AmSAT Annual Conference and General Meeting

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10:00am EDT

Games for Hands and Feet Or How Our Extremities Boost Our Up!

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

Limited Capacity seats available

This class offers an opportunity to explore the nuances and possibilities in how we access our awareness and use our extremities. While we rely on our hands and feet for daily activities we often don’t give them our full attention either in what they are doing or how they relate to our sense of self. This workshop serves as an exploration of their form, function, coordination and relationship to the whole through play that is designed to pique our interest in what hands and feet do.

The workshop will begin with playful movement explorations designed to highlight awareness of the extremities, especially the hands and feet. These exercises can be performed individually and are easily adaptable and accessible to use with students. We will then work in pairs or small groups to explore what we “see, feel, sense” in ourselves and in others while exploring movement patterns and coordination. Sensing how the fingers/wrist/elbow respond to and activate shoulder and back. Or how the movement of the foot affects the hips and spine or visa versa. As we continue our explorations we will also look at how renewed interest in the extremities can activate our “up” and a fuller expression of ease.

Speakers

Karla Booth DIamond

Karla Booth Diamond, AmSAT is a senior teacher of the Alexander Technique graduating from ACAT 1990. Her teaching experience includes conducting Alexander Technique workshops across the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Sweden. Karla has extensive experience teaching... Read More →

Peggy Florin

Peggy Florin, M.AmSAT is a teacher, dancer, choreographer, clown trained at the Manhattan Center for the AT with Caren Bayer graduating in 2014. In her life before AT she was on the dance faculty at Bennington College. She later taught dance and the AT at Bard College where she is... Read More →

Friday June 26, 2026 10:00am - 11:30am EDT
W5

Workshop

11:45am EDT

RIAT: A Continuous Beginning

LIMITED

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

Limited Capacity seats available

RIAT invites you to explore the core skills taught at our NYC training course—rooted in the classical procedures of the Alexander Technique and simultaneously moving forward to meet our changing world. Participants will have the opportunity to receive and practice hands-on work led by RIAT faculty, in a collaborative, multi-generational, and multi-perspective space.

Speakers

Ariel Carson

Caren Bayer

Caren Bayer was the director of Manhattan Center for the Alexander Technique, which certified teachers from 2001-2014. She received her certification in London from Patrick MacDonald in 1984 and since has maintained a private practice in New York City, as well as teaching Post Graduate... Read More →

Nanette Walsh

RIAT Teacher Training : RIAT, and its Teacher Certification Program (TCP), was founded by Nan Walsh in 2014, and joined by Caren Bayer, Lori Schiff, and Ariel Carson as co-leaders. RIAT emerged from the necessity for a new paradigm of Alexander Technique teacher training: one that... Read More →

Friday June 26, 2026 11:45am - 1:15pm EDT
W5

Workshop