Courses, Inspiration & Reading
Although I qualified as a Personal Trainer in 2001 and a Pilates Instructor in 2003, what I now teach is a mix of the many different courses and workshops I have attended since then.
These include:
- All levels of AiM (Anatomy in Motion) with Gary Ward
- Gray Institute Endorsed courses with Thirst4Function
- Freeing the Hips and Spine Alignment workshops with Kindy Kaur
- Various Living Love courses with Jewels Wingfield
- 3 years with Life Coach Tim Polkinghorne
- Various BodyTalk courses, including Mindscape
- Various workshops with Liz Bussey, Pilates Instructor and Craniol Sacral therapist
- Rolfing Workshop and the 10 Series of sessions with Vivien Skelton
- Somatic Coach Training with Brian Siddhartha Ingle
- Feldenkrais workshops with Gunther Bisges and also Joan Winter
- Health, Performance & The Human Predicament workshop with Frank Forencich
- Living Brave course with Brene Brown
- The River of Life: Respiratory Enhancement workshop with Tom Myers
- Stalking the Wild Psoas workshop with Liz Koch
- 5 Rhythms Workshops with Neil Pinnock
Reading list:
- Anatomy Trains – Myofascial Meridians for manual and Movement Therapists by Thomas W Myers
- Somatics – Reawakening the Mind’s Control of Movement, Flexibility and Health by Thomas Hanna
- The New Rules of Posture by Mary Bond
- Awareness Heals – The Feldenkrais Method for Dynamic Health by Steven Shafarman
- How to Eat, Move and Be Healthy by Paul Chek
- The Body Has It’s Reasons – Self-Awareness Through Conscious Movement by Therese Bertherat
- What the Foot by Gary Ward
- The Psoas Book by Liz Koch
- Core Awareness by Liz Koch
- BodyStories – A Guide to Experiential Anatomy by Andrea Olsen
- The Endless Web – Fascial Anatomy and Physical Reality by R Louis Schultz and Rosemary Feitis
- The Busy Person’s Guide to Easier Movement by Frank Wildman
- Unravelling – Letting Go, Getting Well by Philip M Greenfield
- Dynamic Alignment Through Imagery by Eric Franklin
- Exuberant Animal by Frank Forencich
- Curiosity Recaptured – Exploring Ways We Think and Move a collection of stories by Alexander Technique practitioners
- Follow Your Gut – The Enormous Impact of Tiny Microbes by Rob Knight with Brendon Buhler
- Your Body’s Many Cries For Water by Dr F Batmanghelidj
- Gut by Giulia Enders