The Core Clapton team is a group of highly motivated individuals who all care deeply about improving the health and wellbeing of the local community, regardless of anyone’s financial situation.
Alice trained as an Actor at Drama Centre London, learning about movement and bodily communication through various techniques such as Alexander body mapping, Ballet and Pilates. These practices ignited her passionate interest in balancing out the body, increasing its strength, flexibility and agility to prime and optimise the human figure. Alice is Stott Pilates Certified.
Cristina started to teach yoga to help others to improve their health and balance, helping them discover true inner peace and their healthiest selves. She is also a student and practitioner of holistic therapies, crystals and sound healing. Recently, she started to work with children, through imaginative, engaging and joyful sessions, introducing the unlimited benefits of Yoga to the young souls.
Madlyn is an experienced yoga teacher who loves to make classes inclusive and fun and to help people to feel more mobile, mindful, and relaxed. She is qualified in Hatha and Perinatal yoga and loves to teach a restorative and compassionate flow. She is also a massage therapist and offers hands-on assists and massage in class.
Gio has always been connected to well-being, she was influenced by her grandmother who was a homeopath, yoga practitioner, and reiki healer. Gio has a background in psychology and counselling and has been practicing yoga since her first trip to Udaipur, India in 2008. She began her yoga teacher training in Neuroepigenetic yoga in 2021. She has deepened her study and practice of Yoga in different fields such as trauma-induced yoga and yoga for PTSD. Gio is also passionate about Kundalini Yoga and has 100 hours of training.
Gio believes in the connection between the mind and the body. In her classes, all levels are welcome. She offers a traditional Hatha yoga practice, stretches, deep breath flows, and movement to release unwanted energies in our bodies and deep relaxation. Gio also works with the chakra system and meridians of the body.
Elisa is a fully qualified Mat Pilates Instructor with an accredited L2 & L3 Diploma. Her movement experiences are rooted in Dance & Movement practices. The following quote from Joseph Pilates describes for her the importance of movement: "Physical fitness is the first requisite of happiness.”
Her Dynamic Pilates class includes a gentle warm up and progresses into more intense exercises. Each class will end with some stretching to improve flexibility.
Tuesdays at 6:30pm
Multi-instrumentalist, composer and sound therapist, influential within Drone and Ambient music. Simone’s work focuses on blurring the boundaries between sound art and sound healing. He has released many records and performed in venerable venues such as London’s Tate Modern, Tate Britain, Sadler’s Well Theatre, Royal College of Art, ICA, CCA, Natural History Museum, as well as international festivals. Fully qualified Sound Therapist, specialises in the use of gongs, Himalayan and crystal bowls, tuning forks, synthesizers and string instruments (guitar, sitar). Simone has studied under masters of the craft such as Grand Gong Master Don Conreaux, world-renowned sacred music Maestro Manuel Minguillon, Sitar guru Pandit Shivnath Mishra and at a number of prestigious academies programs, including the University of Music and Performative Arts of Florence and The British Academy of Sound Therapy.
Simone has also received Kriya Yoga and Nada Yoga training in India and he often incorporates these practices into his sound experiences.
https://www.sselvatico.com/, @sselvatico
Francesca has always taken part in sport or dance since she was a child in her native Italy; from ballet to volleyball. When she came to London, in the early '90s, she continued going to gyms for weight training and there discovered Yoga and Pilates. Initially, she was really drawn to yoga, which she had been practicing for over 25 years. Then, Francesca's first child was born. Her terrible sciatica which left me on crutches for a month. Her Acupuncturist suggested Pilates, the pain went away and she got back to who she was! Francesca then started to really get into Pilates, to the point of training to be an instructor, and here she is!
Availability: Monday 19:45 - 20:45
Gosia teaches with warm and genuine energy straight from the heart. She shares her in-depth knowledge of Yoga, which she gained from the motherland India. Whilst practicing classical Hatha Yoga for fourteen years she enriched her teaching with a form of Restorative Yoga under Judith Hanson-Lasater. Her classes are a fine balance between vitality and grounding. She works with a diversity of people with varying needs and abilities. This experience has increased her adaptability and observational skills, helping her students to understand and experience Yoga more clearly.
Sunday 13:30 - 14:30