Pilates & Yoga
Nicki O'Clarey, Cambridge
Nicki is a Pilates & Franklin-Method teacher and a Structural Bodyworker (KMI). We often have some very informative and fun exchanges of work and ideas. Nicki teaches classes in Cambridge and together we tour to teach workshops.
Sarah Hanks, Practice Yoga, London
Sarah offers a multitude of Yoga classes in South East and East London.
Body Work
Run by therapists for therapists, sourcing material and courses from the world's best educators. This site also incorporates the newly formed KINESIS UK. KUK will be responsible for arranging trainings and workshops including: Kinesis Myofascial Integration (KMI) - Tom Myers' own brand of structural integration; Anatomy Trains, BodyReading, and Deep Tissue Massage, incorporating BodyReading & Fascial Touch technique.
Anatomy Trains Myofascial Meridians
Anatomy Trains Myofascial Meridians gives you a new understanding of whole-body patterning in
posture and function - the interplay of movement and stability.
Schools and Organisations
KMI: Kinesis Myofascial Integration
KMIpromotes a wide vocabulary of touch and movement skills in the service of ease, balance, length, and a complete body image for our clients. KMI training brings together the finest anatomical specificity with clear strategies for multi-session protocols, taught in an 'open inquiry' learning environment.
Body Control Pilates
Body Control Pilates is one of the biggest Pilates training organisations in Europe. The Body Control Pilates association, a ‘not for profit’ organisation,
exists to safeguard the standards and quality of Body Control Pilates
teaching.
Dance Science at Laban, London
Laban developed the first ever Masters Degree in Dance Science and has recently been involved in many innovative dance science research projects. With over 300 dance students in full time professional training and strong relationships with many UK leading Contemporary Dance companies, Laban has unparalleled access to several hundred potential research participants which gives both credibility and validity to any research under investigation.
Franklin-Method Institute, Switzerland
The Franklin Method Institute offers world wide courses in movement and imagery education. In this function they provide Teacher Training Courses leading to a "Franklin Teacher Certification" as well as workshops in the Franklin Method.
Ideokinesis.com
The Ideokinesis.com website serves to disseminate information on an educational approach that promotes the improvement of posture and movement. This approach was never codified as that seemed to contradict the nature of the educational process. The central tenet of Ideokinesis suggests that disciplined concentration on precisely formulated imagery will improve the coordination underlying our habits of posture and movement.
Polestar Pilates UK
Polestar is an international community of research-oriented movement science professionals, transferring knowledge to clients to improve health and well-being, through the application of Pilates and various methodologies of movement science.
REPs UK
The Register of Exercise Professionals (REPs) has been set up to help safeguard and to promote the health and interests of people who are using the services of exercise and fitness instructors, teachers and trainers. The Register uses a process of self-regulation that recognises industry-based qualifications, practical competency, and requires exercise professionals to work within a Code of Ethical Practice. Members of the Register are given a card and registration certificate to prove their qualification and membership. Also known as the Exercise Register it operates in the UK and across the world to recognise personal achievement and competencies of qualified exercise professionals.
Groups & Individuals (with whom I work)
Feldenkrais - Scott Clark, London
Scott is a Feldenkrais teacher in London with more than 20 years of experience in movement and the human body. He teaches classes, individual sessions and workshops in London. His website offers information, articles and audio lessons in Feldenkrais.
BMC – Kama Korytowska, England and Poland
Kama has studied Body-Mind Centering®, Authentic Movement, Somatic Psychology, Integrative Bodywork and Movement Therapy, and Family Constellations. She offers workshops in embodied consciousness and family constellations in England and abroad and practices bodymind therapy in private practice in London and Poland.
Jackie Prosser, Pilates Practice, Yorkshire
Jackie offers Pilates classes and studio sessions in Bingley. Jackie can be contacted: 01535 608 815.
Julia Atherton, PhysioPilates, Wilmslow
Julia and her team offer Pilates classes and private sessions in
Wilmslow. She also offers 30-minute workouts on her website to download
for home-use.
Isobel Knight - Bowen Practitioner, London
Isobel is a Bowen practitioner who practices in Central and South East London.
Gyrotonics - Penny Withers, Glasgow
Penny Withers' Studio in Glasgow is the first privately run studio in the West of Scotland to offer members of the public the opportunity to exercise using the GYROTONIC EXPANSION SYSTEM®.
Dance School of Scotland, Glasgow
The Dance School of Scotland is a wonderful and unique institution dedicated to nurturing and developing talented young dance and musical theatre students. I teach regular Franklin Method workshops at the Dance School.