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Bill Conable is the senior Alexander teaching student of Marjorie Barstow, with whom he began working in 1962. He also studied with Frank Jones and Walter Carrington and studies 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 and co-author with Barbara Conable of the influential book How to Learn the Alexander Technique. Bill teaches classes at Holy Names Music Center in Spokane, WA, and maintains a vigorous private teaching practice as well. He performs regularly 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, Switzerland, and Hungary. He is President of Alexander Workshops, LLC, and Workshop Coordinator.
E-mail Bill Bill's web page 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. Now he has taken over the OSU Alexander program, teaching in Dance, Music, and Theatre throughout the year. He has also taught in the community music program at Indiana State University for over 10 years. He has been a core teacher at the 7 Oaks workshop in Virginia since its inception as well as being a veteran faculty member at Alexander Workshops’ annual residential courses in Ohio. Along with continued regular Alexander studies with colleagues, he studies energy work with James Kepner and Carol DeSanto and is certified at the Advanced Practitioner Level in Nervous System Energy Work. He has a special interest in working with people with knee and hip replacements. Dale has been an organist and choir director for over 30 years, and runs a private vocal studio.
E-mail Dale Donna Doellinger, RN, RMT, has been a Registered Nurse for 38 years. She specializes in Newborn Intensive Care.She pioneered the use of Alexander's principles with premature infants beginning with the trauma of birth and resuscitation through various stages of healing and growth including respiratory and feeding issues, calming and coping issues for drug addicted babies, as well as working with parents to improve the quality of bonding and care-taking. She has also given classes for nurses to work on improving their use while performing their duties. Donna has studied the Alexander Technique since 1977 with the Conables and Marjorie Barstow. She graduated from The Alexander Foundation in 1990 and maintains an active private practice in Columbus, OH. She teaches an ongoing Alexander class for persons with Parkinson's Disease, assists Dale Beaver as a substitute for Alexander classes at OSU, and is on the faculty of the Alexander Workshops Winter workshop in Columbus. Since 1990 she has studied energy healing with James Kepner, Carol DeSanto, and Rosalyn Bruyere and is certified at the Advanced Practitioner Level in Nervous System Energy Work. She teaches classes on anatomy for energy healers, and beginning techniques and skills for people interested in 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. She is a teaching member of ATI.
Belinda Mello, certified Alexander Technique teacher since 1989, offers individual and group lessons though her company, AT Motion, as the theater movement faculty in the Theater Department at Brooklyn College/CUNY, and as a guest artist at Tom Todoroff Studio, Muhlenberg College, and other acting conservatories and universities. She studied with master teacher Marjorie Barstow and is a graduate of The Alexander Foundation, with post-graduate credits including the Carrington approach with John Nichols and an on-going exchange with Bill Conable. She has performed in dance and theater in NYC and internationally, has an MFA in Theater Directing, and was part of a 2006-7 Obie winning production. Belinda provides movement dramaturgy and performance coaching for productions and auditions. She is currently developing her work with mask performance and construction techniques. Belinda leads workshops at Brooklyn and Manhattan learning centers and continuing education programs for various populations including massage therapists. Belinda draws on her background in dance and movement analysis having studied classical and modern dance techniques, Laban, Bartenieff, Ideokinesis, Contact Improvisation, Yoga, and Body Mind Centering with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen. She is a qualified teaching and committee member of ATI, and an associate member of ACAT.
Eileen Troberman is an internationally recognized teacher of the Alexander Technique and an innovator in the science of human movement and functioning. She has been teaching the Alexander Technique for more than 27 years and has taught the Alexander Technique at San Diego State University and at University of California San Diego, where she has been part-time faculty at the Department of Music and Department of Theatre. She has traveled nationally and internationally, teaching classes and workshops at various locations, including in New York, Dallas, Las Vegas, Berlin, England, Australia, New Zealand, and Paris. Eileen started studying the Alexander Technique in 1978, and in 1979 entered a 3-year teacher training certification program. Around the same time, she began studying with Marjorie Barstow, the first graduate of F.M. Alexander's first teacher training course, continuing to study closely with her for 15 years. Eileen has an interest in how the brain works and in functional anatomy. She came to the Technique from a background in acting and gymnastics and some of the esoteric arts. She has studied with the Dalai Lama; trained in Marshall Rosenberg's non-violent communication method; trained in Cranio-Sacral Therapy; and is a Reiki Master. She currently maintains a private practice at her office in Encinitas, California. She is a teaching member of both AmSAT and ATI.
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