John Polley

Session Type: Specific Populations

Diagnoses of dementia and Parkinsons carry heavy emotions, but Suzie and JP are here to share their passionate belief, that we can provide powerful, significant and overwhelmingly positive experiences through movement and exercise. They will take you through some vital information and their unique approach to bringing fun and joy through movement so that both carers and participants have new memories to take away, whether they be short-lived memories or forever memories!

Session Type: Exercise Prescription

Have we made exercise boring? JP is wondering if we, the industry built around helping people move better and be more healthy, have strangled the very creature we’re trying to nourish. People are asked to put their feet in certain positions, activate muscles they don’t even know exist and constantly think about what they’re doing…it’s become a chore, not an exploration of what their body can do. JP invites you to become the industry of not exercising, but moving with intention, with fun, with joy, with discovery, with the freedom of imagination, with what he believes nature intended for us. This is a fully practical session, where you can experience how much not exercising can do to tick every box on the check list for the benefits of exercise, PLUS a few more!

Session Type: Exercise Prescription

Did you know there is a powerful system in your body that can literally shot down your ability to move effectively or learn? Both exercise and learning have substantial energy requirements, and your brain needs to ‘budget’ for this. It sits in the darkness of your cranium, so it has to use its messengers to know what’s happening out there in your body. Whether you get to exercise well, or badly, is dependent on these messengers returning with good news. JP is here to open up this whole system for you to understand, give you the coaches check list to gauge someone’s current state, then give you the knowledge to help boost exercise outcomes through integrated practices and movement. Sound good? Well, you’d be wrong, because it’s absolutely GREAT!

Session Type: Exercise Prescription

Knee issues, back issues, shoulder issues – these are the “big three” barriers to exercise for so many people. Wouldn’t it be great to have a few tricks in your toolbox to move past many of these, and other ongoing niggles, so you can get on with enjoyable training sessions? JP has spent a decade creating an entire movement approach to enable exercise professionals handle all types of chronic movement problems. Join for this session and learn how to better understand these, their root causes and some techniques to move beyond them. You will never look at human movement in the same way after feeling the change in your own body, during this practical, and inspiring, session.