I recall a pupil I worked with at Sherborne School for Girls who first came to me aged about twelve. She had recently moved back to the country from the Far East and had been signed up for Alexander Technique classes because of chronic back pain. She had a mysterious and highly troublesome problem in her lower back which so far nobody had managed to alleviate, or even identify. This girl stood out because of her size - tall, sturdy and fully grown, whereas her peers were all