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.

December 2025

Tuning for Peak Performance

The best performance requires the coordination of the entire human.

In this workshop we will be exploring how the Alexander 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.

About Bob

Robert Britton (Bob) trained as an Alexander Technique teacher with Frank Ottiwell and Giora Pinkas, and graduated in 1978. In addition to his private practice he taught the Alexander Technique to musicians at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music for 39 years. He has helped train Alexander Technique teachers since 1988 in San Francisco, Berkeley, Berlin, and Hamburg. He served as chairman of the American Society for the Alexander Technique (AmSAT) from 1997 to 1999, and he was a faculty member of the Bay Area Summer Opera Training Institute (BASOTI) for many years. He has contributed to the well-being of the international Alexander Technique Affiliated Societies, and the Annual Members Meeting of the Affiliated Societies. He was a co-director of the International Congress of the Alexander Technique in Lugano Switzerland in 2011 and Berlin in 2022. He also serves on the International Congress Board. He was chairman of the “Complete Musicians Department” of the San Francisco Conservatory and in 2012 Bob was awarded the George S. Sarlo Award which is given for excellence in teaching in Northern California universities and colleges.

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Instructor: Bob Britton
Date: December 17, 2025
Time: 11am Pacific / 2pm Eastern USA
Where: Online through Zoom
Cost: Donation (There is no donation too small or too large!)

January 2026

Mind-Body Balance with Alexander Technique

We will explore ways in which Alexander Technique helps improve physical balance as well as inner balance, or presence in the here and now.

Balance is compromised by rigidity, laxness, reduced awareness and by fear. Alexander Technique improves postural support and adaptability of muscle activity, enabling us to use an appropriate amount of muscle activity so that we are neither too rigid nor too lax. It helps us to have greater awareness of where our body is as a whole in space and how the parts are moving in relation to other parts, as well as the surrounding space. It gives us the tools to notice what we are doing so that we can choose our course of action with more conscious control, helping us to feel more confident. It also helps us to notice when we are pulling ourselves out of balance, both physically and psychologically, so that we can choose to come back to ourselves. We will explore some simple ways to investigate these aspects of Alexander Technique in relation to balance and presence.

About Mari Hodges, MScMed (Pain Management), TPS, M.AmSAT

Mari completed her Alexander Technique training at the Escuela de Técnica Alexander Buenos Aires in 2014. She holds a Therapeutic Pain Specialist certificate from Purdue University and a Master of Science in Medicine in Pain Management from the University of Sydney. She is also certified as an Art of Running instructor.

Mari is passionate about helping people navigate pain and get back to living life fully. Chronic neck and back pain led her to Alexander Technique and inspired her curiosity about pain science. Mari has a private practice as an Alexander Technique teacher and pain coach and runs the volunteer PainSavvy Walk & Talk in Montana, USA. She teaches courses on pain for AT teachers and other somatic practitioners and at University of Montana.

In her free time you can find Mari reading up on pain science, cross-country skiing and dancing tango.

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Instructor: Mari Hodges
Date: January 14, 2025
Time: 11am Pacific / 2pm Eastern USA
Where: Online through Zoom
Cost: Donation (There is no donation too small or too large!)