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If you have been following my blogs this week, you understand two simple ideas: 1. Alexander's discoveries have no fixed form 2. Touch is a teaching methodology innovation These two ideas open us up to “inventing” a new version of Alexander Technique based on using touch to explore Alexander's discoveries within movement forms that your niche-based community are obsessed about. Steven Shaw, not me, leads this new wave of Alexander Technique niche-based teaching-business approach. Sharon Jakubecy in LA is innovating this approach by niching her business into “body language” so you can impress and influence people. What a great business model for Los Angeles – home of Hollywood – where how you look is almost an obsession.  Location is beautifully woven into Sharon’s niche model. The possibilities, if you open your mind, are stunning. Infinite. There’s no limit to what you can create other than your own imagination. However success relies on deep pr...

Answer: You Can Touch (and Talk) I've always thought that had the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet awarded a Nobel prize in Physiology to Alexander, he merited two of them: his first prize for the profound discoveries described in the first chapter of his third book Use of the Self ; his second prize for developing a means of touch to communicate those discoveries. This second discovery was the subject of a fascinating paper delivered by Lucy Brown at the first Lugano Congress. She introduced a new term for it: Sensory-Motor Contagion. She compared this phenomena - known most intimately by teachers and students of Alexander Technique - to the more familiar, and scientifically validated phenomena of Emotional Contagion. In the Alexander community, Sensory-Motor Contagion is more commonly referred to as Hands-On. I personally think that term obscurants it’s true meaning - it comes with too much cultural baggage, too many imbedded associations. Hands-On work ...

My life mission is to take Marjorie’s Barstow’s genius, and translate that into profit and success in the business sphere. Marj was the first real niche-teaching innovator: gone were the chairs and tables; in their place were people singing, washing dishes, playing music, doing job interviews, speaking publicly, dancing, juggling: i.e. being in their niche activity. By her sheer brilliance and a half century of practise Marj got to the point of such magnetism that she could mix niches and still have them begging. Marj didn’t need a business plan, and she was already a multi-millionaire, but what about us? Making money out of your niche requires a lot of flexibility on your part. The flexibility will kick in most strongly as you start to design your service product. To do that, you need to ask some pretty deep questions, and be willing to change. Really change. Are you ready for that? Here are four questions to ask your Self that will get the process rolling… 1...

I can't remember the last time I lay in semi-supine – I simply don't do it anymore. I don't do tablework with my trainees either, although somehow they manage to find out about it. The only time I encounter 'chairwork' is when my trainees ask me, "What is chairwork?" and, "Why don't we study chairwork?" From time to time I get complaints from them about that. So if I don't do tablework, and I don't do chairwork, it would be reasonable to ask – what do I do? My simple answer is that I engage my student in exploring the application of Alexander's discoveries to any activity they choose. Of course it can involve standing and sitting in a chair, but more often it does not. I did do tablework and chairwork for over ten years, so the change in my current teaching was not sudden. It is this journey, together with the insights and understandings that drove it, that I will share with you this week. This is mark...