About your teachers
Lisa McAuliffe
Lisa has been a health & fitness professional for over 30 years. As a young adult she competed nationally as a synchronised swimmer before turning to swimming teaching & coaching. It was a natural progression from there to Group Exercise.
She has worked for a number of large health club chains as a class instructor & a group fitness manager both here in the UK & Australia. In recent years she has taught weekly classes for many local health clubs before making the decision to devote her time to her to developing her own business & private classes & clients under the Mind Body Maintenance banner.
Qualifications
- RSA Exercise to Music
- YMCA Exercise & Pregnancy
- CYQ Level 3 Diploma in Matwork Pilates
- Pilates Training Solutions Pre & Post Natal Pilates
- Pilates Training Solutions Back Pain Management
- Pilates Training Solutions Pre & Post Natal
- Burrell Education 3rd Age Women
- CYQ Level 3 Yoga Teacher (Yoga Professionals)
- British Wheel of Yoga Foundation Yoga Course
- British Wheel of Yoga Teacher (300 hour)
- GXT Freestyle Fitness Yoga
- YMCA Personal Trainer
- BTS Body Balance Instructor
- REEBOK Walking for Fitness
- ASA Swimming Teacher
- YMCA Exercise to Music in Water
- REPS Level 3 Instructor
Helen Jarvis
Helen has been a Complementary Health Practitioner and teacher for over 30 years. She qualified from the Raworth College of Sports and Natural Medicine in 1994. Since then Helen has worked in a number of Complementary Health Clinics and The Sanctuary Health Spa, in Covent Garden, London.
She has run her own Practice in Thames Ditton for many years and teaches courses in Indian Head massage, Reflexology, Aromatherapy and Meditation at Esher College.
Qualifications
- RAWDIP Raworth college Diplomas in Holistic Aromatherapy, physiology & anatomy, therapeutic massage, pathology, acupressure, deep tissue massage, subtle aromatherapy
- ITECDIP, ITEC diplomas in Aromatherapy, Anatomy, Physiology & Massage, Reflexology
- Reiki level 2
- Diploma in La Stone Therapy
- MISPA member of the institute of professional aromatherapists
- PTLLS preparing to teach in the lifelong learning sector qualification
Jo James
From a young age Jo’s exercise of choice was dance, she enjoyed jazz, ballet, contemporary and tap; She was lucky enough to follow her passion and study dance at Esher College, The Royal Academy of Dance and ultimately at Bath Spa University where she gained a BA (Hons) in Dance.
Whilst teaching dance classes she started to attend Stott Pilates sessions to strengthen her body to cope with the rigours of teaching. Jo says it made such a difference to here overall health & wellbeing she decided to train as an instructor. Following an intensive training she qualified as a Stotts Pilates Instructor in 2014
Jo discovered Yoga at a time when she needed to switch off from the pressures of modern life. As her love for Yoga grew she spent a year completing the British Wheel of Yoga Foundation course & then became a fully qualified 300hour British Wheel of Yoga teacher in 2019
Qualifications
- BA (Hons) Contemporary Dance
- Stott Pilates Certified Matwork Instructor
- Stott Pilates Qualified Reformer Instructor
- Total Barre Instructor
- Stott Pilates Pre and Post Natal
- British Wheel of Yoga Foundation Course
- British Wheel of Yoga Teacher (300hrs)