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The Practice Team

Introductions 

 

Emma Wightman BSc(Hons)Ost

Registered Osteopath

BUPA registered

Emma is the practice principle. She always knew she wanted to go into a caring profession from a young age. She narrowed her career choices when considering her practical and creative skills and knew that she had to find an active, hands on, caring profession. Osteopathy became an obvious choice after visiting what was soon to be her university and meeting the students there.

Emma trained at the British School of Osteopathy; which has led the development of osteopathic education and practice in the UK since 1917. It has the largest osteopathic clinic in Europe and was amongst the first establishments to gain accreditation by the General Osteopathic Council.

She graduated after a very intensive, four year course in 1997. Since then Emma has worked in practices in London and Winchester, and in 2005 set up her own practice. During this time she has broadened and developed her experiences by treating a wide range of conditions and ages.

Emma is registered with the General Osteopathic Council (GOsC) which is responsible for regulating the profession. Osteopaths must comply with the regulations of the council, which includes a code of conduct and CPD requirements, in order to be accepted and maintained on the register. This process was started in May 2000, ensuring only those entered on the register can call themselves an Osteopath.

Alongside her work with adults, Emma has increasingly enjoyed working with pregnancy related conditions, babies and children. She undertook two post-graduate Cranial Osteopathy courses to improve her skills and confidence in using cranial techniques, and lately is now undertaking a diploma course in Antenatal Education for the NCT (National Childbirth Trust).

These new skills and being Mum to three children herself, complements her interest in pregnancy and babies and she can now offer exceptional care and experience to her patients in these areas.

Above all, Emma enjoys building a relationship with her patients, seeing the beneficial effects of her treatment, and the diversity her work brings her. 

 

Dr Gill PearsonDr Gill Pearson MB ChB MFHom

Medically Qualified Registered Homeopath

BUPA Registered

Dr Gill Pearson is a medical doctor and a qualified classical homeopath, registered with the Faculty of Homeopathy (MFHom). She has a background in General Practice and currently specialises in osteoporosis at Southampton Hospital.

 

 

Jane Borley

Yoga Teacher

I didn’t truly find my feet on the mat until seven years ago.

I was standing in the classroom of the local college that I was teaching in, and at that moment I new enough was enough, things had to change. I had started my career in the pushy world of fashion design with its heady deadlines, cramped tube journeys and endless demands. I then slipped into the equally demanding world of publishing, design, and making craft features for a wide selection of woman’s magazines.

From publishing I went into teaching, with more deadlines and more hoops to jump through. I did not know it at the time, but I was already on my way to the mat, collecting life lessons, communication skills, patience, and finding both my inner and outer voice. It was this inner voice that I heard on that sunny day in the classroom. At last I had truly decided to ‘get off the bus’.

First came the healing, with training and qualification in Reiki Healing which led me into the intoxicating study of ‘Chakra’ energy within the body. I then made the connection between yoga and its effects on the Chakras through practice.

I had not just ‘got off the bus’, but stepped off at just the right time and place, and an open door was waiting for me, as it is for all of us. I focused on my yoga qualifications and at last began to teach, combining flowing yoga moves that focus with the breath and chakra energy activation. I have also moved into teaching ‘Yama Kids Yoga’, a combination of yoga and art/craft for children and, using my Birthlight training, I teach ‘Yoga Bump’ in pregnancy and postnatally.

I see yoga as the great healer of mind, body, and spirit and teach it from the heart; with my feet firmly on the mat, I am home.

Qualifications in:

  • Anatomy and Physiology
  • Pre-post natal yoga
  • Hatha yoga instructor
  • New age foundation-crystal healing
  • Child development
  • Reiki 1 & 2
  • Cert Ed certificate in teaching

Birthlight

  • part 1 Perinatal yoga
  • diploma part 2 due March 2009

BIRTHLIGHT

Birthlight was founded in 1988 by Francoise Barbira Freedman (phD), it has now grown from local classes to a worldwide network of members, certified instrutors and tutors. Birthlight , is a practise of yoga that enables women to ‘birth lightly’,making use of the breath to increase efficiently ,the use of uterine contractions in labour.it works through all the trimesters, adapting traditional yoga postures to suit the individuals requirements at each stage of labour,helping to tone the birth muscles,release fear and tension, avoid back problems both during and after the birth.

Birth light trained yoga instructor

 

Victoria Wornum

Qualified Pilates instructor

After a serious accident in 2001 Victoria endured 4 years of rehabilitation and surgery to get her back up to strength and through her experiences decided to embark on a complete change of direction with a new career within the health and fitness industry. Pilates was strongly advised as part of her programme by her phsyios and surgeons and she saw such profound results that she wanted to learn more so that she could help others achieve the results she did of strengthening and rebalancing muscles, creating a much less painfree existence and learning the importance and enjoyment of mind/body activity and the control of the Pilates movements.

Victoria is now an advanced level 3 personal trainer with experience in sports massage and nutrition as well as a Stott Pilates advanced matwork instructor. Both qualifications combine well to create challenging but workable and specific programmes for her clients.

Victoria likes to bring lots of toys to her sessions to assist with the workout from foam rollers for balance and strong core activity but also stretch and relaxation, fitness circles, bands and soft weighted balls for added resistance as well as a BOSU and arc barrel for additional challenges. Each session is tailormade to suit your individual needs, whether you walk in feeling tired and achey or needing an energy boost, Victoria can ensure you leave feeling stretched and relaxed or ready for action!

Qualifications:

  • Stott Pilates Advanced Matwork Instructor.
  • Pushy Mothers Instructor – Buggy Workout for postnatal mums
  • Premier Diploma in Personal Training – Advanced Level III
  • Active IQ – Level 3 Certificate in Personal Training including special populations
  • Active IQ – Level 3 Certificate in Sports Massage
  • Active IQ – Level 2 Certificate in Gym Instruction
  • YMCAfit – Level 2 Certificate in Exercise to Music
  • Registered Boxercise Instructor

Member of the Guild of Pregnancy and Postnatal Instructors

Member of REPs (Register of Exercise Professionals)

Public Liability Insurance with Fitpro (Fitness Professionals)

2008 Continual Professional Development

  • Stott PilatesArc Barrel, Prenatal Pilates and Postnatal Pilates CPD workshops.
  • Rachel Holmes Bootcamp training course and the yearly Fitpro 3 day Spring Convention.
  • Pushy Mothers Instructor Training Update Course

 

Mark Stockwell BSc(Hons)Ost

Registered Osteopath

Mark is a registered osteopath, graduating from Oxford Brookes University  in 2007, following five years of osteopathic study. He is a member of the General Osteopathic Council (GOsC), the British Osteopathic Association and the Osteopathic Sports Care Association.

Mark is also a qualified massage and manipulative therapist from the Midland School of Massage and Manipulative therapy, and is also qualified in acupuncture/dry needling. Mark developed a particular interest in sport related injuries after witnessing (and unfortunately sometimes experiencing ! ) many sports injuries over the years, through his involvement in gaining a sports science degree and working in leisure management.

Mark worked for a couple of years as a sports injuries massage therapist at a health club in London as well as an osteopath in a health Care clinic in Surrey.