About me - Julie Wrigley

A movement explorer, restorer & guide

I like to help people to move ‘better’ with more confidence and joy, no matter their starting point, so they can build a movement-rich life that suits them.

Practical sessions that fit into your day

Special clothes, gyms and technical language are not compulsory. Our own bodies, together with simple household props and items in our outdoor environment can be enough.

This practical and accessible approach can be empowering for people who may be picking up with movement after injury, illness or a long break. And it can develop more advanced levels of strength, mobility and agility if that is what you would like.

Not a ‘natural born’ mover

I have navigated my own challenges with movement, so understand what it is like to be a raw beginner and woefully out of practice. I was a bookish child with flat feet, painful toes and congenitally clunky hips. I felt movement and sport was not for me, so avoided them from adolescence until middle age. Then, in 2019, I was struck with vertigo which was nauseating, debilitating and immobilised me for 3 or 4 years.

Joyful learnings in later life

I have found out that meaningful change is possible. With patient progression and a playful approach to improving, my pain, stiffness & vestibular issues have dissolved. I now hike for miles without tiring, cycle around town, play energetic Taiko Japanese drumming, am dabbling with parkour and rope flow, all while practising for my first adult handstand!

My training

The Foot Collective

TFC are a worldwide collective led by physiotherapists and podiatrists. They are working to provide relief from pain, restore function and expand whole body movement capacity with a feet-first, ground-up approach.

I am a certified TFC Guide (Bristol, 2025) and am honing my balance skills further so that I may be skilled enough to run some of their official events in the UK.

Feldenkrais London

I trained for four years as a Feldenkrais Practitioner (2016-2020). I have taught group classes since 2018 and bodywork 1:1s since 2020. This is a somatic (mind-body) movement method for sensory inside-out learning, body awareness and nervous system self-regulation. The proprioception it delivers can be a superpower for understanding our own bodies and learning any new physical skills or sports.

Personal self-discovery

My own routes to recovery from persistent pain and vertigo have included Feldenkrais self-explorations alongside strength training, mobility practice and natural ground-based movement / animal flow. I don’t find most of these at all easy! I stay open to many movement modalities. In the past, I had years of both yoga and Pilates classes. Recently, I have had valuable learnings locally from my physio and a Pilates Reformer class; and online from Vanja at Moves Method, the GMB Fitness team and Georgia at Strength With G.

Move Your DNA Weekend

Taught by Jeanette Loram (2024), based on work & book of biomechanist Katy Bowman, for low-stress ways to adopt a more movement-rich lifestyle.

The Coaching Academy

After I read The Inner Game of Tennis by Timothy Gallwey in the 1980s, I became fascinated by the methods of coaching and how tuning into our sensations and training our attention could positively influence our movement quality. I gained the Life Coaching Diploma with the Coaching Academy (2003) and worked as a coach for a while.