About Moving Dynamics
About Moving Dynamics
“Take care of the body. It’s the only place you have to live.”
Moving Dynamics is about connecting the body and mind to help you move with more intelligence, awareness and sensitivity. By exploring different movement practices and being inquisitive about the body, we can start to think in new ways, become more strategic about developing strength, mobility and ultimately... balance.
Moving should be fun, enjoyable and unconfined by the limitations of one field. Moving Dynamics is a firm advocate of cross training: the more the body and mind can be informed by the practices you take-on, the wider the physical boundaries can grow to be, the more intelligent, subtle and expressive movement can become.
Through moving with a playful edge (it does not need to be so serious!), Moving Dynamics helps you become more available, more alert, more alive so that you can enjoy life to the full.
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About Elodie
About Elodie
I have not always been a mover: it took the whole of 18 months before I decided it might be interesting to see what happened on the other side of the room, and therefore get up and walk! Since then however, there has been no looking back. After moving to the UK from my native France to train as a contemporary dancer at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance, I discovered yoga as a way of staying injury free whilst developing deep strength. It is only later that I fell in love with the wider world of yoga, in all its variety, adaptability, physicality and spirituality. I decided to make the full leap in 2013, going on my first yoga teacher training and running with it.
I am sometimes described as "the smiling assassin", so come to class expecting to work hard whilst having fun! I aim to help students cultivate respect and awareness of the body and mind, whether in the most dynamic or restorative styles. My classes have a strong emphasis on the physical, developing an expressive, strong and flexible body: use it, or you will lose it!
Over time, my love of yoga in all its versatility has become the prime focus of my teachings so that students can embody their most powerful self by combining work on the physical body, the breath and the mind. My knowledge of multiple disciplines layers into my classes so that intelligent movement can be the prime focus every time (with a good dose of self-belief!).
I am lucky to have trained with some of the most wonderful mentors and teachers to whom I offer up my gratitude: Allie Hill and Toni Roberts, Joy Kunkanit and Ricardo Martin, Uma Dinsmore-Tuli and Nirlipta Tuli, Sharon Gannon and David Life, Jason Crandell and David Kyle to name a few. I am honoured to teach anatomy on reputable teacher training courses (Hotpod Yoga, yogahaven, Power Yoga Company, Kindred, Good Life Yoga School) as well lead and co-create 200hr and advanced training courses for Hotpod Yoga.
My passion for the moving body took me to the University College of Osteopathy, where I started to train as an osteopath in 2017, and where I now work as a lecturer. You can find me on Tuesdays and Thursdays and Fridays at Pureform Bromley and Pureform Beckenham. I am also a UKAD anti doping advisor and qualified Sports Massage Therapist.
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