Autumn Mind Body Somatic Movement Retreat: Into the body

Do you need time, and space to switch off from being the one doing all doing?

Start your autumn health and wellness with my autumn wellbeing retreat, a place for movement, rejuvenation and rest in the beautiful and tranquil surroundings of the Garden Rooms, where we have a beautiful garden to walk around, a terrace to sit outside and eat and beautiful views of Shropshire to admire. Come by yourself and meet new people or come with your friends.

My retreat has limited places to make the event intimate for everyone.

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Coming in January 2024 one of my most favourite masterclasses on the Heart.

What does it mean to embody the heart?

What do you know about the heart or associate with it?

Have you heard the cue to 'Lift your heart'?  How do you do that?

How does the heart move in movement as well as breathing?

If we learn to embody the heart how can that help us feel much calmer and at peace?

How can we use breath and movement to look after our heart?

How can we use something called embodiment to really use this piece of us that is so precious?

The Heart is an intelligent and tremendously beautiful piece of design.  It has its own brain and the ability to survive even if we cut off the nerves connecting it to our brain.  Right now, it conducts its own dance inside your body, whilst you are thinking breathing and moving.  Emotions have as much to do with the heart and body as they do with the brain.

But we can use it for so much more than that: the heart can be used as a joint, to aid our movement and take away tension from the musculoskeletal system.  Developing skills and learning about the heart can aid not just movement but enhance our sense of calm and wellbeing in body and in mind,

In this workshop you will...

Learn more about the power of dynamic imagery skills and how this can affect the fastest change in the body and the mind.

Learn about the function and structure of the heart and different ways to keep it healthy.

Learn and embody the heart as a muscle and a joint: learn new exercises to have greater flexibility and a sense of openness in your body.

Release tension in your spine and relax your neck and shoulders

Learn about the connection of mind body

Learn about the movements and rhythm of the heart in breathing

Learn more about how working from the heart can have a positive effect upon the nervous system, leaving you feeling very calm and relaxed through heart led breath works as well as finding out more about how to improve our vagal tone.

Leave the workshop feeling very relaxed, calm and of happy heart!

My latest Franklin Method® Workshop available on livestream via zoom. The Lungs: Breath, Energy and Movement. Take a deeper breath…And enter a light world of expansion, movement, elasticity and endless potential and support.

Autumn Pilates Wellbeing Retreat for Women

Do you need time, and space to switch off from being the one doing all doing?

Start your autumn health and wellness with my autumn wellbeing retreat, a place for movement, rejuvenation and rest in the beautiful and tranquil surroundings of the Garden Rooms, where we have a beautiful garden to walk around, a terrace to sit outside and eat and beautiful views of Shropshire to admire. Come by yourself and meet new people or come with your friends.

My retreat has limited places to make the event intimate for everyone.

Click on the heading above for more detail, early bird discount and to book.

Summer Pilates Wellbeing Retreat for Women

Do you need time, and space to switch off from being the one doing all doing?

Start your summer health and wellness with my summer wellbeing retreat, a place for movement, rejuvenation and rest in the beautiful and tranquil surroundings of the Garden Rooms, where we have a beautiful garden to walk around, a terrace to sit outside and eat and beautiful views of Shropshire to admire. Come by yourself and meet new people or come with your friends.

My retreat has limited places to make the event intimate for everyone.

Click on the heading above for more detail, early bird discount and to book.

Coming in July and finally returning to Birmingham, my latest workshop Your Embodied Pelvis: Optimal function, dynamic movement and health.

The pelvis is a keystone in our body - a place where force is transferred and a place we can call our centre.

If you have suffered from lower back pain, or have problems with your hips, knees, ankles or feet it is possible that some of the solutions you are looking for are to be found in your pelvis.

If you practice or teach a movement modality such as Pilates, Yoga or Dance understanding how your pelvis functions and moves in movement is critical for healthy movement, precision and alignment.

Click on the title above to discover more, book and find the early bird discount!

