Reclaim Your Self

	Julia Sampson Before setting up Reclaim Your Self Julia (Jools) was a project manager in international development for 10 years. While working in Tanzania, she learned massage as a hobby and the seed was sown for a big career change. “As soon as I put my hands on my first client, something changed in me and I felt an immediate sense of well being and felt inspired to learn more and more”. Jools trained extensively and qualified in massage and healing work in Tanzania, India and the UK. She spent time practising yoga and meditation and studying nutrition, while fine tuning her passion and inspiration to create something to share with others. In 2004 she returned to London to launch Reclaim Your Self. As the director of Reclaim Your Self, it is Jools's dream to offer high quality, unique and powerful retreats that are accessible to anyone at whatever stage of their journey they are on. When not working on retreats Jools has a busy private massage practice in London.
	Helen Noakes Helen teaches Scaravelli inspired yoga classes, runs some our specialist workshops, and gives Chavutti Thiramul massage treatments on our retreats. Helen has been practicing Hatha yoga for 17 years and started her journey in Australia inspired by the teachings of Dr. Iyengar. After discovering and attending classes with various students of Vanda Scaravelli, she completed a two year teacher training with Gary Carter at Natural Bodies Yoga Centre in Brighton, UK. Helen's extensive bodywork experience in massage by foot pressure, hot stones and holistic medical massage also has a strong influence on her teaching style and approach to yoga. Her Scaravelli inspired yoga classes are open to all levels and all ages and are packed with lightness and fun!
	Annie Webb Annie gives Holistic Fusion treatments and runs specialist workshops on our retreats. She has been a fully qualified Acupuncturist and Alternative Health therapist for 11 years, prior to which she was an Advertising Executive, enabling her to fully understand the stresses of every day modern life. Annie is considered one of the UK’s leading alternative therapists and often writes for women’s magazines and national papers. She has created ‘Holistic Fusion’; a new method that offers people a tailor made range of alternative therapies in one session. Trained in a wide range of therapies to assist the mind, body and spirit including: Self Actualisation, Acupuncture, La Stone therapy, Massage, Reiki, and Chakra rebalancing. Annie has a unique way of reading the body and providing insights as to what is happening in that person’s life which is causing disruption to that persons health.
	Stephen Yates Stephen runs specialist workshops and gives one to one coaching sessions on our retreats. As a qualified NLP practitioner and professional trainer, Stephen has ten years of experience enabling people to reach new goals. Using simple, down to earth methods, he helps people instigate change, identify what they really want and map out a realistic and achievable path to make the change happen in all areas of personal development, career, health, habits and home life. By focusing on what can be achieved as opposed to what you may be avoiding, Stephen creates positive ways to implement clear action. Stephen uses a mix of traditional coaching, NLP and alternative approaches such as the study of language patterns and the creation of visualisations. “Through knowing what you dream of and understanding how to reach those dreams, I think our own personal potential really surprises us when we do achieve those dreams!”.
	Eleanor Scott As a nutritionist and chef, Eleanor creates all our retreat menus and, together with Gerry, sources local ingredients and cooks delicious, healthy meals on all our retreats. Eleanor’s interest in nutrition began with an award winning juice bar based in Wales where customers would often ask for nutritional advice to help with their health issues. This inspired her to qualify as a nutritionist and to learn the wonderful art of nutritional medicine. Eleanor’s work centres on a holistic approach, exploring both seasonal and regional influences on a person as well as their unique individual predisposition. Her approach to cooking food is simple yet tasty, as locally sourced fresh organic ingredients cooked with passion will speak for themselves.
	Gerry Carless Gerry runs the kitchen on all our retreats and is currently training to be a nutritionist. Having trained as a chef and worked in restaurants for many years, Gerry moved to Wales to bring up her four children. As a full time mother, Gerry strived to combine good home cooking with fresh seasonal produce, to provide optimum nutritional value for her growing family. Now her children are grown up, Gerry has joined the Reclaim Your Self team and is combining her two great passions of cooking and travel. Her grounded, down to earth approach in the kitchen compliments Eleanor’s expertise and knowledge, and together they make a great team.