These sessions are online via the Zoom app (you will receive the zoom link in your confirmation email). Marc has 29 years of experience with helping people find real solutions to many of the common place conditions that arise in all kinds of body work and has been doing this online for over a decade now. It doesn't matter whether what you like to do is Yoga, Tai qigong or any body-mind practice (including sports and all forms of exercise) - If he can see how you move and breathe, he can help you unravel any complications that arise. If you would like to book a series of 1:1s you can get good discounts by buying a 1:1 package (look under "Members' Resources - Membership Options" - then scroll down to the 1:1 packages) Marc can then give you things that are specific to you to work with - in other words, with expert guidance, you get to have the empowering experience of working it out for yourself. Yoga teachers and other body workers looking for deeper understanding of how the human body can heal itself will also find great value and relevance from online sessions with Marc.

I have nearly 30 years of experience of helping people find real solutions to long-held common issues: from specific diagnosed conditions such as pain or stiffness in a particular part of your spine or a joint , fibromyalgia, sciatica and the like, to systematic dysfunctions such as chronic fatigue... Hands-on, I can manipulate and massage you back together in a way that will relieve your symptoms, and if you choose, I can give you some tips on how to prevent the issue from ever returning... Yoga teachers and other body workers that already have good somatic awareness but are looking for deeper understanding of how the human body can heal itself will also find great value and relevance from hands-on sessions with me. If you would like to book a series of 1:1s you can get good discounts by buying a 1:1 package (look under "Members' Resources - Membership Options" - then scroll down to the 1:1 packages)

If you have a particular area of interest, and you are not sure whether Marc would be able to help, you can book an initial FREE 15 minute consultation with him online (via Zoom - you get the address in your confirmation email). If you want to go ahead and book your first 1-on-1 (either online, in Hove or in London), you can also book your first free consultation add-on here. Marc has 29 years of experience with helping people find real solutions to many of the common place conditions that arise in all kinds of body work. It doesn't matter whether what you like to do is Yoga, Tai qigong or any body-mind practice (including sports and all forms of exercise) - If he can see how you move and breathe, he can help you unravel any complications that arise. If you have a full session with him, he ca give you things that are specific to you to work with - in other words, with expert guidance, you get to have the empowering experience of working it out for yourself. Yoga teachers and other body workers looking for deeper understanding of how the human body can heal itself will also find great value and relevance from online sessions with Marc. Free consultations are limited to once per new customer. Silver members can book one of these every month to help support their practice development.

On-demand Workshops - 2026 (most recent at the top) Get Gold or Platinum m'ship for access Limbs neck and spine The breath in motion 20th June 2026 Shoulders spine and heart A simple exercise to give you what you need 13th June 2026 A practice to repair strengthen and release the entire body Learn to do this and explore within it, and you will have all you need 6th June 2026 'Looking after the baby' - an analogy for the way to use your practice to redress any discomfort your body - ower back ,hips, sciatica 30th May 2026 Ribs move happy knees with relaxed hips...... .... arms move a happy face with a relaxed neck 23rd may 2026 Starting with a sore thumb ! An unusual start - but see what happens! 16th May 2026 Everything can be worked out from making one part of you happy ... wrists 2nd May 2026 'Breathe what you are doing" .... the final piece of the puzzle, that can lead to 'receiving' the yoga experience. 25th April 2026 Creating space by putting yourself back together You exist in the space within your body 18th April 2026 A natural practice Self discovery and Self care 11th April 2026 Unifying the body in action Bringing together how each key part of you 'likes to move' into a unified, collaborative and confluent movement.... 4th April 2026 The Pleasure Principle ... the body's way of telling you that you havve 'got it right' 28th March 2026 Giving some love to the shoulders ... by bringing the source of movement back to the spine behind the heart. 21st March 2-26 The head that relaxes you into the experience The final piece of the the puzzle of 'Awakening the spine' 14 th March 2026 The 'purring breath' a more accurate description of the best kind of breath to involve yourself in during physical practice 7th March 2026 Loving your neck part 2 .... this will show how the arms and shoulders become free and strong enough to help. 28th February 2026 Giving the neck some love ...the rest of you will transform in the task 21st February 2026 How the face breathes... ... to honour the spine and awaken its movement from the heart. 