training Center in Newton, MA, in 2010 studying with Ruth Kilroy and visiting teacher Rivka Cohen. She has a BA in Social Psychology from UMass Boston. She teaches the Alexander Technique in the Boston area in addition to teaching Argentine tango and other social dances since 2001. She has been teaching tango for the MIT Argentine Tango Club since 2006 and has taught at festivals and for communities all around New England. Growing your Practice with Motivation and Ambition Morgan Rysdon This inspirational workshop will show you how to energize and realize the dreams you have for your ideal practice. With the help of your family, friends, social networks, and community your private teaching practice can grow as large as you can imagine. Teachers will create long-term and short-term goals for themselves that are ambitious and realistic. Together teachers will work to brainstorm action plans on how to execute these goals in an efficient and successful way. Acquiring and maintaining personal motivation and ambition will be discussed and tools will be provided for teachers to explore on their own. Resources (both local and web-based) will be shared, community building will be emphasized, and motivation will be ignited! Morgan Rysdon enjoys introducing the work to new audiences and seeks to build supportive networks within the Alexander Technique community. She holds a BA in acting and received her teaching certification from ACAT in NYC. Interested in proactively supporting her professional community she sits on AmSATs Membership Committee, ACATs Fundraising Committee and serves as the coordinator for ACATs monthly hands-on demonstrations. She has a private practice in Hoboken, NJ and Manhattan, and assists a weekly Parkinsons classes at the Jewish Community Center (JCC). The Embodied Mind Rachel Zahn Rachel Zahn will present a documentary film about the Embodied Mind Project, the ground breaking experimental academic think tank which brought together a hand-picked group of 10 leading edge neuroscientists, philosophers of mind, psychologists, and robotic engineers with 10 teachers of the Alexander Technique. The goal of the experiment was to introduce the researchers, all of whom are engaged in the study of human consciousness, to the particularly subtle practices of inhibition, nondoing, and direction that are the unique infrastructure of AT teacher training. During three days, scientists and philosophers gave short lectures about the embodied mind and the Alexander Technique was introduced first by explanatory lessons by Giora Pinkas and John Nichols followed by individual lessons. The results of the exchange have already advanced the work of the researchers. For some the experience was profound and others have begun to integrate new vocabulary into their academic writing. A follow up experiment has already been proposed by one of the researchers. Rachel is even more convinced now that it is essential to train a small team of Alexander teachers to be fluent in the vocabulary and concepts used in current discussions on the nature of consciousness and subjective psychophysical experience. Such competence will make it possible to locate the Alexander Technique in these discussions which occur in research laboratories and higher learning institutions around the world. Rachel has created training workshops for this purpose and is recruiting dedicated teachers to continue this work internationally. Rachel Zahn, having completed theatre training at the University of Maryland and Catholic University, graduated from the American Center for the Alexander Technique in 1969. During the 1970s, she studied proprioceptive training with Moshe Feldenkrais, Charlotte Selver, and Elaine Summers. She became an assistant to Judith Leibowitz at the Juilliard School of Music in New York and in 1973
10:45 a.m. to 12 noon Trainees
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and joined ACAT, where she remained from 1972 to 1981. She received funding from the Ford Foundation to train actors in the Technique at Shakespeare & Company in Stratford, England. The 1970s and 80s proved to be a fruitful period of collaboration with psychologists, producing a unique interdisciplinary approach to the psychophysical process of high performance training for actors, musicians, athletes, and original thinkers. She is a trained Gestalt-Ericksonian-EMDR psychotherapist. Zahn was inspired by the anthropologist Margaret Mead to embark on two doctorates relating global thinking, intercultural communication, and the mindbody problem. Her dissertation is being supervised by Michel Bitbol, Directeur de Recherche, CNRS, at CREA, cole polytechnique. Zahn conducts seminars internationally. 1:30 p.m. 4:30 p.m. 20 teachers & 3rd-year trainees Sense Register and Primary Control Applied to Direction Bobby Rosenberg Experiential presentation of a procedure for developing a reliable sense register based on Primary Control, as a preparation for learning to direct one-self. Shortly after graduating from training in San Francisco with Frank Ottiwell in 1989, Bobby Rosenberg moved to Bogot Colombia, where he has dedicated his professional life to teaching the Alexander Technique. He specializes in group teaching, including research at Javeriana University, where he is on staff in the Performing Arts Department. He has published 2 books in Spanish, and numerous articles and chapters, including his first research project on Sense Register in the AmSAT NEWS in Spring of 2009. As of 2012 Bobby is a Member at Large of the AmSAT Board of Directors. The Art of Group Teaching Michael Frederick In our Alexander Community sometimes teachers do not understand group teaching. In this workshop participants will learn how to understand group dynamics applied to individual interests such as performing arts, sports, and everyday activities. They will learn to read the energy of the group and knowing what it needs, and how to shape a class structure and finishing on time. Michael Frederick teaches the Alexander Technique in Los Angeles and Santa Barbara, CA. He trained as an Alexander Teacher in England with Walter & Dilys Carrington and in America with Marjorie Barstow. He has taught over 150 workshops in the U.S. and Europe since 1978 and founding director