ATTGP offers monthly online Alexander Technique workshops for the public on a variety of topics.
The workshops will be conducted on Zoom and cost only $10 to attend.
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2026 ATTGP Workshops:
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Skill-Building in the Alexander Technique:
How F.M. Alexander’s 4 Principles Work For You in Daily Life
with Diane Young Sussman
Wednesday, February 18, 2026
6:00 -7:00 PM US Eastern Time
Zoom
In this workshop we will look at the Primary Control through the lens of Awareness, Inhibition, Direction, and The Means Whereby, the 4 basic principles of the Alexander Technique, and do some simple movement practices to deepen our understanding of the very practical nature of the work of living with more freedom and ease.
Diane Young Sussman has been teaching the Alexander Technique since 1987. Her life as a dancer in NYC was compromised early with lower back pain, and she came upon this work as a true healing and deepening of awareness in movement. Diane went on to choreograph and perform for many years, adding her private teaching, and training of teachers (ACAT from 1987-2012), and working with performers at Stony Brook University and Montclair State College. The Alexander Technique invites deeper presence of body and mind continuously and Diane’s mission is to bring more and more people into the technique both for personal gain, and global change. More information at: www.bodymindbalance.net.
Cost: $10
Register at: https://www.doorwaystotheself.com/workshop-at/at-workshop-attgp
Any questions, contact Diane at: diane.bodymind@verizon.net
Arms in Action: Ease and Support in Everyday Use
with Heather Gardner
Saturday, March 21, 2026
10:30-11:30 AM US Eastern Time
Zoom
How do you use your arms when typing, texting, cooking, or playing an instrument? Many of us tighten the neck and shoulders without even realizing it.
In this experiential online workshop, we’ll explore how the arms are supported by the back and whole body, allowing greater freedom and less strain. Our main activity—hands on the back of a chair—offers a simple, powerful way to experience improved coordination and ease.
You’ll leave with practical tools to reduce tension and bring more lightness to everyday activities and playing. No prior experience necessary—just bring a stable chair and curiosity.
Heather Gardner is an Alexander Technique teacher and musician living and teaching in Philadelphia, PA and Sevilla, Spain. She is on the faculty of the Balance Arts Center in New York City and maintains an in-person and online studio teaching Alexander Technique and Voice lessons.
More information at: heathergardnerstudio.com
Cost: $10
Contact Heather to register at: https://heathergardnerstudio.com/contact
Exploring Systems of Balance through Alexander Technique & Functional Awareness®
with Nancy Romita
Saturday April 25, 2026
9:00 -10:OO AM US Eastern Time
Zoom
Balance is not a station you arrive at, it is a way of traveling
This workshop explores balance through Alexander’s principles of sensory appreciation, inhibition and direction. Each person navigates balance through a unique body construct and varied learning styles. This workshop honors these learning differences and provides Functional Awareness® verbal, auditory, visual, tactile, and proprioceptive cueing prompts to help support Alexander’s ‘thinking processes’ and encourage stability. Functional Awareness® is a somatic approach that draws on current research in functional anatomy and motor learning to design strategies easily integrated into one’s Alexander Technique practices to deepen body understanding, improve movement skills, and foster self-agency.
Nancy Wanich-Romita (MFA, RSME, M.AmSAT RYT) is an Alexander Technique Teacher, dance educator, yogi, keynote speaker, & co-author of Functional Awareness and Yoga and Functional Awareness Anatomy in Action for Dancers published by Oxford University Press. Romita is a Teaching professor at Towson University, former director of Alexander Technique Midatlantic Teacher Training, initiated Johns Hopkins Hospital (https://www.hopkinsmedicine.
Cost: $10
To register for the session and receive the Zoom link please email: functionalawareness@gmail.com
Making Friends with Your Aches and Pains
with Judith Saxton
Tuesday, May 19, 2026
11:00 AM – Noon US Eastern Time
Zoom
Do you have ongoing challenges with recurring aches or pain? Are some of your activities hobbled by insistent messages of ‘too much’ in the guise of discomfort? Does some therapy/exercise that is supposed to help instead cause more hurt?
Whether nagging, intermittent, or incessant, our aches and pains are alongside us for our life’s journey. Similar to allergies, colds, and sprains, they can stop us in our tracks, or at the very least cause a modification of our activities. As we use our bodies occasionally beyond what is intended or simply inhabit a way of moving that doesn’t align with our innate design, our bodies can speak to us – loudly and persistently, as required, until we begin to listen, and recognize the gift that pain can signal.
Befriending your whole self, pain included, is step one to appreciating this wisdom-system your body provides. Offering ongoing feedback, your aches and pains, when welcomed, can be the catalyst for a course direction in thinking, leading to a life of different possibilities and abundant choices.
Join in to explore
How saying NO in activity
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- allows for making friends with your body’s unique wisdom and needs.
- provides an opening to choose a response, including
Saying YES to our broader resources within
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- always available
- heightened by welcoming our aches into our full brain/body experience in the here and now.
