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  Welcome to Week 2, it’s actually been fun curating this as the week unfolds….I hope you found last week useful and thought provoking…..so here goes!   Another excellent and thought provoking blog from Michelle Lyons on Bone Health…….this surely must be the most unsexy topic in Women’s Health.  Everyone thinks you only have to […]

Introducing the NEW Women’s Wellness Weekly Digest!  A weekly roundup of everything ‘Women’s Wellness’ that I’ve spotted across Social Media over the previous 7 days.  Quite simply, if I think it’s awesome, great education and will enhance what we all do, I’ll add it to this page.  Movement, Books, Nutrition, Mental and Emotional Wellbeing, Pelvic […]

So, again, I’ve got to ask you…..Is this your BUSINESS OR STILL YOUR HOBBY……take a moment to read on and then you make that call….. As a purveyor of education, you’ll probably be surprised to find that I’m not a fan of people taking multiple of mine or other peoples courses WHEN THEY STILL DON’T […]

When it comes to Post Natal Nutrition, sometimes it can feel like very much a challenge to convince ‘baby-weight’ conscious new moms of the power and worth of moving their focus to ‘Healing’ Post Natal Nutrition’ as opposed to ‘Fat Loss Dieting’.  For years we have all been indoctrinated as to the evils of fat consumption, the virtues of calorie-counting the merit […]

I wanted to share with you these 3 utterly delicious integrated Pelvic Floor and hip moblizers because I think they might just transform the was you ‘do stretching’ with your Pregnant and Post Natal clients in relation to the pelvic moblity in general and the down-training and mobilization of their Pelvic Floor on a global […]

They say that ‘necessity is the mother of invention’ and Burrell Education was very much created from a position of necessity to improve the correlation between how Pregnant and Post Natal women actually move in their daily lives and what was generally passing for ‘fit for purpose’ exercise prescription….in short, for a long time in […]

Oh my gosh,  I’ve been meaning to write a blog on Pelvic Health Red Flags + Helping Your Client Obtain a Clinical Referral for so long, it’s untrue so finally and with huge thanks to Michelle Lyons for her generosity in providing us with a definitive guide to Pelvic Health Red Flag, how to direct […]

In the world of Pelvic Floor fitness and retraining in the case of the simpler end of continence issues where a ‘strength’ programme is indicated, there sometimes isn’t an equal emphasis on balancing the work/hypertrophy with a down-training programming. Ultimately, we all know the body functions best when both local (core) and global muscle/myofascial length […]

Bone density and bone health is such as strange topic.  The stats tell us that with a globally aging population, declining bone health and Osteoporosis is on the rise and costing the developed world a lot of money on a daily basis, and contributing the an increase in mortality for those who survive breaks and […]

After nearly 20 years serving the Post Natal woman in fitness/wellness both as the do-er, the student and the educator, I’ve gotten through a LOT of books and courses (above is just one of many bookcases in my office and throughout my house – Amazon LOVES ME!) and it was only because I had to […]