CLINICAL PILATES
AERIAL YOGA THERAPEUTICS
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Welcome to Embody Therapeutics. Offering integrative movement,
therapeutic Clinical and studio Pilates Classes and Online Courses, Aerial Yoga Therapeutics and Neuro-Affective Touch.
Catherine Nicholas is an integrative movement practitioner and Principal Level Pilates instructor (Pilates Alliance Australasia) with a passion for improving movement for both physical and mental health support. Pilates Instructors (PAA) can also acrue PDP points through classes with Catherine.
NDIS clients are invited for both physical and mental health support.
Image (left) by Richard Baxter. Illustration by Julia Chapman
Embody Therapeutics stands on DjaDja Warrung Country.
We acknowledge and pay respects to the Dja Dja Wurrung Aboriginal people who are the traditional owners of this land, and to their Elders, past, present and emerging. Sovereignty has never been ceded.
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Catherine Nicholas
Catherine is an integrative movement practitioner, Aerial Yoga Therapeutics instructor, and Principle Level Pilates instructor (Pilates Alliance Australasia) with over 10 000 hours of Pilates teaching since 2003 in London, Melbourne, Hawaii & Central Victoria. Catherine worked in both therapeutic & fitness settings in London UK, Hawaii USA and Melbourne Australia before opening her own studio in Castlemaine Central Victoria. Catherine mentors Pilates instructors, and health professionals for ongoing education and professional development, and will support you to facilitate health and wellbeing to bring transformative change. She is passionate about fascia, neuroplasticity, stress management, trauma informed movement practice and mind-body wellness.
Catherine has taught people from 9-91yrs young, of all fitness levels and goals, and lives in Castlemaine with her husband and two daughters. She brings a rare dedication & joy to her work & loves watching bodies change & learn to move better, & the transformation that comes from breath & movement!!
Catherine has completed the foundation training in NeuroAffective Touch . NATouch is a polyvagal-informed, somatic psychotherapy modality using touch as a vital therapeutic bridge to body-mind integration.
Catherine was the Pilates Alliance 'Instructor in Focus' December 2019.
Instructors who are PAA members can accrue PDP points by taking classes with Cat (Principal level instructor). Four points in each PDP period or up to 6 for rural instructors. Embody Therapeutics is an affiliate studio of the National Pilates Training in Melbourne & is a Work Experience Facilitation Site for the comprehensive Certificate IV, Diploma & Advanced Diplomas of Pilates Instruction at National Pilates Training & Pilates International Training Centre.