A niche is a community of people - bound together by an activity they love - with an already existing communication system.

Let's break that down.

"A niche is a community of people…"

You write to engage.

You write to your audience; to the people who might become your students.

You write so they can understand how they can benefit.

THEN they want to know who you are, what you do and how that helps them.

Alexander's discovery remains a mystery to many people, even after studying it.

It can be easily explained, yet comparing that explanation to your proposed results – the two seem out of all proportion with each other!

Student thinks:

“Banned” is a little hyperbole. Thrown out is a tad closer.

And I like getting thrown out of things. It’s become a habit.

Usually it’s because I won’t conform, or behave in an “expected” way. In the FB group AT Global, I kept asking people to try my services. I behave normally for a business, but they don’t like it.

It all started with STAT – doesn’t everything?

Back in the 70s, when I first arrived in London to train, the big scandal was group teaching.

Of course, EVERYONE KNEW you could not teach Alexander's discovery in groups. It was almost a heresy back then, a betrayal of principle. What are you thinking!?

Except that "unreasonable" teachers started to teach in groups.

The story I heard - back then - was of an infuriated Dr Wilfred Barlow, at the last STAT AGM he ever attended, pointing a finger quivering in anger at Walter Carrington:

"It is because of you!"

THE POETRY

By the river in Kyoto. I remember.

Family. Two girls lying flat, a father writing. The river flowing by.

Tribes. A dad holidaying his brood. Takes the time.

Blood. Girls. Teenagers about to fly. Different times of life.

What holds all this together?

THE ENGINEERING

One feature of a scientific breakthrough is often some kind of "instrument" that is able to organise observed phenomena in original, unforeseen ways. It can take many forms: a physical device such as a telescope, and/or an idea, such as "the earth is round"

(oh come on, really? I think I'll burn you alive for thinking like that)

One feature of this "device" is that it recognises patterns in phenomena that had not been previously identified.

And the holy grail of science - > it successfully predicts behaviour. EVERY TIME.

As you live, injuries are natural part of living.

My right leg has been screaming at me these last few days, and I am wondering why.

Pains like this seem to mysteriously appear – an unexpected discomfort in a part of your movement system that seems to have no rhyme or reason. It’s irritating, consistent and defies your efforts to remedy it.

In cases like these, I whip out my “detective” principle of movement analysis:

There is always a reason.

(Don’t believe Coca Cola’s “No Reason” - it’s bullshit.)

I hope you like my blog title today?

This is the mind of a person in serious conflict.

Yesterday I was rabbiting on about wanting what you don’t like. You do your taxes even when you don’t like it, right? Happens every day. However, unless you are awake to it, you will can your life harder than necessary. You add garbage to something that can be done cleanly.

The operating principle here is: you don’t have to like it, to want it.

Most people, when planning their website, worry about the content.

Wrong thing to worry about.

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(actually, it's better not to worry about anything. Shantideva, an Indian sage in the 8th century, had the final words to say about that:

If you can solve your problem, then what is the need of worrying?
If you cannot solve it, then what is the use of worrying?

Thanks for putting an end to that one Shanti-san)

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I landed in Mullumbimby yesterday, here to be with my two teenage daughters. People back in Japan and elsewhere tell me:

“When you are in Australia, you are different.”

Really?

It is not that apparent to me. And I wonder – who am I that appears so differently depending on what place I am in…

Or is it what I am doing that causes me to appear differently?