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Bill Conable is the senior teaching student of Marjorie Barstow, with whom he began studying in 1962. He also studied with Frank Jones and Walter Carrington and is studying energy healing with James Kepner and Carol De Santo. He is certified at the Advanced Practitioner Level in Nervous System Energy Work. He developed the first university course in the Alexander Technique at the Ohio State University, where he is Professor Emeritus of Music. He is the inventor of the concept of Body Mapping. He performs as soloist and conductor and was for 11 years Principal Cellist of the Columbus Symphony. He is a teaching member of AmSAT and ATI and has taught Alexander throughout the US and in Japan, Taiwan and Hungary. He is President of Alexander Workshops, LLC., and Workshop Coordinator.
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Robin Gilmore, MFA, began studying the Alexander Technique and other somatic disciplines in 1980.  Qualifying to teach in 1986, she is a Teaching Member and Sponsoring Member of ATI. Robin directs an Alexander Technique teacher training program in Greensboro, NC and from 1993-1999 was the director of the Kyoto Alexander Program in Japan. She is the author of What Every Dancer Needs to Know About the Body, and has written numerous published articles. Robin has been dancing her entire life. Her choreography has been presented internationally. 
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Dale Beaver, RMT, has a BMus from Mt. Union College and did graduate work at OSU. After a 10-year period of study with the Conables, the Fertmans, Meade Andrews, Tommy Thompson, and others, he became a certified teaching member of ATI and has taught Alexander Technique workshops at OSU and colleges throughout the Midwest. He has taken oveer the OSU Alexander program with great success. Along with continued regular Alexander studies with colleagues, he studies energy work with James Kepner and Carol DeSanto. He is certified at the Advanced Practitioner Level in Nervous System Energy work. Dale has been an organist and choir director for over 30 years, and runs a private vocal studio.
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Donna Doellinger, R.N., RMT, has been a Registered Nurse for 27 years. She specializes in Newborn Intensive Care. She has studied the Alexander Technique since 1977 with the Conables and Marjorie Barstow, and graduated from The Alexander Foundation in in 1990. She maintains an active private practice in Columbus. Since 1990 she has studied energy healing with James Kepner, Carol DeSanto, and Rosalyn Bruyere. She is certified at the Advanced Practitioner Level in Nervous System Energy Work. Her focus now is on exploring the complementary use of energy skills with the Alexander Technique to lead students to an expanded experience of the whole self.
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Diana Bradley, M. Ed., and certified Alexander teacher (1979), was a modern dancer for 10 years and holds a 3rd degree black belt in Aikido. A founding member of Alexander Technique International, she has traveled to Australia, New Zealand, and Hawaii presenting workshops. Her expertise has been recognized by the Washingtonian Magazine. She is a faculty member in the Acting Conservatory Program at the Studio Theatre in Washington, DC. Diana taught theater students at the Baltimore School for the Arts for 11 years. Currently, she maintains a private practice in Takoma Park, MD, and teaches specialty groups focusing on the voice, fitness and the art of being comfortable.

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Martha Fertman, Ed. D., has been teaching the Alexander Technique for more than thirty years and has been training teachers for more than twenty. In 1983 she co-founded an innovative teacher training program that has evolved into the Alexander Alliance, an international association of Alexander teacher training programs. She comes to the Alexander Technique through a broad base of movement studies including ballet, modern dance and choreography, improvisation, T’ai Chi Chuan and Authentic Movement. Her training in the Alexander technique includes a 10-year apprenticeship with Marjorie Barstow as well as studies with Catherine Wielopolska and Elizabeth Walker, all first-generation teachers. Martha is an ATI-certified teacher and sponsor.
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Lucy Venable, our beloved colleague of many years, has retired from the workshop this year, and so has become our much respected Faculty Member Emerita. She continues to offer private lessons at her home.
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