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<\/a><\/p>\nShelley Piser:<\/strong> How do you differ from what you have been taught and how did you evolve into your own?<\/p>\n Martyn Jackson<\/strong>: I am a therapist, really. I am physio trained but never did the examination because there were other things on my mind like, I wanted to do that training, \u00a0I wanted dance and there were so many things I wanted and I felt that I had a lot to offer more then a lot of teachers because I had that medical training plus the yoga training. So I could help more people. The healthy people I am not so worried about, they\u2019ve got the health and I HOPE<\/em> the intelligence\u00a0to retain that health.I did this, I think, for people who found it difficult to be motivated themselves.So I feel that they needed my assistance.And those are the ones who seem to be drawn to me. I didn\u2019t advertise, I didn\u2019t charge at all.I never charged for a yoga class.I would put a tin down for donations. I survived that way until one day my accountant’s wife came around and she became a regular participant and she said, \u201cMartyn, you know, why don\u2019t you charge?\u201dI said, \u201cYoga philosophy doesn\u2019t work that way.\u201dI only didn\u2019t because I was farming and I had money and I could pay for things with my own money. But I realized that with a family that I couldn\u2019t keep that up.<\/p>\n Because the rents were gradually increasing and that was putting a demand on my private income. Then, I never raised the fees myself, my account\u2019s wife, she was regular and she would put the fees up from two shillings to half a crown, that was in \u201964, and from a half a crown it went up to five shillings. From five shillings, this was over a period of years; it went up to one dollar. This is where we are now, paying six or going up to seven at the end of the month because our rent is going up a thousand a month just now, just these last two weeks. That\u2019s the reason, but I don\u2019t like that. It\u2019s not my way of teaching.<\/p>\n