The one workshop only success story. Is it really possible to get it in one workshop only?

Well, wouldn't that be great?
Yet, we all know that working on the self requires much more than one workshop, or one more, and another one...

It is an ongoing learning process, and getting really closer to the Alexander Technique I should say unlearning!

I used to get discouraged about giving workshops sometimes, as much as I love to do it, there was always a thought hanging, making me think if this was a good thing to do or not, after all what can one do, what can one pass in one workshop only?

That was up until I got an invitation from professor Vlatka Oršanić to bring my work to the Academy of Music University Zagreb.

Professor Vlatka Oršanić is the head of the voice department of the Academy. Together we decided that a seminar and a few introduction workshops on the combination I do with voice and the Alexander Technique would be the best to start with.

I am very happy to bring my work around of course, at the same time I was very curious to know how did she get to my work or how did she hear about me? Later Vlatka told me it was via a pupil of hers, Martina Latin.

Vlatka knew her pupil for a long time of course, yet there came a moment that, according to Vlatka, Martina had a significant change, and the teacher just couldn't place it. So she asked her pupil what was it she was doing in order to change so much, and so Martina told her that she had been to ONE of my workshops! Martina even wrote a paper about voice work and the Alexander Technique for her final year at the Academy.

I can not tell you how happy I am, SO HAPPY!
I receive loving emails and messages after workshops, and believe me I get VERY EMOTIONAL with each one of them, people telling me how much they appreciated it.
Despite of it, somehow there was always a thought hanging from my part:

Did they really get it? Did it really made a difference for them, even when most participants didn't even had a private lesson on the Alexander Technique.

So now I really know, Yes!
People will get the message when they are ready and open for it.

Another big example is my 'star bass player pupil' Danijel Radanović. Every time I see him I get surprised on the amount of good work he is doing on himself.

I was just back in Zagreb for the new bunch of 'uSing your voice and body well' workshops. At first at the Studio Kubus and later to the Academy of Music University. Knowing that as much as I'd love to, it is just impossible to pass the whole work in one workshop only, or two, or...  But happy, so happy to take one step at the time. To help people change their views and old ways of doing things and help them discover the easiness of doing it in 'the non-doing way'.

I met and worked with wonderful singers, actors, musicians, a whole new bunch of wonderful people and I was also very happy to meet the 'good old group' again.

I am always happy to see Dajana Mar, 'my Croatian angel', Dajana was the first one to bring my work To Zagreb. I am also so grateful for Simona Palatinus and her Studio Kubus Arts Organisation. And for Professor Vlatka Oršanić and the Academy of Music University Zagreb for the warm welcome I received.
And last but not least, to the Shiatsu school for lending us their skeleton 'Stanco' for the weekend.

And for each one of you that took part in this amazing journey, thank you so much for being there.

Next post I will tell you all about the very talented singers the went bubbles, bubbles, bubbles...