'Dance like nobody is watching'
Movement has been a thread throughout my life ; from gymnastics in childhood to yoga, primal movement, pilates and embodied movement practices as an adult. I have spent most of my life practicing, studying and teaching movement. Over the years, I have seen directly how the quality of our movement shapes the way we feel, function and experience life itself.
As a mover and a movement teacher for the last twenty years, I have witnessed lives being slowly transformed as joints are released, fascia is awakened, tissues dissolve and the breath deepens.
I have a natural intuitive sense of the body that translates to my Amatsu practice. Coupled with years of technical training and a natural curiosity for movement mechanics and anatomy, this sets me apart as a physical therapist.
The body is always telling a story. Our lived experiences are reflected in how we breathe, move, hold tension and respond to the world around us. I believe my role as an Amatsu therapist is to help midwife that story, to ‘listen’ to the tissues, as Jean-Pierre Barral French Osteopath and Physical Therapist advocates in his work, and to facilitate an unwinding of tissue & fascia such that the body moves with greater ease, fluiditity and freedom.
TECHNICAL TRAINING
Amatsu Therapy - Daghda Synergy
Visceral Manipulation - The Barral Institute.
Balanced Health Kinesiology - Kinesiology Zone.
Cranial Osteopathy - ICOM.
MOVEMENT TRAINING
Iyengar Yoga Level 1 Teacher Training
Vinyasa Yoga Teacher Training
Kundalini Yoga Teacher Training
Pilates Mat Level 1
Pilates Mat Level 2
Primal Moves
How Amatsu helped me
My interest in Amatsu began through personal experience. In my late twenties a persistent pelvic pain gradually began to restrict how I moved. Over time it began to affect the quality of my life. I eventually found my way to an Amatsu practitioner. Within a few treatments, a long-held pattern of restriction - with its origins in an accident I had at nineteen - began to unwind and I experienced a freedom of movement I hadn't felt in years.
The experience profoundly changed the way I thought about the body. In the words of Dr. Masaaki Hatsumi, founder of Amatsu, I had learned to 'float' in my walk. To this day, I continue to get regular Amatsu treatments. Once you feel how effortlessly your body can move, it's hard to go back.
As a lifelong student of eastern & esoteric philosophies I view health through the lens of interconnectedness - the understanding that no part of us exists in isolation.
My work considers the whole person: body, mind and spirit, recognising the profound ways in which our emotional experiences, life history and nervous system can influence patterns in the physical body.
My aim is to create a safe, nurturing space where the body can soften, reorganise and move towards greater balance - supporting healing across physical, emotional and energetic dimensions.