So, take a breath, take a deeper breath... Enter a world of calm, a world of energy and movement. Understood what healthy and efficient breathing not only means but how it feels within your unique body using a system called the Franklin Method® and my experience working with it with laypeople as well as professional movers, combined with my experience as a specialist Pilates teacher that has worked for years with clients with injury or chronic conditions.

Come and join me at my next livestreamed masterclass, Embodied Breathing for Life, 30 April 2023.

Suitable for anyone who wants to improve their breathing, focus, sense of calm and movement and a learn more about how embodiment and how it can help us in so many ways...

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Pilates Fundamentals Semi Private Group Class in Birmingham City Centre, Suitable for beginners, refreshers and returners to Pilates as well as those who would like to experience Pilates in a very gentle, mindful and somatic way.

This course is in person in Birmingham and has additional livestream support.

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A one off calming class to melt those tensions and worries away for all of us going back to school, going back to teaching or just resuming the routine after a summer of glorious weather!

Using the embodied and somatic processes of the Franklin Method® come and experience somatic movement in breath and feel calmer, tension free and of a clearer mind.

Livestream only.

Franklin Method for Dancers Perfect Your Plié Course on Livestream Email me to register your interest.

Franklin Method® Somatic Breathworks Course. Take a deeper breath, for peace, inner calm and increased energy. Click on the heading for more information

Franklin Method® for Dancers livestream fundraiser: Tension Free Dancer Part 1.

Coming in February 2022 one of my most favourite workshops on the Heart.

What does it mean to embody the heart?

What do you know about the heart or associate with it?

Have you heard the cue to 'Lift your heart'?  How do you do that?

How does the heart move in movement as well as breathing?

If we learn to embody the heart how can that help us feel much calmer and at peace?

How can we use breath and movement to look after our heart?

How can we use something called embodiment to really use this piece of us that is so precious?

The Heart is an intelligent and tremendously beautiful piece of design.  It has its own brain and the ability to survive even if we cut off the nerves connecting it to our brain.  Right now, it conducts its own dance inside your body, whilst you are thinking breathing and moving.  Emotions have as much to do with the heart and body as they do with the brain.

But we can use it for so much more than that: the heart can be used as a joint, to aid our movement and take away tension from the musculoskeletal system.  Developing skills and learning about the heart can aid not just movement but enhance our sense of calm and wellbeing in body and in mind,

In this workshop you will...

Learn more about the power of dynamic imagery skills and how this can affect the fastest change in the body and the mind.

Learn about the function and structure of the heart and different ways to keep it healthy.

Learn and embody the heart as a muscle and a joint: learn new exercises to have greater flexibility and a sense of openness in your body.

Release tension in your spine and relax your neck and shoulders

Learn about the connection of mind body

Learn about the movements and rhythm of the heart in breathing

Learn more about how working from the heart can have a positive effect upon the nervous system, leaving you feeling very calm and relaxed through heart led breath works as well as finding out more about how to improve our vagal tone.

Leave the workshop feeling very relaxed, calm and of happy heart!

Franklin Method® Masterclass: Your Dynamic Pelvic Floor: Active, Toned and Balanced.

Change the narrative…

Your pelvic floor is a place of dynamic support regardless of if you are a professional mover or just a human being! Your pelvic floor is adaptive, and has the ability to absorb and transfer force throughout your whole body, depending on your activity, be that dancing, pilates or just walking around. By embodying the movements in your pelvic floor then you already have the fundamental exercises you need to keep it healthy. Pelvic floor exercises are definitely more than pulling everything up, that is just one exercise that although may be helpful for one person is not helpful for everyone. A balanced and dynamic pelvic floor is a tremendously powerful place to embody because many fundamental movements suddenly become much easier to carry out and our alignment throughout our legs, stability, comfort in the lower back and throughout your whole body improves. You are so supported!

So my Franklin Method® Friday masterclass tomorrow is a journey to this part of us that has been demonised by the media, by those who advertise from a position of fear. So, by embodying and learning about what your pelvic floor can actually do come and join me to change the narrative!