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The Director
 Missy Vineyard received her B.A.
in dance from Sarah Lawrence College and completed her teacher
training at the American Center for the Alexander Technique (ACAT)
under Judith Leibowitz in 1975.
For
over thirty years she
has maintained a busy private teaching practice and conducted
numerous workshops on the technique to a wide variety of
groups, large and small, young and old. Applying the technique
to the needs of athletes and performing artists is a special
interest and focus of her workshops.
She has taught numerous
courses and workshops at universities, performing arts
schools and arts festivals, including: Amherst College Dance
and Theater Department, Springfield Community Music School,
the Amherst High School Ultimate Frisbee team, Smith
College, Amherst College Summer Voice Workshop, the American
Dance Festival, Duke University, the University of North
Carolina and the University of Maryland.
Missy has done extensive
volunteer work to contribute to the development of the
profession. In 1986 she served on the steering committee
that founded AmSAT, the largest national professional
society for teachers in the U.S. She served as AmSAT's first
chairman from 1987 to 1989, and again as chairman from
1994-1996, followed by a term as past chairman. She received
AmSAT's Distinguished Service Award in 1996 and in 2007. She
served on the Board of Directors of the American Center for
the Alexander Technique from 1975-1978, and on the Board of
Directors of The Alexander Technique Association from
1988-1995. Missy created and chaired AmSAT's Training
Approval Committee and AmSAT’s Professional Identity
Project. More recently she represented the Society before
the White House Commission on Alternative and Complementary
Medicine in 2000.
Missy's primary professional commitment is training highly
skilled teachers of the Alexander Technique. Toward that
end, for over twenty years she has devoted the majority of
her schedule to teacher-training and to developing a unique,
systematic curriculum designed to ensure the highest level
of hands-on skill in ATSNE graduates.
She has done extensive
post-graduate study in London with Walter and Dilys
Carrington and written numerous articles on the technique.
(Click on
Articles by ATCNE Teachers.)
She has also recently published a book on the technique that
has received wide acclaim from teachers and students: How
You Stand, How You Move, How You Live, was published in
2007 by Marlowe and Company, which is now a subsidiary of
Perseus Books. It is widely available in bookstores and on
Amazon.
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