Nisha Srivastava

About Nisha Srivastava

Nisha is a certified level 3 Chek practitioner and holistic lifestyle coach specialising in Pilates and Yoga. Her journey started when a visiting Laban teacher introduced her to Pilates at Dance College in a contemporary class during her first year. Its effects were forgotten but she then re-discovered Pilates through Michael King eleven years later whilst running her dance school. Her background spans over 32 years with formal training in classical ballet, modern dance, tap, national choreography, stage production and theatre. Her formation includes Pilates, Thai bodywork, Yoga, GYROTONIC, GYROKINESIS, Garuda and anatomical studies. Her particular interest is fascia, and the connective lines and movement patterns that allow a full moving structure rather than the isolation of bones and muscles. Her fascination with questioning the traditions of modern medicine and fascination with searching for meaningful answers has taken her in many different directions and has offered her an abundance of opportunities gaining a wealth of knowledge. “I tried many movement modalities and extended my search after experiencing fascia, because of its connection of movement. Quickly, I noticed my own body changing, as well as the bodies of my own clients. In the last 32 years of teaching I’ve developed my own movement and lifestyle philosophy". Throughout her studies Nisha has done numerous dissections with Julian Baker, Mel Cash and Cery Davies and has the opportunity to take lectures and courses from James de Silva, Robert Schleip, Joanne Avison, Tom Myers, Matt Wallden, Leigh Brandon, Emma Lane, Gary Carter, Paul Chek, Dan Hellman, Peter Blackaby plus many more. Nisha's teaching method promotes reflective self-discovery and provides the requirements to integrate a shift in consciousness for attaining individual goals. Nisha teaches in her own studios in St. Helens and Manchester, plus she also has an online following. Throughout her career she has also taught Sting, Sir Ian McKellen, Cirque de Soleil, Will Young and Belinda Carlisle. She has also worked in professional football and both Rugby League and Union for over 20 years. Players she has provided a specific program for were former Manchester Citys Vincent Kompany, Everton's Steven Pinnear and goal keeper Jonas Lossi. She maintains that an attitude of compassion, consistency and joyous humour are excellent components to growth and expanded potential. She welcomes all level of movers from the beginner to the seasoned athlete who have a desire to increase their skill potential, also teachers and students. Her specialties include assisting post rehabilitative back pain individuals, injury prevention for athletes and spine health for everyday people.

How trauma effects movement in the body

The body and mind cannot be separated.  Neuroscientist Candice Pert’s reminds us of cadaver days and body snatching. The church and medicine attempted to separate the two by donating the bodies to the dissectionists and the church maintaining the soul and the spirit. Move on to where we are now and we can clearly see [...]

By |2021-11-05T21:40:42+00:00November 5th, 2021|Uncategorised|0 Comments

The strongest trees grow in the strongest winds

If you want to make progress in life you need to change your perception and reaction. Everything happens for me to improve my growth and contribution or everything happens to me (victim archetype). If you want your family and friends to change, you need to change yourself first. We are always progressing through pain and [...]

Does cold-water therapy purposely block weight gain as you age?

https://youtu.be/rrg4X4QJCd4 I am sure you have heard of the Dutch extreme athlete Winhoff.  Winhoff has stood in a container of ice cubes for just under two hours plus climbed Kilimanjaro in shorts and T-Shirt. Cold water and ice bathing is nothing new and I first worked with the method was first introduced to me through [...]

Don’t leave your body to hope and chance

Any success in your life is built on rituals and habitual patterns. Without a plan or end game, there is no goal to be disciplined for. Without a vision of the future we will return to the past, which tends to be full of bad habits and mistakes. The things we do every day are [...]

Finding your true core values

  Are you leaving life to chance and impulse? Are you waiting for the world to change before you change? Are your present choices getting your body, mind and soul to where you want it to be? Are you stuck in default and repeating the same habitual patterns? Do you want to banish your postural [...]

By |2021-08-20T20:43:04+01:00August 20th, 2021|Uncategorised|0 Comments

Waking up from auto-pilot

Are you going through life in a sleepwalk??? Just going along with the narrative of what you feel or think you should be doing?? Have you given up on your health or getting out of pain??? Our mind is always set to go to North which is negative, blame, guilt, anger, shame and resentment. It [...]

By |2021-08-20T20:30:07+01:00August 20th, 2021|accepting change, anxiety, Inspiration, life, love|0 Comments

An event is just an event

There is a technique I learnt form Byron Katy. When something goes wrong or something happens out of our control, our mind will go to the lowest level of training. That is usually scarcity, fear, anger, guilt, blame and negativity. However if we upgrade our skill set, when something  happens which is unexpected in life, [...]

Back to the old normal or forward to new opportunities…….

Our goals and dreams have changed for many of us since Covid 19. You may of changed your environment, got that fitted kitchen or bathroom, bought a new house or car, changed your child's school, reaccessed your relationships, decide to lose weight, gave up smoking or drinking, started a new hobby or sport and the [...]

By |2021-07-26T10:56:19+01:00July 26th, 2021|Fitness, Nature, One to one training|0 Comments

The love diet

Be a vehicle for adding value to people’s lives. Relationships will either highlight or magnify emotions. We value what we do highly. For example, being out of shape shows the value system is not high enough to be in shape. We expect everyone to have the same values as us. We often get the opposite [...]

Breaking the habit of being yourself

Dr Joe Dispenza has a called book ‘Breaking the habit of being yourself’. If you want to change you need to feed yourself a different diet, do something different. Nothing changes till you change. I have to train myself to do something different. Thoughts and actions only become easy when you drill them in enough. [...]

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