Time For A Breather

I am about to go into retreat for 9 days, starting tonight. I try to take two retreats each year – I cut off from all electronic contact, and make contact with my heart: my thoughts, hopes, dreams, fears, concerns. They are there all the time, but often pushed to the side as people, events and places fill up the space required to reflect. I intended to write posts for the time I was away, as I did last March, but it proved too ambitious for me to accomplish this time. Right now I am sitting in a café in Germany, listening to a man play an xylophone by the canal in beautiful sunshine, as I continue working on the text for BodyChance's new website in America. Phew – it's been non-stop for awhile now. Our website, and meeting you all, has been a great experience for me, but the demands of starting a new studio are taking their toll and, as Victoria pointed out, follow the money. I am not giving up, but I will probably lighten up. So you get time to go back, and ponder more the many thousands of words of advice and the experiences that I have been sharing with you here. You can have your own retreat from me! As I go into retreat tonight, one of my questions will be our website and how to proceed from here. I did offer you all three more months of free content, and we are reaching the end of that time now. Of course I will continue with this project - it is an integral part of BodyChance's Alexander Technique Teacher Education – but my thought at the moment is that I need to refocus this website for those students, although right now I have no idea what that means… I do need to sort out my own time priorities and decide where my energies are best directed as I go on. In Japan now we have plans to expand: buy a new studio, find new staff, go to another level. That will require focus, so being ready for that is one of the wonderings I take into retreat. While I am away, do me the favour of sharing your own thoughts, suggestions and concerns in the comments below. I will greedily look for them upon my return! I do need to hear from you time to time, to know if I am still matching the needs you have or not…? When no-one turns up for a call, I begin to wonder if I have missed the true concerns and needs of my audience… I look forward to meeting up with some of you in London on Sunday August 4th – remember you can still book for that on the page in this website – and for those not in London I will not go away but be back here on the other side of my retreat a totally transformed man! With a new idea what to do next. Please - You write your suggestions now in the comments box below…