Teachers

In Spokane, WA

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 has studied energy healing with James Kepner, Carol De Santo and Shelby Hammitt. He is a Certified Advanced Practitioner of Nervous System Energy Work. He developed the first American 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 and Taiwan. He is President of Alexander Workshops. He now lives in Cheney, WA (near Spokane) and accepts a limited number of private students. He teaches regular classes and workshops at Holy Names Music Center in Spokane. (AmSAT, ATI)

Phone: 509-270-7492, e-mail: Bill@alexanderworkshops.com

In Columbus:

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 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.

Phone: 614-252-6030, E-mail Dale

Donna Doellinger, R.N.,RMT, has been a Registered Nurse for 35 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 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 a Certified Advanced Practitioner of 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. (ATI)

Phone: 614-306-5860, E-mail Donna

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 José Limón Dance Company from 1957-63. She is Vice President of the International Council of Kinetography Laban, a teaching member of ATI and AmSAT, and has served as treasurer of ATI since 1999. (AmSAT, ATI)

Phone: 614-469-9984, e-mail: venable.1@osu.edu

Melinda Murphy

Phone: 614-299-3661, e-mail: MelMurph@msn.com (ATI)

David Nesmith

Phone: 614-486-0661, e-mail: David@bodymap.org, web-sites: www.poisedforlife.com, www.bodymap.org/david.html (ATI)

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Northern Ohio

Nancy Crego (Toledo)

Phone: 419-474-0497, e-mail: ncrego@aol.com, web-site: www.at-toledo.com (AmSAT)

Jim Froelich (Ashland)

Phone: 419-281-3864, e-mail:jimf@bright.net, web-site: http://alexandertechnique.com/northernohio (ATI)

Helen Hobbs (Cleveland)

Phone: 216- 291-4190, e-mail: helenhobbs@core.com (AmSAT)

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Southern Ohio

Alexander Technique of Cincinnati (ATOC) - home base for a number of teachers led by Neil and Vivian Shapera

Phone: (513) 542-1010, e-mail: schapend@fuse.net (AmSAT)

Erik Bendix (Cincinnati)

Phone: 513-961-3981, e-mail: erikbendix@hotmail.com (AmSAT)

Shellie Cash (Cincinnati)

Phone: 513-556-9594, e-mail: Shellie.Cash-Muller@UC.edu (ATI)

Lois Cone (Cincinnati)

Phone: 513-791-0226, e-mail: ccone@cinci.rr.com (AmSAT)

Nancy Dawley (Cincinnati)

Phone:513-936-8933, e-mail: ndawley@msn.com, web-site: www.ATLessons.com (AmSAT)

Tina Holsapple (Cincinnati)

Phone: 513-321-7551, e-mail: holsapple@fuse.net (AmSAT)

Paul Korchak (Cincinnati)

Phone: 513-271-6900, e-mail: prk@sprintmail.com, web-site: www.cincytaekwondo.com (AmSAT)

Michael Matzko (Cincinnati)

Phone: 513-591-0244, e-mail: mmatzko@alextstudio.com, web-site: www.alextstudio.com (AmSAT)

Alan Mistler (Cincinnati)

Phone: 513-533-1713, e-mail: alan.mistler@uc.edu (AmSAT)

Christina Myers (Springfield)

Phone: 937-323-3145 (ATI)

Jennifer Roig-Francoli

Phone: 513-794-1407, e-mail: jenniferrf@fuse.net, website: www.BalanceandHarmonyAT.com, (AmSAT)

James Ruttkay (Cincinnati)

Phone: 513-771-3955, e-mail: jrruttkay@aol.com (AmSAT)

Jennifer Tinapple (Beavercreek)

Phone: 937-429-3845, e-mail: jtinapple@interaxs.net (AmSAT)

Craig Young (Cincinnati)

Phone: 513-236-6890, e-mail: csyoung@fuse.net (AmSAT)

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