Lou teaches a regular public Feldenkrais schedule, including individual sessions, public workshops and private online group classes. Her practice is lively and includes people of different abilities, access needs, ages and backgrounds.
Lou is particularly interested in how improving physical movement can support positive changes in mental and emotional health and, in turn, develop our self-image. The connections between how we move, our sensations, feelings, and environment all influence each other.
In her individual, hands-on sessions she work with adults as well as young children, teenagers and their families, and she works as a Practitioner in an SEN school.
With an extensive background of working with children and adults who are neurodiverse or have visible or invisible conditions, Lou is keen remove barriers and make Feldenkrais as accessible as possible, meeting people where they start. She has worked extensively with wheelchair dancers and artists with access requirements.
Feldenkrais unites parts of the self to organise for better everyday functionality.
Lou is an Experienced Practitioner on the London Professional Feldenkrais Training and supports new practitioners as they transition from training into building their practice.
Between 2018-2020 Lou co-ran Movement My First Language, an international project for adults who live or work with children with special needs. The project was delivered online and in person for adults to build confidence in using movement as a means of empowering children's learning, she continues to work with families and teachers.
Lou undertakes continual professional education to develop her practice. Advance trainings included: working with babies and children, unfolding anatomy from conception to death & bodily responses to trauma.
Lou is relational, integrative counsellor working from a somatic, embodied perspective.talking. Previously she facilitates learning around equity, diversity, inclusion, and access (EDIA).