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Monday
11May
[May Live Interview Invitation Open to All](/blog/2009/5/11/may-live-interview-invitation-open-to-all.html)
Monday, May 11, 2009 at 6:48PM
Live Interview Announced with Josephine Gray, Sunday 17th May 2009
About Our Call
Our conversation is going to focus on Josephine's work with the IT division of Chevron/Texaco which was brought to my attention via her Lugano Congress Presentation.
If you're wondering how to attract the attention of corporations and perhaps reach a wider audience with your work, Jo will be open for questions at the end of our call. There are very few AT teachers successfully working in the business sector...seize the opportunity to learn from Jo's mistakes and pick her brain on the secrets to securing higher paying work.
More about Josephine...
Josephine started studying the Technique in 1983 in San Francisco to rescue her career as a professional violinist from a debilitating repetitive strain injury. She has studied the Technique in London and Rome and has a Bachelor's degree in Music Performance. Josephine has taught the Technique for 5 years to actors at the American Conservatory Theater Summer Congress and to singers at Opera and the Arts for Young Girls.
Visit her website [here](http://www.alexandertechnique.com/josephinegray/).
How to participate in the call
DIAL-IN TIME:
- 2pm PDT USA
- 5pm EDT USA
- 10pm London
- 7am am EST Australia (Monday)
Use [this website](http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html) to calculate your city time zone.
Phone(USA): +1 (218) 486 7200
(I use [skype](http://skype.com) for very cheap call rates...1 hour costs about $2.50)
Bridge Code: 779037#
The interview will run for 40 minutes and then there will be time for questions.
This is an open call, all are welcome.
It will be recorded and transcribed for members.
Future interview candidates will be listed soon.
Meet you on the call!
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Friday
24Apr
[Book Sale! 10-25% Off...Plus Free Book!](/blog/2009/4/24/book-sale-10-25-offplus-free-book.html)
Friday, April 24, 2009 at 7:55PM
Mornum Time Press is having a spring sale to help boost the world economy. Who knew it was this easy...
A 10% discount will be given on any single title, and a 20% discount will be given on orders of 3 or more books. Orders of 10 or more books will get a 25% discount. The sale runs through May 5th, so order early and often. We are pleased to offer a new book for sale by Elizabeth Langford: Mind, Muscle and Music is a volume designed to accompany Ms. Langford's popular Mind and Muscle. Please take a look at the information about the book at: http://www.mtpress.com/b12_mind.htm.
To order books, come visit us at: http://www.mtpress.com/catalog.htm
Thanks for your interest and support.
Jerry Sontag
Publisher
Free Book Offer
Simply give us a testimony at "Book of the Month" on the left of this page and you'll go into the draw to win a copy of Ted Dimon's Elements of Skill.
Only two people gave reviews last month...so your odds are pretty good! And, we'll pay the postage.
This is for the month of May, 2009.
Yours in Alexander,
PC
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Friday
17Apr
[Google Teaches Alexander To Staff](/blog/2009/4/17/google-teaches-alexander-to-staff.html)
Friday, April 17, 2009 at 10:34AM
And so they should!
A recent message posted via the Alex-tech list (to join click on the subscriptions link above) alerted me to this wonderful news. Maybe I'm just behind the times here in oz land...but hearing this has given my ticker a little kick.
Sure, they have the budget and corporate mentality to invest wisely in their employees...but this only stands as a shining example of what the bright companies are doing to keep their creative people beaming.
When Google decides to employ an Alexander Technique teacher...there is nothing surer than "our day is coming". I might try to get John Baron on an interview so we can learn the secret to securing such an amazing client.
Here's the link to the video, it's 48 minutes long and I haven't watched it yet. Enjoy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzwDRW7-vuc
PC
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Tuesday
07Apr
[Work in Progress Continues](/blog/2009/4/7/work-in-progress-continues.html)
Tuesday, April 7, 2009 at 8:41PM
A whole lot of progress has been made this past month...from website navigation, to membership benefits and also a brand new membership structure in the making.
Firstly, here's some of the new benefits our membership have access to as of today:
- 2 new Walter Carrington recordings
- New Live interview with veteran AT teacher, Jessica Wolf. Members [click here.](http://www.directionjournal.com/interview2-2009/)
- 6 new Engleberg Congress articles (these are taking longer to upload than I originally planned)
- 2 more Direction Journals uploaded into the archive
For non-members, please [click here](/walter-carrington) for a bonus Walter Carrington recording, as promised some weeks ago.
But the big news is that the membership is growing...and it's still only $1. Yep, technical hitches have prevented us from charging the membership dues but it's getting closer now.
We're going to introduce this recurring billing with a very huge announcement. You might already have an idea on what the announcement is...you just won't have any idea of the content of it.
As always...delays and a vertical learning curve have meant that I'm way behind schedule on a number of promises. Thanks for remaining patient and for your ongoing support. Direction has been around for many years...and the diehards are what keep us going.
Check out the home page for a slight face lift...we've rearranged some of the links for a simpler interface and also introduced an explanatory page on "Subscriptions"...due to a constant stream of questions about all the new free things available via the website.
As always, email me if you have any questions. I'm working on that FAQ page...which will save ME a lot of time. PC
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Sunday
01Feb
[New Audio Galore](/blog/2009/2/1/new-audio-galore.html)
Sunday, February 1, 2009 at 11:15AM
During the hottest week of my short life time...[Melbourne's worst heatwave](http://www.theage.com.au/national/heat-leaves-100m-black-hole-20090131-7ugc.html) I had the opportunity to speak with Esther Gokhale, practitioner and now self published author in the field of back pain. Her travels around the world observing many "untouched" cultures have helped her crystalize a belief that western culture suffers from back pain due to poor posture.
No real surprise for Alexander Technique teachers. However, her method of delivery of the information she has refined over the past 20 years is of particular interest to our profession in my opinion. In her short career she has attracted the attention of 20+ medical experts in the Palo Alto area of California with one such professional currently conducting a trial of her methods for back pain sufferers.
If Esther can raise so much interest in the broader "sickness" market by formulating her work into a format that they will embrace and recommend, then she has bridged the gap between "them" and "us".
A brief look at her website: [www.egwellness.com](http://www.egwellness.com) gives a lesson in how to use modern methods to network a philosophy into the wider community(based as it is on Esther's face-to-face formula she talked about on the call). Picking her brain on Monday night over the phone was not only enjoyable for me, it was enlightening to the members we had on the call. Here are a couple of comments I received the same day:
"Following the business development patterns was most interesting to me. I found myself thinking about a short training in this egwellness with Esther as an addendum to bring a potentially larger client base." Christie
"I think it [is] amazing how quickly she got people well. By the way, you did a wonderful job facilitating the call, and creating an atmosphere of openness." Aryana
Members can now download the recording from the Vault.
But the good news for non-members is that I've just found an amazing resource of Walter Carrington audios...the first one will be posted here for everyone to enjoy.
More on that later this week.
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