The nice thing of teachers moving abroad is that they can come back and pay you a visit :-)

We did some AT in the back garden, and it was such fun again! Some things that I remembered:
- Don't look for a position of the head, but for the absence of a position.
- Dare to give up. All the support you need will come from the freedom that you create when you give up.
- Directions is a set of ideas, not a posture or fixed position.
- Shoulders tend to slump at the moment, which is a tendency to go 'in'; try to send an outward direction from you sitting bone.
- Forward and up is not moving your head forward and up, but the unlocking of the top of the spine and an upflow along the spine.
- Always keep a little tendency of staying backwards.

This rung a bell with me (as it should); MacDonald talks about the same thing is his book (p.67):
"[The term direction] is used for four [...] different phenomena:
1. Negative directions (do not stiffen your neck)
2. If you have stiffened it, release it
3. directions to make movement
4. sending a flow or force to alter the condition of a part or parts.

I believe that the direction no. 4, forward in forward and up is an unlocking device and that the direction up should produce a tiny elongation of the spinal column and that it should be curved forward so as to bring about a widening of the back."