AmSAT Annual Conference and General Meeting

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10:00am EDT

Exploring the Principles of the Alexander Technique with People with Diverse Abilities in Group Settings

Friday June 26, 2026 10:00am - 11:30am EDT

Limited Capacity seats available

Facilitated by: Lisa First M.AmSAT, MA; and Tommy Swanson M.AmSAT, LPMT, MT-BC

We often teach the Alexander Technique with expectations as to the functioning and behavior of our students. In this workshop, we cover a broad spectrum of life-experience, and our joint experiences teaching people with psycho-physical disabilities. These may include developmental disabilities, motor disabilities, visual impairments, & levels of hearing.

We receive from our students with disabilities in the present, and we meet them where they are. This requires intelligent thinking, while remaining true to the Alexander Technique principles. How can we receive and be open to our inner resources to support our disabled students' learning? In this workshop, we will discuss how to inspire our students to embrace and enjoy connection within a group setting.

We welcome you to our community to have a new experience working with people with and without disabilities. Please join us as we support learning to feel more comfortable and increasing confidence in supporting people with disabilities. Learn how to create a space that is accessible for all, and some ways to approach a variety of disabilities.

Through the use of small groups and workshop specific shared activities, we will offer exciting new ways of working. Let us guide you through a new ways of thinking and being.

We will also explore working with clients in wheel-chairs, how to work in and out of chairs online and in person. Additionally, we will share the use of hands and language, including sign language and visual language, when supporting people with developmental disabilities. We will examine working with students that are blind and deaf, and how their perceptions of self can be greatly supported by how we as teachers use ourselves.

Lisa and Tommy look forward to sharing the work we are doing as skilled Alexander Technique Teachers who support people with disabilities!

Speakers

Tommy Swanson

Lisa First

Friday June 26, 2026 10:00am - 11:30am EDT
W4

Workshop

11:45am EDT

Jessica Wolf In Conversation with Eleanor Taylor: Meeting the Moment Through Breath

LIMITED

Friday June 26, 2026 11:45am - 1:15pm EDT

Limited Capacity seats available

In this conversation, Jessica Wolf and Eleanor Taylor explore the development of Jessica Wolf’s Art of Breathing– from Jessica’s 20-year relationship with Carl Stough to her 26 years at the Yale School of Drama. Together, they will explore how breath fuels us through times of uncertainty and change, and how it can enliven the Alexander Technique to better meet the needs of today’s students. Every breath is an invitation to meet a new moment.

This session can accommodate 100 people, and is open and accessible to all interested participants.

Speakers

Jessica Wolf

Jessica Wolf, AmSAT, is an internationally-recognized teacher of the Alexander Technique and Professor Emerita in the Practice of Acting at David Geffen School of Drama at Yale, where she established its first Alexander Training curriculum in 1998. Jessica’s teaching career spans... Read More →

Eleanor Taylor

Eleanor Taylor is a Lecturer in Acting at Yale’s David Geffen School of Drama. She maintains a private teaching studio in Manhattan, where she specializes in working with actors and singers to improve performance, reduce anxiety and prevent injury through the Alexander Technique... Read More →

Friday June 26, 2026 11:45am - 1:15pm EDT
W4

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AmSAT Annual Conference and General Meeting

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AmSAT Annual Conference and General Meeting

10:00am EDT

Tommy Swanson

Lisa First

11:45am EDT

Jessica Wolf

Eleanor Taylor

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