7th February 2026 It's your body that does the imagining... .... so that you can let go and receive the experience 31st January 2026 Subtle relationships .... ... to the space you occupy 24th January 2026 Space in the middle.... ... And space between the throat & heart 17th January 2026 Some practices to directly enliven the spine ....explorations of how the ribs and core can give you both the space to breathe and support you through your interactions with the world 10th January 2025 Sorting the post christmas slump ...A specific breathing practice to awaken the spine 3rd Jan 2026 Click here for the list Previous Workshops Workshops before Jan 2026

Classes on demand Gold & Platinum members have access to these sessions for FREE. And as a premium member you can attend most of my live events for free too. Check out membership options Button Space for the knees Button A masterclass on how the how body can help release the knees Continue Recorded Wednesday, 19 May 2021 Button How to practice to help an injury Button Because I dislocated a shoulder, my general 'kindness to joints' became an imperative for the shoulder, but the way of working discovered ,does the same for all joints. Continue Recorded Tuesday, 18 May 2021 Button Your breathing gear, support from both the earth and from space Button This took the 'sail' image that describes the relationship between head and wings and expanded to the base of the spine and low back ribs - to provide a sense of how the spine between these things can relax into the support of the arriving breath - together with the inner relates of the out breath the picture develops a general sense of how 'your breathing gear' can be the source of your movement and release. Continue Recorded Wednesday, 28 April 2021 Button Loving kindness in practice Button This began with a deep exploration of how to bring yourself to a kinder relationship to the spine and the body, through breathing relationships to the space all around yo and the world beneath you, that means you can interact with and feel supported by the world from the centre of your being. Continue Recorded Tuesday, 27 April 2021 Button A class in practical kindness Button Most of the class was centred on how to let go back from supportive contact to free up all complications along the way... Continue Recorded Tuesday, 20 April 2021 Button How your feet and hands can release the joints Button We started with some deeply soothing self-massage of the feet and lower legs to develop sensitivity, and then I took the class through how your sensitized touch can be used to release space in all of the joints sequentially in movement and support. Continue Recorded Monday, 19 April 2021 Button The ongoing exploration of the relationships between the deep core spaces and the ribcage Button Some reclining work to explore passive breathing and active supporting relationships to the ground to discover how the core and ribcage work together to support their movements Continue Recorded Wednesday, 14 April 2021 Button Active/passive flexion/extension. Button Exploring rolling through the spine to discover the core/rib activity in flexion, followed by exploring the same relationships that can happen more passively in forward bend...taking it into how to relax the neck/lumbars in uprightness. Continue Recorded Tuesday, 13 April 2021 Button Using the forearms Button A close-knit class really looking at some of the problems and solutions of taking weight through the forearms (elbow dog - possible head-stand) Continue Recorded Monday, 12 April 2021 Button Fluid core & ribs Button An ongoing development of the current theme of the supportive relationships between the spaces within the core and the actions of the ribs and upper spine: In parts and as a whole. Continue Recorded Wednesday, 7 April 2021 Button The sacrum within the pelvis & the spine within the ribcage Button A reasonably 'dynamic' class based on the physicality of bringing the girdles and associated spaces/structures into supportive relationships with the spine from the contact we make with the earth.... to be able to mover FROM the awakened spine itself. Continue Recorded Tuesday, 6 April 2021 Button Sidedness and inner relationships between the plevic space and the ribcage Button This was quite an intense class with just a few students bringing awareness to how most of our periferal complications in the body can be resolved by finding relationships to what we are doing that support natural responsiveness of the core and ribcage cross-diagonally to leave us simply ....centred Continue Recorded Monday, 5 April 2021 Previous Class Recordings (before Feb 4th 2021 ) Click here if you are looking for earlier classes (up to 3rd February 2021) Videos up to 3/2/21

