Laura is an interdisciplinary artist, teacher and movement & somatic enquirer.
A dancer from childhood, Laura could not help but apply an artistic perspective, utilising visualisation, space-ground orientation and an exploration of experiential anatomy through the movements. Laura's work is informed by a lifetime of exploration in movement. She is a versatile and knowledgeable teacher with over 30 years of experience in movement.
As a curious lover of movement and creativity Laura spent much of her life exploring bodywork disciplines, travelling, discovering new kinaesthetic possibilities and of moving with other people.
Her strength is in her diverse background; Dance, Pilates, Gyrotonic, Yoga, Franklin method, Body Mind Centering and Contact Improvisation.
Laura’s professional dance career took its pick with her award-winning multimedia Physical Dance Theatre Company
“Compagnia Guarnera Guy “ &” TrinacriaTeatro Danza”
Winner of an International Choreographic Award in The Netherlands and the Leaders for London Millennium Award, in the UK, Touring Internationally with a parallel focus on Educational work.
Laua has performed as a freelance dancer in Europe and Japan and worked with Inspirational Choreographer such as Wim Vandekeybus, Athina Vahla, Angelica Oei, Joanne Leighton.
Laura was Head of the Department of Contemporary Dance at the Performers College for over 20 years.
Laura discovered yoga during her pregnancy and, having observed a weightless lucidity at work in her body during the birth of her child, began to use her yoga practice to re-connect to this feeling. She has studied many styles of yoga, from the most physically dynamic to the profound and gentle approach of Vanda Scaravelli. Laura has been inspired by the work of John Stark, Giovanni Felicioni, Sandra Sabatini, Julie Martin and Shiva Rea.
After her successful career in dance and physical theatre, Laura travelled to India, to experience the culture and the traditions of yoga’s birthplace. She gained a Diploma in Hatha Yoga and Meditation at the Saraswati Academy, India.
She is a Pilates Foundation UK Teacher/member.
Her interest lies in modern Pilates, which has brought her to expand her approach to Pilates studying with stimulating teachers such as James De Silva, Anouska Bourne, Susanne Lahusen, and Gary Carter.
Laura's interest in ideokinesis has brought her to study with Eric Franklin, himself, the former member of the Franklin Method, to expand her visual approach to functional bodies. She is a qualified Garuda Mat and Apparatus teacher, studying directly with the founder James d'Silva.
Laura uses this passion to create dynamic, flowing, movement sequences, which she guides her students through gracefully, joining the movements with breath and cultivating lightness, ease and deep relaxation for her students.
Inspired by the power of community and group energy, Laura teaches thriving Yoga, Pilates and Garuda classes in top-end spaces around South London; dance spaces such as Siobhan Davies Dance Studios , community-centred Dulwich Leisure Centre and rehabilitation centre Crystal Palace Physio Group.
Laura applies this work in a class setting as well as in private sessions (small groups or one to one), in a creative as well as therapeutic way. Detailed and intimate one-to-one sessions are offered in South London. She also offers retreats at beautiful centres in Goa and Sicily.
Based in her beloved multicultural Peckham, Laura creates nurturing space and shares her knowledge and intuition with a diversity of students, from professional dancers to youth groups, yoga enthusiasts, mums-to-be and older people. Guided by her choreographic knowledge, she teaches her InSpiral Flow approach to movement: safe, fluid, dynamic work interwoven with poetic visualisation and playfulness.
For the theoretically minded!
