curriculum vitae
| Recognised and Insured by British Wheel of Yoga. Current Emergency First Aid.Accepted as Senior Teacher with YogaAlliance Professionals. Teacher for YogaCampus Continuing Professional development: MA Authorial Practice Falmouth University Sept 2019-2021 Supervision Training with Dr Lucy Arnsby Wilson Autumn 2019 Training in Compassionate enquiry with Dr Gabor Mate.Jan 2019-Nov 2019. | |
Education | |
| 2002 – 2004 1985 – 1988 1984 – 1985 | Certificate in Education PCET / Truro College. BA (Hons) Fine Art (Installation & Performance) / University of Northumberland. Foundation Diploma / Falmouth School of Art. |
Other qualifications and Training
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| 2019 2019 2018 2018 2018 2018 2017 2016 2016 2015/16 2015 2015 2013
2012 2011 2010 2007 2006 | Well woman Yoga TT with Uma Dinsmore Tuli August 2019 60 hr Bruce Fertman, Alexander Technique ‘teaching by hand,learning by heart’ Total Yoga Nidra..Training the trainer Uma Dinsmore Tuli Jaap Van der Vaal The Embryo in Us Yin Yoga Training Gentle Somatic Yoga. James Knight Amy Matthews Anatomy Course Yoga Nidra TT Embodied Facilitator Course 200plus TT Tantra Vinyasa 200 Hour certified Teacher Embodied Yoga Principles Qualified Teacher Total Yoga Nidra Foundation Embodying Embryology, Continuum Deepening into the Feminine Core. Continuum CST for babies, families and children, part 2 CST for babies, families and children Biodynamic Cranio-sacral Therapy. Karuna Institute Training Yoga for Healthy Lower Back. Recognised British Wheel of Yoga teacher |
Yoga Teaching and Therapy | |
| 2015 onwards
2008 – 2017 2006- 2017 | Devising and delivering anatomy syllabus on teacher training courses, Offering level 2 TT courses. Buddhist member of Chaplaincy / University College Falmouth. Iyengar Yoga Tutor / Cornwall Adult Education Service. Co-founder and co-ordinator Santosa Pan Yoga Gathering and founder Surya Eco Yoga. |
OTHER EMPLOYMENT | |
Artist / Workshop Facilitator | |
| 2013-2019
1994 – 2009 | Spinning (Guild of spinners and weavers), Weaving for the last couple of years. Slowly developing a body of work from the ground up and enquiring into extinction and the anthropocene. Selling shawls and launch of ’13 looms project’ teaching women to weave a cloth for themselves. Warp and Weft of being retreats. Regular writing practice. Freelance Artist / Tate Gallery St Ives. Piloting language projects, involving production of ‘Fragments’ and poetry to be used in the gallery to access works of art through linguistics. Devising workshops in response to current displays for all ages, particularly children from 4 – 11 |
| 1996 – 1998 | Animateur / Royal Cornwall Museum. Running curriculum-linked workshops for junior school children based on the collection. |
| 1993 –1997 | Project Leader / Annexe Arts. Conceived and developed community arts project for adults with special needs. Responsible for obtaining funding (in partnership with Cornwall College this continues to be a successful project). |
| 1990 – 1991 1989 – 1990 1985 – 1998 | Life Drawing Tutor / Bristol Adult Education. Tutor in life drawing, contemporary British Sculpture / Sydney Institute of Fine Art. Special Needs Teaching. Teaching dance and art to students with special needs of all ages in various establishments throughout the county. |
Other work experience | |
| 1992 – 1998 | Jewellery Maker. As member of Cornwall Crafts Association I made and exhibited silver and gold jewellery for several years. |
| 1990 – 1991 1988 – 1989 | Reviewer for Venue Magazine. Member whole food cooperative ‘Harvest’. |
Projects | |
| 2018 2007 | ‘Bibiography in Cloth’ Part of Bath Fringe Group show participant Curated ‘Selected Bilbliography’ 12 artists. Poets / musicians in Morrab Library. |
| 2005 | Creative Partnerships. Artist in residence. Residency with a school and random dance company for ‘The Big Project’, 3-year collaboration between Tate St Ives, Eden Project, Hall for Cornwall and The Works. |
| 2005 1995 –1996 1994 1990 1987 | National Trust. Freelance Artist. Feltmaking workshops. Gateway Club, National Dance Platform. Produced ‘Romeo and Juliet’ and ‘the nine Maidens’. City of Lights, Truro. Lantern Festival. Maker. MS Centre, Sydney. Artist. TSWA Project Technician. |
| 1986 – 1988 | Northgate Arts Project. Artist. Pilot project working with Mental Health Patients in a large institution. |
EXHIBITIONS/PERFORMANCES | |
| 1992 –1998 | Cornwall Crafts Association galleries, Wolf at the Door, Mid Cornwall Galleries. |
| 1995 1991 1991 1990 | Tate Gallery, St Ives. Freelance artists show. Arnolfini, Bristol. Perfomance ‘Early one morning’. University of Bristol. Group Show, drawing ‘fragmented form.’ Blue Moon Gallery, Sydney. Solo installation, mixed media ‘Unmaking’. |
| 1989 | Gulbenkian, Newcastle. Group show for visually impaired ‘Touch me, feel me’. ‘Scented garden for the blind’ mixed media. |
| 1988 | Various performances in Newcastle, ‘Constructed in time ‘Ellusionistic’. |
PUBLICATIONS | |
| ‘1001 ways to stay young naturally’. Dorling Kindersly (yoga contributor). ‘1001 ways to relax naturally’. Dorling Kindersly (yoga contributor). ‘1001 ways to stay young naturally’. Dorling Kindersly (yoga contributor). | |