- The Teachers
Please don’t hesitate to call the relevant teachers for more information.
MURIELLE CARRASCO
Pilates Classes - Matwork, Yoga, One-to-One
Pilates: Member of Body Control Pilates Association and Register of Exercise Professionals. Qualified Body Control Pilates teacher, trained in matwork (1998) and reformer (2001). Teaches ante- and post-natal exercise, remedial exercise and matwork Pilates from beginner’s to advanced level. Before opening the Garage Studio in 2003, she introduced Pilates to many fitness centres and worked for four years at the White Hart Lane Therapy Centre.
Yoga: Sivananda training course (1997). Practiced Astanga yoga with Derek Ireland and, John Scott among others. Trained in Iyengar yoga with Julie Hodges and Sheila Haswell, qualified in 2006.
mob: 07941 674 931
email: muricarr@yahoo.co.uk
DOMINIQUE CHRISTOU
Pilates Studio
Qualified Pilates teacher, including remedial exercises (1996) and member of the Pilates Foundation. Trained with Alan Herdman . Experience includes five years teaching at Trevor Blunt studio. Currently teaches at the Laban Centre – world-renowned centre for movement and dance - as well as the Garage Studio.
mob: 07944 825 445
email: dominique.christou@googlemail.com
JILL TAYLOR
Pilates Studio
Qualified Pilates teacher and member of Register of Exercise Professionals. Trained with Alan Herdman (including remedial exercise) and has been teaching since 2006, including one year at the Alan Herdman Studio. Her remedial and pre- and post-natal teaching draws on extensive medical knowledge gained in over 15 years of nursing.
mob: 07881 957 597
email: jill.t@virgin.net
JANE VON BIEBERSTEIN
Gyrotonic®, Gyrokinesis®, Zero Balancing
Came to Gyrotonics after studying ballet, jazz, tap and contemporary dance for many years. ITEC massage with Clare Maxwell-Hudson (1996). Gyrotonic® certificate level 1 (2000) and level 2 (2001). Has also studied application of Gyrotonic in remedial work. Certified Gyrokinesis® instructor. Also has extensive knowledge of Iyengar and
Ashtanga yoga through self-practice. Has studied Zero Balancing since 2006. Certified Zero Balance Therapist (2009).
mob: 07811 132 313
email: janevonb@hotmail.com
NATALIE MEDDINGS
Active Birth Yoga
An active birth teacher since 2006 and a practicing birth doula since 2004. Trained with Janet Balaskas at the Active Birth Centre, and with pioneering French obstetrician Michel Odent. Has three children of her own, Constance, 7, Pearl, 5 and Walter 3, all of whom were born in water.
mob: 07976 261 542
email: nataliemeddings@googlemail.com
CATHERINE BARNES-HOLT
Beginners Yoga
Cath has been practising yoga since 1988 and teaching since 2003. A certified IYENGAR® Yoga teacher qualified to Intermediate Junior Level. She is privileged to have been taught by Geeta Iyengar and besides drawing from the experience of many senior teachers, she is completely committed to on-going learning through self-practice. She is also a qualified massage therapist and reflexologist, practising from her base in Ealing and White Hart Clinic, Barnes.
mob: 07909 995408
email: cathbarnes.holt@googlemail.com
KAREN LANGER
Ballet School
R.A.D. Teaching Certificate, R.A.D. R.T.S.
Trained at the Arts Educational Schools in London and Tring, and at the College of the Royal Academy of Dance. Further three years teacher training programme in 1999 with the Royal Academy. Principal of Southwest School of Ballet in 2002.
Phone: 020 8392 95 65
KRYSTINA (CHRIS GOULD)
Belly Dancing
Fully qualified JWAAD dance teacher and tutor on the JWAAD teacher training team. Trained with many of the top belly dance teachers and choreographers from Egypt, Europe and America. Regularly travels to Egypt to further her dance development.
Has performed with the Masriat dance company and now has her own dance
company “The Egyptianize”, involving her best students. www.bellydance.me.uk
mob: 07745 105 800
email: chris@bellydance.me.uk
TREE
Tribal Fusion
Started out as a traditional Belly Dancer in 1999. Inspired by the Indigo Dance Company, moved to Tribal Fusion in 2001. Since 2005, lessons and workshops with the greatest Tribal Fusion and Gothic Belly Dancers in the United States and Europe. Also appeared in several videos for bands and performed at Tribal Fest in the United States. Tree is
also available for performance and workshops, as a solo artist or with her troupe Spiral Tribe. www.spiraltribedancecompany.co.uk
mob: 07956 310 580
email: treewickedfairy@aol.com