of the first three International Congresses on the Alexander Technique. From 1994 to 2000, Michael organized Alexander Technique master classes with Marjory Barlow and Elisabeth Walker in San Francisco, Basel, and Paris. He is former Chairman of AmSAT and is now on the Board of Directors of the Alexander Technique Institute LA. Michael has studied as a Feldenkrais practitioner with Dr Moshe Feldenkrais and yoga with T.K.V. Desikachar. Roots and Leaves in our Family Tree: Panel and Discussion of American Eclecticism Kathyrn Miranda and Sydney Harris Kathryn Miranda and Sydney Harris will host a panel of teachers, including Rose Bronec, Barbara Kent, Daria Okugawa, and Giorga Pinkus, representing the American spectrum of training lineages. That spectrum includes teachers who have experience with the first/second generation teachers, such as Marjory Barlow, Marjorie Barstow, Goddard Binkley, Deborah Caplan, Walter and Dilys Carrington, Frank Pierce Jones, Judith Leibowitz, and Patrick Macdonald. There will be a series of questions to explore the eclecticism in the American training of Alexander Technique teachers. This will be followed by open lively discussion with the whole group, facilitated by Kathryn and Sydney. Participants will be invited to listen, to stay in the moment and to inhibit habits that interfere with openmindedness, poise and freedom to respond. A sample of the questions that will be asked are: (1) How do you teach the principles of the AT? (2) What are the most important aspects of the hands-on work? (3) How have you been influenced by working with teachers other than
1:30 p.m. 4:30 p.m. 20 teachers & 3rd-year trainees Michael Frederick is available for private lessons
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those who trained you? (4) What have you discovered that works for you that is different from what you learned in your training? (5) For trainers: How do you know when a trainee is ready to be certified? (6)How do you distinguish between conditions and manner of use as a teacher and/or a trainer? (7)Do you consider any of the following: breath work, Dart procedures, developmental movement, McDonald/Carrington games, Tai Chi and spiral work essential to your Alexander teaching practice? Kathryn Miranda has a strong interest in training teachers. She was on the American Center for the Alexander Technique (ACAT) faculty in the Teacher Certification Program for 14 years where she was closely involved with the development and delivery of ACATs curriculum. She served as the Executive Director for seven years and participated in faculty meetings and annual weekend retreats for 10 years. In 2008, she opened her own training program in Syracuse, NY. In 2003, Kathryn completed advanced training in the Art of Breathing with Jessica Wolf. She has taken teacher refresher courses with Walter Carrington and Barbara Kent. Sydney Harris came to the Alexander Technique as an actor and creative drama teacher. A founding Board member of the Alexander Training Institute of Los Angeles and faculty member, Sydney also assisted on the teacher-training course, Alexander Training Institute of San Francisco from 1977 to 1984. She has taught the Technique in private practice, in academic and public venues since 1977. Currently, she offers the Alexander Technique through private lessons, semi-private groups and workshops. 1:30 p.m. 4:30 p.m. 6 Teachers with five years or less teaching experience John Henes is available for private lessons A Practical Approach to Hands-on Teaching John Henes This will be a hands-on and discussion of how to project confidence for your students. We will start with the very basics of working with your hands, how your direction has an effect on your work and how your confidence has an effect on your work. This includes from the very first touch to how to get someone in and out of a chair. The aim of this workshop is to create a practical, straightforward approach to teaching. John Henes teaches the Alexander Technique in Evanston, IL at his private studio and at Northwestern University, DePaul University, and the Steans Institute For Young Artists at the Ravinia Festival. He also worked as a professional trumpet player with the US Army Field Band, North Carolina Symphony and the Lyric Opera of Chicago Orchestra. Hands that Listen, Hands that Think, Hands that Talk N. Brooke Lieb In An Examined Life, Marjory Barlow says F. M. used to say his brains were in his hands. In Dare to be Wrong, Judy Leibowitz said Although the hands are non-doing, they do serve a dual function. They must sense what is taking place in the students body and at the same time give the Alexander messages for poise of the head and lengthening of the spine.... My thinking hands register (transcending verbalization or conscious recognition by me) what they feel and simultaneously and instantaneously communicate the Alexander Directions. The workshop will explore these ideas. N. Brooke Lieb, Director of Teacher Certification (2008present), received her certification from ACAT in 1989, joined the faculty in 1992, and served as Associate Director of Training at ACAT from 2006 to 2008. Brooke has been guest faculty at Vivien and Neil Schaperas Teacher Certification Program in Cincinnati. She has taught at C. W. Post College, St. Rose College, Kutztown University, Pace University, the Actors Institute, the National Theatre Conservatory at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Dennison University, and Wagner College; and has made presentations for the Hospital for Special Surgery, the Scoliosis Foundation, and the Arthritis Foundation; Mercy College and Touro College, Departments of Physical Therapy; and Northern Westchester Hospital . She trained under Judith Leibowitz, Deborah Caplan and Barbara Kent, and has done post-graduate studies with Barbara Kent, Vivien Schapera, Walter and Dilys Carrington, Glynn MacDonald, Ruth Murray, Elizabeth and Lucia Walker, Meade Andrews, Yehuda Kuperman, Missy Vineyard, Tommy Thompson, and Pedro de Alcantara, among others. Brooke maintains a teaching practice in NYC, specializing in working with people dealing with pain, back injuries and scoliosis; and performing artists.
1:30 p.m. 2:45 p.m. 20 teachers Repeats Saturday 1:30 2:45 p.m.

