I have spent my adult life playing a variety of instruments and singing. This interest in music led me to train as a Kodály music educator and I have spent almost 20 years teaching music in primary schools in London. I constantly suffered from voice strain problems. Learning piano I found that I suffered from pain, numbness and tingling in my hands and arms. All this was on top of a lifetime of soreness and stiffness in my upper back and shoulders. I saw myself as someone who just didn’t have good posture, never athletic and doomed to stoop more and more in old age.

I have tried many forms of treatment for my various problems and over the years found that the Alexander Technique was the thing that seemed to offer a  solution that solved the underlying problem. Whenever I had lessons I got a tantalising glimpse of the possibility of a life free from voice strain and sore shoulders and wrists.