Diana Bradley

Diana Bradley, M.Ed., has been a certified teacher of the Alexander Technique since 1979. Her training includes a 13-year apprenticeship with Marjorie Barstow, an innovative first generation teacher, trained directly by F.M. Alexander. She has a 10-year background in modern dance and 16 years of training in Aikido, a Japanese martial art in which she holds a 3rd degree black belt.

A founding member of Alexander Technique International (ATI), she has traveled to Australia, New Zealand, and Hawaii presenting workshops. In various capacities Diana has taught performing artists at The Baltimore School for the Arts, University of Maryland, Catholic University, and Arena Stage. She has been the guest clinician at the American Guild of English Handbell Ringers Festivals and at the International Congress of Carollonneurs. Recently she completed a two-year training in Gestalt Therapy at the Washington Center for Consciousness Studies.

Currently, Diana teaches group classes at Crossings: A Center for the Healing Traditions and maintains a private practice in Takoma Park, MD, where she also teaches specialty groups focusing on the voice, fitness and the art of being comfortable.

Debi Adams

Debi Adams is a Certified Teacher of the Alexander Technique having received her certificates from Tommy Thompson and from Alexander Technique International. She is also a Nationally Certified Teacher of Piano.

Debi holds a Master of Music Degree in Piano Performance from Boston University. She currently teaches the Technique at the Boston Conservatory of Music and the Alexander Technique Center at Cambridge (a teacher training course), maintains a private practice in piano and the Alexander Technique and performs in the Boston area. She has taught workshops throughout the USA and in the Czech Republic.

Debi's interest in the work stems from her own experience recovering from hand injury. The Alexander work was last in a long line of investigations toward healing. It was the only discipline that sufficiently addressed her needs. She feels a responsibility to share this important work with others. She has published articles in various music and Alexander journals. Her article on Piano and AT is accessible online at Ati-net.com/debiadam.htm.

Ed Bilanchone

Ed Bilanchone is a Registered Movement Therapist and has been a movement educator for 25 years. Following a career as a ballet dancer, Ed became a dance and exercise instructor. Chronic back pain from injuries led him to study the Alexander Technique with Judy Stern, faculty member of the American Center for the Alexander Technique in New York. Through his study of the Technique, Ed was able to heal his own injuries and go on to teach hundreds of people to unlock the potential for ease in their bodies.

Since 1991, Ed has helped people with neurological conditions use the Technique to relieve pain and improve their conditions. Ed is an adjunct faculty member at the George Mason University Performing Arts Department and has been a teacher at the University of Colorado's Music Department's summer Alexander Technique course for 10 years. He is a long-term practitioner of T'ai Chi and yoga. An avid golfer, Ed has developed a program called Stick to Principle, bringing to golf the principles of the Alexander Technique and T'ai Chi.

Anne Waxman

Anne Waxman is a former faculty member for the American Center for the Alexander Technique in New York. She has been on the faculty at the Actors Studio MFA Program and presently at the William Espers Studio in New York. She also works extensively with musicians and was recently in Japan and Hawaii presenting the work. In private practice in Manhattan since 1984, she recently returned from Seoul where she taught and presented a paper at the Annual Symposium for the University Dance Educators in South Korea. This will be Anne's first year in St. Thomas.

Nancy Forst Williamson

Nancy Forst Williamson, M.A., has been studying and working in the field of mind/body/spirit education for over thirty years, including over twenty years in residence with Marjorie Barstow, F.M. Alexander's first graduate. Nancy has been Director of the endowed Barstow Summer Institute since its inception at Doane College in 1996. The program specializes in presenting Barstow's innovative group teaching of the the application of Alexander's principles. Her background includes B.A. and M.A. degrees which centered on counseling and communications, women's studies, aging, and human learning and response. She began her involvement with the human potential movement in 1973 with a year at the Esalen Institute in CA where, among many adventures, she discovered the Alexander Technique and the Feldenkrais Method. She trained with Moshe Feldenkrais and is a certified practitioner of Functional Integration¬ and Awareness through Movement¬. An active private practice in Lincoln, NE includes classes, travel, workshops and individual lessons.