Melissa Colombo
Read moreMelissa discovered the discipline of Pilates during her professional ballet training. She moved to London, where she has lived for more than twenty years, to pursue her passion for body movement, studying at the London Contemporary Dance School and the Central Ballet School.
Melissa is trained in Advanced Mat Pilates with Stott and in Pre and Post Natal Pilates with the APPI (Australian Physiotherapy Pilates Institute) school, approaching physiologically and biomechanically the changes that occur during pregnancy. In addition, Melissa trained as a Yin and Meridian Yoga teacher with Norman Blair and Sarah Powers, pioneers of this effective and wonderful practice, at Yoga Campus London, where she will deepen and graduate as a somatic movement teacher, with Professor Susanne Lahusen. Recently, Melissa deepens her passion for sound by studying at the American School for Complementary Medicine, qualifying as a sound healer. In London, Melissa graduated as a holistic therapist and nutritional counselor from Westminster University. She then completed a master's degree specializing in the MB-EAT protocol at the Mindfulness Eating Institute in the United States.
Melissa has worked as UK country coordinator for one of the largest multinational organic companies in the world. She currently practices as a nutrition consultant in the UK and Europe and is studying at the University of Tuscia in Viterbo, Italy, for a master's degree in applied clinical phytotherapy.