Private lessons with Mrs Sarah Anne Chubb (The Chipping Surgery, Symn Lane, Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire, GL12 7BD, UK)

As a sufferer of ankylosing spondilitis: a chronic rheumatic condition, the Alexander Technique helped me discover relationships between physical and psychological ways of “letting go” in order to control pain. In particular, exposure to the Technique has enabled me to break self-perpetuating circuits of pain associated with inflammatory conditions by focusing on inhibiting learned muscle tensing habits which feed on pain and each other.