Laura is an interdisciplinary artist, teacher and movement & somatic enquirer.
A dancer from childhood, Laura could not help but apply an artistic perspective, utilising visualisation, space-ground orientation and an exploration of experiential anatomy through the movements. Laura's work is informed by a lifetime of exploration in movement. She is a versatile and knowledgeable teacher with over 30 years of experience in movement.
As a curious lover of movement and creativity Laura spent much of her life exploring bodywork disciplines, travelling, discovering new kinaesthetic possibilities and of moving with other people.
Her strength is in her diverse background; Dance, Pilates, Gyrotonic, Yoga, Franklin method, Body Mind Centering and Contact Improvisation.
Laura’s professional dance career took its pick with her award-winning multimedia Physical Dance Theatre Company
“Compagnia Guarnera Guy “ &” TrinacriaTeatro Danza”
Winner of an International Choreographic Award in the Netherlands and a Leaders for London Millennium Award in the UK, Laura has toured internationally while also focusing on education.
She has performed as a freelance dancer in Europe and Japan, collaborating with choreographers like Wim Vandekeybus and Athina Vahla. Laura led the Contemporary Dance Department at the Performers College for over 20 years.
During her pregnancy, Laura discovered yoga and felt a lightness in her body during childbirth, leading her to use yoga to reconnect with that sensation. She has studied various yoga styles, including dynamic practices and the gentle approach of Vanda Scaravelli, and has been influenced by John Stark, Giovanni Felicioni, Sandra Sabatini, Julie Martin, and Shiva Rea. After her dance career, Laura traveled to India to immerse herself in yoga culture and earned a Diploma in Hatha Yoga and Meditation from the Saraswati Academy.
She is a Pilates Foundation UK Teacher/member.
Her interest lies in modern Pilates, which has brought her to expand her approach to Pilates studying with stimulating teachers such as James De Silva, Anouska Bourne, Susanne Lahusen, and Gary Carter.
Laura's interest in ideokinesis has brought her to study with Eric Franklin, himself, the former member of the Franklin Method, to expand her visual approach to functional bodies. She is a qualified Garuda Mat and Apparatus teacher, studying directly with the founder James d'Silva.
Laura uses this passion to create dynamic, flowing, movement sequences, which she guides her students through gracefully, joining the movements with breath and cultivating lightness, ease and deep relaxation for her students.
A light-hearted, instinctive teacher, Laura is a London-based International, Italian-born choreographer-performer and teacher of Yoga, Pilates, Garuda and Dance.
Laura's work is informed by a lifetime of exploration in movement and somatic, she is a versatile and knowledgeable teacher with over 30 years of experience in performing and teaching. Her strength strikes from her diverse background and her passion for body work.
Laura's greatest aim is to inspire and to promote freedom in the practice, facilitating awareness and embodying the practice. Her particular passion for human movement means continual investigation of new anatomical approaches, working with curiosity and investigation, integration, using natural movement, ranges of motion, integrated stability and letting go of unnecessary old patterns in order to move with the body and not against it.
Inspired by the power of community and group energy, Laura teaches thriving Yoga, Pilates and Garuda classes in top-end spaces around South London; dance spaces such as Siobhan Davies Dance Studios , community-centred Dulwich Leisure Centre and rehabilitation centre Crystal Palace Physio Group.
Laura applies this work in a class setting as well as in private sessions (small groups or one to one), in a creative as well as therapeutic way. Detailed and intimate one-to-one sessions are offered in South London. She also offers retreats at beautiful centres in Goa and Sicily.
Based in her beloved multicultural Peckham, Laura creates nurturing space and shares her knowledge and intuition with a diversity of students, from professional dancers to youth groups, yoga enthusiasts, mums-to-be and older people. Guided by her choreographic knowledge, she teaches her InSpiral Flow approach to movement: safe, fluid, dynamic work interwoven with poetic visualisation and playfulness.
For the theoretically minded!
