Because of our great transport links and free on-street parking we have regular patients and exercise class participants from:
Barnes, Mortlake, East Sheen, Putney and Roehampton
Massage, Podiatry and Nutrition
Ivaylo Yordanov
Sports and Remedial Massage Therapist
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Ivaylo is a qualified and experienced massage therapist with an ITEC Level 4 Sports Massage Therapy Diploma, with extensive knowledge of sports and deep tissue massage. He uses a variety of deep tissue techniques to reduce muscle pain and tension.
Ivaylo has been working as a massage therapist since 2015 with a focus on enhancing a client’s mobility and flexibility. He has a keen interest in ‘applied kinesiology’, which is a natural, holistic approach to creating and maintaining optimal health and wellbeing. He is experienced at working with runners, swimmers and people who like to box as a part of training process in a gym.
Outside of sports massage Ivaylo likes to spend time with his family, punching his own boxing bag, and supports his son in karate, swimming and painting classes.
Rebecca Pickering
Sports and Remedial Massage Therapist
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Rebecca trained in Massage Therapy at St Mary’s University and is qualified as a Level 4 ITEC Sports Massage Therapist. To complement her Sports Therapy treatments Rebecca is trained in Myofascial Cupping and Hot Stone Massage Therapy. Rebecca has a very active lifestyle, she is known to wield a sword or two and is a Stage Combat assistant teacher. Rebecca also horse rides and dabbles in Horseback Archery. Alongside her Sports Therapy training, Rebecca is trained in treating pre & postnatal clients. Rebecca is registered with the Complementary & Natural Healthcare Council (CNHC) for Massage Therapy and is a full member of the FHT.
Sas Ahmadi
Podiatrist
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Sas graduated with honours as a Podiatrist from UCL Medical School. He is a Musculoskeletal Podiatrist with a special interest in Biomechanics – the science of human movement. In addition, he is the lead Podiatrist in Biomechanics at a large teaching hospital.
Sas’ main area of interest is the treatment of repetitive sports injuries through analysis of movement and compensation patterns. He has treated a number of athletes including elite sportsmen and sportswomen, as well as those who enjoy sport for leisure.
Sharon Kallos BSc A Nutr
Registered Associate Nutritionist
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Sharon graduated from Roehampton University with a first class honours degree in Nutrition and Health and is a registered Associate Nutritionist (ANutr) with the Association for Nutrition (AfN).
Her approach is to provide easy to understand nutritional advice following the latest scientific based evidence to help individuals meet their health and nutrition goals – no fuss, no fads.
She offers individual consultations and can provide advice on the following areas:
- Advice on healthy eating to optimise your diet
- Weight loss
- Gut health and digestive issues – supporting your gut microbiota
- Nutritional needs for the family – babies, teenagers, vegans, vegetarians
- Basic sports nutrition
Sharon also works as a Research Assistant at Roehampton University and also as an occasional Visiting Lecturer. She provides evidence-based writing and content for blogs, Instagram posts and magazine articles. Clients have included the Surrey Dietitian’s blog on topics such as ‘How to eat well for busy lives’, and ‘How to eat well with a chronic illness’.
Personal Training
George Palmer
Personal Trainer: BSC Sport Science
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A qualified and experienced Personal Trainer since 2015, George works on a 1-to-1 basis with clients at Physio on the River. He focusses on Strength & Conditioning, alongside active programmes aimed at Functional Fitness (ideal if you are preparing for a sporting event). George also has a solid foundation working with clients who are interested in general weight management or who may be looking to return to fitness, after childbirth for example or who have a sedentary job.
George has previously worked in sports gyms and organised fitness retreats abroad. (For more information on these, please ask Reception.
Away from Personal Training, George is a devoted and passionate golfer. He is TPI Certified Level 1, so if you’re a keen golfer yourself, or are looking to start playing, he could assist in evaluating your physical readiness and assess your body swing characteristics, to get you ‘match fit’ and consequently improve your ‘player performance’.
When not on the golf course or in the gym, George rarely sits still and can be found regularly playing Padel Tennis.
Pilates
Victoria Twelves
Pilates Teacher
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Victoria has a background in ballet and Latin dance styles and has been practising Pilates herself for over 20 years. After her initial scepticism, the penny dropped and she became hooked on the method! Pilates has been her passion ever since and in 2004 she qualified as a Pilates instructor with the Body Control Pilates Association. She continues to develop her teaching skills and her own body awareness by regularly attending classes, training courses and workshops that progress her knowledge of movement theory and practice and keep her up to date with the latest industry developments. Victoria applies her teaching skills to reformer and matwork pilates classes both privately and in boutique studios around London. Pilates workouts with fresh variations are what you should expect from her classes.
