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RICHARD BERTSCHINGER - Tai Chi
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LOUISE BYFORD - Hatha Yoga
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URSULA DUNNE - Yoga (Gentle)
Qualifications
BA PGCE British Wheel of Yoga Diploma
Professional bodies
British Wheel of Yoga
CPD Courses attended
Yoga for backs; Yoga for pregnant mums, Pranayama, chakras.
Each year I must attend at least 2 CPDs to maintain my teaching qualification.
I also must have a valid 1st Aid qualification which is renewed as necessary.
Length of time in teaching
4 years
Previous practice
Local village halls - Ash, Norton-sub-Hamdon, Ilchester, Bower Hinton.
Ursula has a 2.1 in French and Spanish from London University and still loves speaking or teaching these languages. She trained to teach at Goldsmiths ( London Uni ) but decided to specialise in the primary sector. However life led her into middle schools - Maiden Beech, Swanmead and also secondary schools… Wadham…Holyrood.. and The Gryphon All have been enriching and led her to now.. early retirement from schools plus re training to teach yoga.. and she loves it. She really thought many years ago that yoga for us was just about physical strength, suppleness and continuing mobility but now she sees it is a way to understand the mind, deal with it and progress. If this sounds mysterious come along and find out what she means!
She is married with two grown up children and two grandchildren.. so not so young !!! She was born near Liverpool but has lived in Somerset since the early seventies. She finds the landscape and the wildlife fantastic; she feels that it is a real privilege to live here. She enjoys being out in nature, walking, gardening and when it is warm enough she loves swimming in the sea. She finds learning fantastic and is, at present, training to be a hypnotherapist. Watch this space !
SUE DURANT - Pilates
Qualifications:
Sue has recently completed a one-year Pilates Foundation accredited training at the Scott Studio in Castle Cary
Professional bodies
Pilates Foundation member
CPD Courses attended
First Aid at Work certificate
Length of time in teaching
6 months + teaching experience (as a trainee)
Other clinics where you currently practice
- Scott Studio, Castle Cary
- Wincanton Sports Centre
- several village halls
Previous practice
Classes at Fitness by Design, Gillingham (6 months)
Ansford School, Holbrook (cover as required)
Sue is 47 years’ old. She has done Pilates at advanced level with Suzanne Scott of the Scott Studio, Castle Cary since 2000 and then decided that she really wanted to be a Pilates instructor herself. She has now completed a year’s training, which includes a high level of anatomy/physiology.
She works part-time as a technician at Ansford School, Castle Cary, this includes working with students in the Art Department, running a long-established photography club taking responsibility for press and publicity as well as display throughout the school. She is also a school governor and part of the First Aid team.
She enjoys photography (she is a Licentiate of the Royal Photographic Society), cycling, swimming and running and gardening.
She loves Pilates with a passion and the more she becomes experienced the more she sees first-hand of the benefits it brings to people, not only physically but also on an emotional level in terms of well-being and relaxation. Both her case studies showed such improvements - she felt it was really rewarding and one, who had struggled with back pain for 35 years, no longer has any back problems at all.
JOY KEARNEY - Dance
Qualifications
Registered Dance Movement Psychotherapist
Professional Bodies to whom the pracitioner belongs
Association of Dance Movement Psychotherapy
CPD Courses attended
One year "Move into Life" training - Dr Sandra Reeve
Four years training with Paul Rebillot - School of Gestalt & Experiential Teaching
Length of time in teaching
Seven years
Previous practice
Westfield School, Yeovil
Connetions, Dorset
Huish Episcopi Satellite Group
Highfields, Yeovil
Yeovil Hospital Parkinsons Group, Lufton Manor, Yeovil
Joy is a registered Dance Movement Psychotherapist and over the past seven years has worked with wide ranging populations from frail elders to teenagers, adults with autism to young children.
Her approach to dance movement therapy reflects her life's learning process to date. It is informed by adult learning principles as she began her professional life as a teacher. It rests upon the foundations of humanist psychology; her understanding of group work grew from running co-counselling groups. She has been working as a Management Consultant for the past 20 years and from this she has learnt the importance of understanding and questioning the wider system. Personal therapy and co-counselling have given her a deep understanding and appreciation of psychodynamic forces.
She has completed a four year advanced training with Paul Rebillot, founder of the School of Gestalt and Experiential Teaching. This has given her an appreciation of gestalt process and the use of myth to embody life stories which is informing her movement therapy work. She has also trained and worked closely with Dr Sandra Reeve, Senior Registered Dance Movement Psychotherapist. Her "Move into Life" non-stylised movement work has taught joy to fully embody her movement practice, to see everyone from their potential, to appreciate the healing power of moving in the natural environment and to trust the wisdom of the body.
She brings to he work a fully embodied sense of safety, warmth, sensitivity, joy and fun, a talent for incorporating imagery and metaphor and a love of working in the natural environment.
Links
http://www.admt.org.uk
www.moveintolife.co.uk
www.mandorlacreative.co.uk
ZABETH MACFARLANE - Tai Chi & Yoga
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LYN O'NEILL - Pilates
Qualifications
Pilates Foundation Matwork and Equipment qualification
Professional bodies
Pilates Foundation
Length of time in teaching
4 years
Other clinics where you currently practise
- Magna Yoga Sanctuary, Fontmell Magna
- Scott Studio, Castle Cary
Lyn was born and brought up in South Africa instilling her love of health, fitness and the outdoors. As well as teaching Pilates she is also a professional artist and started her working life as a film animator. This gave her a heightened awareness movement patterns and has helped her to study the moving body, recognising damaging movement patterns in individuals.
She completed her 2 ½ year Pilates training at the Scott Studio in Castle Cary where she still teaches groups and 1:1 clients on the studio equipment.
JANE ROBINSON - Qi Gong
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SHARON STONE - African & Samba Drumming
Qualifications
Introduction to Therapeutic Drumming
Certificate in Therapeutic Drumming
Certificate from Village Music Circles
Drum Circle Facilitation Basic Training
Professional Bodies
Therapeutic Drumming Foundation
Drum Circle Faciliators Guild
CPD
2009 Business of Drum Circle Facilitation in Florida, USA
Length of time in teaching
5 years
Previous practice
Many schools, residential homes, day centres, youth groups, bookings from Social Services and County Councils as well as private parties, weddings and corporate team building for businesses.
Current Practice
Bookings throughout Somerset and Dorset
Sharon has been drumming for over 10 year and has experienced first hand the benefits of group drumming. Not only is it a wonderful stress release but also a very effective tool for team building and connecting people.
Having drummed with several different British teachers and master drummers from West Africa, Sharon went on to train in Drum Circle Facilitation with Arthur Hull of Village Music Circles and with the Therapeutic Drumming Foundation in Nottingham.
Sharon is very interested in how drumming is used to benefit health and well-being. In November 2009 she travelled to Florida to train with Jane Broder of Drum Magic and saw the therapeutic benefits being delivered in mental health institutions and both elderly care and youth detention facilities.
Links
www.organicrhythm.co.uk
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