Alice is the Co-founder and Co- Director of Mbodied and Pilates Sanctuary.

 

Alice has over 20 years of experience in teaching Pilates to a wide range of people and alongside Agur,  set up Pilates Sanctuary Studio in 2006 and Mbodied in 2020. Alice trained with the Pilates Foundation in 2003 and is also trained as a clinical massage therapist, oncology massage therapist  and facial exercise teacher. She believes in the power of an integrated and holistic approach for  the body, movement and health.

 

Alice teaches online Pilates, face exercise classes and workshops for Mbodied as well as face to face pilates and massage. In addition she part of the Pain Manageement team at the charity Freedom From Torture working with refugees.

Agur has been a co-director of Pilates Sanctuary ltd with Alice Croucher since 2009 and Mbodied ltd since 2020.

 

She discovered Pilates while rehabilitating from a shoulder injury and she never looked back. Her dance background and her love and experience in the opera world is reflected in her lifestyle, her teaching, and the way she looks at bodies in movement.

With 20 years of experience behind her, she still enjoys teaching classical and contemporary Pilates repertoire, using flow of movement, sequencing and breathing.

 

Agur is a qualified clinical massage therapist, a trained oncology therapist and holds the Jenny Burrel, women’s health and menopause qualification.

 

She teaches at the Pilates Sanctuary, fully-equipped studio and combines her studio practice with her clinical work, which she offers from home. Her online teaching for Mbodied includes Pilates Matwork, Garuda barre and Oxygen Advantage breathing.

 

She also sees clients for clinical massage treatments where she applies her training in cranio-sacral techniques.

Emma trained at Canada’s Royal Winnipeg Ballet School and worked as a professional dancer whilst doing her Pilates training at the Pilates Foundation.

 

With over a decade of teaching experience Emma’s classes are based in classical Pilates technique, with influences from strength training, yoga and her dance background. Though a professional ballet dancer for 20 years, Emma is equally at home teaching elite athletes, Pilates beginners, injury rehab and general maintenance class

 

Alongside her work in dance and Pilates holds a BA Hons in Arts & Humanities from the Open University and is the host of 'Movers Shakers Makers' - a performing arts podcast.

Andrea has been teaching movement for over 20 years. She has extensive training and experience in dance (RAD and Ba Hons in Performing Arts- LCDS), Pilates (Pilates Foundation UK), Gyrotonic, Gyrokinesis and the Feldenkrais Method, in London and in Spain.

 

Andrea had her first contact with the Feldenkrais Method applied to dance during her training at “The Place” in 1995 but it was not until 2012, after her return to Spain, when she began her training in Madrid in 2012. Since then, she teaches exclusively this Method from her private studios in Palma de Mallorca and Barcelona where she gives individual lessons, she also teaches workshops and collaborates with different studios.

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Andrea loves being in a constant learning process that she enjoys sharing with a wide variety of clients with different needs, from professional dancers to people who suffers from chronic pain or who are in the process of recovering from an injury.

Glen has been in the health and wellbeing industry for over 30 years. He is a Director at the National Centre for Circus Arts and has worked with hundreds of artists on skill acquisition, injury prevention and recovery.  He has spent many years learning protocols to improve movement quality and range of motion. He has also studied neurology and breath training and has enjoyed applying these methods when working with individuals and groups on their fitness and well-being journey.

 

Alongside the more conventional training exercises, Glen has seen the benefits of returning to his gymnastics and circus background and introducing the fun of juggling and handstand training with willing clients.

 

Glen offers fun one to one training sessions which will be taylored to the needs of the individual and are suitable for all fitness levels.