Yoga Solutions classes Free access for all Premium members Membership options are here 2022 -'23 There is a link at the bottom of the page for previous classes A meditation to set you up well on a daily basis Meditation is a key practice that is mostly skipped over, simply because of how difficult it is to both still the mind and remain upright. Here I offer a practical way of introducing a daily chakra meditation to your life, together with practices that will not only cause the mind to centre and become still, but it will also set you up physically for a new way of being in the world... Continue Happy Hips! freeing up the Psoas and Illio-Psoas If the hips or lower back feel stiff, tight or painful in postures, the chances are that you habitually support yourself with a holding pattern of the psoas and/or illiopsoas muscles, and if you do that in an unbalanced way (if you are right- or left-footed), it leads to scoliotic holding patterns to compensate. Knowing this does nothing to help you, because trying to 'open' or 'stretch' these muscles will simply cause them to resist your efforts. The problem is that they are being given the job of supporting you whatever you are doing (including trying to stretch them). The solution is simple - take the job of support away from them by giving yourself other ways of supporting yourself. This will lead to an intense strengthening of muscles you probably don't even know you have (because they are currently not needed), but the good news is that this 'other way' can become effortless, because the muscles I am talking about are naturally take part in both support and breathing (IF you are not holding yourself up with the hips and spine). The first part will give you the direct experience of what it actually feels like to let go of the Psoas family of muscles, and what follows will develop the support you need to replace it - support that relates to the breath and the ground beneath you. Continue The ultimate guide to freeing up your neck There are two very unusual vertebrae in the neck that are related to expression and thought - and moreover whether you are free in these vertebrae or not is dependent on how you are interacting with the world! On this short Yoga solutions podcast, I explain what I mean by this as well as give you a direct physical exploration of how you can liberate natural movement between head and neck, and awaken the thoracic spine so that neck and shoulders no longer need to suffer from the job of holding you up all day... This is the full 1 hour exploration of this idea with practical guidance. Continue How the sacrum, pelvis & hips like to move Hips are quite a tricky thing to understand because what people understand as 'hips' depends on where they 'feel' them. Articulations of the hips involve how the thigh bones, pelvic bones, and the sacrum all move relative to each other. Tightness/difficulty in the hips is a result of holding patterns between these things (all permutations), which is always because of how you hold yourself up. Freedom in the hips relies on each component part of this intricate joint being free to move in the way 'it prefers' without any particular part of it being left responsible for catching and holding your weight. Here I take you through an exploration that should shine a light on your own sacro-illiac-hip holding patterns and give you a way of releasing them. Continue UNDERSTANDING THE BREATH IN POSTURE WORK Many teachers recognise the importance of the breath in posture work, yet breathing practices (aka pranayama), are mostly practiced 'separately' because it is considered as 'advanced' compared to posture work. However, if we are free to explore how the breath is naturally involved in active support whilst preparing for a posture, it makes complete sense of the pranayamas. And understanding the nature of the breath makes complete sense of postures! Continue Freeing up the Shoulders A regular question i get is about how to be free in the shoulders... but whenever I run workshops in new places with large groups of people, one of the things not asked is 'how to reach up with the arms during sun salute'... Yet absolutely everyone in the room is lifting their arms with their shoulders and neck when they come up... which is exactly what gives them the tight shoulders in the first place. I start with a 5 minute trick that will get you to understand how shoulders are supposed to move, and then take you into more depth so it can be applied to postures (reclining eagle & Triangle) Continue Sitting & Seated Forward Bends Sitting upright is really quite tricky for many people - and if so seated forward bends are even harder. Here I show you why and what you need to do differently if you want to 'get' seated postures. Continue Deconstructing Dog pose Dog pose is such a ubiquitous 'in between' posture in flows and the like that it is rare for people to spend any time finding out if there are better ways of doing it.. here I offer you a broken-down-into-parts approach, so you can feel how best to use your arms and legs so that the posture does what it is meant to do for you. Continue Tight hips in Triangle? Triangle (all versions from all traditions) is quite a difficult posture in terms of 'finding the yoga of it'. The bigger wider versions of it can only really be enjoyed and understood whist using a plethora of blocks and other supports - without which the practitioner is