About

Carmen is a Fully Certified STOTT Pilates Instructor, 500 hr+ trained yoga instructor, Functional Range Conditioning and Mobility specialist (FRCms) and is an occupational therapist She is a womens pelvic health enthusiast, completing multiple trainings and utter body and anatomy geek.

As a child, Carmen was always very active in recreational and competitive team sports. In university , when completing her Occupational Therapy degree she realised she preferred to act alone in her physical pursuits and became a competitive long distance runner, qualifying to run at a national level.  At that time in her life, running was her mindful movement- using the time to connect with her inner self.  

Things shifted when Carmen moved to London, UK in 2002. She began to recognize that running was only contributing to the frenzy of life of a large city. This is when Carmen began to explore yoga, with her first opportunity to travel to India in 2002. This led her down a long road of passion for the practice finally landing on Ashtanga as her daily practice. Since this time she has had the opportunity to train under world renowned teachers, having completed both 200hr and advanced yoga teacher trainings, inclusive of Iyengar and Therapeutics. Later in life she completed specialization in women’s pelvic health, finding the need for women to have a better understanding of their pelvis, the pelvic floor, and all things related and how it was not discussed in many teachings.

After many years of a consistent yoga practice Carmen started to find she had many imbalances within her physical body, resulting in pain and ultimately a mirage of injuries. She began to search out another mindful movement practice and she intrigued by Pilates, what it had to offer, and feels that it indeed can be a lifelong practice. She loves the integrity of this mindful practice, the stability it creates, the pain it assists to ease, how it is accessible to every body, how it can be useful in pelvic health, and all its subtle nuances. She also loves finishing a practice and feeling rejuvenated, not depleted.

She has now become Fully Certified in STOTT Pilates Mat, Reformer and Cadillac, Barrels, and Chair. She also has trainings in Fascial Movement , and Total Barre.