After five lessons, I've decided that this doesn't work for me. I don't care which one is the 'real' Alexander technique, I simply feel like wasting my time over there. Again, it's not the teacher, he's very nice and sympathetic. But I just feel that his perception of AT and mine don't match. AT is much more that moving, to me, it's a bit of a philosophy as well. Not in the sense of sitting and pondering important thoughts, but it is something that touches the very base of my existance in an everyday, but all-pervasive way. The key to proper AT, for me at least, is in directing and inhibiting, and that's something that I haven't found there.

I don't know...there's something about nice and sympathetic teachers that makes me very suspicious. Same with nice and sympathetic conductors. Somehow, they send a kind of subconscious message: "I'm a lightweight, come and test me". The best teachers and conductors I've had so far were moody, fickle and not afraid to confront me with things I'd rather kept hidden from myself.