likely to strain and pull on their spines (wide angle triangle is notorious for 'causing' sacro-illiac distortions which can become devastating injuries). The clue that you're not doing a particularly useful version of triangle posture is when the front leg hip is holding on like crazy whilst you move yourself into and 'hold' the pose. Here I offer an approach to a modified version of the posture that might give you a direct somatic experience of what it's supposed to feel like (intense, but light and pleasurable) Continue How to cause REAL transformation I share something of my own story and a longterm healing of a mild scoliosis that felt to be the source of a plethora of postural issues that got me to begin my journey over 30 years ago. And how the process of discovery through practice and deep self-inquiry has led to an understanding of things based in reality rather than opinion and bias... and to a life where I get more comfortable, and in many ways younger in my body as I get older. I also share a little something at the end that shows how the breath is the vehicle for marrying up intention with the natural body in movement.... Continue The Chakras- for both believers & non-believers THE FIRST OF A SERIES OF 'YOGA SOLUTIONS' ... Developing a true somatic experience and practical understanding of what they actually are . Continue NECK & SHOULDERS - a permanent solution Many people get neck/shoulder stiffness or pain, and the reason is simply because we spend all day every day holding the head in space with those muscles... The head has an important role in you deciding where to move to in space, but here, I explain how the atlas, the very first vertebra of the neck, can be released so that the head's weight can always be given down through the axis of the spine, regardless of what you are doing, leaving your neck and shoulders free of any weight-bearing responsibility. I also give you something to practice, that will write this way of moving into your nervous system... If you ever suffer from stiff neck and shoulders (or just have a kind of tiredness that makes you want to be inactive all the time) this practice will make you feel free and light… Continue WHAT TO DO WHEN YOU LOWER BACK SEIZES UP... Many people end up hurting their lower backs through some kind of physical labour whilst being bent over - and I am no exception. I strained my lower back doing some DIY... and when I noticed my own fear reactions together with the 'normal' attempt to 'relax' so things didn't hurt, I realised that this standard response was doing me no good whatsoever. So I had a word with myself (I have solutions right?) and did some practice on the day of injury - following my own understanding and honouring of the notion that 'the body is intelligent' in order to unravel the issue. And it worked ! The next day I was back to DIY without any problems ... in fact the following day I was more balanced, and stronger than before the back-strain happened. So here I share both the thinking behind what I did together with the intention behind, and 'how to' details of, the simple practice of balancing on one foot in order to release the issue... You don't have to have a strained lower back to feel the benefits of following this, and if you do ever suffer from that, this will give you a get out of jail free card when it happens... Continue 'FLOW' and the breath... De-bunking the norm. There is a reason for the 'inhale up/exhale down' instruction that makes 'doing' yoga postures easier for the mind and body, giving the impression of 'flow'. However, that reason is more to do with habit and stress, than it is to do with the natural flow of a body and mind in harmony with each other in action. Lifting to breathe, and collapsing to release the breath is kind of how we do things when we are both stressed and tired, and practicing yoga in this way entrenches this behaviour into our movement. Here I guide you into an experiential understanding of how the breath itself can become the source of support and free movement, simply by adjusting your intent, at the specific moments of arrival and release of the breath... Continue Inner space & Inner support 'Inner space' is a description of a purely somatic experience that most people only have when resting and happy.... Here I give you a way of providing that for yourself directly, simply by using your hands for support. 'Inner support' is similarly a description of a somatic experience that will mean very different things to different people depending on what efforts and tensions they are accustomed to... So I also offer an approach to the same thing as above (as your starting point) to set things up so that the breath itself can give you the most natural inner support you can develop (through the breath), which in turn offers you a strength that leaves you free in your movements through space... Continue Postural Strategies & the breath We all have preferred ways of being upright, and our breath follows suit - OR we have preferred ways of breathing, and the way we become upright is determined by this. Most ways of becoming upright involve lifting with our spines (but definitely NOT the