Events

The JLSF is pleased to present a donation based workshop series. These Wednesday workshops are held online through Zoom and taught by a variety of Alexander Technique teachers from across the US and internationally. Participants donate any amount to attend. The series makes Alexander Technique available to a broad audience and generates funds for our Scholarship.

Your donations are tax-deductible. The Judith Leibowitz Scholarship Fund of AmSAT is a registered nonprofit 501(c)(3).

Complimentary tickets are available to any teachers, trainees, or students who identify as Black, Indigenous, Asian, Pacific Islander, or Persons of Color. The AT community is enhanced by an abundance of diversity and diminished without it. Please email us for your VIP code.

If you were unable to attend any of our virtual events, recordings are available through our Videos page.

 

May 2025

on two feet

An exploration of human uprightness

For some reason, early humans came up onto two feet and stayed that way. It is one of the central puzzles of how our species evolved. To solve it, scientists have studied human ancestor fossils, the record of climate change, and available food sources our ancestors lived in relation to, and clues from the genetic record. Under the influence of the Alexander Technique, one of the main founders of human paleoanthropology, Raymond Dart, also studied himself. Most scientists are unaware of this part of his work. But we can continue it, especially in the light of all that has been discovered since his time. What can we learn about uprightness and bipedalism by observing ourselves? How does that map onto what science does and does not know about our origins?

It would help to have room to walk a little within earshot of your laptop or mobile device, and without shoes on. We might also do some exploration seated in a chair or lying down.

About Erik

Erik Bendix is an AmSAT-certified Teacher of the Alexander Technique. He trained in the 1990s with Frank Ottiwell, Joan and Alex Murray, and Walter Carrington. Erik assisted on Vivien and Neil Schapera’s Cincinnati training for five years, worked with musicians with Vivien Mackie, helped represent the Technique at the 2012-13 Embodied Mind conferences in Paris and Gargonza and taught Alexander Technique in Taiwan and at Pomona College. He is trained in both Dart Procedures© and Body-Mind CenteringSM, disciplines that explore how movement develops in infants. He trained in BMC® with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen in the 1990s, created The Learning Curve workshops to explore scoliosis, and developed his own Ease on Skis ski teaching method based on the Technique which he has taught at many workshops. Trained as an philosopher at Oxford and Princeton, Erik is a published poet and is known worldwide as a folk dance teacher.

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Instructor: Erik Bendix
Date:
May 7, 2025
Time: 11am Pacific / 2:00pm Eastern USA (1 hr.)
Where: Online through Zoom
Cost: Donation (There is no donation too small or too large!)

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June 2025

exploring flow within a group

Join us in a process of collective discovery and play.

This workshop is open to any student, trainee, or teacher who is interested in group learning, group teaching, and/or collaboration.

The Collaborating8 is a group of eight Alexander teachers who enjoy co-learning and co-teaching. We find that developing and exchanging work with each other expands and enriches us. We are excited to be offering a Continuous Learning module at the Dublin International Congress. In this JLSF workshop we will share some of what we have learned in our process of exploring together and give a preview of our Congress CL exploration on Flow.

Come Collabor8 with us!

About the Collaborating8

The Collaborating8 is Melissa Brown, Joan Frost, Kim Jessor, Barbara Kent, Hope Martin, Kathryn Miranda, Judy Stern, and Rebecca Tuffey. We were students and teachers at the American Center for the Alexander Technique (ACAT) and have all served as faculty on one or more AT teacher training courses. Four of us are former training directors. When we teach together, participants get to experience Alexander principles through several lenses and then learn through integrating the various perspectives.

 
 

Instructor: Collaborating8
Date:
June 4, 2025
Time: 11am Pacific / 2:00pm Eastern USA (1 hr.)
Where: Online through Zoom
Cost: Donation (There is no donation too small or too large!)

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