After a couple of weeks, I started noticing slight changes. Sometimes, I managed to get out of my own way, so that my teacher could show me some new directions. I spent quite a lot of time pondering what directions are. And even though I was still in the dark about quite a lot of things, one thing was clear to me: I really liked the lessons!

The one thing that I remember most from my first AT lesson is that my teacher put me on a chair, started pushing and pulling at my arms, legs and back, and then asked me: "how does this feel?" I answered him that my back felt completely out of balance, my one shoulder being much heigher than my other, my arms felt really weird, and it all felt totally wrong. Then he told me to turn my head to look in the mirror beside me, and there I was, sitting completely straight; not straight as in 'physiotherapy straight'( pull back your shoulders, tilt your pelvis and keep it that way-always), but straight in a very natural way, beautiful, effortless. This explained faulty sensory awareness in a much more convincing and credible way than hours of talking could have done (I got the hours of talking anyway, but that's another story :-)

From that point onwards, I realised that I'd come across something interesting, something that I'd like to know more about, so I decided to hang on and see what would happen next. And what happened next, was, I thought then, a little disappointing. My first AT lessons consisted mainly of sitting down and standing up. I failed to see how that could contribute to improving posture, I mean, what's so difficult about sitting down in a chair and getting out of it again? Besides, I failed to see how I could keep my neck free when my teacher held my head locked between his hands. And after lessons, I wasn't allowed to do any practise. Not that I wanted to, because the first few lessons gave me a splitting headache. Still, the talking was nice, and this teacher really seemed to know what he was talking about. What was this all about?