Karen Green
Karen’s experience spans over 35 yrs in the Health and Fitness Industry ranging from Fitness Instructor and former National Karate Champion and European Silver Medallist. She is an advanced Remedial Yoga Teacher and Tai-Chi Teacher. Karen offers treatment for injuries using the unique Full Movement Method and remedial/sports injury therapy. Realising that the mind also can have a great impact on our physical and mental well-being Karen also offers Advanced Clinical Hypnotherapy to aid her clients recovery.
Following a road traffic accident Karen suffered considerable pain and discomfort which resulted in a loss of career and sporting ventures. She was then introduced to Yoga and Tai-Chi and received remedial massage treatment for her injuries. These practices soon became her precious tools used to aid her recovery, offering her a new career and new outlook on life.
Her qualifications include a Diploma with the British School of Yoga, Shanti Yoga School (Adv.), Tai-Chi Diploma, Chi-Kung Certificate, Remedial Massage Certificate, International Institute of Sports Therapists, Full Movement Method Practitioner and is a Reiki Master in the Usui System. She is registered with the Tai-Chi Union of Great Britain and a Senior Teacher with the Yoga Alliance.
A lifelong ambition was achieved in 2005 when she organised a trip to China with 16 students visiting the famous Wudan Mountain and received training with a Chinese Master in the Wudan Form. She has trained and learnt from many prestigious teachers including Sensei Shiro Asano, Kanazowa, Kenny Johnson, Mick Humphries, Kevin Spencer, Savita, Michael Pook, Phaedra Cobb, Andy Thomas, Al Simon (Cloudwater), Professor Mike Symonds and many more. Most of all Karen thanks all of her students for being her teachers.
Karen is married to Kevin who also shares her enthusiasm in yoga and holistic health. They have four grown up daughters, Claire, Heather , Kimberlie . Charlotte and Grandson Loic and granddaughter Fearne. Karen enjoys reading self development and spiritual books, walking, yoga, chi-kung, tai-chi, design, cooking, motorcycling and spending time with family and friends.
Karen is dedicated to expanding her knowledge and commitment by regularly updating her skills, to ultimately share with her students to help them evolve physically, mentally and spiritually.
Kev Green
Kev began his yoga practice about 9 years ago having experiencing spasmodic periods of back pain since the age of 17. At the age of 42 it took a turn for the worse and he had to take several months off work At times his back was so painful, especially in the mornings, he could hardly bend over the sink to brush his teeth. He went to see a specialist and was given the diagnosis of Spondilylothesis (a crack in the vertebrae), two trapped nerves and disc compression. He was then moved from an active job to a desk job.
Kev had been a keen sportsman over the years enjoying regular squash and weight training. Although he could see his partner Karen’s improvement after her car accident with the practice of yoga, he took a bit more persuading to take up the practice himself.
He thought, like a lot of people, that Yoga was not going to be challenging enough and would not live up to his expectations of squash and weight-training. He finally agreed to join a class on the proviso that he “stuck it out for the six week course and if he didn’t like it wouldn’t be mentioned again!”.
He stayed for more than the six weeks and loved it so much that he trained to become a teacher himself with the Shanti Yoga School. He realised that the missing ingredient from his earlier sporting years was to stretch the tissues of his body and decompress his spine. He now enjoys sharing his knowledge and experience with his students and can empathise with anyone who is suffering pain and discomfort.
Kev’s mobility, flexibility, strength and view of life have taken a major turning point and he is enjoying following this life changing path. He will tell you he is not totally pain free and still suffers some occasional discomfort, but not on the same excruciating level.
The difference is now he has the tools to do something about it himself and believes that each and every one of us is an expert in knowing what the body and mind truly wants and needs.
Kev is also a Full Movement Practitioner and holds a Diploma in Remedial Massage with the Midland School of Massage and Manipulative Therapy, and has spent several years working as a Gym Instructor. Kev is also a Lecturer/trainer at the Full Movement Method School and enjoys helping students to qualify so they too can help others in pain. He is also a Second degree Reiki Healer in the Usui System of healing. He thanks his teachers Phaedra Cobb, Andy Thomas and Michael Pook for their expert knowledge and guidance.
For relaxation his hobbies include reading spiritual books, yoga, walking, entertaining family and friends and his passion is motorcycling.
Kev took the decision to resign from his job of 24 years as a Police Officer to pursue his passion for teaching and healing and devote his time with Karen to expand the Holistic Business into a Consultancy.
He continues to learn and grow and hopes his story will inspire many of you to join him with these holistic practices.