Kathryn started off her sporting life as a dancer from a young age, and was classically trained until the age of 14. Deciding to choose a more academic life than continuing with her dance training, she then switched to rowing when changing schools in Kingston Upon Thames. Growing up beside the river and with a sister who was a very successful rower helped her along and soon she became successful both with the school boat competitions and in the Great Britain rowing team, competing a number of times for the junior team until 1996.
During this time Kathryn had firmly set her sights on a life involving sciences and gained a place at the University of London to study an Engineering degree based on Biomedical Materials. Her thesis on the wear of knee implants and the implications thereof gave her her first taste in the application of theories to the effects in human subjects, encouraging her to apply to Kings College London for a place on their Human and Applied Physiology course. This year of study and the resulting thesis gave Kathryn a deeper understanding into the workings of the human body and into back pain and its mechanics.
Unfortunately the combination of years of sitting down at university and a rigorous training routine caused Kathryn to succumb to a major back injury causing problems for a number of years, and forcing her to give up rowing. After a year off from studying when she travelled and climbed, Kathryn decided to investigate the back problems and other injuries she had had and work more on balancing her body and finding a job which would enable her to understand how to do that. So she came upon Sports Massage, graduating with Honours from the London School of Sports Massage in 2003, and started working in sites all over London immediately.
By 2004 Kathryn realised that manual work was not enough to encourage a change in her clients and started personal training as well using her sporting and training experience. Kathryn had been taking Pilates rehabilitation classes for a while and then started studio classes in 2003 when she was fortunate enough to be working in a local studio, since this time she has had very little problem with her back and attributes that to the greater understanding she developed about the true use of the spine in movement and how to release tension and create stability. She took the Polestar Pilates training in 2005 graduating with the highest mark of the course and has since been developing her own style by using her three components of manual therapy, functional training and pilates with her clients. In 2008 Kathryn will be continuing her studies by completing the Structural Integration training with Tom Myers in America and the Functional Movement course with Gary Ward in London.
Kathryn now continues with Pilates as an ongoing body balancing routine, whilst also swimming and boxing. She also enjoys cooking, looking after her nephew and spending time in the countryside either in the hills in Wales or by the sea in Devon.