AmSAT Annual Conference and General Meeting

You will be able to validate your attendance (Check-In to sessions) using your personal schedule.

10:00am EDT

Teaching the Alexander Technique to the Modern End-gainer

Thursday June 25, 2026 10:00am - 11:30am EDT

Limited Capacity seats available

You know that everyone would benefit from the Alexander Technique, but this kind of broad marketing doesn't help build your practice. Even worse, when you try to communicate the value of this work, your passion starts to sound like proselytizing! This workshop is designed for the teachers who know that they offer solutions to students in need, but struggle to communicate to people outside of chronic pain and performing arts communities. Serena pulls on her experience in both performing arts programs and high-level corporate workspaces to explain why Alexander Technique struggles to break out of the performing arts and how to change that. Beyond marketing, we'll discuss the challenges of working with people who are unfamiliar with body-work practices and help bridge the gap between their life and their wellness to uniquely place the Alexander Technique as the solution that best integrates with their goals and daily life.

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This workshop will largely be presentation and discussion based with interactive elements. This will make it highly accessible to teachers and trainees who are interested in a new perspective from a teacher working predominately outside of the performing arts space.

Speakers

Serena Venditto

Serena Venditto is an AmSAT certified Alexander Technique teacher who works with high-performing professionals who are good at control, but exhausted by the cost of it. She teaches people that chronic anxiety, pain, and tension are not necessary trades offs in an effort to meet your... Read More →

Thursday June 25, 2026 10:00am - 11:30am EDT
W3

Workshop

11:45am EDT

When Under Pressure How Practical Application of the Alexander Method Works

LIMITED

Thursday June 25, 2026 11:45am - 1:15pm EDT

Limited Capacity seats available

This workshop can give participants practical tools to perform with more ease, confidence, and authenticity in many different areas of life, regardless of their starting point, background, or ability level.

From someone giving a birthday party speech to even the most experienced leaders, lecturers, professional musicians, or just an Alexander Technique teacher explaining the work to a group of new people will often experience some degrees of performance anxiety. This workshop will give valuable insights to be able to help others while “performing”.

Just walking up to the “hot spot” — that place where all eyes turn toward you — can make your heart race, your hands grow cold, and your breathing turn shallow. The anticipation of what others expect before you even begin often builds more tension than the act of speaking itself. For some, just being in front of people is enough to send nerves unraveling.

Performance Anxiety — A Different Way to Understand It

Performance anxiety is NOT “all in your head.”

In reality, it’s something your whole body does.
When you feel watched, judged, or under pressure, your nervous system reacts automatically. Your neck tightens. Your shoulders lift. Your breath gets shallow. You may grip your jaw, you feel cold sweaty hands, you rush your speech, or feel your heart pound. None of this means you’re incapable — it means your body is preparing for threat.

The problem isn’t the feeling. It’s the extra tension when nervous that interferes with how naturally you move, speak, and think.

When your body stops bracing, your breath deepens on its own. Your voice steadies. Your thinking becomes clearer. You remain alert — but not rigid.

This work is especially helpful for:

* Public speaking
* Auditions or performances
* Teaching or presenting
* High-stakes meetings
* Everyday situations where you feel under scrutiny

Performance anxiety doesn’t have to control you. With practice, pressure becomes something you can meet with steadiness, clarity, and ease.

Speakers

Kecia Chin

Kecia Chin is an experienced Teacher of the Alexander Technique specializing in performance, posture re-education, and conservative spine care. After earning her theatre degree from Carnegie Mellon University, she completed her Alexander Technique training at the American Center for... Read More →

Thursday June 25, 2026 11:45am - 1:15pm EDT
W3

Workshop

10:00am EDT

Osteoporosis & the Alexander Technique: Coordination, Confidence, and Intelligent Loading A 90-Minute Workshop for Alexander Technique Teachers

