February 2026
You’re a Committee! How Jill Taylor’s Brain Characters Enrich AT Discovery
Explore how delightful applying our “Four Brain Characters” to AT skill development can be: we are feeling creatures who think!
Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor suffered a stroke that shut down the left side of her brain at age 37. She experienced living in pure right brain awareness for five weeks, completely incapacitated, but in a state of bliss.
As she slowly regained left brain function over eight years, she noticed her left brain wanting to take charge again, and it didn’t feel good. So she decided to learn from and share the revelations from her right brain.
Dr. Taylor’s viral TED Talk propelled her self-published memoir My Stroke of Insight to instant bestseller. 300,000 people contacted her, asking how they could learn what she knew, without of course having to endure a stroke. Her second book, Whole Brain Living: The Anatomy of Choice and the Four Brain Characters That Drive Our Life offered the means.
I think of the Alexander Technique as a particularly elegant path of learning to consciously embody our full selves, so I’ve been struck by how Dr. Taylor’s ‘means’ map beautifully onto our Alexander means. In this workshop, we’ll explore and experience how relevant and delightful applying knowledge of the four brain characters to our AT tool kit can be. We are feeling creatures who think!
Please have a chair to sit in, some space to move around a bit, and some head-books etc. for a lie-down.
About Tully
A love of music and movement brought Tully Hall to the Alexander Technique! She trained with Missy Vineyard and has been teaching since 1990. She has assisted on several training courses and as guest faculty at Stetson University’s school of music in Florida. She served on the AmSAT Professional Conduct Committee including as chair and organized an ACGM in Minneapolis. She gives workshops and classes in a wide variety of university, corporate and private studio settings.
Tully played French horn professionally and now plays the piano and studies voice with Beret Arcaya. She loves tai chi, Gyrotonics, and cross country skiing. She has a private in-person practice in Woodbury and St. Paul, MN, in addition to giving online lessons and a bi-weekly online class. Tully works with all kinds of folks and loves learning from all her colleagues and students.
Instructor: Tully Hall
Date: April 22, 2026
Time: 11am Pacific / 2pm Eastern USA
Where: Online through Zoom
Cost: Donation (There is no donation too small or too large!)