1:30 p.m. 4:30 p.m. 20 teachers & 3rd-year trainees Repeats Saturday 1:30 p.m. 4:30 p.m. Darts Double-Spiral Enlivened: Tools to Experience the Interplay of Primary and Secondary Rebecca Nettl-Fiol and Luc Vanier In this workshop, we explore the interplay of the primary and secondary curves and their role in Raymond Darts double spiral arrangement of the human body, through the use of straps as a teaching aid. Strategically wrapping the straps around the body or limbs can serve as a feedback mechanism that, when used with inhibition and clear direction, can enhance the experience of the curves and spirals in movement. We will then transfer these experiences into illustrating use of the arms and hands. Luc Vanier is an Associate Professor in the Dance Department at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee where he teaches ballet, Alexander Technique, and digital media. Originally from Montreal, he graduated from Lcole Suprieur de Danse du Quebec under Daniel Seillier. In 1998, he retired from Ohio Ballet. He both received his MFA from the University of Illinois and became a certified Alexander teacher in 2001 from ATCU. His research on linking the Alexander Technique, developmental movement and Ballet is at the forefront of integrating somatic work into dance curriculum and has been presented at various international conferences and workshops more recently at the International Association for Dance Medicine and Science conference in The Hague and the Freedom to Move 2010 conference in New York City. Rebecca Nettl-Fiol, Professor of Dance at the University of Illinois, UrbanaChampaign, is a teacher, choreographer, and author, specializing in the Alexander Technique and dance training. A faculty member at Illinois since 1982, she certified as an Alexander teacher with Joan and Alex Murray in 1990. She has been invited to teach and present her work throughout the U.S. and abroad, most recently for Alexander teachers in London and in Los Angeles, and with Luc Vanier at the National Dance Education Organization and International Association for Dance Medicine and Sciences conferences. Rebecca and Lucs teaching and research over the past 15 years has resulted in the book, Dance and the Alexander Technique: Exploring the Missing Link (University of Illinois Press, 2011) A Case Study: Addressing Attachment Trauma with the Alexander Technique Elizabeth Buonomo The use of touch and the intimacy of the student teacher relationship can evoke powerful parent/child themes, particularly for those with early trauma histories. Students with attachment wounds can benefit from a corrective experience with a caring, well-attuned Alexander teacher. Navigating this arena is a challenge, yet the principles of the Alexander work are particularly well suited for this purpose and can be considered another aspect of the use of the self. In this workshop, Elizabeth will present a case study of a student with a history of a distant, punishing mother who yearned for a more meaningful connection to himself and with others. She will address the challenges to the boundaries of the relationship as the student moved from a sense of loss from the past, a longing for his teachers affection, and the thrill of new ways of experiencing himself. She will demonstrate how the clarity of touch, the principles of inhibition and direction, and a meaningful, boundaried student teacher relationship helped both she and the student navigate this challenge and how both were changed by the experience. Since 1993, when she completed her training at the American Center for the Alexander Technique, Elizabeth has maintained a private practice in Bergen County, NJ. She has also taught in Austria, Japan and Switzerland and has produced the self-help CD Moving Mindfully. In 2003, Elizabeth earned a masters degree in social work from Fordham University and has worked extensively with victims of trauma. She is particularly interested in the psychological processes evoked in the Alexander work.
3:15 p.m. 4:30 p.m. 15 teachers Repeats Saturday 3:15 p.m. 4:30 p.m.
ACGM: Friday 6/28/2013 Saturday 6/29/2013

