‘To be sensitive is to be alive’
Vanda Scaravelli
WELCOME to Elizabeth White Studio where integrity meets sensitivity.
We work with movement techniques and kinaesthetic practises.
Our approach improves quality of movement, form, well-being, performance, teaching skills, and/or cultivates awareness.
We welcome diversity.
‘Motion and emotion, form and content, body and mind are inseparably united.’
Rudolf von Laban
During her early 20’s Elizabeth performed professionally and went on to complete a Laban Education learning how to analyse, read and write movement. On graduating she worked with independent Theatre companies. During her years at Laban she learnt first-hand the value of ‘experiential learning’ the benefits for mind, body, movement, performance, and/or personal processes.
Later, she undertook 1600 hours training with the Pilates Foundation. Continuing to develop an experiential practise, working with all of the pilates apparatus, she worked within physiotherapy clinics in London, and in North America. She has worked with range of pathologies and/or imbalances, with a particular interest in scoliosis and hyper-mobility.
On relocating to North America she opened her own movement studio in Yorkville, Toronto, as well as studying at the Gestalt Institute of Toronto.
Elizabeth works with diverse sectors and abilities, including (& non excl. to) dancers, actors, wheelchair users, musicians, pilates teachers, and professional sports players.
She closed her studio during the pandemic and often works on location. She has been teaching for many years and has travelled extensively.
http://gestalt.on.ca Gestalt Institute of Toronto, 1 year certification for professionals
http://www.skinnerreleasingnetwork.org Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Istanbul, Turkey, SRT Teacher Training
http://Basipilates.com Advanced Certification, working with injuries and pathologies
http://www.pilatesyoga.com http://pilatesfoundation.com Mat & Apparatus, 1600 hours, extensive teaching practice
http://trinitylaban.ac.uk Trinity Laban Conservatoire, 3 year full time program: Laban Certification
http://mdx.ac.uk Middlesex University BA(Hons) Degree Dance Studies
The sense of freedom felt euphoric! I brought the principles and this new-found awareness into my own work, as an artist, especially in times when self doubt and insecurities kicked in, to support my creative process and deep healing.
Elizabeth helped me to re-balance, and experience new ways of moving to improve my self practise.
A wonderful and sensitive teacher, I highly recommend.
As a wheelchair person that does Pilates on a regular basis, I found the Kinaesthetic Movement (one-on-one) a fantastic method for opening up my body and mind. I highly recommend Elizabeth.
Her creative process in movement had a magnetic effect drawing on primary frequencies in my music. She worked like a conductor in reverse - I was able to see a visual blueprint to my songs that allowed me to further interpret them on a kinetic level.
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