Alexander Technique is a difficult sell - I think we all know that.

How do you sell air? How do you sell nothing? Any words you use - as I expressed in my previous blog - end up situating you with a dozen other techniques, all available at half the price of your lesson and much easier to understand.

They give you a set of exercises!

This week, like every other, the members in my coaching group are continuing to focus on their business skills, and how those skills relate to their teaching skills. I think one of the big surprises when you start to work on your Alexander practise, comes when you realise that the service you offer is inextricably bound to the business you are creating - it's not possible to separate the two, as some of the comments I made this week illuminate…

Are Yoga, Pilates and other “fitness” schemes so different from Alexander Technique?

Alexander Technique teachers suspect they are fundamentally different, but for the public it appears that all these methods, including ours, utilize the study of movements to improve posture, cure pain, and bring about well being with greater awareness. Our outcomes appear to match - even if our methods are different - so our claim that “we are not like them” falls on deaf ears.

After I met Marjorie Barstow and started to metamorphose my teaching habits, I began to wonder what my pupils were thinking about. So I asked them. What surprised me most is that they weren't thinking at all - they were busy feeling.

In retrospect, it was obvious that they would be doing that. After all, before I met Marj, I hardly ever had my hands off them. I was busy doing my "Alexander-is-a-feeling" teaching technique: I made sure I was constantly giving them new experiences.

Every week I am publishing some of the comments made in the hidden Facebook group (ATCS) with the 47 teachers and students working together on building their Alexander Technique businesses. Some of the comments are public, and the rest are in the paid area of my blog. You can join us now for less than the cost of one Alexander lesson with me a month. Note to members - some of these have been lightly edited since I first penned them inside Facebook.

Alexander’s four books tell the tale of FM's own thinking about the work. What strikes me most about this, after 35 years of my own experience, is how I came to his same conclusion: it’s all about the relationship of the head/spinal complex. This is the Universal Constant that Alexander named in his final book The Universal Constant in Living.

She complained about her whole arm.

So I questioned here more.

"When do you feel this tension most?"

I discovered it had to do when fingering her flute at certain pitches. I thought, hmmm. Funny she mentioned fingering. I asked:

"So how about your fingers? Are they OK?"

"No!" she replied, "This one always hurts." And she held up one of her pinkies.

Luckily there was another flautist in the group so I asked her:

"Hey - do you have problems with this finger too?"

What do I know about playing the flute?

Every week I am publishing some of the comments made in the hidden Facebook group (ATCS) with the 47 teachers and students working together on building their Alexander Technique businesses. Some of the comments are public, and the rest are in the paid area of my blog. You can join us now for less than the cost of one Alexander lesson with me a month.

It gets crazy inside our Facebook group sometimes - there are many possibilities that awaken in the minds of those participating, and they tend to share with each other about that. I realize it is equally important that now and again we stop and take stock of what we are learning.

As a service to those who read my blog, but are not in the Facebook group as Basic Members, every now and again I am posting some of the answers I am giving to members' questions. Not all of them are here, but enough to give you some encouragement to build your Alexander Technique practise.

I had a half-written blog prepared on the plane last night, but once I landed in Australia and checked our secret Facebook group (where 43 teachers share as part of the paid area of my blog) I was overwhelmed by the volume of comments to behold!

So instead of posting a blog, I decided to post answers and comments in Facebook. Then I worried that the members may not have caught my torrent of replies in the midst of a messy, scrolling Facebook page, so I decided to post them here. How original ideas are born.