3:15 p.m. 4:30 p.m. 20 teachers The Experience of the Performer Leslie Falbain This workshop is an opportunity for Alexander Technique teachers to experience the means whereby performing artists train and prepare for live performance. The workshop is designed for the Alexander teacher who is not a performer, in order to give the teacher an actual experience of finding a balance between the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system while engaging in an activity in a higher adrenalized state. How to Teach Like F.M.: Secrets from the Movie Ron Dennis All that remains to us visually of F. M. Alexander in motion and at work resides in the short home movie made late in his life. You have probably watched this film on one or more occasions, but have you actually seen it? Speaking for myself, I viewed it on many occasions over several years before finally seeing what we will explore in this experiential workshop. We know, of course, that he told his trainees not to imitate him; they were to find their own way in teaching the principles. But with the Master in front of us, before our very eyes, why not try to see what we can learn from him? Ron Dennis has been teaching actively for over 30 years. After certifying in 1979 with Judith Leibowitz, he remained closely associated with the Center, serving as Board member and chair, faculty, and Executive Director, and also helped establish Alexander in the Music Department of the Juilliard School. He moved to Atlanta in 1990, where he maintains a private practice. Straight Talk Lauren Hill Are you able to speak to others about the Alexander Technique in a way that engages their attention and doesnt make their eyes roll? Each time you talk to someone about the Technique is an opportunity to either spark their interest or turn them off. As a professional Alexander teacher it is essential that you be able to answer the million dollar question What is the Alexander Technique? using clear, concise jargonfree language that the public can relate to. In this workshop learn what you need to craft your own answer that inspires your audience. Lauren Hill trained with Joan and Alex Murray and has been teaching the Alexander Technique in St. Paul, MN since 2003. In addition to her private teaching, Lauren has taught at the University of Minnesota, Bemidji State University, South Dakota State University, and Tainan National University of the Arts in Taiwan. Lauren served on the AmSAT Board of Directors from 2008-2012. Thoughtful, Preventative, Vague, Indirect - Considering Alexanders Directions George Lister This workshop is dedicated to exploring our own unique understanding of FM Alexanders directions. What did he mean by these words, what did he wish to accomplish, what did he want us to do and to not do? Why did he use these words and not others that may have been more familiar? Are these directions primary, or is there something else? George I. Lister began his studies of the Alexander Technique in New York City in 1986 and trained at the Center for The Alexander Technique in Menlo Park, California, certifying in1994. He has continued advanced studies with Troup Matthews in New York City, Frank Ottiwell, in San Francisco, and Walter Carrington in London. He maintains private teaching practices in San Francisco and Redwood City, CA, and is the founder and director of the Northern California Center for the Alexander Technique. Growing your Practice with Motivation and Ambition Morgan Rysdon This inspirational workshop will show you how to energize and realize the dreams you have for your ideal practice. With the help of your family, friends, social networks, and community your private teaching practice can grow as large as you can imagine. Teachers will create long-term and short-term goals for themselves that are ambitious and realistic. Together teachers will work to brainstorm action plans on how to execute these goals in an efficient and successful way. Acquiring and maintaining personal motivation and ambition will be
3:15 p.m. 4:30 p.m. 20 teachers
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Saturday 9:00 a.m. to 12 noon Unlimited trainees
9:00 a.m. 10:30 a.m. 20 teachers, trainees & associates Repeats Thursday 9:00 a.m. 10:30 a.m.
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discussed and tools will be provided for teachers to Morgan Rysdon received her teaching certification from the American Center for the Alexander Technique (ACAT) in New York City. She has a BA in acting and performing. To broaden her knowledge of the Technique, she has traveled abroad to study with teachers from Italy, France, Spain, Israel, Japan, Switzerland, and the Netherlands. She is a member of AmSATs Membership Committee and ACATs Website Committee. 9:00 a.m. to 12 noon Unlimited trainees Repeats Thursday 1:30 p.m. 4:30 p.m. Prone as a Procedure: Micro-spiraling to Lengthen and Widen from the Ground into Standing Clare Maxwell This workshop will be about the benefits of working in a prone, or face down relationship to the floor. For me, prone is one of the major innovations of the Dart Process work initiated by Joan and Alex Murray. Many people avoid this position because our noses and necks can get crunched, so Ive invented a support that I call The Launching Pad that Ive found to be incredibly helpful in alleviating those discomforts. Ill share some of the simple, playful practices that Ive discovered through the process of healing my own related shoulder and hip injuries. You will learn ways to use prone as a support for widening your own back, ways to access your natural rotational freedom within the AT frame work of inhibition, awareness, and direction, and ways to just have fun and improvise with the natural spiraling movements that support us as we rise to standing or release back into the support of gravity. I use prone to begin and end my teaching day often, and I also use it as a possible alternative to supine constructive rest for many of my students. Clare Maxwell is on the faculty of the William Esper Acting Studio and at Movement Research in NYC, where she has her private practice. Clare trained at ACAT in 2000 and certified in 2010 with Jessica Wolf in The Art of Breathing. She is also inspired by the Dart Procedure work of Joan and Alex Murray, and uses developmental movement as a framework within which to explore the principles of the Alexander Technique. Darts Double-Spiral Enlivened: Tools to Experience the Interplay of Primary and Secondary Rebecca Nettl-Fiol and Luc Vanier In this workshop, we explore the interplay of the primary and secondary curves and their role in Raymond Darts double spiral arrangement of the human body, through the use of straps as a teaching aid. Strategically wrapping the straps around the body or limbs can serve as a feedback mechanism that, when used with inhibition and clear direction, can enhance the experience of the curves and spirals in movement. We will then transfer these experiences into illustrating use of the arms and hands. Luc Vanier is an Associate Professor in the Dance Department at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee where he teaches ballet, Alexander Technique, and digital media. Originally from Montreal, he graduated from Lcole Suprieur de Danse du Quebec under Daniel Seillier. In 1998, he retired from Ohio Ballet. He both received his MFA from the University of Illinois and became a certified Alexander teacher in 2001 from ATCU. His research on linking the Alexander Technique, developmental movement and Ballet is at the forefront of integrating somatic work into dance curriculum and has been presented at various international conferences and workshops more recently at the International Association for Dance Medicine and Science conference in The Hague and the Freedom to Move 2010 conference in New York City. Rebecca Nettl-Fiol, Professor of Dance at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, is a teacher, choreographer, and author, specializing in the Alexander Technique and dance training. A faculty member at Illinois since 1982, she certified as an Alexander teacher with Joan and Alex Murray in 1990. She has been invited to teach and present her work throughout the U.S. and abroad, most recently for Alexander teachers in London and in Los Angeles, and with Luc Vanier at the National Dance Education Organization and International Association for Dance Medicine and Sciences conferences. Rebecca and Lucs teaching and research over the past 15 years has resulted in the book, Dance and the Alexander Technique: Exploring the Missing Link (University of Illinois Press, 2011)
1:30 p.m. 4:30 p.m. 20 teachers & 3rd-year trainees Repeats Friday 1:30 p.m. 4:30 p.m.

