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.

I always know two hands will shoot up before I have barely finished my sentence:

"Has someone got something they want to explore with me?"

Welcome to Basil's Music ProCourse - BodyChance's Teacher Education course exclusively for musicians. This is the niche experiment at it's finest: a band of enthusiastic students intent on developing their skill by leveraging Alexander's Discovery in their playing.

The Prince of Print, Gary Halbert, was famous for a simple question he posed to marketers in his seminars. Anyone in the direct marketing business knows this story - and I've told it before - so if you don't know it, get your education going by reading my old blogs from here.

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.

He did it, so why can't we? No reason.

On my Skype last night with a mentoring client (members know who), we explored her recent group teaching experiences. She had three regulars, then a newbie turned up, so she focused on basics.

"How was that?" she asked the regulars at the end.

Their response: "We didn't get enough hands on."

Oh dear.

A feeling is a report from your past.

It is about what just happened, even if you are imagining the future. You see an image, you react to it. We dream, we imagine, we create - then we have feelings about these constructions. Our hormones are triggered; we feel multiple emotions coursing through our system.

As an Alexander Technique teacher, I used to think it was my job to supply a new feeling to my student. I was very good at it - people marvelled after my lessons how different they felt, how amazing the Alexander Technique was…

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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I was on a Skype with one of my mentoring clients yesterday, and the topic came up about how to use your time effectively. Over the years, I have learnt many ways to analyse this task, but the most useful of all was to ask a simple question…

Is this activity putting me into contact with new students?

Of course, I are talking about your time in the business, not your time with family, friends or in conscious rest. When you are "on" what are you "on" to? There are so many tasks required to build a business, and one way to categorize them is like this:

To respect the person you want to attract, you need to stand with them.

Of course to "stand with them" may mean voicing an opinion that causes controversy amongst others. My declarations about chair and table work fall into this category.

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.