From an early age
Ann had an interest in dowsing with a pendulum due to her Mother’s
influence. After a serious car accident in 1963 it was thanks to
alternative therapies that Ann was able to walk normally again. Ann
graduated from the Queensland Teacher’s College in 1960 and
taught in mainsteam education in Australia for 6 years. In 1967 she
emigrated to Canada and taught there for a further 6 years. While
living in Canada Ann ran programmes for adult learners.
In 1973 she opened a gift shop in Ripon in rural North Yorkshire, England.
In 1984 she was introduced to the Bach Flowers Remedies and soon started
to acquire further essences from around the world.
In early 1990 she trained in Health Kinesiology with Jane Thurnell-Read.
Ann became so excited with HK and its possibilities for changing people’s
lives for the better that she rapidly developed a very busy practice in Ripon.
In those early days of HK in the UK Ann was the only practitioner in the
north. She regularly journeyed to Cornwall to work with Jane or to London
to work with Rosemary Lomas.
Ann was authorised to teach HK in 1993 and has since taught numerous classes
of Stages 1 to 5 in England. Ann also visited Germany to teach HK in 1997.
Ann was authorised to teach the advanced Stages 6 and 7 in March, 2001. Ann
is a member of the working party set up to establish National Kinesiology
Standards in the UK. She is currently the HK UK co-ordinator for the Open
College Network. In the United Kingdom HK was awarded accreditation by the
Open College Networks on July 1, 1996.
Amanda, deputy head of HK UK, has had a busy HK practice in Oxford and Surrey since 1993. Amanda came
into HK from a background of practitioner and teacher of McTimoney-Corley chiropractic. Amanda joins our
HK tutor team with a wealth of teaching experience and knowledge behind her. She has been teaching
kinesiology since 1996 and is one of our HK Kinesiology Federation Foundation tutors. Students find her
courses fun, well structured for easy learning with plenty of time for recap and practice during class time.
