Perfect Poise, Perfect Life
Bring your body into balance and revolutionise your life
By Noel Kingsley
Publisher Hodder Mobius
AVAILABLE HERE
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Alexander Technique in Dorset
Our move to Beaminster in Dorset a year ago after 25 years of being in London has made such a difference to our lives. The weekly travel to London where I still work is one thing and we've been getting used to that, but it's the pace of life which is so much slower, people have time to chat and even those who we do not know, smile and say 'Good Morning'. It's so refreshing and uplifting, I just love coming home to Beaminster.
However my Alexander Technique practice is in London so we return to the 'big smoke' on Sunday evenings or Monday. I do enjoy my work, helping people with their posture and co-ordination and I get to meet so many interesting folk from all over the world who want to come and see me in our West End Cavendish Square clinic. It's a busy week where I start at 7.15am and often don't leave after my last 'pupil' until early evening, when I try to find time to practice my violin.
Recently however a number of our neighbours and local people around Beaminster have asked me to work with them, so I've decided to give some Alexander lessons from our home in Dorset. And I'm so glad I have. I use our music room which has plenty of space and a nice view of our garden, so it's a refreshing change from the London practice. Now Saturday mornings are taken up with giving a few Alexander lessons to horse riders who want to improve their balance and co-ordination on horseback (I have a saddle and wooden horse which allows us to focus on this especially) as well as others with postural problems and back trouble. And I must admit I just love seeing people change and improve their condition and it's great to be doing this in our home town!
So now I have two practices! But I know full well, that as I get a little older we will gravitate to our home in Beaminster and I shall reduce the days of work in London in preference to doing Alexander Technique teaching in Dorset. This is now where we live and don't we just love it!
I'm so grateful to those neighbours and local people who have asked me to work with them. If they hadn't I wouldn't have brought my work do Dorset and missed out on the pleasure of working in this lovely quiet environment. (It's not work really....I love what I do, so it's probably better described as a vocation!) Don't I look forward to eventually being here permanently! But in the meantime, I will still continue to work in London as that's where my main practice is.....but only for the time being!
If you want to contact me in Dorset, please call 01308 861759.
