Join the Balance Arts Center in our second annual spring global conference on the Alexander Technique. BAC graduates from all over the world will come together to present workshops in their areas of interest and fields of expertise.
AT helps people find self-agency to understand their habits and improve their skills. The Alexander Technique work addresses fundamental aspects of our human movement, and the information is applicable and valuable to all levels of development and skill. By learning a process for enacting lasting change, people can participate more fully in their daily lives and enhance their artistry.
Our conference schedule accommodates students in different time zones and various languages. Everyone is welcome!
The all-inclusive conference pass is $115. Individual workshops and flow classes are $20 each. In an effort to make the AT work accessible, panels and lie downs are free of charge.
"I was so happy to learn alongside people from all over the world who share an interest in the Alexander Technique and body awareness… Every single class was so interesting that I wished I could have taken all of them!" - Momoko K.
Conference Features:
Over 30 workshops available
Daily AT Lie Downs
Discussion Panels with AT Teachers & Trainees
Presenters are BAC graduates from all over the world
Conference Passes are available for discounted participation
Below you will find the virtual conference program schedule. From there you can sign up for each workshop individually. If you would like to see all of the sign up links for the conference, click here. If you're looking to get the most out of our conference, click here to get a Conference Pass.
Please Note: All times listed are ET.
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Ann Rodiger
Start the BAC Virtual Conference with a review of the Principles and Concepts of the Alexander Technique. -
Experience a fresh, dynamic approach to string playing and teaching that starts with the body. This interactive online workshop helps you tap into flow, resonance, and ease using principles of the Alexander Technique. Explore how shifts in awareness can open space in the body, free the arms, and enrich your sound—while giving you practical tools to help you feel balanced, curious, and engaged with your whole selves in your music-making and teaching.
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Many of us move through the world every day carrying not just our own body weight but the additional weight of backpacks, purses, totes, and other everyday objects as well. In this experiential workshop, we will explore how to manage these objects in everyday life with maximum efficiency and minimal discomfort. Bring whatever bags you carry most!
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This 75 minute class guides you through fundamental movement patterns that help improve balance, coordination, and establish a sense of flow and connection in your mind and body. Class begins on the floor with time to let go into the ground and prepare yourself to move in new ways. You will also spend time on your stomach and then come to standing to apply your refreshed posture to balance and stability movements.
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Join this discussion about how the Alexander Technique can be directly applied to the performing arts! This panel of Alexander Technique Teacher Trainees will share their experiences of integrating their body of knowledge about their artform with the principles of the Alexander Technique. Panelists are members of the BAC Teacher Training Performance Practices class, a weekly seminar at the BAC to address both the technical and performance presence aspects of presentation.
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Explore how to take up space while being generous and even guarded when needed or desired. As performers or simply people existing in space, we have a right to be seen and heard. This begins first with listening in. Learn how to first and foremost be present with yourself so that you may be present with others right here, right now, moment to moment.
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Discover what it feels like to be grounded in your body and mind, available for whatever the present moment holds. In this workshop, we will not only look at what it means to be present in front of an audience, but also how we can use that performance experience as a way in to finding more presence in our daily lives. The Alexander Technique can help us harness our unique story and vulnerability, unlocking the potential for us to be our most authentic selves, through joyful exploration. In this workshop we will also touch on how the Alexander Technique informs the process of self-discovery and personal growth.
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Refresh yourself with a 30 minute guided AT Lie Down to start or end your day. Lie Downs are a recuperative AT practice that allows you to integrate your mind and body through releasing unnecessary tension, refining overall structural support, and calming your nervous system.
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Join the BAC’s Online & In Person Open House! This 1 hour session gives you the opportunity to meet with Training Course Director Ann Rodiger, and learn about the training programs, their structure and curriculum, and the BAC’s pedagogical point of view. Bring any questions you might have. We look forward to meeting you!
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このオンラインクラスは日本語でライダウンをガイドします。
1日の始まり、もしくは終わりに、25分間のライダウンで心身のリフレッシュをしましょう。
ライダウンは、不必要な緊張を手放し、身体の本来持っている構造的な助けを再発見し、心身を落ち着かせ、心と体の統合に役立つ、アレクサンダーテクニックの実践方法です。
Refresh yourself with a 30-minute guided AT Lie Down to start or end your day. Lie Downs are a recuperative AT practice that allows you to integrate your mind and body through releasing unnecessary tension, refining overall structural support, and calming your nervous system.
