Our Hosts

Raquel is a well-established teaches of Pilates and yoga, working in the local community at K&C Leisure centre, the Moberly, the Venture centre, the Westway centre, and Dalgarno. She also runs workshops combining Pilates, movement and playfulness. According to Frontiers in Psychology people with higher levels of playfulness are better equipped to cope with life’s challenges. They also experience deeper levels of mental engagement and joy.  

Raquel is offering Movement and Playfulness sessions

Maryline is a dedicated grief recovery specialist and transformational life coach with over 20 years of experience in the field of personal development. Her practice combines several different disciplines including the Human Givens framework, which focuses on the innate needs and resources we possess as human beings and psychosynthesis, a therapeutic approach that integrates the spiritual and psychological aspects of the human experience. She also includes the transformative practice of shadow work, which helps us to address and integrate the hidden parts of our psyche that often influence our behaviours and emotions.

Maryline is offering grief coaching either 1-1 or for small groups. She also offers 20 minute walks outside in nature, 1-1, where many people find it easier to share their problems.

Micky Pallant is a musician and actor and has run the Portobello Live! Community Arts festival and the Portobello Live! Choir for several years. He works as an activities coordinator at local care homes, working with residents who suffer mainly from dementia and a wide range of disabilities. He teaches guitar and ukulele, running groups for both adults and children.

Micky is offering individual and group guitar and ukulele lessons as well as the chance to sing in our One Day community choir. He will also be organising tea dances for the over 50’s.