Rox_CoreFlex Yoga

18/05/2026

If you or a love one are in the cancer fight perhaps you might want explore other pathways to provide relief from side effect of medication, hormone suppressants and various forms of treatment.

Drop me a line if you have any questions

17/07/2023

King Georges Park Class
(Acuba Road entrance)

This Wednesday the 19th of July at 6pm

Posture improvement with a focus on

Thoracic and shoulder rehabilitation exercises

Drop in £10

23/04/2023

Great day at the London Marathon. What a pleasure working for such an important charity. Couldn’t have asked for better company.

Congratulations 🎉 to all that ran. What a great achievement!

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09/04/2023

I love my students 🥰

01/12/2022

The Push up screening test 💪 👊

Check alignment! Imagine you are a plank of wood. Straight line from the front of the ankle up to the crown of the head.

Connect with your core. When I mean core I mean the deep core: TA, pelvic floor, diaphragm, imagine a cylinder that hold you in , that’s core for me.

Set up: core engaged, toes tucked under, tailbone tucked under, lower belly lifting off the ground, shoulder blades active, trying to keep the shoulders down and away from the ears

3 Repetitions

Score Men

3 - thumbs in line with the forehead

2 - thumbs in line with the chin

1 - thumbs in line with the collarbone

Score Women

3 - thumbs in line with the chin

2 - thumbs in line with the collar bone

1 there is no 1 ! We don’t score 1! 2 and above only

If you found this difficult there is a separate video incoming that will help with building strength

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14/11/2022

Today is the start of my 6 weeks course for Posture Improvement and Functional Movement and one of the Functional Movement Screening tests that we are targeting is the squat test.

The squat demonstrated here is for a maximum score of 3. Why a maximum score? Because that’s the target. Reaching normal is the target. Anything less is still a work in progress.

If you notice my heels stay on the ground the whole time. And I have the ability to lower to a squat and lift to stand with ease, I don’t believe that you can hear any popping or creaking in my joints. As soon as the alignment is right, movement becomes effortless

Our ability to squat is a basic Functional movement. I have an issue with simply accepting our loss in Range of Motion and Functional movement as being Normal.

There is nothing Normal about it.

It’s something that draws your attention to it and shouts “Change your habits ! “ learn to observe and take note.

We have 7000 nerve endings in each foot. We basically walk around on sensory plates. When we learn to walk its the feet that provide information, how much weight, where…we can’t build a resilient house without a foundation so it’s only fitting that we start our quest for normal posture and normal Functional movement by learning and building a strong foundation.

Rewatching this video actually makes me laugh as it reminds me of a comedy.

Toilet seat “watch how it goes up and then it goes down”. 😅 imagine your toilet seat not really going fully up or coming fully down.
How annoying would that be. Now rethink your squat. 😉

If you’re interested in learning more just drop me a line.

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05/11/2022

The Long Stretch Online Course

This is where we release locked muscles (short or long), create flexibility and improve ROM (range of motion).

You might be incredibly flexible, but the chances are that something will be short.

You will have a lot of time in postures, take home exercises that you can implement on a regular basis, and you should see improvement on average in 6 weeks (age and fitness related).

It will not only be a stretch class, but a class of observing what you do in stillness, when there is thinking time. We get time to explore the mind body connection and to recognise patterns of feelings, emotions, thoughts or sensations that in an active practice would at time feed what is lacking.

A type of yoga for truly everyone from the elite athletes to the couch potato, from teenagers to seniors.

Course ‪starting on the 16th of November at 7pm‬


1. ‪16th of November at 7pm‬ - Foot, ankle normal ROM

2. ‪23rd of November at 7pm‬ - Legs - Hips - Hip flexors - Hamstrings

3. ‪30th of November 7pm‬ - Legs - Hips – Deep hip rotators - Adductors - Abductors

4. ‪7th of December at 7pm‬ - The spine

5. ‪14th of December at 7pm‬ - Shoulders and Thoracic spine

6. ‪21st of December at 7pm‬ - The arm lines - Neck, shoulders, arms


Any questions please drop me a line

27/10/2022

A closer look at the Rotatory Stability test.

Score of 2 (let’s say a 2+) and 3. Only going for top
Marks here 😉

It will give you an idea of your overall stability. Maybe your deep core is not engaging properly maybe there is inadequate ROM, compensation, dysfunction at the shoulders and hips, also an easy tool to check posture as you will need to find that pelvic neural and maintain the posture line : ears, shoulders, side of the ribs, sides of the pelvis.

If you are an athlete/ military the Functional movement screening tests are a great way to asses your risk of injury.

7 tests in total (will be posting them here one by one ) and you want to aim for no less than a score of 15. But that’s the bare minimum. A score of 14 or less has been associated with an increased risk of injury.

27/10/2022

19/09/2022

The long stretch - YIN - 6 weeks course - Online (Wednesdays)

This is where we release locked muscles (short or long), create flexibility and improve ROM (range of motion).

You might be incredibly flexible, but the chances are that something will be short.

You will have a lot of time in postures, take home exercises that you can implement on a regular basis, and you should see improvement on average in 6 weeks (age and fitness related). Yin is not only a stretch class, is a class of observing what you do in stillness, when there is thinking time. We get time to explore the mind body connection and to recognise patterns of feelings, emotions, thoughts or sensations that in an active practice would at time feed what is lacking.

A type of yoga for truly everyone from the elite athletes to the couch potato, from teenagers to seniors.

Course ‪starting on the 28th of September at 7pm‬


1. ‪28th of September 7pm‬ - Foot, ankle normal ROM

2. ‪5th of October 7pm‬ - Legs - Hips - Hip flexors - Hamstrings

3. ‪12th of October 7pm‬ - Legs - Hips – Deep hip rotators - Adductors - Abductors

4. ‪19th of October 7pm‬ - The spine

5. ‪26th of October 7pm‬ - Shoulders and Thoracic spine

6. ‪2nd of November 7pm‬ - The arm lines - Neck, shoulders, arms


Any questions please drop me a line

16/09/2022

Posture Improvement Online Course

I have written a bunch of stuff of why good posture is important (which you will receive if interested in the Posture course), and why it matters, but most importantly what matters is knowledge. Knowing your body, getting acquainted with your body, with your movement.

You need to observe yourself, you need to learn what your posture type is, how you compensate, learn to watch yourself. Not to judge yourself but to Know. There is no right or wrong, there is just knowledge the rest will take care of itself.

Knowledge is power. 6 weeks is not enough to change years and decades of habits and build it compensations and dysfunction. But what we can learn is 6 weeks is a new and redefined way of seeing the importance of good posture and good physical longevity. I will show you what your posture type is, how to work on observing and exercises that you can introduce in your day to day life but ultimately its up to you on how you implement these changes into your life. Consistency is key. You will have access to each class for 7 days, please use the time to pick up what you want to take into day to day life.

The classes will be anatomical and there will be terms that you might not be familiar with but you will learn them much faster than you think, the reason I know that is because I repeat myself a lot. And I’ve seen it from class to class in previous courses. And I can assure you that you will learn to laugh at yourselves, I know I have, we all have a posture type. Nobody is perfect. I work on correcting my posture everyday and I see the changes, you will also.

You will learn to watch the best athletes in the world and notice that they are not perfect either, that their posture is not perfect either, but the ones with the better posture are the ones that go on to be the greats, have the longest careers, because good posture is key in a long athletic career.