6th June 2014

nikcurry.com   THE WEBSITE

So here is the new website, a long desired and anticipated change. I had three options of how to achieve a website of this quality. The same three choices you always have:

–                     Make a change

–                     Stay the same

–                     Give up

I gave up ‘give up’ a long time ago and my feeling towards staying the same is best explained by the old quote, “The only difference between a rut and a grave is depth’.

But knowing what changes to make is challenging, it’s the challenge I relish most. There are all sorts of indicators that help you make changes if you look for them, and I welcome them all. Gut feeling, intuition, recommendation, observation, desire, imperatives, morals, inspiration, goals to name a few, and of course, the most important, serendipity.

Serendipity requires you to be mindful in the present, to recognise opportunity and to be ready to grab hold of it with both hands. This can be hard if you’re short of money and resources, it often appears in unlikely ways, unlooked for, – it can be easy to miss.

My goal with Postural Patterning is to get the message to as many people as possible and my quandary has been how to do that. Marketing and all it entails in this day and age seemed beyond me, a mystery. I did recognise the need for a good website as the first step though.

I had a call one day from a guy who said he knew someone who thought my work was pretty good and asked if he could meet me to talk about it. This happens occasionally when people are shopping for assistance and want to check it out first, but this guy was different.

He didn’t want an appointment, he said he had no money, he didn’t want to write about the work, he wasn’t working on behalf of anyone, he just wanted to ask some questions. I asked him how many questions, thinking perhaps he could ask them now.

“Four notebooks” he said.  I laughed, he didn’t…..

We met for coffee, he drank herbal tea. And we found some common ground, I had something he wanted, and he knew how to make websites and videos.

He’d been trying to find people to listen and answer his questions for four years without much success. He wasn’t trained but he’d investigated and rejected almost all the forms of medical and exercise training on offer. He’d applied himself to learning about his body and to asking questions wherever and whenever he could.

And here, serendipitously, he was.

The website and the videos that appear on it are down to the collaboration of him and his formidable array of friends. It’s been an education for me. On the one hand I’m the expert and on the other hand the rank beginner, lost and confused.

I’ve put myself in the hands of these young men who speak a different language and live in a different world from my everyday life. I feel each change they require of me to be huge and sometimes counter-intuitive and I often have no idea how to put it all together into the big picture.

This feeling, they assure me is similar to that which people experience with Postural Pattering. I realised that this was the same process I went through as I learnt about my body. Feeling every new step and change, seeing what my body was doing and how it worked, and the extraordinary way it all came together as I understood and improved.

I’m not learning very much about how to make websites but, through participation in the videos I’m understanding so much more about how to present Postural Patterning in simple, elegant ways. I’m sure the videos will keep improving.

Keep watching, there’s at least four notebooks of answers in there.