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Read about how we have grown to become the largest online recovery programme that it is now.

We all needed a plan B.

Written by Suzy Bolt, Founder.

March, 2020

The company was born overnight, just before the UK went into lockdown. It was a venture designed to connect people, build community, create work for great instructors whilst keeping people fit and well, both physically and mentally, as we navigated a tricky time.

With the pandemic looming large in early March, I had a conversation with my own personal trainer Ross Cooper, and invited him teach online with me. We created an outline of a timetable and then we launched our live, Zoom classes on March 16th. Lockdown began March 20th.

It connected friends and families around the world in Yoga classes, offered the chance for people to try new things like Mindfulness, a solid timetable of physical activity to help build routine and have a great deal of fun.

By the end of March, both Ross and myself had developed Covid which was a turning point in both our lives.

September 2020

We introduced Covid specific classes to our timetable, as both Ross and myself had been affected by Long Covid. The programme has now been developed into 25+ classes a week covering all time zones and offers a lifeline for those stuck at home with chronic illness.

June 2024

The Rest, Repair, Recover programme is now recommended by Cardiologists, Doctors, Occupational Therapists, Long Covid Clinics, Nurses and more. We have met some of the most fantastic people and now, It’s one of the most amazing things we have ever been a part of. We hope to keep the company running long into the future 🙂

November, 2024

After gaining much feedback from our beloved community, it was time to rebrand. www.360mindbodysoul.co.uk becomes www.suzybolt.com

Meet the team

We are a team of dedicated well-being professionals who have been on our own journeys of recovery.

Founder

Suzy Bolt

Suzy is the founder of 360mindbodysoul. She qualified as an Iyengar Yoga Teacher over 22 years ago and loves building community with her classes whilst watching the gentle transformation over hours, days and years with her long-term Yoga students. Over the past two+ decades, she has taught all levels of classes, workshops and holidays, from beginners to teachers and absolutely loves teaching mixed ability classes via Zoom. The challenges of this format offer up lots of potential for creativity and playful exploration. Alongside this career, Suzy has also worked as a trainer and facilitator, mainly with senior leadership teams from within the Higher Education sector: Oxford Uni, Edinburgh Uni, Sussex Uni, UCL, Bodleian Library and more.

Suzy has been affected by Long Haul Covid and designed the Rest, Repair, Recover programme to meet the needs of other recoverers. She is also the founder of the Fern Programme, a small group, coaching-based recovery programme for those who need a more focused approach.

Suzy is an NLP Master Practitioner, level 3 counselling trained, studying for a Diploma in Lifestyle medicine and is an Insights Discovery coach. She now specialises in recovery and well-being in all of her work.

Ross Cooper

Ross is a fully qualified Personal Trainer working with a wide range of clients. He was teaching Suzy to box at her gym in 2020 prior to the pandemic and got along so well that when lockdown began, they joined forces and Suzy invited him to teach with her online. This developed into the Rest Recover Repair programme. As a personal trainer, Ross works with anyone, of any age, to help them achieve their fitness goals, whatever they may be.

Ross started out as a sportsman, trained in boxing in Mexico and has discovered the joy of Personal Training in the last 5 years. He is enjoying the challenge of working with the Suzy Bolt community remotely and seeing everyone giving it their all.

Ross is at his happiest watching people transform through exercise. His own experience of Long Covid/CFS and his gentle, encouraging nature, make him the perfect person to lead the physical rehabilitation on our Rest, Repair, Recover programme.

Caroline Phipps

Caroline is a trauma-informed yoga teacher who has been practising yoga for 25 years.

She has accumulated over 1000 hours of training initially completing her three-year Hatha yoga qualification with Yoga Scotland. She has furthered her knowledge by completing training in Yin Yoga, Menopause Yoga and a 100hr Yoga Teacher Training in Trauma-Informed Yoga & Embodied Social Change. She incorporates all of this in her teaching alongside somatic movement drawn from Feldenkrais and is influenced by other teachers she has also studied with Donna Farhi, Tom Myers, Dianne Bondy and Matthew Remski.

She is one half of The Menopause Sisters with her sister, a GP, facilitating workshops and collaborating with workplaces to inform women and help empower them. They also host their UK Health Radio show together. Caroline believes 'Yoga teaches us through interoception, to truly listen to our bodies and offer ourselves what will best serve us at that moment.'

Chloe Stephens

Chloe has a 25 year background in fitness and wellbeing and has a huge passion for helping people to discover just how easy it is to feel great if they adopt some new, simple habits. She is an experienced personal trainer, trained with the Pilates Institute and is also an NLP Master Practitioner.