1:30 p.m. 4:30 p.m. 20 teachers Michael Frederick is available for private lessons Looking at the Essence of the Alexander Technique with 1st Generation Teachers Michael Frederick In this workshop we will offer watch parts of master classes with 1st generation teachers from the first Alexander Technique International Congress at Stony Brook University in 1986. We will have an open dialogue where we explore the essence of What is the Alexander Technique? Even thought these master teachers had different styles of teaching, their fundamental understanding of what the Alexander Technique is was in harmony. This is a great opportunity for teachers who never had the chance to work with Marjory Barlow, Walter Carrington, Marj Barstow, and Patrick Macdonald. See Michael Fredericks bio on page Hands that Listen, Hands that Think, Hands that Talk N. Brooke Lieb In An Examined Life, Marjory Barlow says F. M. used to say his brains were in his hands. In Dare to be Wrong, Judy Leibowitz said Although the hands are non-doing, they do serve a dual function. They must sense what is taking place in the students body and at the same time give the Alexander messages for poise of the head and lengthening of the spine.... My thinking hands register (transcending verbalization or conscious recognition by me) what they feel and simultaneously and instantaneously communicate the Alexander Directions. The workshop will explore these ideas. N. Brooke Lieb, Director of Teacher Certification (2008present), received her certification from ACAT in 1989, joined the faculty in 1992, and served as Associate Director of Training at ACAT from 2006 to 2008. Brooke has been guest faculty at Vivien and Neil Schaperas Teacher Certification Program in Cincinnati. She has taught at C. W. Post College, St. Rose College, Kutztown University, Pace University, the Actors Institute, the National Theatre Conservatory at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Dennison University, and Wagner College; and has made presentations for the Hospital for Special Surgery, the Scoliosis Foundation, and the Arthritis Foundation; Mercy College and Touro College, Departments of Physical Therapy; and Northern Westchester Hospital . She trained under Judith Leibowitz, Deborah Caplan and Barbara Kent, and has done post-graduate studies with Barbara Kent, Vivien Schapera, Walter and Dilys Carrington, Glynn MacDonald, Ruth Murray, Elizabeth and Lucia Walker, Meade Andrews, Yehuda Kuperman, Missy Vineyard, Tommy Thompson, and Pedro de Alcantara, among others. Brooke maintains a teaching practice in NYC, specializing in working with people dealing with pain, back injuries and scoliosis; and performing artists. Ways of Walking: A Biomechanical Approach to Walking and Working with Legs on the Table in Relationship to the Principles of Inhibition and Direction Nancy Romita Many of students in private practice of the Alexander Technique confuse the movement of the low back with the motion of the hip and the function of knees and ankles for walking. In this workshop, participants will acquire a functional awareness for teaching the relationship of hips, knee and ankles in walking in relation to Alexanders principles of inhibition and direction and learn a table protocol that encourages re-patterning the relationship of hip to knee to foot using Alexanders principles of inhibition and direction. Nancy Wanich-Romita has been both a private teacher and workshop facilitator in the Alexander Technique for 25 years. She has facilitated workshops for the Private Industry Council, JP Morgan Bank, IBM, Center for Poverty Solution, and the Annie E Casey Foundation. Since 1987, she has taught the Alexander Technique at Towson University. She has worked for McDermott Assoc. as facilitator in leadership training, movement training, and body language in public speaking. She has provided AT workshops for business leaders, physical therapists, teachers, and performers throughout the Mid-Atlantic region.
1:30 p.m. 2:45 p.m. 20 teachers Repeats Friday 1:30 p.m. 2:45 p.m.
1:30 p.m. 2:45 p.m. 20 teachers

