In anticipation our our event honoring Judy Stern this Sunday, I spoke about her advocacy for the Technique, and shared a practice of Judy’s for turning around an upper back spasm. I hope you can join us on Sunday!
Honoring Judy Stern: AT for a Lifetime
Sunday, May 18, 2025, 3-5pm, NYC
We are thrilled to honor Judy Stern with our second Lifetime Achievement Award for her myriad contributions to the preservation and promotion of the Alexander Technique:
Judy’s lifelong dedication to protecting the integrity of the Technique’s profession; her dedication to the Science of AT, and her advocacy for those working to promote it; her 50 years of working with people in pain and needing rehabilitation; her long commitment to teaching Anatomy and training teachers at ACAT; her role as a Director of the 8th International Congress of the F.M. Alexander Technique; her multifaceted and long support of ACAT and AmSAT; and her deep caring for and mentoring of Alexander teachers— all of these and more combine to warrant an overdue public appreciation, recognition and celebration of her lifetime of achievements in our field.
Hear from speakers Lucy L. Brown, PhD; Joan Frost, m.AmSAT; and Fabio Tavares, m.AmSAT. Read their bios.
Join us May 18!
Speaker Bios
Lucy L. Brown, PhD., Clinical Professor in Neurology, Einstein College of Medicine
Lucy Brown is a retired neuroscientist. She received a PhD in Experimental/Physiological Psychology from NYU in 1973. During a post-doctoral fellowship at Einstein, she tested dopamine cell plasticity in reward systems. At Einstein, she became Director of the Laboratory for Functional Neuroanatomy and Movement Disorders, where she studied the neural connections of the somatosensory and motor systems within dopamine-rich areas. Together with Art Aron and Helen Fisher, she identified brain systems underlying romantic love and attachment (theanatomyoflove.com). The studies have been widely publicized in the media and documentaries. Currently, she collaborates with a group to study the brain systems involved in mindfulness.
Joan Frost
Joan Frost has been teaching the Alexander Technique for 40+ years. She served on the senior faculty of ACAT for 35 years and was Director of Teacher Certification there from 2001–2008. In addition to training teachers, Joan taught at Greenwich Hospital’s Center for Integrative Medicine and at the dance and drama divisions of The Juilliard School. She certified in Jessica Wolf’s Art of Breathing in 2006 and gave AmSAT’s FM Memorial Lecture in 2019 regarding her work with a gentleman who had had a brain aneurysm. Joan has maintained a private practice in the Greater Metropolitan New York area since 1983.
Fabio Tavares
Fabio Tavares is a Brazilian movement artist and educator who ran away to join the circus at the age of 15. In 1999, he moved to NYC, where he’s been performing, creating and teaching ever since. Mr. Tavares performed with the STREB — Extreme Action company for 14 years and he was its Associate Artistic Director for over a decade. He also worked with Anne Bogart and the acclaimed SITI company, Laurie Anderson, Circus Amok, Noemie Lafrance and Jon Kinzel just to name a few. Mr. Tavares’ solo performances have been seen in Brazil, Europe and the U.S. in several different festivals. He is also an AmSAT certified Alexander Technique teacher, a Klein Technique™ teacher and a Zero Balancing practitioner. Mr.Tavares is currently on the faculty of the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale and The Juilliard School.