Friday
March 13th
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Refresh yourself with a 30-minute guided AT Lie Down to start or end your day. Lie Downs are a recuperative AT practice that allows you to integrate your mind and body through releasing unnecessary tension, refining overall structural support, and calming your nervous system.
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Learn to recognize signs of hypermobility in yourself and your students. Learn about how to manage those concerns in class, rehearsal, performance, and in daily life. Gain support in your own self-agency in handling your condition.
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Bryan Bisordi
Studying and teaching the Alexander Technique is not only a skill, but a practice. It asks us to develop command of the principles and to continually return to their embodiment in real time. This workshop will explore how we practice ease, balance, opposition, and the many other skills we work to hone without losing presence along the way. We’ll look at how to use repetition without it becoming rote, how to re-access renewed presence within movement, and how to direct attention while practicing. This workshop will include group discussion and interactive exercises.
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Hailey and Ann recently returned from a study trip to Toledo Spain to visit with Biotensegrity and cerebral palsy expert Leonid Blyum. They are delighted to share insights and findings from his work and how they relate to the Alexander Technique. This research will serve as the foundation for further efforts to share Alexander Technique as a rehabilitative tool with the CP community at large.
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Bring your curiosity to how to sit for playing drum sets or other musical instruments to play comfortably for long hours of daily practice and performance.
Sitting mindfully is a nice way to remind us of the head/neck/back relationship which makes our limbs available for playing instruments. Through exploration as a group, we will rediscover our connection with the ground to aid in our music creation. Feel free to bring your drumsticks, instruments etc. on screen!
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The well-known impetus for the founding of the Alexander Technique (at least among Alexander Technique teachers) is that F.M. Alexander kept losing his voice in performance. If vocalism was so central to the inception of the Alexander Technique, where is it now in the study and practice of the Alexander Technique, and why?
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Refresh yourself with a 30 minute guided AT Lie Down to start or end your day. Lie Downs are a recuperative AT practice that allows you to integrate your mind and body through releasing unnecessary tension, refining overall structural support, and calming your nervous system.
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Get together to chat and connect with other participants in the conference about the Alexander Technique. Ask questions, hear others' experiences, and meet people who are interested in expanding their awareness and improving their use. Ann will moderate the discussion, offer topics, and answer questions.
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A violin workshop on how the Alexander Technique can enhance mobility and reduce pain while playing the Violin with Q and A.
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This workshop will contemplate the function of emotions in the Alexander Technique work. We’ll explore the anatomy of emotions as related to the Stanley Keleman work and ALBA Emoting. Various acting methods will be explored including Stanislavski’s Emotional Memory, Meisner’s Emotional Preparation, Grotowski’s Corporeals, and more. We’ll ask several questions: Can emotional connection enhance the healing possible with the Alexander Technique? Can the AT work lead to more emotional health in everyday life? Bring your curiosity and opinions, and let’s explore.
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This workshop explores how to teach the Alexander Technique in multicultural, multilingual settings by focusing on the shared human experience of movement and awareness. We will address how to create a respectful, inclusive teaching environment that honors cultural differences while emphasizing our common ground. Learn to be simple, non-imposing, and adaptable to your students and the environment. This is an opportunity to deepen your teaching skills and learn to communicate across language barriers.
Saturday
March 14th
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Refresh yourself with a 30 minute guided AT Lie Down to start or end your day. Lie Downs are a recuperative AT practice that allows you to integrate your mind and body through releasing unnecessary tension, refining overall structural support, and calming your nervous system.
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Breathing affects far more than oxygen intake—it shapes our mood, stress levels, clarity of thought, and energy. In this experiential workshop, we’ll explore breathing through the Alexander Technique, with an approach that emphasizes awareness, reduction of unnecessary effort, and ease through better coordination.
Designed for anyone interested in improving their breath—performers, athletes, and non-performers alike—this session offers practical activities to deepen awareness of breathing as a whole-body process.
Through guided exploration and discussions, attendees will leave with a direct, embodied understanding of how working with their breath can positively affect both daily life and professional demands.
