Jenna Hokanson

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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Mike Maher

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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Matt Cahill

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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Jenna Hokanson

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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Ofelia Ruiz-Alonso

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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Kerry Ryer-Parke

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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Ofelia Ruiz-Alonso

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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Taylor Belew

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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Ann Rodiger

Join us for a final conversion with BAC Founder & Director Ann Rodiger to wrap up and reflect on the conference!

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