LIMITED

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

Limited Capacity seats available

Osteoporosis is often framed as fragility or a condition of shrinking, bracing, and avoiding. In response, many well-meaning professionals (and AT practitioners) adopt protective strategies that inadvertently increase rigidity, fear of movement, and even fall risk. But bone is not glass. It is living, dynamic tissue that responds to how force travels through the body.
This 90-minute workshop is designed specifically for Alexander Technique teachers who want a clear, research-informed understanding of osteoporosis and a nuanced approach to working with this population. We will explore current medical definitions and screening criteria as outlined by organizations such as the National Osteoporosis Foundation and the World Health Organization, while translating this information into practical, coordination-based teaching strategies.
Rather than focusing solely on what to avoid, this workshop emphasizes what we can restore: efficient load transfer, dynamic adaptability, and confidence in movement.
Together we will explore:
Common postural adaptations in individuals diagnosed with osteopenia or osteoporosis
The controversy around spinal flexion, yoga postures, and how to approach bending with clarity
How over-cueing “don’t round” can create stiffness and increase compressive forces
Practical applications of Primary Control and Position of Mechanical Advantage to distribute force safely and efficiently
Teaching strategies for chair work, hip hinging, constructive rest modifications, and weight transfer
The psycho-physical dimensions of fear of falling and how AT principles reduce co-contraction and rigidity
A brief overview of “conservative treatments” available for low bone density including nutrition, jump/step training, vibration therapy, weight training (following the LiftMore research-based protocol), and the controversy around calcium and supplements.
We will examine how bracing, collapse, and anticipatory tightening alter load distribution and how direction, widening, and integrated movement can improve shock absorption and stability. Participants will engage in experiential activities that highlight the difference between protective stiffening and coordinated support.
Special attention will be given to language. Messages rooted in fragility can unconsciously amplify fear, while messages grounded in adaptability support resilience. As practitioners, we are uniquely positioned to help clients/students experience strength emerging from coordination rather than force.
Our role is to improve use, which in turn, influences how force travels through the skeletal system.
This workshop is appropriate for everyone, especially those who work with populations with low bone density. It is especially relevant for those teaching balance classes, working with clients who have kyphosis or fracture history, or navigating the widespread confusion about flexion, twisting, and safety.
Participants will leave with:
-A clear conceptual model of osteoporosis
-Practical, teachable movement applications
-Refined language to reduce fear-based rigidity
-Greater confidence in working with bone-density and fracture concerns
-Awareness around research-based conservative treatments available
Bone responds to intelligent use. When the head releases forward and up, when the back widens, when the legs receive weight dynamically, we are not merely “protecting” bone we are supporting its living adaptability.
This workshop invites a shift from fragility to function, from avoidance to awareness, and from fear to coordinated strength.

Speakers

Kristin Mozeiko

Kristin Mozeiko is the founder of ART of Releasing and an AmSAT-certified Alexander Technique teacher. She completed her three-year training at ATNYC in 2006 and later became a certified Releasing coach in 2019.
Dr. Mozeiko served on the faculty of Queens College from 2005–2019, where she taught music education, conducted the wind ensemble, and integrated the AT into music study and performance. She has also guest lectured at music colleges and universities and taught on the faculties of... Read More →

Friday June 26, 2026 10:00am - 11:30am EDT
W3

Workshop

11:45am EDT

AT spirals and ease in violin and viola playing

LIMITED

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

Limited Capacity seats available

This workshop is geared towards string players, violists and violinists in particular, as well as AT teachers and trainees interested in learning various approaches to working with musicians.
The workshop revolves around answering one question: how do we embody ease while playing a string instrument?

In service of asking this question, the workshop is structured to cover the following sections:

Applied AT principles:

-Biotensegrity - release and muscle tone
-Head - Neck - Back (& pelvis)
-Breath
-Oral seal
-Solar plexus release
-The hand loop - oppositional flow and throughness
-Arm spirals
-Reliable sensory appreciation - individual hands-on and mirror work
-The ground - heels and big toes
-Ankles - knees - hip joints
-Spirals and the underneath support

String playing:

-Collarbones
-The chinrest - opposition and the oral seal
-Left-hand finger throughness - dexterity and vibrato
-Bow hand - counterspirals, tone and articulation
-Resonance
-Some challenges:
Protection instinct - fetal position
Pelvis orientation and rotation
Left-shoulder away from right hip
-Musical habits and everyday life
-Local and global focus
-Q & A

The order of these topics are meant to build on each other, moving the applications of the AT principles from the general to the specific, and back to a bigger picture for a holistic integration.

This presentation is a boiled-down exposition of my current understanding of how the Alexander Technique can enhance the wellbeing and performance of musicians. It is also an autobiographical account of my continuing journey of integrating AT work with my music teaching and performing practices.

This workshop is designed to accommodate for the following types of attendees: music students and teachers, as well as AT trainees and teachers interested in working with musicians. The activities can vary their focus and implementation based on the ratio of attendees. AT teachers and trainees may be invited to assist in giving hands-on to musicians with less AT experience.
Additionally, I may offer hands-on to a selection of attendees during the various activities.

The pacing of the workshop would also vary, for example, with less time spent in the first half of the program if the majority of attendees have a high level of experience with AT work. This would allow more time for exploring string specific topics in more detail, as well as a lengthier Q & A.