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Jessica Goldring & Heather Gardner
This workshop will provide time and space to take the pressure off and breathe. We will observe ways in which we habitually restrict our air flow and then learn how to soften and ease those tensions. We will also explore breath as a means to calm our nervous system, to re-connect with ourselves and our flow, and to enhance our creative sense of play.
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Alexander Technique as it is traditionally taught features inhibition followed by directions, both of which are often self-oriented. We notice what we ourselves are doing. We inhibit our own automatic response. We choose a means whereby that will lead ourselves to a more desired goal, and direct ourselves in that manner. It is groundbreaking and transformational work for an individual. The effects of the transformation outside of the individual themselves may be spoken about in training, but do not appear to be central to the Technique or its teaching. “The work" is often self-contained, mirroring priorities of the current western majority culture including individualism, self-reliance, meritocracy, potentiality, and universality.
In this workshop, we will explore bringing Alexander Technique’s embodied awareness to our relationships with time, place, season, food, people, plants, and animals. We will then invite one of the most powerful directions for right relationship with those things that sustain us - gratitude, spoken aloud. We will also leave time for your own exploration of “what is sustaining you right now that you are aware of? “what is sustaining you right now that you are not aware of?” “If you brought it into your consciousness, what would happen?” “Can you find and speak gratitude for that relationship?” Join me in asking how the Alexander Technique can be a part of building a more equitable, regenerative and kind world for all of us.
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in this workshop, we’ll use Alexander technique principles to explore entering an audition, the introduction, and what it means to take up space as an actor.
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Refresh yourself with a 30 minute guided AT Lie Down to start or end your day. Lie Downs are a recuperative AT practice that allows you to integrate your mind and body through releasing unnecessary tension, refining overall structural support, and calming your nervous system.
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The class begins in a semi-supine position on the floor, using sensory awareness and breath to support a balanced alignment. Contact and support from the floor provides stability for small movements of the arms and legs to flow from a sense of the body as a whole. Spatial direction cues invite awareness of resonant spaces in the body, then simple vocalizations are introduced to fill those newly discovered spaces with sound. Putting in pauses to release any habits or judgment, we will increase our stamina of awareness by adding more complex sounds and movements while sitting, prone, on all fours, and standing. Microphones will be muted to encourage playful experimentation. This class is an excellent foundation for anyone who wants to use their voice in an embodied way, or as a reset for voice users who get stuck in patterns of judgment or overthinking.
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An exploration of the Alexander Technique principles applied to playing the violin and viola.
By using awareness to fully inhabit our bodies and the space around us, we can then invite our instruments to vibrate at their full potential.
This workshop will consist of a series of awareness building experiments focused on assisting different technical aspects of string playing, such as:
-Resonance
-Supporting the violin/viola
-Bow hold availability
-Left-hand mechanics
Bring your violin/viola and join us!
*Si bien este taller será impartido en inglés, ofrecemos la posibilidad de explicar los conceptos y actividades en español para aquellos participantes que así lo necesiten.
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This workshop will explore the mechanics of everyday household activities. The key to decreasing long-term wear and tear of the body is expansive awareness in moments that seem to be commonplace. Using inspiration from the art of acting, we will consider and experiment with the quality of our time. Participants will practice strategies influenced by acting and the Alexander Technique to employ better physical use in daily tasks.
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Join us for a final conversion with BAC Founder & Director Ann Rodiger to wrap up and reflect on the conference!
Sunday
March 15th
Click below to read more about the presenters who are joining us for the Spring 2026 Virtual Global Conference!
If you would like to reach out to a presenter for a private lesson, email info@balanceartscenter.com and the BAC Team will connect you.
Learn more about our past conferences!
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Click here to learn more about the BAC’s Virtual Global Conference that took place in Fall 2025
Click here to learn more about the presenters who joined us for the Fall 2025 Virtual Global Alexander Technique Conference.
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Click here to learn more about the BAC’s inaugural Conference that took place in Spring 2025.
Click here to learn more about the presenters who joined us for the Spring 2025 Virtual Global Alexander Technique Conference.
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Click here to access recordings of Workshops, Panel Discussions, and Lie Downs from our 2025 Conference
“With the 2025 first global Alexander Technique conference, Ann Rodiger, founder of Balance Arts Center New York provided a platform that was transformational in its scope.” - Julie O.
