AmSAT Annual Conference and General Meeting

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10:00am EDT

From Dart on the Floor to Dart in the Chair to Refined Chair Work.

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

Limited Capacity full
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Let's explore going from 1) Dart procedures on the floor, to 2) Dart movements in a chair in preparation to standing, to 3) easy, guided standing. Navigating from the crude to the refined, you can ensure that any of your students — no matter how pulled down — can be guided to standing in the easiest way possible within the first 15-minutes of an Alexander Technique lesson.

Speakers

Brian McCullough

Minnesota Center for the Alexander Technique

Brian McCullough is the training director at Minnesota Center for the Alexander Technique since 2014. Additionally, he has served on the faculty at the University of Minnesota School of Music teaching Alexander Technique classes for 28 years. He trained with Joan and Alex Mur... Read More →

Thursday June 25, 2026 10:00am - 11:30am EDT
W4

Workshop

11:45am EDT

Full Volume, Full Presence

LIMITED

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

Limited Capacity seats available

In this workshop, we will develop our relationship to the ground and refine our directional pathways so that we can effectively center our students while teaching them to center themselves. Whether performing on stage or navigating daily life, "where we are" informs "how we are."

Together we'll deepen our spatial awareness by exploring circular and spherical movement patterns drawn from Tai Chi principles—then discover the balance and volume that synchronize stability and freedom in our hands-on practice. By the end of this workshop, participants will have gained practical tools for integrating this expanded spatial awareness into their teaching, enabling them to guide students with greater clarity, precision, and depth.

Speakers

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 →

Thursday June 25, 2026 11:45am - 1:15pm EDT
W4

Workshop

10:00am EDT

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

LIMITED

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

Workshop

10:00am EDT

Restoring sensory appreciation: how can we enjoy our performance more?

LIMITED

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

Limited Capacity seats available

This workshop is for Alexander Technique teachers who would like to enjoy the process of teaching more. Our work, at least in part, has a side effect of restoring a more reliable relationship with our own sensory appreciation. This phrase appears hundreds of times in F.M. Alexander's writings, usually with the caveat that you can't trust your feelings. My experience of the work was exactly the opposite - from the first experience I had, I began to trust them more! This has led me to use inhibition, awareness, and direction as guides in exploring all of our senses. I really enjoy guiding groups through a sequential experience of the 12 cranial nerves, with plenty of time for inhibition, returning to the whole self, rest, and exploratory movement. In this workshop that's exactly what we will do. It will be mostly experiential, since our time together is relatively short. Each participant will have the freedom to follow my somatic guidance through all 12 nerves, referring to developmental movement connections grounded in the Dart Procedures as well as more improvisatory movement prompts. Everyone will be given an information packet filled with accurate anatomy and physiology covering each nerve to support cognitive understanding, but we won't be covering all the information verbally.

Speakers

Clare Maxwell

Clare Maxwell trained in Alexander Technique at ACAT after a long career in experimental dance. She is certified in Jessica Wolf’s Art of Breathing and since 2007 continues a deep investigation of The Dart Procedures with Joan and Alex Murray, Luc Vanier and Elizabeth Johnson, and... Read More →

Saturday June 27, 2026 10:00am - 11:30am EDT
W4

Workshop

10:00am EDT

Tuning for Peak Performance

LIMITED

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

Limited Capacity seats available

In this workshop we will be exploring how the Technique enables optimal organization for movement and performance. There are many ways to define the Technique, but one very important one is as a means whereby to enable the most efficient and effective movement possible. While we are exploring this organization we will experience the coordination of a long spine with our suspension system, breath, balance, and environment and tool handling. We will also notice how Alexander’s directions describe this integration. In addition we will experience how the same organization for peak performance is close to the optimal quality of hands on teacher communication.

Speakers

Robert Britton

Robert Britton (Bob) trained as an Alexander Technique teacher with Frank Ottiwell and Giora Pinkas, and graduated in 1978. He taught the Alexander Technique to musicians at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music for 39 years. He has helped train Alexander Technique Teachers... Read More →

Sunday June 28, 2026 10:00am - 11:30am EDT
W4

Workshop

AmSAT Annual Conference and General Meeting

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AmSAT Annual Conference and General Meeting

10:00am EDT

Brian McCullough

11:45am EDT

Caren Bayer

10:00am EDT

Tommy Swanson

Lisa First

11:45am EDT

Jessica Wolf

Eleanor Taylor

10:00am EDT

Clare Maxwell

10:00am EDT

Robert Britton

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