I am standing there, looking out on an ocean of people - all wearing orange!

It was a Sydney Easter in 1981, and the crowd was gathered for another "celebration" with Bhagwan Rajneesh's band of merry followers. The Orange People, as they were called then, wanted Alexander Technique in their line up of workshops, but it was all gratis: pitch your workshop to the crowd, see who comes.

As I stood there I thought: I have a unique marketing opportunity: I better not screw up.

Susannah Keebler is an Alexander Technique teacher living in Mallacoota, Australia - a small town in Victoria whose population fluctuates between 972 and 8,000, depending on the time of year. Where she lives is odd enough, but the life and work she is creating makes that seem mundane. Her story has the potential to challenge your own idea of what you can do with the work. Are you interested in people who climb out of the box in order to change the world? Then you must be interested in Susannah's story…

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Jennifer Claire Roig-Francolí is an Alexander Technique teacher in Cincinnati, USA and below she offers a deeply honest and clear portrayal of the profound and far reaching effects Alexander's Discovery can have on someone's life. A story like this one renews my awe of the magnitude of this work. It easy to forget that we are the gatekeepers to something extraordinary that simply can't be compared or classed with the methods or techniques it so easily associates with today.

Véronique is ATSuccess's resident muddle-headed wombat. I am chief muddle-headed wombat - but as a muddle head, I'm not quite sure if that's right. Hmmm.

You probably have no idea what I am talking about do you?

Victoria Stanham is an Alexander Technique teacher working Montevideo, Uruguay. She volunteered to be a case study in my free three month online course "12 Steps to Financial Success as an Alexander Technique Teacher" earlier this year.

I have often written that the incubation time for landing a new student in our Alexander Technique business can be long, and Dawn Robinson is living proof of that fact. Her incubation from a lecture about Alexander Technique to taking her first lesson was fifteen years! Take heart everyone – start building your list, you never know who might lurk there for a long, long time until finally taking up one of your offers.

Continuing my series this month of stories from Alexander Technique teachers in my paid coaching program, Annie Turner from Cornwall in the UK – a teacher for over 30 years – relates a moving account of a life spent in pursuit of authenticity, and how Alexander's work informed her journey. There is a lot here you will identify with. Annie pulls up the veil and offers an account of a dark, inner journey that finally offered her enough courage to write for you today.

This is the second in my series of stories this month by Alexander Technique teachers in my paid coaching program. Shawn Copeland is an Alexander Technique teacher and Adjunct Professor of Clarinet at the Department of Music in High Point University, North Carolina. And this is his story, told from the perspective of a musician seeking excellence…

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Think! Move! Perform!

Angela’s Story

I was born a month premature in the North of England, December 18th 1968. My birth was traumatic. I was an emergency Caesarean section as a result of placenta previa and placental abruption. My mother and I were not expected to survive. Yet somehow we both did. My first weeks were in a Special Care Baby Unit, jaundiced and weak.

Hence I have a very immature MORO reflex! It all makes sense now.

In our secret Facebook club – I challenge you to find us – I have 32 Alexander Technique teachers and students who have one thing in common: getting serious about creating a full-time, financially sustainable career as a teacher of Alexander Technique.

Is that something you aspire to? Then perhaps you should consider joining us…