Gary Carter

GARY CARTER. KMI, IASI, YTTC, BAWLA, LTDip, Institute of Anatomical Sciences As one of the leading Myofascial Anatomy and Movement teachers in the UK and recognised internationally within his field, Gary Carter has over 35 years of experience in movement physical training, anatomical study, somatic and bodywork practices. With a background in athletics, competition cycling, bodybuilding, martial arts, yoga and manual therapies, he himself has studied with many inspiring teachers. trainers and masters in their fields including the training in ‘elasticity of the spine and stretching’ at age 14 by a professional cycling coach. From this background he has created his own unique way of working and 'seeing' which he incorporates into his teachings, trainings and practices, where students learn techniques and methods of training that bring long term results to the Feel, Movement and Look of the body. This has culminated in a movement Training called ‘Myofascial Movement Training’ , this training has profound effects for movement professionals of any modality. He has worked with Athletes and runners with ‘Elastic running’ techniques which has culminated in training with Team GB Masters athletes in the World Championships in Brazil 2013 and Spain 2018 with Gold Medal results. He started the Natural Bodies Centre in Brighton, UK, in 1991 to teach, train and encourage kinaesthetic awareness, ease of movement, efficient body use in exercise, sport and many movement disciplines which can bring a renewed sense of health and vitality through into everyday life through revolutionised personal training techniques, Yoga, Pilates, Gyrotonics, Martial Arts and Fascial Movement practices. He has taught for many years in Prisons and Psychiatric units. He has hosted and taught alongside Tom Myers for the first ground breaking Anatomy Trains courses in the UK in 1998 through to 2003 of which after graduating with the KMI school in 2001 Gary co taught with Tom on Anatomy Trains courses in the UK and USA. and has adapted Fascial based techniques in training and movement principles with profound effects for the past 25 years He studied his Yoga Teacher Training in 1991 with Mary Stewart, Sophy Hoare, Peter Blackaby and Fascial movement Genius John Stirk and after a brief time with Vanda Scaravelli met and studied with Diane Long in Florence and Rome. He studied in Shiatsu, TCM, Chi Kung & Chi Ne Tsang, CranioSacral Therapy. Over the past 15 years he has lectured in Movement Anatomy and Fascial Anatomy for Yoga, Yoga teacher trainings, Pilates teacher trainings and massage schools, Hospital Physiotherapists, Dance Trainings and Martial Arts trainings all over the UK and Ireland. He has run the Science of Movement course at Middlesex university from 2007- 2011 and studied in Dissection at the Institute of Anatomy in Vienna with Todd Garcia, along with Dissection studies with Gil Hedley, and runs Dissective studies for the student teachers of his Anatomy of movement courses with Julian Baker He has also run many yoga teacher trainings and continues to run his Anatomy & Myofascial courses for Yoga, Pilates, Gyro and functional movement teachers in England, Scotland, Ireland, India, Europe and Scandinavia. Gary is also part of the Fascial net plastination project, working alongside Gunter Von Hagens team from Bodyworlds, in Germany to create the world’s first Plastinated Fascial Human, displaying the first pieces ever seen as 3d imaged plastinated models at the World Fascia Research Congress in Berlin 2018. Along with designing and being the lead dissector for the worlds first ever fascial focused plastinate body for Bodyworlds. Gary is also completing his Fascia focused book relating to movement and performance, ‘The Anatomy Slings, variations in Myofascial Continuities’ to be released in 2021 and has been a contributing author in Linus Johansson’s book ‘Movement Integration.’ From these many learnings and personal experiences and through deep embodied study and practices all blends together exploring the profound effects of efficiently working with gravity, kinetic, tensegrity, myofascial understandings along with the mind and breath which creates a profound experience for the student and practitioner to move with grace and ease through life.