only way). Here I unpack this relationship to uprightness and breathing, and show you how you can use either (perfectly natural) pattern as a starting point to discover the 'yoga' of it... ie, how you can use the breath to discover a way of releasing into uprightness through an elongating spine, following a release of breath and tension.... Continue A DIY face-lift Self massage for the face, head and specifically the jaw ... jaw tension is often a source of difficulties in the neck and shoulders, and holding-patterns in the face often maintains unnecessary holding patterns in the body and breath... Do this once for a nice experience, do it daily for a week and change things for good. Continue THE MIND, THE CORE & LOOKING AFTER THE SPINE How to sidestep the biggest source of confusion in physical practice and avoid 'red herrings' in our attempt to understand yoga. Moving from the core and ribcage, in harmony with the breath to free up the spine Moving & expressing FROM the spine behind the heart, Resting THROUGH your central axis. Continue Moving from the Spine "Moving from the Spine" Most restrictions in the body can be simply dropped when you move from the spine ... with the spine at the central axis of everything you are doing. This is NOT the same as working to bend your spine this way and that - particularly if you are using your weight to do it. Here I try and explain exactly what I mean by 'moving from the spine' and give you a rather fun, simple (and kind of random) thing you can do to naturally awaken the spine, core and other 'breathing gear' in the way I mean... Continue The best way to use your limbs in practice... Most people's yoga practice is sourced in their teacher's instructions - following those instructions causes us to do things in quite unnatural ways. Here I offer a simple explanation of how the limbs most naturally support us, and invite you to apply that nature to your practice.... Continue True spinal extension how to 'open from the heart'... Most people have problems in backbends for the simple fact that they are relying on passive extension of lumbars and neck to achieve it ... this not only 'pinches' the spine in a less-than-useful way, but it actually prevents any movement from the upper spine happening. True spinal extension (backbending AND spine elongation in uprightness) originates from a direct reversal of the rounded part of the back (rather than trying to use your weight to lever extension into the spine)... and this in turn is essentially a natural function of the person expressing openness (rather than of someone trying the 'bend' their spine). The folowing shoud help you discover what I am talking about as a direct somatic experience... Continue Balances If you want to be able to balance, don't try and balance! Here I explain the reason for any difficulty you might have in 'balance postures' or the even more misleading instruction of 'holding balances'. And i show you exactly the small shift in perspective and understanding that should make things much simpler... Continue 'Gathering together' to create more space! There is a familiar principle in Scaravelli inspired yoga of 'gathering together ' before 'opening out'. It is an idea that makes zero sense to the 'stretch' camp of yoga, and is often misinterpreted by those familiar with it as a kind of 'contraction' so they enjoy 'opening out' after... Here I try and make practical sense of the thing... what you are actually trying to do AND why it works. Continue The limbs and your relationship with the world. The limbs, and how to find a supportive relationship to the world from the way you engage with it. Most of us are in a habitual and reactionary relationship with the world around us, that involves 'pushing away' or 'pulling in'. Both of these attitudes get hard-wired into our movement and are each equally debilitating for our energy and physical/emotional/mental health. Here I give you the idea with an example or two and show you how to shift this life-dimming paradigm directly through your practice. (Apologies for the echo 5 mins in - it was a feedback between the FBlive and my microphone... It stops v. soon after) Continue A very different Yoga Solutions A pranayama practice (breath retention) that can be used directly to shift state of mind, and to help deprogram ourselves out of unhelpful thought loops. Continue Deconstructing the humble forward bend Forward bending is something everyone can do to some degree or other, but how easy and comfortable forward bending is, depends entirely on how you got there. The simplest of postures offer the most value and content, IF you are prepared to genuinely let go of habit, in favour of exploration of what is both possible and natural... Here I offer you the reasons forward bending can be restrictive or uncomfortable for you, and give you a way of approaching the movement that should make total sense to your body... Continue Understanding back-bends UNDERSTANDING SPINAL EXTENSION Most of us do back-bending by habitually hyperextending the lumbars and/or neck. Doing so is not a particularly useful practice and can aggravate and exaggerate postural habits... Here I