Someone just sent me a picture of the main street
of Gosford, NSW in the early 1950's...
it powerfully jerked me back into the past.
So familiar... a stream of experiences and memories
swept me away.

It was from this lovely old country town that,
in my youth, I was so excited to be swept away into
the cosmopolitan world of Sydney and then of London.
It would be twenty years before another sweep of change
brought me back.

When I got back it seemed that nearly everything
that I'd treasured had basically changed away too.
That's how it goes eh? You don't know
what you've got till it's gone!

I'd become a singer, songwriter and performer.
I was locked into that crazy, wonderful identity
for seventeen years.
Then in 1979 something new jerked me forward
into a fresh identity.

I discovered the Alexander Technique.
and I've been home now for more than twenty years
teaching the Alexander Technique.

Have look at the old pics below...

My creative streak was not extinguished though.
Through those years I developed Alexander's work
in my own style.
Sometimes it was not a perfect fit with the original.
I realized that I would have to go it alone quite a bit.

But, of course, it's all been worth it!
I now have a technique that brings the
copper wire version of the Alexander technique
up to optic fiber speed that we demand
in the 21st century.
I have been calling it the 'One Touch' experience.
It is shot through with Alexander's basics, while
handing back to the pupil control and responsibility.

The Alexander Technique, to me, had become
too physically focussed at the receiving end
of the work. That is, what the pupil was getting
was very close to an exercise discipline.
I felt that it could become another muscle
stretching and skeletal balancing technique.

I like to say that I'm "putting the psyche back
into the psycho-physical technique".
That's the 'One Touch" experience.
Still physically focussed but dynamic
and challenging rather than passive.

That's the new 'Me'. Using and teaching
the 'One touch' experience.