Victoria finds the communication with the physiotherapists at Physio on the River is an added advantage to her Pilates teaching. She finds Pilates to be the very best way to find balance and strength in her own body and hopes to pass on to others her experience of the many benefits that Pilates can offer.
Kamila Blackborn
Pilates Teacher
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Kamila came from the Czech Republic to the UK in 2001. She was always very sporty but suffered a knee injury on a skiing holiday which meant she couldn’t play sport as she had previously enjoyed. So she joined a Pilates Class and was amazed at how much it helped her with her recovery.
She fell in love with the Pilates method of exercise and so explored the possibility of becoming an instructor herself. In 2010 I finally decided to join the BASI teacher training program with Amit Younger.
Kamila is passionate about teaching Pilates and believes it will change your body and mind. Her classes are mat based and designed to suit each individual and to accomodate any physical condition using appropriate modifications.
Kamila has also trained in pre and postnatal Pilates.
Sophie Burnham
Dance and exercise teacher
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Sophie has been teaching for over 20 years – a variety of ballet, dance fitness, Modern, Jazz and Tap dancing classes as well as being involved in Musical theatre and personal dance training for children and adults.
Sophie is qualified with the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dance. She is also qualified as an ETM Level 2 teacher for group fitness. Furthermore she undergoing her Level 3 personal training course and in Booty Barre.
So with this wide background she is perfectly suited to teach our new Dance, Tone and Stretch class. This is a fusion of classical ballet exercises with modern fitness concepts and Pilates exercise to improve posture, balance and core strength whilst lengthening and stretching the entire body! And what’s more it’s all set to music!
Nadia Di Soccio
Pilates teacher
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Nadia started training in the fitness industry in the mid 90’s as an Exercise to Music Instructor. A keen aerobic fitness and dance enthusiast throughout her life, she was encouraged to participate in Pilates classes to realign her own body and aid her chronic neck and shoulder issues.
Hooked by the noticeable benefits the discipline provided, in terms of spinal adjustment, core strength and rehabilitative therapy she trained in Pilates herself.
Nadia has a BA (Honours) degree in Classical Studies from Queen Mary University and is qualified in the Michael King Pilates Technique to teach beginners, intermediate and advanced group Pilates.
Trained by Michael King, a renowned presenter both in Fitness and Pilates, Nadia blends traditional Pilates movements with small equipment for strength mobility and relaxation to create a flowing class experience.
Lidia Lonergan
FLexercise instructor
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Lidia trained as a ‘FLexercise’ teacher over 30 years ago in Ireland and has been teaching classes ever since. Working initially in Ireland, then Oxford, and most recently in London, Lidia has taught all age groups – from university students to women in their 80s. [She currently specialises in teaching classes for the over 50s.]
Lidia has had the opportunity to observe first hand the health benefits of FLexercise: “aches and pains are reduced, balance improves, mental health issues are less acute” and “class participants become more body aware – and most importantly, people have fun” says Lidia. Over the last five years she has begun working closely with people suffering with Parkinsons Disease and is a qualified ‘PWR!Moves’ Certified Instructor.
Lidia has combined a career working as a professional geologist with being a FLexercise/Parkinson’s Exercise instructor. Since settling in London in 1995, and taking up a lecturing post at Imperial College, London, Lidia has continued to teach FLexercise.
Having retired from her academic job in 2023, Lidia retains an Emeritus position at Imperial and continues to undertake research studies one day a week. “Having these two careers has been fundamental to who I am” says Lidia “and is essential to my well-being”. When not teaching or taking part in geological research, she enjoys baking, hiking in mountains and is a very keen cyclist.
Qualifications: Bagot Stack dip (1988); PWR!Moves Certified Instructor; (2022) REPS level 3 Group Exercise Teacher; CIMPSA registered
Clara Hollants van Loocke
Dance and exercise teacher
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Yoga
Sabina Ricci
Yoga Teacher
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Sabina’s passion for movement started early in her life, having studied ballet for many years from a very young age. She only found yoga in her late thirties and it was thanks to Ellie Redcliffe’s classes that she fell in love with the practice.
She realised there was so much more to yoga that just the physical exercise and, encouraged by Ellie, she decided to embark on a teacher training course in order to deepen her understanding of this discipline and improve her practice.
She spent time in New York training with the incredibly inspirational teacher Dana Flynn amongst others at the Laughing Lotus Yoga Centre. A year later she left her job as a Physics teacher to share her passion for yoga with others by teaching full time.
Sabina believes that yoga puts us in touch with our true self and helps us put things into perspective. Sabina’s classes are Dynamic Vinyasa classes in which the transitions between poses are as important as the poses themselves. Her classes are infused with positivity and a sense of humour and are suitable for all levels.
Reception team
Claire Wright
Receptionist
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Susie Murphy
Receptionist
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