1:30 p.m. 4:30 p.m. Repeats Thursday 3:15 p.m. 4:30 p.m. Giora Pinkas is available for private lessons Opposition and Harmony:Balancing Opposing forcesa Vital Skill for Living Giora Pinkas A practical perspective on thePrinciple ofOppositionemphasized by F.M Alexander.Giora will demonstrate certain procedures, explain his thinking processes and, if they wish, have participants practice on him and others for feedback. Giora Pinkas has been an Alexander Teacher for 45 years and a trainer of Alexander teachers for over 35 years. He has taught the Technique in Israel, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, England, France, Ireland, Japan and the United States. Giora trained with Patrick MacDonald, certifying in 1967. In 1974 Giora co-founded in San Francisco the first three-year teacher training course in the United States. In 1983 Giora established The Alexander Educational Center in Berkeley, CA, now internationally respected for its teacher training and postgraduate programs. When The Brain Cant Think Straight: Free the Hyoid Katherine Breen What happens during concussion and mild traumatic brain injuries (MTBIs)? In this workshop, we will discuss how to teach someone with a brain injury and why as Alexander teachers we would. We will look at the anatomy and developmental history of the hyoid apparatus and how it affects functioning and use. And we will look at hands-on practices appropriate to brain injuries. These practices build upon consistent and recurring explorations and selfobservations made during a personal journey to recovery. Since this time, these Alexander specific practices have been confirmed as powerfully effective with private students. The Alexander Technique can and should serve as a foundational treatment for injuries of the head, currently perplexing and of paramount importance to the medical community and our society. Table Work - Height of the Books and More Tom Vasiliades What do we, as teachers, do after the student lies on the table? This workshop will explore and investigate how to assess what is needed during table work and how to do hands-on work to maximize the benefits of table work. Tom Vasiliades was certified by ACAT in 1994. His post-graduate studies include work with the Carringtons and John Nicholls, among others. He is on the faculty of the New School for Drama, the Juilliard School and NYU undergraduate drama. He coaches student and professional actors in the Alexander Technique and character development. Tom is the founder of the Alexander Technique Center for Performance and Development in NYC. He is also on the faculty of ATNYC, a teacher-training course co-directed by John Nicholls and Nanette Walsh. Qualitative Standards Co-existing with Quantitative Requirements Carol Boggs and Ann Rodiger One of the gifts from the controversy over teacher certification requirements has been to take a step back and look at what constitutes competency as an AT teacher. Up until now we have relied solely on a number of quantitative hours. While it is true that there has been an agreed upon international requirement of 1600 hours, it may be time to begin to broaden our scope to include competency standards that co-exist with quantitative requirements. Qualitative assessment is notoriously challenging: who does it and what criteria are they using? Without grappling with the who issue, this workshop is designed as a round table discussion for those interested in pursuing the path of competency standards, by taking the first steps looking at what the criteria could be. This idea is not a new one, Ed Bouchard wrote a one page article in the winter 1990 NAS-TAT NEWS, Toward Qualitative Standards. Terry Fitzgeralds, 1600 and all that, appeared in Conscious Control: A Journal of the Alexander Technique , autumn 2007. Our own Teacher Certification Requirements found under Standards of Practice in the member handbook speaks to non-quantitative standards. Join us for a round table discussion exploring these ideas. Carol Boggs has a private practice in the Washington DC metro area. She has been teaching the AT since 1980 and continues to be
1:30 p.m. 4:30 p.m. 20 teachers
1:30 p.m. 4:30 p.m. 20 teachers & trainees
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interested in the underpinnings of the technique. With a strong dance and movement background, an interest in the inter-relationship between Biotensegrity and AT, Carol is intrigued with how thought informs use. See Ann Rodigers bio below. 3:15 p.m. 4:30 p.m. 20 teachers & trainees Alexander Technique in a Visual Arts/Animation Context Leah Zhang and Jane Brucker In this workshop we will examine the needs of the visual artist/animator in regards to self-care procedures, working at the easel, common concerns of good use in drawing activity, and application of Alexander principles to the creative process. How can the Alexander Technique help an artist/animator maintain their best use while drawing or animating? How can the Alexander Technique inform the artist about the anatomy of the life model or the creation of a character animation? Actress Leah Zhang creates innovative group Alexander classes for dancers, musicians, actors, and most recently animators and visual artists. She co-founded a popular group class in Los Angeles called Acting & Alexander Technique. Leah has been studying the Alexander Technique since 1999 and trained as a teacher at ATI-LA. She holds a Masters of Fine Arts degree from The Old Globe Theatre and draws from her theatre and improvisational training to create classes that help her students connect the Alexander Technique and their Art. Artist Jane Brucker creates installation art and sculpture that exhibit a strong tactile sensibilitysimultaneously exploring the visceral and the spiritual. In addition to her installations, she uses performance to engage the viewer through movement, sound, and ritual activity. Bruckers work has been exhibited at venues throughout the U.S. and internationally in Nepal, Germany, and the Czech Republic. She has been studying the Alexander Technique since 2001 and trained as a teacher at ATI-LA. She is a professor in the Department of Art and Art History at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles. Staying Free On the Stage: Acting Meets the Alexander Technique Daria Harper Okugawa During this workshop we will become familiar with the long list of things actors are responsible for as part of their profession and how any one of these aspects may become part of what an Alexander Teacher may be asked to assist with. We will discuss how to find out what specific obstacles the players may be facing and how to work with the director. We will look at structures you might use to set up working and what specific things you can do to address the problems with the time you are given. Daria Harper Okugawa is an actor and Alexander Technique teacher in Chicago. She obtained her BFA in acting from Carnegie Mellon University in 1978 and her MFA in acting from the University of Virginia in 2011. She trained at Alexander Technique Associates in London and built a private practice in Los Angeles before opening a teacher training course in Charlottesville, VA, in 1987. She opened Alexander Technique Training in Chicago in the fall, 2012. She has had the good fortune to work with teachers such as Walter Carrington, Peggy Williams, Patrick Mc Donald, Marjorie Barstow, Marjorie Barlow, Jean Clark, Joan and Alex Murray, Frank Ottiwell, John Nicholls, Ann Mathews and many others along the way. Working with Groups Robert Rickover This workshop will demonstrate effective ways of teaching the Alexander Technique in a group setting. You will learn how to work with individuals in a manner that is helpful to the group, and which use the observations of group members to assist the student youre working with. Robert Rickover graduated in 1981 from the School of Alexander Studies in London where he later served on the faculty. He studied for over fifteen years with master Alexander teacher Marjorie Barstow and frequently assisted her with group teaching.
