AmSAT Annual Conference and General Meeting

Name: Games for Hands and Feet Or How Our Extremities Boost Our Up!
Start: 2026-06-26T10:00:00-0400
End: 2026-06-26T11:30:00-0400

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

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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
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