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'''Fluid Body therapy which is a form of ‘ENERGETIC STRETCHING’. It is based on meridians stretching with the primary intention to remove energy blockages, enhancing well being, and regenerating vital essence through bodywork, breathing and visualisation exercises'''. Fluid Body™ is a unique tension release class based on a range of movements from Eastern and Western body-mind traditions. These techniques have been reviewed and adapted to fit the growing demand for restorative, stress-free physical practice. Deeply relaxing the method is based on the fluidity of the flow of our energy through gentle movements, helps opening stiff joints, releasing tensed muscles and enhancing suppleness with the benefit of calming the nervous system, and promoting the healthy flow of body fluids (water, blood, lymph). This body work is mainly designed to awaken body awareness and improve flexibility through soft and slow creative movements answering physical or emotional imbalance through a combination of restorative poses, therapeutic stretching, breathing exercises, self massage and followed sometimes by hands on gentle movements by the practitioner. These sessions are beneficial for anyone, regardless of the fitness level or degree of flexibility. ‘it’s not a generic yoga/pilates class – there’s more to it than that, and it also feels very personal’ as wrote one of my student'Italic text A Fluid Body Session is 1 hour long of calm energy lines stretching and strengthening, which include approximately 15 min consultation for the one to one class. These deeply relaxing sessions are beneficial for releasing chronic pains, stress, anxiety and are open to anyone wishing to feel great and revitalised after a hard day of work, sport training or traveling. Beneficial to anyone, this practice enhance self body awareness and therefore maximise the body’s own healing powers. Emotionally, a Fluid Body session helps to find balance and harmony. Deep emotional memories can creates blockages and unnecessary tensions in the body. By applying correct knowledge onto the right part of the body, and using the 5 elemental phases- Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, Water we can transform the negative energy into positives ones, correcting the energetic flow of the body, mind and spirit. The body response to social environment and relationship creates sometimes a lack of harmony in our system. The skin, the fascia, the muscles keep internal stress and over time may develop weaknesses within the body leading to pains, illness, emotional imbalance and so on. Fluid body sessions can help releasing these stress related symptoms, and chronic pains such as back pain by liberating tensions in the body with easy exercises that can be applied at home without supervision. The sessions are devised to harmonise Yin and Yang within the body and remove energy stagnation. These movements use our own body weight, the gravity and momentum within a core base practice which make them very safe. Subtle micro-movements are generated through visualisation and breathing techniques, which by directing our attention to what is happening within our body, helps refine our body’s posture and awareness. Our movements become more graceful, fluid and efficient with an improved joint range of motion, muscle tone and coordination. A regular practice of fluid body sessions, re-energises your body and mind. Your stress is stretched away and whilst focusing inwards you improve your mood, reduce anxiety and help to relieve depression symptoms. This practice demonstrates its efficacy in improving concentration, attention and self acceptance in and out of the session. This whole body-mind conditioning is a promise to broaden the realms of our perceptions, and opening yourselves to transformation.

Nathalie Dubreu is the founder of Fluid Body, which is the result of an extensive and rich process that grew from her lifelong physical practices.Since early childhood, Nathalie has trained in many disciplines with talented teachers spanning from ballet to contemporary dance, evolving to butoh, daoyin and qigong, while moving forward to yoga and pilates. Fluid Body is enriched with martial arts philosophy and has progressed further into the wisdom of Traditional Chinese Medicine in order to enhance the whole self-healing experience of movements. Originally, Nathalie is a fine artist and graphic designer. She moved to UK in 2000, and after graduating an MA in performance at Goldsmith, she developed her own improvisation dance based on her feelings. She created her own dance, expressing herself with her body, what she now describes as “drawing into space” with very slow movements. Through extensive research and practice, Nathalie continue to expand and deepen Fluid body technique into new wellness territories and imaginative processes. Recognising early in the process of inventing Fluid Body that intuitively her practice was on the same root of Chinese medicine. She keeps learning about Medical Qi-Gong, Chinese Medicine, accupressure and the energetic qualities of meridians stretching. She is a certified Meridian Stretching Massage and a traditional Japanese Reiki practitioner. She incorporated these energetic practices into her Fluid body session whenever it is beneficial to her patient conditions.

Nathalie aims to provide the highest standard of practice. She receives excellent feedback on her treatments and most of all enjoys seeing her students leave her sessions, refreshed, relaxed, with a new sense of well being and peace within.* Her practice is based in London (UK), at the Aman Spa, Connaught hotel, Carlos Place, Mayfair, London W1K 2AL and at Gina Conway Yoga studios in Wimbledon, SW19. More information can be found on her website www.fluidbody.tv