Suddenly Bessie blurts out:

“But how will I help all the people around me in such tension?! How can they bear it? What can I do?”

Bessie is tightening up worse than the people she is talking about!

What to do?

Welcome to group teaching, where my response to Bessie is being witnessed by 10 other people. It is no longer just Bessie than I am responding to, I need to include 10 other listeners…

“Bessie,” I say, “Just remember how lucky you are that you know something that they don’t know…”

I heard to-day that I was not to be invited to a meeting of teachers in LA next Sunday to talk about how they might support each other getting their Alexander Technique practices a little busier. On that day I am in LA, I am available and I (was) willing to attend.

I had heard about this meeting two weeks ago, and I believed I could help them with specific advice to their questions, so I rearranged my schedule in Japan – spending money to change the date on my Japanese return ticket – so I could be in LA for that Sunday meeting.