Activities can be adapted to standing or sitting depending on the needs of all involved.
Which also pairs perfectly with string playing, which often requires a knowledge of how to work in both scenarios.

Speakers

Ofelia Ruiz-Alonso

Ofelia is a violist and an AT teacher based in Tijuana, Mexico.
As an Alexander teacher, she is both an active member of the American Society for the Alexander Technique (AmSAT), and the Mexican Association of Alexander Technique Teachers (APTAM).

She trained under Ann Rodiger in N... Read More →

Friday June 26, 2026 11:45am - 1:15pm EDT
W3

Workshop

10:00am EDT

Teaching Proprioception Using Life Size Bone Models

LIMITED

Saturday June 27, 2026 10:00am - 11:30am EDT

Limited Capacity seats available

Description: Life size models of bones can help clients begin to quickly direct themselves and apply the AT principles on their own away from sessions. By giving clients simple, clear information about their bones and how to locate proprioceptively the spaces between their bones, you can help them start to shift away from their traditional concepts of balance, alignment, and posture. Your clients can gain greater confidence, independence, and skill with more agency and reliability.

Joints are lively sites of bony relationships. Stability can be redefined for your clients as whole-person, integrated, and coordinated mobility happening inside their joints, instead of the traditional concept of stability as rigidity through locked joints.

This workshop will introduce new ways of teaching joint proprioception with clarity using bone models and image cueing language. We will include locating relationships between:

• The skull and jaw; and the skull, atlas, and axis.
• The calcaneus, sesamoid bones, and talus.
• The hip sockets and femur.
• The talus, tibia, and femur.
• The clavicle, scapula, and humerus, offering excellent ways to quickly free up that common “tight neck and shoulders” complaint that so many clients bring to their initial AT lessons.

Speakers

Monika Gross

MONIKA GROSS, BFA, MSME/T, M.AmSAT, M.STAT, M.ATI, M.ISMETA
BFA Drama/UNC School of the Arts.

Co-owner
FORM FITNESS FUNCTION Private practice offering AT and Pilates services.

Executive Director, THE POISE PROJECT
Nonprofit formed in 2016 with the mission to help the public maintain poise, dignity, and personal growth throughout all stages and challenges of life using Alexander technique (AT) principles by introducing alternatives to current private practice/private pay economic models, initiating... Read More →

Saturday June 27, 2026 10:00am - 11:30am EDT
W3

Workshop

10:00am EDT

Presence in Thought & Action at Any Speed: An Exploration of Pace, Timing, and Movement

LIMITED

Sunday June 28, 2026 10:00am - 11:30am EDT

Limited Capacity seats available

We put thought to action every day, creating the movements and expressions that occupy our waking world, and at the intersection between thought and action lies agency. Yet our lives require navigating many different paces in daily activity, artistic performance, and the practice of our craft. How do we direct ourselves through the tempos of our actions? Do you think of speed as big or small, as “how much” or “how soon”? What happens when we need to change speed in the moment?

This workshop dives into how we use the Alexander Technique to maintain presence across the spectrum of speeds. Together, we’ll clarify what we mean by pace and speed, discuss the cultural assumptions we inherit about time, and explore how those ideas shape the way we direct ourselves. Experiential group activities will explore the intersection of thought and action, and what it is like to navigate tempo in real time. We will also examine where our attention sits in the moment (front, middle, or back of an action) and how that choice affects pacing, urgency, and coordination. Drawing on over 20 years of professional drumming experience, Bryan will also give an inside look at how the Alexander Technique helps drummers navigate four-way coordination (where the four limbs may move at different speeds within the same musical tempo), and how anyone can use multi-limb awareness to maintain flow within the whole.

Join for an educational, exploratory, and interactive session toward having choice at any speed.

Activities can be done seated and will be self-selecting. Participation in activities is not required for attendance, and individualized hands-on practice will not be included. The workshop is designed to be accessible to the general public and practitioners, and to participants with diverse needs and abilities.

Speakers

Bryan Bisordi

Bryan Bisordi is a professional drummer, bassist, educator, and AmSAT-certified Alexander Technique teacher. He is dedicated to bringing the Alexander Technique to more people and communities, and to expanding the scope of study surrounding AT.

Bryan holds a performance degree in Jazz Studies and studied for many years with legendary drum teacher Michael Carvin. Drawing on extensive work in drum technique and movement mechanics, he teaches professional and amateur drummers to refine coordination and control, expand artistry... Read More →

Sunday June 28, 2026 10:00am - 11:30am EDT
W3

Workshop