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 Practitioner Level in Nervous System Energy Work. He developed the first university course in the Alexander Technique at OSU, 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, Inc., and Workshop Coordinator.
Bill@alexanderworkshops.com
Bill's web page

Robin Gilmore, MFA, RMT, began her Alexander studies in 1981 and qualified as a teacher in 1986 and has been active as a somatic movement educator and professional dancer for thirty years. Her Alexander training includes certification at The Alexander Foundation and seven years of study with Marjorie Barstow. She directed the Kyoto Alexander Program, the first Alexander Technique teacher training program in Japan, from 1993-99. She is the author of What Every Dancer Needs to Know About the Body, a workbook of Body Mapping and the Alexander Technique. As a dancer and choreographer, her work has been presented internationally. Robin directs an AT teacher training course in Greensboro, NC and resides in Annapolis, MD.
rglimmer@mindspring.com
Robin's web page

Lucy Venable is Professor Emerita in the Department of Dance at OSU and studied the Alexander Technique with Marjorie Barstow beginning in 1974. She taught the Technique at OSU from 1979 to 1992. She is a certified teacher, notator, and reconstructor of Labanotation, a former director of the Dance Notation Bureau, and was a member of the Jose Limon Dance Company from 1957-63. She is Vice President of the International Council of Kinetography Laban and a teaching member of ATI and AmSAT.
venable.1@osu.edu

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. Along with continued regular Alexander studies with colleagues, he studies energy work with James Kepner and Carol DeSanto. He is certified at the 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.
DaleBeaver@aol.com

Donna Doellinger, R.N., RMT, has been a Registered Nurse for 34 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 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.
ddoellinger@columbus.rr.com

 
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. She directs a 5-day annual Alexander Technique workshop, Alexander in the Caribbean in St. Thomas, USVI. 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.
dmbradley2@aol.com

Martha Fertman, Ed. D., has been teaching the Alexander Technique for thirty years and has been training teachers of the work 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.