Lorraine Horton - Meridian's Founder and Course Director, qualified in Massage Therapy (London School of Holistic Massage) in 1992 and with her love of massage and her enjoyment of training, she was keen to put both skills together to establish a quality massage training organisation in the Midlands – Meridian was born in 2003. She runs her own well-established complementary health practice in Birmingham and is employed for part of her time by the Health Service to provide complementary therapies to learning disabled people. Lorraine previously worked within the area of Civil Rights - issues of equality continue to underpin her teaching and practice.

" I am fascinated with the human body and its incredible potential. I feel sure that we know everything there is to know to support ourselves and each other - we just need to rediscover it! There is so much about us that cannot be explained on the physical, mental or emotional levels alone - my interest in subtle energies continues - and this is an integral part of my massage. I continue to explore and study these areas with excitement and passion. It is this passion and love of bodywork that I bring to my teaching - I am very excited about the possibility of sharing skills and supporting others to further explore this and am honoured to witness their own personal growth, development and unique massage style."

Pip Waller is Meridian’s Anatomy, Physiology and Pathology tutor. She is a medical herbalist, massage therapist, plant spirit medicine and shamanic practitioner who has worked extensively in the field of natural healing. Pip has taught anatomy, physiology and pathology to students of natural medicine since 1991 – the subject is a passion of hers – which means that her teaching is informative and fascinating!

Her recently published book (2008) “Holistic Anatomy for Healers, Heretics and Alternative Folk” makes the subject more interesting, accessible and thoroughly holistic! See www.holisticanatomy.com for more information – together with Pip’s other website which offers CPD training: www.thedreamingbutterfly.com

Visiting Tutors

We also invite other Tutors to add to the diverse programme of CPD training to support qualified practitioners and therapists.

Sam Bloomfield teaches the Metamorphic Technique at Meridian. He grew up with reflexology, psychotherapy, mediation and the metamorphic technique as a child in an alternative healing community in Somerset. He started practising as a hobby from his teenage years and having gained a first class degree in Political Philosophy and German Literature at the University of London, he decided to gain a formal qualification in Reflexology in 1999.

Sam teaches Reflexology to beginners and practitioners, and also tutors practitioners in Metamorphic Technique; the latter he describes as “Transformation, enlightenment and the sublime all rolled up into one easy to learn and utterly inspiring technique. Physically it’s a light touch to feet, hands and head, and mentally, it’s the elusive practice of detachment from outcome, effort and doing.”

Darien Pritchard – has 30 years of experience as a Bodyworker, including 25 training massage professionals, and 20 of teaching professional development courses for qualified massage practitioners. He co-authored the student textbook “Anatomy, Physiology and Pathology for the Massage Therapist” and wrote the career-maintenance reference book “Dynamic Bodyuse for Effective Strain-free Massage.”

Darien has been developing RhythmMobility® bodywork in his practice for 20 years and teaching it for 10. All the elements of massage and the Feldenkais Method, plus his love of rhythm (enhanced through dancing and playing music) come together in Darien’s workshops.