Workshops & Classes
Upcoming Offerings
Impulse in Alignment: Meisner Meets Alexander
December 2025
Sunday, December 14 2025 1:00-3:30pm
@ Green Shirt Studio in Chicago, IL
*Prerequisite: Green Shirt Studio’s Level 1 Meisner class or equivalent*
The Alexander Technique (AT) helps actors release tension, free the body, and connect more fully to impulse. In this workshop, we'll explore how AT can:
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Enhance presence and grounding
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Sharpen emotional sensitivity
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Spark spontaneity and authenticity
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Deepen your Meisner work by freeing the instrument from habitual tension
Through gentle hands-on guidance, we'll practice channeling impulses with immediacy - letting self-consciousness fade and connecting repetition to our gut impulses.
Balance Arts Center's Winter Intensive
January 2026
January 5-9, 2026 10:00am-12:00-1:00pm EST
Virtual Breakout Sessions
Join us for a week-long intensive to deepen your understanding and embodiment of the Alexander Technique. The Balance Arts Center faculty will guide you to a new and more nuanced understanding of how the AT process as taught at the BAC can help you enhance every aspect of your life and art form.
Winter Intensive Features:
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Online & In Person Participation Options
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Daily Masterclass with Ann Rodiger
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Optional Private Sessions with participating faculty
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Scholarship Opportunities
January-March 2026
Alexander Technique for Actors Class Series
Sunday, January 18 2025-Sunday, March 8 1:00-4:00pm
@ Green Shirt Studio in Chicago, IL
This eight-week course introduces actors to the Alexander Technique as a practical toolkit for their craft. Each session builds body awareness, ease, and responsiveness so you can access your full instrument in auditions, rehearsal, and performance.
This course includes:
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Foundations of AT — mechanical principles, coordinated movement, and how to apply them directly to performance.
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Audition Day — bring your own material or we'll provide it and learn to integrate AT into auditions
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Relational & Partner Work — “Lane Work” that deepens presence, listening, and full-body responsiveness.
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Vocal Production — freeing the voice through alignment and breath.
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Movement Technique — developing efficient, expressive physicality.
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Meisner Integration — Apply AT to repetition​
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January 2026
An Introduction to the Alexander Technique
Saturday, January 31 2025 2:00-3:30pm
@ Elevate Health and Healing in Glenview, IL
The Alexander Technique (AT) is designed to free the body from excess tension, welcoming in more space and energy. This workshop will introduce the technique by combining group exercises with hands-on work from the instructor. We will explore how AT can enhance presence, awaken grounding, spark spontaneity, and deepen authenticity.
Specialized Offerings
Corporate Efficiency Training
A three-part series designed to increase efficiency in the workplace. Each three-hour workshop builds on the last, culminating in a unique group project to showcase acquired skills.
Part 1: Authentic Conversation and Effective Collaboration​​​
Part 2: Presentation and Public Speaking Skills​​​
Part 3: The Art of Persuasion
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Past Offerings
Impulse in Alignment: Meisner Meets Alexander
November 2025
Sunday, November 9 2025 1:00-3:30pm
@ Green Shirt Studio in Chicago, IL
*Prerequisite: Green Shirt Studio’s Level 1 Meisner class or equivalent*
The Alexander Technique (AT) helps actors release tension, free the body, and connect more fully to impulse. In this workshop, we'll explore how AT can:
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Enhance presence and grounding
-
Sharpen emotional sensitivity
-
Spark spontaneity and authenticity
-
Deepen your Meisner work by freeing the instrument from habitual tension
Through gentle hands-on guidance, we'll practice channeling impulses with immediacy - letting self-consciousness fade and connecting repetition to our gut impulses.
​
October 2025
AT & Household Activities
Sunday, October 12 2025 9:00-10:15pm
@ Balance Arts Center in New York City, New York
This workshop will explore the mechanics of everyday household activities. The key to decreasing long-term wear and tear of the body is expansive awareness in moments that seem to be commonplace. Participants will experiment with reliable strategies inspired by the Alexander Technique in hopes of employing better physical use in daily tasks.
**Available soon to buy online on the Balance Arts Center website
Impulse in Alignment: Meisner Meets Alexander
September 2025
Thursday, September 25 2025 7:00-9:30pm
@ Green Shirt Studio in Chicago, IL
*Prerequisite: Green Shirt Studio’s Level 1 Meisner class or equivalent*
The Alexander Technique (AT) helps actors release tension, free the body, and connect more fully to impulse. In this workshop, we'll explore how AT can:
-
Enhance presence and grounding
-
Sharpen emotional sensitivity
-
Spark spontaneity and authenticity
-
Deepen your Meisner work by freeing the instrument from habitual tension
Through gentle hands-on guidance, we'll practice channeling impulses with immediacy - letting self-consciousness fade and connecting repetition to our gut impulses.
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March 2025
Managing Performance Anxiety
Saturday, March 29 2025 5:00-6:15pm
@ Balance Arts Center in New York City, New York
The Alexander Technique offers many tools to cope with the common phenomenon of performance anxiety. Eliminating performance anxiety entirely is unrealistic--the reason it exists in the first place is because of passion and emotional investment. But symptoms can be lessoned with practice, and with a better understanding of the many facets of performance stressors. Workshop participants will explore the current science of performance anxiety, build awareness of habitual tendencies, experiment with embodied management strategies, and practice channeling emotions into a more productive performance energy. By befriending the emotional and physical instrument and harnessing fear as a helpful passenger, a natural flow becomes easier (and more fun) in high-pressure environments.
**Now available to buy online on the Balance Arts Center website
