ABOUT CAROL

          ‘Be patient with your life.‘
            –Nina Simone, singer and human rights campaigner.

Carol discovered the benefits of the Technique after waking one morning to find she could barely move her arms. Months of pain and frustration later, no-one could find the cause and with her life on hold and her career as a journalist, author and lecturer at a standstill, Carol took  a friend’s advice to try the Alexander Technique.

Within a short while, she was so deeply affected by the way the Technique helped her to begin moving again and of its potential for others as well as herself, that she decided to do three years training to become an AT teacher.

More than 20 years of teaching later,  Carol has seen the difference the work has made to hundreds of people’s lives and now divides her time between writing and being a teacher who offers something she considers to be ‘of immense value’.

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The cause of what originally struck Carol was eventually diagnosed as a severe case of RSI (Repetitive Strain Injury) brought on by years of tension, over-work and poor computer use.  After she wrote a number of articles about this, she was invited into workplaces to discuss the Technique’s benefits in preventing harmful work practices.

As well as speaking to the Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI) Association, Carol has worked with managers in large companies, introducing them to the Technique as a way of improving their vitality and efficiency, as well as their posture. One participant reported:

‘I was dubious when my line manager said she’d arranged some Alexander sessions for the team, but sitting at my desk a day or two later, I thought: “Ah, this is different. Much better”.‘