Sunday 9:00 a.m. 10:30 a.m. Unlimited trainees Repeats Wednesday 9:00 a.m. 12 noon Daria Okugawa is available for private lessons
9:00 a.m. 10:30 a.m. 20 trainees Repeats Thursday 9:00 a.m. 12 noon
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1:30 p.m. 4:30 p.m. 20 teachers Ann Rodiger is available for private lessons From the Whispered Ah to Speaking and Singing Ann Rodiger We will work together to explore the whispered ah, taking it into speaking or singing for the first half of the session and then we will work with speaking and singing in a master class setting. Students from the workshop will be invited to read, speak or sing in front of the group. An accompanist will be available for those of you who would like to sing. Ann Rodiger is the founder and director of the Balance Arts Center and the Balance Arts Center Teacher Training Course. She has been teaching the Alexander Technique and movement for over 30 years in academic and private settings. She is skilled in Labanotation, Laban Movement Analysis, Bartenieff Fundamentals, Yoga, meditation, and various dance techniques. She maintains private practices in New York City, Berlin and Antwerp. She is the creator and producer of the Freedom to Move, Freedom to Play and co-creator of the Freedom to Act conferences. She has recently published a book, How To Sit: Your Body at Work. Front Crawl: The Stroke of Spirals Dan Cayer Conventional front crawl tends to be a flat locomotion across the water. In this dry-land workshop, we will experience how propulsion can occur through subtle shifts in body weight when a lengthening back supports the limbs. This can relieve pressure and pain on the shoulders and neck, which bear a large burden in the conventional stroke. Participants will be able to apply this choreography to enjoy a more intuitive swimming. Come see why front crawl can be a wonderful practice of spirals. Dan Cayer works in the field of pain, injury, and stress. After a serious injury left Dan unable to work or perform household tasks like cleaning dishes, he began studying the Alexander Technique. Certified by ACAT in NYC, Dan now teaches the AT as a method of recovering balance and well-being. He is also trained as a teacher in the Art of Swimming, showing students how to undo the habitual tensions and fear responses that impede progress in the water. Shinjin Embodied Practices of Movement and Meditation with Alexander Technique Procedures Sumi Komo Through integrating meditative and movement practices with the Alexander Technique we can awaken to Shinjin: the essential unity of body, mind, and heart. This journey leads us to experience effortless effort in everyday activity. Our wrong thinking gets in the way and leads to excessive tension and distortion (misuse). When we allow letting go and enter into a non-doing state of being we begin the process of resynchronizing, re-integrating and re-educating mind/body. This basic principle brings us to the fully awakened way of being human. The secret is not in the movement but in the readiness to act, to move, to choose, clarity in the moment. Alexander arrived at the only place, and the only moment in time, where change could begin. This place, or this moment in time was the instant that a stimulus to activity reached his consciousness. Sumi Komo trained in the UK with Patrick Macdonald and Shoshona Kaminitz and graduated in 1981. She lived in the UK and trained extensively with Marjorie Barlow. She has been training teachers of the Alexander Technique since 1990. Her work has focused on people of all ages and from all walks of life, especially professional dancers, actors, musicians, martial artists and athletes. She is a Zen Buddhist priestess in the lineage of Maezumi Roshi. She has been teaching Tai Chi Chuan, Qi Gong and Yoga for almost 3 decades. She is an Integral Yoga teacher and trained for the basic level IYI 200 Hour Certification. She has an M.A. in Dance, Psychology and Sports Medicine. She originally trained and danced professionally in New York City with Merce Cunningham, Carolyn Brown, and others in the Cunningham lineage.
2:00 p.m. 3:15 p.m. Teachers, trainees & associates Repeats Wednesday 3:15 p.m. 4:30 p.m. Thursday 9:.00 a.m. 10:15 a.m.
2:00 p.m. 5:00 p.m. 20 teachers & trainees Repeats Thursday 1:30 p.m. 4:30 p.m.
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2:00 p.m. 5:00 p.m. 20 teachers & trainees Inhibition, Undoing, Non-doing, and Stillness in Movement Phyllis Richmond We will explore the experiences of undoing, nondoing, and stillness in activity through the lens of inhibition and the practice of movement from Tai Chi Chuan. We will play with: letting go of one thing in order to do something else, expending only as much effort as necessary, letting natural forces (like gravity and pendular motion) move us, finding stillness in movement and movement in stillness to allow more comfortable, efficient, and effortless movement. Phyllis Richmond teaches at the University of North Texas College of Music, maintains private practices in Dallas and Arlington, TX, and teaches workshops at colleges, schools, and professional training programs around the region. She has studied Old Yang style Taijiquan since 1998 with Ho Chin-Han and recently made her fifth trip to train in Taiwan. Phyllis is the editor of AmSAT Journal. In 2012 she received AmSATs Distinguished Service Medal. Is the Alexander Technique something like yoga? Which one should I do? Deni Jones Has a potential student or interested passerby ever asked you these questions? Yoga and the Alexander Technique are two distinct disciplines, techniques, sciences, systems, yet they are also similar and have a similar intent. Yoga is about moving into stillness, mind, body and soul. Yoga asana (postures) should be practiced according to the Sacred Texts of yoga: with steadiness and ease, effortless effort. Does any of this sound familiar? In yoga practice, less is more, negating effort and over-effort are what we are after. We seek to find the spaciousness in stillness. Practices allow us to be more by doing less, be centered and at one, to be present. Our yoga practice often finds us trying too hard, getting in our own way, forcing with unnecessary tension and stress to get it right. In this workshop we will go through an asana (posture) practice and employ the fundamentals/elements of the Alexander Technique. Further to our own practice, we will look at ways in which we can offer practical help to our students who practice yoga and/or teach yoga. There will be time for discussion/questions and answers as well as asana practice. All levels of yoga experience are welcome! Deni Jones has taught yoga for over 35 years and came to AmSAT as a Teaching Member in 2009. The disciplines/ art forms/sciences of yoga and The Alexander Technique form Denis main work with ATYoga. Deni comes from a Theatre in Education background as well as in performance and directing. She was also a dancer, dance teacher, and English teacher. She lived for the past 38 years in the UK before returning home to the USA. To combine the best of yoga and the Alexander Technique towards ease and clarity in movement and body and spirit are the aims of her work.
3:30 p.m. 5:00 p.m. 10 teachers & 3rd-year trainees Repeats Thursday 3:15 p.m. 4:30 p.m.
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2013 AmSAT Annual Conference and General Meeting Preview Ambassadors for Good Use: Fostering Community, Diversity,

