ISIA Ski Instructor
Feldenkrais Training: Amsterdam 2002
 
72 Princedale Road
LONDON W11 4NL
• 07973 273 236
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• www.catherinemccrum.com

Workshops: Saturdays (more or less monthly), West London
Individual lessons: London W11
 
Practice:
I work with a wide variety of individual students ranging from professional athletes, musicians and actors to people with chronic pain issues, injuries or those simply wanting to become more in tune with how they move in daily life. I teach regular workshops for the general public and also to Pilates and fitness teachers, physiotherapists, runners, tennis and golf coaches and ski instructors.
 
Biography:
I have been teaching sport, fitness and movement since 1986. As an internationally qualified ski instructor and ski instructor coach, I taught in Europe, New Zealand and the USA. Returning to London I worked as a personal trainer and was one of the first to incorporate Pilates into my training methods.
 
Many of my clients were very fit but I was always looking for something that would take them further. Despite daily strengthening and stretching regimes and regular osteopathic and physiotherapy treatments, I found that their progress was often hampered by niggling injuries and chronic stiffness. When I came across the Feldenkrais Method I made the connection that stretching, strengthening or manipulation were not the key. As I incorporated the Feldenkrais Method into my training my clients started to recognise for themselves how the way they moved could cause injury and interfere with their ability to reach their goals. I noticed remarkable and surprising improvements in my clients' and my own coordination, and an increased sense of ease in my body. I decided to train to become a practitioner.