explain what needs to happen for you to extend your spine in a useful and pleasurable way. Continue Opening the Hips 'Hip opening postures' often have the opposite effect for people.... they try and stretch their hips open, and the outcome leaves them even tighter in the groins/psoas/adductors & lower back. Here I unravel the problem and show you what 'hip opening' actually feels like, so that you can carry a new relationship to your hips with you, that will ALLOW them to open. Continue Demystifying the body and the breath When you do things TO the body and the breath, you might develop control of how you move and breathe, but you will be exaggerating the separation between yourself and your body. And separation is at the source of any physical/emotional issue you are using your yoga to redress... Here I offer a clear and practical explanation of the difference between this, and relating to the world THROUGH your body and breath, which unites you with both. Follow my suggestions and feel the difference in yourself ... if you like the feeling, it will change your practice forever... If you have a few yoga years under your belt and would like to do my deep dive into pranayama course, go to https://www.acquaviva.yoga/the-sacred-breath-1 Continue How to let go of any issues around your lower back, hips neck and shoulders... All of these things are to do with how we hold our weight up ... Here I show you how to become light, by giving your weight to to ground instead of to your back and joints... Enjoy! Continue My go-to 15min practice Leg extensions - the way to do it that makes you want to do it all the time.... Continue Shoulders in dog pose (plus my thoughts on Astanga) Continue Bow pose/ Crescent pose How to liberate the upper spine for the true 'yoga' experience of these extension postures. Continue THE solution to tight hamstrings "The solution to tight hamstrings... When your hamstrings are tight, it is usually because they are overly involved with your support strategy. Here I explain what might cause this, and then offer a practice that is very likely to lead to a completely different somatic experience of opening out the legs, together with actually being able to let go of the habitual hamstring resistance, so they can be 'stretched' without the usual problems that go with attempting to do this." Continue The FEET! The best way to massage them, and how to do any kind of balance. Continue Click for Previous Yoga Solutions >

Meditation is a key practice that is mostly skipped over, simply because of how difficult it is to both still the mind and remain upright. Here I offer a practical way of introducing a daily chakra meditation to your life, together with practices that will not only cause the mind to centre and become still, but it will also set you up physically for a new way of being in the world...

If the hips or lower back feel stiff, tight or painful in postures, the chances are that you habitually support yourself with a holding pattern of the psoas and/or illiopsoas muscles, and if you do that in an unbalanced way (if you are right- or left-footed), it leads to scoliotic holding patterns to compensate. Knowing this does nothing to help you, because trying to 'open' or 'stretch' these muscles will simply cause them to resist your efforts. The problem is that they are being given the job of supporting you whatever you are doing (including trying to stretch them). The solution is simple - take the job of support away from them by giving yourself other ways of supporting yourself. This will lead to an intense strengthening of muscles you probably don't even know you have (because they are currently not needed), but the good news is that this 'other way' can become effortless, because the muscles I am talking about are naturally take part in both support and breathing (IF you are not holding yourself up with the hips and spine). The first part will give you the direct experience of what it actually feels like to let go of the Psoas family of muscles, and what follows will develop the support you need to replace it - support that relates to the breath and the ground beneath you.... Enjoy! Tap the like button for me and share it wherever you like. The full version with deeper exploration and appliction to standing is available for all premium members on the the 'Yoga Solutions' pages (linked in the members area)

There are two very unusual vertebrae in the neck that are related to expression and thought - and moreover whether you are free in these vertebrae or not is dependent on how you are interacting with the world! On this short Yoga solutions podcast, I explain what I mean by this as well as give you a direct physical exploration of how you can liberate natural movement between head and neck, and awaken the thoracic spine so that neck and shoulders no longer need to suffer from the job of holding you up all day... Enjoy! and click the like button if you find some benefit. The full hour-long class exploring this topic will be available for all premium members later on today on the 'Yoga Solutions' page. (You can browse memberships and their benefits on the side-tab on the member's area here)