Lisa DeAngelis Planning Committee Chair

Friday 6/28/2013 12 noon

Sunday 6/30/2013 12:30 p.m. 1:30 p.m.

Pre-ACGM : Wednesday 6/26/2013

9:00 a.m. 12 noon 20 teachers, trainees & associates

Pre-ACGM : Wednesday 6/26/2013

1:30 p.m. 4:30 p.m. 20 teachers

1:30 p.m. 4:30 p.m. 20 teachers & 3rd-year trainees

Pre-ACGM : Wednesday 6/26/2013

1:30 p.m. 4:30 p.m. 12 teachers, trainees & associates

Pre-ACGM: Wednesday 6/26/2013

3:15 p.m. 4:30 p.m. 12 teachers, trainees & associates

Pre-ACGM: Thursday 6/27/2013

Pre-ACGM: Thursday 6/27/2013

9:00 a.m. 12 noon 20 teachers & trainees

9:00 a.m. 10:15 a.m. 10 teachers & 3rd-year trainees

Pre-ACGM: Thursday 6/27/2013

Pre-ACGM: Thursday 6/27/2013

1:30 p.m. 2:45 p.m. 10 teachers & 3rd-year trainees

1:30 p.m. 4:30 p.m. Unlimited teachers, trainees & associates

Pre-ACGM: Thursday 6/27/2013

Pre-ACGM: Thursday 6/27/2013

ACGM: Friday 6/28/2013

10:45 a.m. to 12 noon Trainees

Presentations TBD during ACGM: Friday Sunday Teachers

ACGM: Friday 6/28/2013

1:30 p.m. 4:30 p.m. 20 60 teachers, trainees & associates

ACGM: Friday 6/28/2013

ACGM: Friday 6/28/2013

ACGM: Friday 6/28/2013 Saturday 6/29/2013

3:15 p.m. 4:30 p.m. 20 teachers

3:15 p.m. 4:30 p.m. 20 trainees

Saturday 9:00 a.m. to 12 noon Unlimited trainees

ACGM: Saturday 6/29/2013

ACGM: Saturday 6/29/2013

1:30 p.m. 2:45 p.m. 20 teachers

ACGM: Saturday 6/29/2013

1:30 p.m. 4:30 p.m. 20 teachers

1:30 p.m. 4:30 p.m. 20 teachers & trainees

3:15 p.m. 4:30 p.m. 20 teachers, trainees & associates

ACGM: Saturday 6/29/2013 Sunday 6/30/2013

ACGM: Sunday 6/30/2013

ACGM: Sunday 6/30/2013

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