Helen Ball

Why I quit a job I loved to learn The Alexander Technique

I have always been passionate about what I do. From my 20's onwards I worked in the arts, making beautiful life-changing connections between the public and creativity. Day to day my work included a huge amount of working with inspiring people, setting up pioneering partnerships with organisations like The Royal Opera House, and Punchdrunk Theatre Company, commissioning exciting artists and projects, managing arts festivals, exhibitions and events, as well as speaking at conferences and working as a consultant to support many arts organisations to work in better ways with the public. I worked with a 100's of organisations during this time including The Audience Agency, Sadlers Wells, Studio 3 Arts, Kenwood House and The Royal Parks. On the whole I loved it. It always excited me. But the other side was that it was exhausting and I never seemed to find the time to get into a groove when it came to self-care. Not that self-care was such a phrase at that time. I was aware I just never had much TIME.

This led me to - January 2015 when I took a 6 week group class at City Lit in The Alexander Technique class. It was in the second week of doing an activity about how different states of mind play out in how you move around that a penny (well actually it was more like several million pounds) dropped.

I help busy tired hardworking people to uncover their natural body wisdom and energy, visit my website to read more..