The Core Clapton team is a group of highly motivated individuals who all care deeply about improving the health and wellbeing of the local community, regardless of anyone’s financial situation.
Mady is an energetic and compassionate facilitator of embodied movement, yoga and sound healing. She is passionate about nervous system regulation as a key component to accessing creativity and connection. She has completed 200 hour Hatha, Vinyasa and Embodied Yoga Teacher Training with Yoga Sadhana in Rishikesh, India and Trauma-Informed Yoga with Yoga International, amongst other movement and sound training. She is also a qualified sound healing practitioner who loves to use vibrations and frequencies to nourish the physical and emotional body. The sensations, clarity and calm that sacred sounds can instil in us is a great passion of hers.
Jo is a 200 hour Yoga Alliance Accredited teacher who trained with Yogarise in Mexico and London, specialising in Vinyasa yoga.
Jo is passionate about the benefits of yoga and offers a nurturing and approachable style that includes sequenced poses, breathing techniques, music, meditation and yoga philosophy. Jo is also an IPHM accredited sound therapy practitioner.
Jo offers space for you to feel connected, centered, calm and refreshed - a moment to come back to yourself in a busy world.
Antonella is a creative and inspiring teacher with a deep passion for the yoga lifestyle and philosophy. Her teaching style blends tradition with dynamic movements, emphasising grounding and the connection between breath and movement to create space in the body. In her classes, she focuses on helping students increase their awareness, broaden their consciousness, and improve their flexibility.
Hygerta Shehu is a 26 year old Pilates instructor from Albania, currently based in Old Street, London, where she has lived for the past 10 years. With over 5 years of experience practising Pilates and more than a year of teaching. Alongside her work in fitness, she is pursuing a degree in digital marketing, currently in her second year of university.
Cristina started to teach yoga to help others to improve their health and balance, helping them discover true inner peace and their healthiest selves. She is also a student and practitioner of holistic therapies, crystals and sound healing. Recently, she started to work with children, through imaginative, engaging and joyful sessions, introducing the unlimited benefits of Yoga to the young souls.
After practicing Pilates for many years as a physical practice to strengthen the core for surfing, Deborah decided to share her knowledge and passion for Pilates with others by training to be an instructor with HFE and BASI. Learning about the transformative and healing exercises that Joseph Pilates founded, Deborah connects these with motivational music to assist muscle lengthening and strengthening, injury recovery, postural correction, as well as relaxing and calming the mind, using breathing to soothe and heal. Deborah’s classes focus on the pilates principles of breathing, concentration, coordination, precision, and flow, providing dynamic pilates sessions which bring energy and joy.
Elisa is a fully qualified Mat Pilates Instructor with an accredited L2 & L3 Diploma. Her movement experiences are rooted in Dance & Movement practices. The following quote from Joseph Pilates describes for her the importance of movement: "Physical fitness is the first requisite of happiness.”
Her Dynamic Pilates class includes a gentle warm up and progresses into more intense exercises. Each class will end with some stretching to improve flexibility.
Tuesdays at 6:30pm
Francesca has always taken part in sport or dance since she was a child in her native Italy; from ballet to volleyball. When she came to London, in the early '90s, she continued going to gyms for weight training and there discovered Yoga and Pilates. Initially, she was really drawn to yoga, which she had been practicing for over 25 years. Then, Francesca's first child was born. Her terrible sciatica which left me on crutches for a month. Her Acupuncturist suggested Pilates, the pain went away and she got back to who she was! Francesca then started to really get into Pilates, to the point of training to be an instructor, and here she is!
Availability: Monday 19:45 - 20:45
