What Is My One-to-One Work?

My one-to-one work is based on years of experience of working with bodies. I incorporate my Pilates knowledge and other courses (Feldenkrais, for example) but mainly it is based on the years of knowledge I have accrued from my work in the AiM method.

In a one-to-one session, I assess the body’s ability to do some ‘basic’ functional movements. I’m particularly interested in what’s going on at the hips/pelvis and the feet. These are often areas that have limitations that can cause trouble in the feet, ankles, knees, hips, back and shoulders.
Then I look at how to get these areas moving more optimally using exercises that will mobilise the relevant joints and wake-up the relevant muscles.

One of the key differences between this technique and many others is the way that the AiM gait model tells us what the body is missing out on and requires, movement-wise. With each step that we take, every day, there are many different things that need to happen from the foot up to the head, even on a tiny scale. Injury, pain, illness, clothing choices and posture are the kind of things that can start to disrupt healthy gait patterns.

In a healthy gait pattern, all areas of the body share-out the effort and experience movement in 3 dimensions. In a less healthy gait pattern, some areas will be overworking whereas others will not be ‘pulling their weight’. The ‘over-workers’ are likely to be the ones ‘complaining’ but they are unlikely to be the cause of the problem.

With my one-to-one work I weed out the areas of the body that are not pulling their weight, or those that are not experiencing life in 3 dimensions, for whatever reason. Once we get them back on board, the body is able to work more as a whole and will look and feel more coherent as well as moving with less pain and more ease and grace.

The methods I use are highly adaptable and can be very gentle (yet firm). It is always highly respectful of the individual body’s capabilities.