Anew Wellbeing was founded in 2020 by Sheila Croken to provide a new Physiotherapist led Pilates, Yoga, and Mindfulness service. Offering group classes, workshops and retreats in local venues across central Scotland and the greater Glasgow area.
Sheila Croken
Founder and Chartered Physiotherapist
❝I am a qualified physiotherapist (CSP HCPC) with over 27 years’ experience within the NHS and the private sector. I have a strong clinical background in the management of musculoskeletal and orthopaedic conditions, acute and chronic pain. More recently I have been working privately and thoroughly enjoy being able to spend time with clients on a 1-2-1 basis. Being able to tailor programmes of exercise to the clients’ needs is highly satisfying when you see the impact it can have on quality of life.
Working clinically I would often refer people to pilates, as a way of rehabilitating. Being able to see the benefits people experienced with regards to core strength, pain reduction, improved posture and general wellbeing, inspired me to train as a pilates instructor with the Australian Physiotherapy Pilates Institute (APPI) in 2017.
In my own time I enjoy yoga and can see and feel the benefits of practicing both pilates and yoga. With pilates I have gained a strong stable core, with improved tone and posture. This complements my practice of Ashtanga Yoga especially when working in postures that require more dynamic strength and flexibility. Seeing the benefits of practicing yoga I was keen to enhance my own practice and so undertook a 200hr Yoga Alliance Teacher Training course with Merchant City Yoga, Glasgow.
Having a breadth of knowledge regarding anatomy and musculoskeletal conditions and much greater knowledge and understanding of yoga, I am keen to make the practice of yoga and pilates accessible to all.
Whilst pilates and yoga are both excellent mind-body practices, I often find myself at the end of the class wondering where the time has gone! My body may be present on the mat, exercising, but my attention can frequently wander into all sorts of thinking. Despite practicing and teaching mindfulness, I can find myself in autopilot when exercising and so I know just how difficult it is to keep our focus. Being lost in thought has been described as ‘the human condition’ (Eckhart Tolle). When I practice and teach any form of exercise, I am very mindful of this and try to cultivate, in myself and others, the ability to bring our attention back to what we are doing in the here and now. By doing this we build our capacity to ‘be present’ in our lives and open to experience the many benefits of mindful movement, from reduced levels of stress and anxiety to more clarity of thought and centeredness.❞
Professional accreditations
200hr Yoga Alliance approved Teacher
Mindfulness Association approved MBLC/CBLC Teacher
Youth Mindfulness (7–11 year olds) and SOMA (11–18 year olds) approved Teacher
Australian Physiotherapy Pilates Instructor (APPI)
Member of Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
Physiotherapy MSc (Hons) with Distinction
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