A 35-year musician and educator, Judith Saxton has studied Alexander Technique since1991. She is a 2015 graduate of the NC Teacher Training program of Chesapeake Bay Alexander Studies and a Certified teacher and Board Member with Alexander Technique International (ATI). She has ‘Boosted the Brain-Body Bond’ for both individuals and groups of all ages world-wide. Judith offers transformational guidance via undoing and unlearning, whether online or in-person. She offers guest artist residencies that incorporate her somatic and musical worlds to amplify her students’ ‘voice’ and creativity, and as founder of ‘Rest, Rejuvenate, and Recreate Artist Retreat for Women 50+’. Judith is a Registered Somatic Movement Educator (R.S.M.E). of the International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association (ISMETA). More information at: judithsaxton.com
Cost: $10
Contact Judith to register at: https://www.judithsaxton.com/contact-6
The Essence of Your Presence: Is “Being” Enough?
with Anne Johnson
Monday, June 8, 2026
12 Noon -1:00 PM US Eastern Time
Zoom
What does “Being” mean to you? Do you feel you have to “Do” something to “Be” enough?
Informed by 30 years teaching the Alexander Technique, join Anne in an interactive exploration around the quality of our attention…what do we choose to focus on, what beliefs do we have about ourselves and does this influence how we feel in our body and in our life? What conditions need to be present to allow for a sense of both peaceful and empowered presence?
Anne Johnson has been teaching the Alexander Technique for 29 years to individuals and groups across the globe, in her private Philadelphia studio, the Mt Airy Learning Tree, as well as businesses in Philadelphia and surrounding areas. She taught at the Boyer College of Music at Temple University for 15 years. Her teaching practice includes both in-person and remote lessons and workshops. Anne finds pleasure in sharing the benefits of this rich body of work with people of all ages, skill levels, diverse professions and backgrounds.
More information at: www.alexandertechphiladelphia.com
Cost: $10
To register, contact Anne at annebeingwell@gmail.com.
Summer Pause
Letting Go of the Result: Non-End-Gaining as a Creative Practice
with Heather Gardner
Saturday, September 19, 2026
10:00-11:00 AM US Eastern Time
Zoom
Every creative person knows the trap: reaching so hard for the right brushstroke, the right sound, the right idea that the reaching itself gets in the way. In Alexander Technique, we call this “end-gaining” — fixating on the outcome instead of trusting the process that gets you there.
This workshop will explore how releasing that grip on the outcome changes not just how you move, but how you think and create. Through simple, practical exercises, we’ll work directly with the tension that builds up around forcing a result, and discover what becomes possible when you stay present with the process instead of straining toward the outcome. No artistic background or prior Alexander Technique experience required — just a willingness to slow down and notice what happens when you let go of the outcome.
Heather Gardner is an Alexander Technique teacher and musician living and teaching in Philadelphia, PA and Sevilla, Spain. She is on the faculty of the Balance Arts Center in New York City and maintains an in-person and online studio teaching Alexander Technique and Voice lessons.
More information at: heathergardnerstudio.com
Cost: $10
Contact Heather to register at: https://heathergardnerstudio.com/contact
The Dance of Everyday Movement:
Recognizing Patterns and Supporting Direction
with Elizabeth Johnson, Luc Vanier, and Rebecca Nettl-Fiol
Sunday, October 25, 2026
10:00 AM – Noon US Eastern Time
Zoom
How can recognizing movement patterns help Alexander Technique teachers orient themselves within a lesson? In this introductory workshop, Luc Vanier, Elizabeth Johnson, and Rebecca Nettl-Fiol will share material from their upcoming book, The Dance of Everyday Movement: A Framework for Whole Body Integration. Together, they co-developed the Framework for Integration, an approach to observing and working with the developmental patterns through which the whole body organizes movement.
Through accessible movement explorations and practical applications, participants will investigate how recognizing these patterns can clarify what they observe in themselves and their students—and support a teacher’s use of Direction. Rather than presenting another set of positions or “correct” movements, the Framework for Integration offers a way to appreciate the intelligence within a person’s existing organization and offer Directions responsive to the individual, the activity, and the present moment.
Luc Vanier, Elizabeth Johnson, and Rebecca Nettl-Fiol are Alexander Technique teachers, movement educators, co-developers of the Framework for Integration, and co-authors of the upcoming book The Dance of Everyday Movement: A Framework for Whole Body Integration.
Luc Vanier is a professor of dance, choreographer, author, founding director of the University of Utah School of Dance, and Training Course Director of Salt Lake City Alexander Technique. He co-directs Integral Movement Research and teaches the Framework for Integration internationally. He is also co-author of Dance and the Alexander Technique: Exploring the Missing Link
Elizabeth Johnson is a dance educator, performer, choreographer, Alexander Technique teacher, and director of dance at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She co-directs Integral Movement Research and teaches the Framework for Integration internationally.
Rebecca Nettl-Fiol is a professor of dance at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where she teaches dance anatomy and kinesiology, Alexander Technique, and somatic approaches to dance training. A teacher, choreographer, and author, she is a longtime faculty member of Alexander Technique Urbana. She is also co-author of Dance and the Alexander Technique: Exploring the Missing Link and The Body Eclectic: Evolving Practices in Dance Training.
Cost: $10
To register or request additional information, email admin@
Music Practice Techniques for Effortless Mastery
with Joseph Arnold
Monday, November 7, 2026
Noon – 1:00 PM US Eastern Time
Zoom
More details coming soon.
How To Practice “Direction” in the Alexander Technique
with Diane Young Sussman
Sunday, December 6, 2026
Noon – 1:00 PM US Eastern Time
Zoom
More details coming soon.
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