Here is information about our winter workshop, January 2-5, 2025.

For thirty-six years we have been offering a four-day workshop on the Alexander Technique in Columbus, Ohio around the Christmas break. We began with a group of teachers trained and influenced by the renowned Marjorie Barstow; it gradually incorporated more and more emphasis on Body-Mapping, a discipline founded as an adjunct to the Alexander Technique. Many colleagues have joined our faculty over the years; in recent times our faculty has coalesced to Bill Conable, Dale Beaver and Donna Doellinger—who were work-study students at the first Columbus Workshop!—and Shawn Copeland, who has partnered with Bill in a successful teacher training program for the past several years. We have been involved in exploring the relationship between the Alexander Technique and Nervous System Energy Work, in which we are all trained. This exploration has been extraordinarily fruitful in clarifying and expanding Alexander's discoveries.
Now it's time to move on. This will be our last winter workshop. Bill is retiring after a career of 50 years of offering various sorts of workshops, and Shawn is building a wonderful new program based in Seattle: mBODYed.
This winter's workshop will be in-person only at a private residence in Columbus, Ohio. (You will learn the details of this upon registration.) There will be a strict limit on the number of attendees accepted: 15 people only. It's first-come, first served, so don't be disappointed: register early! The workshop is for Alexander Technique teachers, teacher trainees, and people who have been attending our workshops for many years. It's a final opportunity to work with this remarkable group of teachers all together.

The workshop is full. We are keeping track of any new applications in the order they are received. If you'd like to be put on the waiting list, go on to the Application tab and fill out the form.

To register for the waiting list, please click the brown Application tab below:

About the workshop

The Four-Day Workshop


This four-day intensive course is primarily for teachers and teacher trainees in the Alexander Technique, as well as those who have attended at least 5 previous workshops. The workshop is limited to a maximum of 15 students, so make sure to apply soon!

Location and schedule

Location

A private residence in Columbus, Ohio. Details available upon registration.

Schedule


The course will be in-person only. We'll meet Thursday evening, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday morning.

Our schedule is being revised to fit the new material we're offering.

Faculty

Bill Conable
Bill Conable, DMA 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 is a teaching member, sponsor, and board member of ATI, and a former teaching member of AmSAT. He has taught Alexander throughout the US and in Japan, Taiwan, Switzerland, Chile, Italy, and Hungary. He is President and Workshop Coordinator of Alexander Workshops, LLC. He was co-director of the teacher training program IMAT.
Dale Beaver
Dale Beaver has a BMus from the University of Mt. Union and graduate work at OSU. After a 10-year period of study with Bill Conable and others who trained in Lincoln Nebraska, he became a certified teaching member of ATI. For more than 20 years, he has taught residential Alexander Technique workshops in Ohio, Virginia, Vermont, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, North & South Carolina and Washington as well as state music conventions throughout the Great Lakes region.  For eleven years he taught Alexander Technique courses at Ohio State University in the School of Music, Dance Department and Theater Department and was Director of Health and Wellness for the School of Music at OSU. Along with continued regular Alexander studies with colleagues, he studies energy work with James Kepner and Carol DeSanto, and has been certified at the Advanced Practitioner Level in Nervous System Energy work. Dale has been an organist and choir director for over 45 years, and runs a private vocal studio.
Donna Doellinger
Donna Doellinger, RN, RMT, has been a Registered Nurse since 1973. 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. Donna has studied the Alexander Technique since 1977 with the Conables and Marjorie Barstow. She graduated from the Alexander Foundation in 1990 and maintained an active private practice in Columbus, OH until September of 2022. She taught an ongoing Alexander class for persons with Parkinson’s Disease for 15 years, and is on the faculty of the Alexander Workshops Summer Workshop in Spokane. She opened her private practice in Morganton, NC in the Fall of 2023.
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.
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Shawn L. Copeland, DMA, is a pioneer in the fields of musician wellness and performance training. His innovative, creative, and transformational approach has set him apart as a multidimensional musician, pedagogue, and entrepreneur. His unique methods have established him as a leader, culminating in the founding of mBODYed, LLC, a company that is reshaping the landscape of performance training for musicians, actors, and dancers.
 An accredited teacher and esteemed clinician, Shawn masterfully fuses the Alexander Technique and Body Mapping with an array of somatic modalities, including Nervous System Energy Work, Energy Healing, Somatic Trauma Therapy and Integrative Somatic Coaching. His journey into this holistic world began in 1997 at the Brevard Music Center, igniting a lifelong passion for inclusive and dynamic teaching. Those who have guided his learning and continue to influence his teaching include Sarah Barker, Glenna Batson, Dale Beaver, Bill Conable, Donna Doellinger, and Robin Gilmore. He believes that the body is an integral part of the creative process and cultivates nurturing spaces where individuals can explore their full potential. His unique pedagogy validates lived experiences and champions growth, having transformed the lives of countless musicians struggling with performance-related challenges.

Fees

Fees



TUITION: $475
DEPOSIT of $150 will guarantee a place in the course until December 10, when the balance is due.

REFUND POLICY: Full refunds are made up to one month before the course. In case of cancellations received after December 10, the deposit is non-refundable. There will be no refunds after the workshop begins.

Since the workshop is full, please don't send payment now. If you are admitted from the waiting list, we'll work out payment then.

You may pay by sending a check to Alexander Workshops, LLC, 815 Villard St., Cheney, WA 99004, or by going to PayPal.me/AlexanderWorkshops on your browser. If you have Square Cash, you can make a payment to $AWLLC there.

Application

You may submit this filled-out form directly from this web site. All fields are required. You may also print the form and mail it to us at 815 Villard St., Cheney, WA 99004.
Since the workshop is currently full, please don't send any payment now. If you are on the waiting list and there turns out to be a space for you, we'll arrange payment then.
This workshop is intended for Alexander Teachers, Trainees, and experienced students. To be included in the experienced category, you should have attended at least five workshops, most of which should have been with us. We have room for a few less experienced students, so don't let that keep you away!
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For Teachers and Trainees

For Teachers and Trainees



• Attendance at the course will count towards your continuing education requirements.

• Bill, Donna, Dale, and Shawn have spent a lot of time in recent years exploring energy work and its relationship with the Alexander Technique, and all but Shawn are Advanced Practitioners of Nervous System Energy Work. Donna is also trained in Reiki. We offer special workshops for teachers in this field, and this is a great opportunity to find out what our discoveries have to offer you. This perspective has led us to a radical new understanding of Alexander's discoveries, clarifying many areas of the Technique that have previously been problematic, confusing, and mystifying.

We hope to see you in January!