In Evolution of a Technique, discovering the head/neck/back relationship didn’t solve FM’s voice problem. It was the next step that did solve it – staying available to do something else.

Remember? – I want to recite, but maybe instead I’ll do nothing, or maybe I’ll lift my hand. I think we, as a profession, have paid too much attention to the freeing-necks, which wasn’t the solution, and not enough to the next step; the bit that was the solution. The ‘freedom to change my mind’.

I believe that, if FM had discovered the ‘staying-available-to’ first, he wouldn’t have had to discover the H/N/B relationship, because in this state of availability, our necks free anyway and our heads go forward and up. But that it is irrelevant.

We get freedom TO instead of a free body, or a free neck. In this workshop we’ll experiment with the last step in FM’s process, and see how ‘availability-to’ has benefits that go far beyond the physical, for us and for the people we teach, and we’ll find out what FM meant when he said that the Primary Control ‘. . . makes it possible for man consciously to change and improve his behaviour . . .’