I've always enjoyed a wide variety of sports and physical activities.

 

However, in the early 1980s, travelling home from Turkey, I was involved in an horrific accident from which I was lucky to escape with my life.  I was seriously injured but, with youth on my side, I recovered and was able to resume an active life.

 

I went on to become a barrister and to marry and start a family.  In my free time, however, I began to explore a variety of body and movement methods and philosophies.  I didn't realise it at the time, but now see that my interest was motivated by the need to address the trauma held in my body.

 

As part of this process, I started attending Pilates classes in 1997.  My teacher was (and still is) the wonderful Conchita Del Campo, a ballet dancer who later became one of the first generation of Pilates teachers in the UK.

                                                                                       

I was so impressed by Pilates that I decided I would one day train as a teacher and eventually did so with Body Control Pilates (Europe’s foremost professional Pilates training association), initially as a matwork teacher and then as a reformer teacher.

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But I've also continued to explore other somatic disciplines of which the most rewarding for me has been the Feldenkrais Method.  The Feldenkrais Method uses gentle, mindful movement to bring a host of mental and physical benefits.  I am now also a fully qualified Feldenkrais practitioner, teaching both 'awareness through movement' (ATM) classes and giving 'functional integration' (FI) sessions.  

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I have retired as a barrister to focus on my somatic practice.  

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My ultimate goal is to help clients to find the peace and ease that comes from closer integration with their bodies.​