Claire has been involved in the health and fitness industry for over 15 years. She is a registered Osteopath, graduating from Oxford Brooks University, and also has a diploma in Animal Osteopathy. Claire has been teaching Pilates for over 10 years, and has been involved in writing Level 2 and 3 qualifications, as well as running instructional courses and delivering qualifications in Pilates Matwork, Studio Equipment and more recently the Level 4 Certificate in Exercise Management of Low Back Pain. In the past, Claire was also a college lecturer and verifier for the NVQ/OCR awards and VTCT qualifications.

Claire and Belinda jointly run Pilates Training Solutions from their studio in Farnham, teaching classes, providing exercise and fitness training courses and offering an osteopathy clinic.

Simon has been in full-time practice as an Osteopath since 1982 and an Acupuncturist since 1987. He has lectured extensively at undergraduate and postgraduate level in both osteopathy and acupuncture and lectured to surgeons, doctors, nurses and midwives nationally and internationally. I have acted as a clinical tutor and mentor in both disciplines.

Simon also acts as an expert witness in both personal injury and negligence/malpractice cases which is an increasingly busy aspect of his practice. He has trained extensively in the legal aspects of Report Writing, Healthcare Records and Courtroom Skills with Bond-Solon and completed an LL.M. in Medical Law in 2008.

Relatively new to Pilates practice, Simon has been impressed by the results achieved for his case study at Level 3, and is now delighted to work with Pilates Training Solutions.

Gill brings a unique blend of skills, experience and insight to facilitate your development on the business and marketing skills course.

She has over 20 year experience of working in business development and marketing management in the healthcare industry, coaching sales and marketing teams to drive profitable and sustainable business growth and is accustomed to organising and presenting workshops. She holds a Diploma in Management and has marketing qualifications from the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM), including attaining Chartered Marketer status.

A Nurse and Health Visitor by background, she is a comprehensively trained Pilates instructor in both matwork and larger studio equipment and previously taught exercise to music. She has been teaching Pilates since 2004 and has used Pilates to help manage her own chronic, inflammatory back and joint problems for over 12 years.

Kathi Elliott has worked in the fitness industry for the past 20 years, and delivers Level 3 Anatomy and Physiology courses. She also teaches group fitness and Pilates classes, as well as one-to-one Pilates clients, many of whom go to Kathi as a result of osteopathic referral.

For the past 10 years Kathi has been training new group fitness instructors, and also working as an assessor and verifier for the industry's awarding bodies.