Hayley Brown
I help people feel at home in their bodies through practical, anatomy-informed movement.
My Approach
Drawing on training in Restorative Exercise, Somatic Experiencing, comprehensive Pilates, functional foot practice, and pelvic floor coaching, I help people move with more ease and confidence.
Over the past 19 years, I've explored bodywork, trauma physiology, alignment, foot health, pelvic health, yoga, and meditation. Across all these disciplines, three fundamentals remain consistent:
Anatomy helps you fine-tune how you move and understand aches, pains, and sensation.
Alignment shows you how your parts work together when you move.
Breath brings attention to effort, strain, and your ability to focus.
These subtle elements spark my interest. All practices aim to create more space and reduce constriction in the body.
How I Got Here
My body has always featured heavily in my life and work. Before studying Fine Arts, I did jazz ballet and acrobatics. At university, my live sculpture explored somatic experience—I once buried myself in 25kg of brown sugar in a gallery corner so visitors could smell caramel and watch the mound move slightly as I breathed. Creating embodied experiences for others is still my intention when I teach.
After university, I worked as a florist—an extremely physical job. Recurring wrist and shoulder pain led me to discover how helpful bodywork could be. Curious about anatomy, I trained as a Remedial Massage Therapist and never looked back.
Since then, I've completed extensive training in Myofascial Release, comprehensive Pilates, Somatic Experiencing®, Restorative Exercise, Functional Foot Practice, and Pelvic Floor coaching. I test everything on my own body first.
What Informs My Work
Somatic Experiencing® taught me that when the nervous system senses threat—however small—there's constriction in tissues and breath. By creating conditions of safety and support, constriction releases, breath becomes freer, and ease returns.
Restorative Exercise showed me that alignment matters at a cellular level, and that movement is essential for all of us.
Practice is the key. What you feel one day will be different the next. Regular practice helps you develop your own internal navigation system and the skills to self-regulate. When we pause to practice, tune into our bodies, and move with awareness and breath, we're nourishing our felt sense of being alive, here, now.
I'm a Nutritious Movement® Certified Restorative Exercise Specialist with extensive training in Comprehensive Pilates (Matwork, Reformer and Studio), Somatic Experiencing®, functional foot practice, pelvic floor coaching, and yoga.
Credentials
Professional member of the Healthy Foot Alliance, Federation of Holistic Therapists, and The Foot Collective.
