Coaching + Take Home Practices

Ouse Lea, Clifton Green YO30 6SA / my 1st floor home studio

• a 50-60 mins coaching session

• with exercises, drills or flows to keep

Why come?

I offer coaching and education to help you move with more confidence and ease. You may be focused on:

• moving well while accommodating pain or supporting a rehab journey after injury

• upskilling your physical literacy to support your daily activities or leisure pursuits

• building resilience as a form of ‘prehab’ to minimise future chances of strains, restrictions, falls or fragility

Focused on you, at your level

We start at your level and can scale progressively if you come along to subsequent sessions.

When you book you fill a form to choose your goals. These tend to fall into the following 3 broad areas but you can add your own.

Feet, ankles, balance

To reduce pain, address common foot conditions, prevent ankle sprains. To improve mobility & strength in feet, ankles, knees and hips. For more secure walking.

• Balance training, games & progressions (from The Foot Collective)

• Foot-focused practices to develop flexible, capable feet - for a surer footing, to feel more grounded or to address challenges

• Interest in exploring a transition to more minimalist, foot-friendly shoes over time

Mobility, capability, agility & strength - all together

More range of motion across your joints. Mitigate isolated areas of stiffness or hypermobility. More control & co-ordination through that range for resilience & real life usefulness.

• Mobility - via active movement, to gently expand joint range of motion, overall or for certain parts

• Basic bodyweight moves to build strength, adjusted for your starting point - use household props, simple progressions…

• Towards larger whole-body functional movements such as squatting, hanging, swinging, carrying, jumping

• Ground-based movements for all-round mobility, range of motion and strength - sitting / sit to stand / locomotion / animal-flow

Awareness in the moment = a superpower for ongoing learning

This helps the rest stick. Rather than performing moves mindlessly, you tune your sensitivity to yourself in motion. You feel, adjust, calibrate. A vital tool for progressing without strain, for adapting to injury & owning your journey. This skill for presence is also great for self-regulation.

• Honing your body awareness (proprioception) - feeling the moment with more detail, developing more accurate mind/muscle control (co-ordination)

• Applying a self-experimental, iterative lens to your learning (a) move, feel (b) move a bit differently, feel that (c) move again with yet another variation, feel that (d) forget about it all & let your subconscious work it out while you go about your day

After the session

I will send you (by email or WhatsApp) a pdf copy of the exercises we did in the session for you to work with later at home.

Can anyone do this?

Pretty much!

• any age, ability and experience

• if you can use stairs to get to my first floor studio

• if you can stand (with or without support of a wall or chair) or even if you are restricted to sitting in a chair at the moment

What should I wear?

• everyday clothes are fine, as long as you can move freely and feel comfortable

• sports kit is also fine if you prefer

• if we will be working with your feet, come ready to take your shoes off, with clean tootsies & any cuts or sores covered with plasters

Let’s get started - book your session - £40

• When you book, you can fill a form to tell me your preferred dates & times, along with any goals or challenges you would like to work on

• I will email to confirm our session time and send you my full address and parking information

• You have a 50-60 mins coaching session

• I email you afterwards with your programme of exercises & other useful material material