She combines all her interests in her work focussing on movement, mindset and motivation. Her classes are clear with expert instruction and options for multi level engagement. She is also available for 1-2-1 work and runs a 90day healthy mind and body coaching programme.

Nadine Watton

Nadine has been practising yoga since the late 90’s and sharing the teachings of yoga since 2000. She is an E-RYT 500, Senior yoga teacher & yoga teacher trainer.

An ex-dancer, her life has been immersed in bodywork and movement for longer than she can care to remember. Nadine turned to ashtanga yoga to help support a herniated disc sustained through ballet and has been delighting in the gifts yoga has given her on so many levels.
Nadine trained in the Viniyoga style with her main teacher David Charlton who she continues to study with regularly. Always hungry to learn more and share the joys of study, Nadine strives to make the ancient teachings of yoga accessible for all, whether they are in her classes, workshops, yoga teacher training programmes or CPD courses.

Over the years, she has qualified in teaching yoga to children, to children with special needs, to people living with cancer, yin and restorative yoga. She has trained with some of the world's most prestigious teachers including Davd Swenson, Joey Miles, AG Mohan, Max Strom, Judith Hanson Lasater and has assisted and co-led Mysore programs in London where she lived for 20 years.

She lives in Edinburgh with her husband Nick, their kids Noah and Hunter and their whippet River. In her spare time she enjoys reading, baking, walking, crafting, gardening, SUP boarding and being with her younglings who she home educates.

Her mission is to share the practice of yoga in an inclusive and accessible way, inviting practitioners to explore techniques to support themselves on and off the mat and to help you feel better in your own skin.

Holly Penfold

Registered Nutritional Therapist mBANT DipNUT DipNAT CNHC

Holly trained at The College of Naturopathic Nutrition in London, where she gained both Diplomas in Naturopathic Nutrition and Naturopathy. She has completed additional training in Intuitive Eating, Nutrition Counselling, Trauma Informed Counselling Skills and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). In her private practice she has supported clients with a myriad of health issues and now specialises in Women's Health and Nervous System Support.
Holly has lived with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome since 2014 dealing with years of debilitating fatigue and repeated episodes of the 'boom and bust cycle'. Her recovery took a transformative turn after she joined the Rest Recover Repair programme, and then The Fern Programme. Being a part of these communities and learning to move her body in a safe way, paired with her understanding of nutrition, have been integral in her recovery and rediscovering joy once again.
With her depth of knowledge, professional and personal experience of what it is like to live with a chronic illness, she is honoured to be able to support others along this journey, offering accessible and compassionate Nutritional support.

Jackie Baxter

Jackie trained as a Buteyko breathing instructor under the guidance of Patrick McKeown. Breathing was the first thing that helped her on her Long Covid journey and she felt compelled to learn and explore more about the power of the breath and specialise in this area. Now fully recovered, Jackie is devoted to providing help and inspiration to those still on their path; being who she needed when she was unwell.

Jackie now dedicates her time to working as a Breathing Instructor, focusing on individuals with Long Covid and ME/CFS. She started "Long Covid Breathing" with business partner Vikki, running courses, workshops or individually to help people with their breath, the foundation of our health.

Jackie is also the host of the Long Covid Podcast, started out of sheer desperation but quickly expanded to include medical experts, researchers, and recovery stories. The podcast, which became a lifeline for her and many others, also reflects her own recovery journey.

Beyond her professional work, Jackie embraces a love of creativity, silliness, and the great outdoors. Whether it’s hillwalking, wild swimming, or seeking out new adventures, she brings a unique and joyful energy to all she does.

Jo Perkins

Jo is currently a level 3 PT and Pilates instructor with over 20 years experience as a fitness professional.

In her early years she also gained a BA Hons degree in Performance Art majoring in Dance. After years of working as a professional dancer, choreographer and producer she turned her hand to fitness after Pilates was used to rehabilitate her from a bad hip injury.

Through her own business BALM, Body and Lifestyle Management she teaches face to face pilates classes and 1:1 sessions, various online programmes including pilates, pure stretch, weights and barre, and runs restorative wellness events in Hampshire and Somerset.

Jo loves to see the progress clients can achieve, encouraging and nurturing them along their wellness journey.

She is currently training as a somatic trauma informed coach with the Mental Wellbeing Company to add into her coaching and wellness programmes.

Richard Husseiny

For over 16 years Richard worked as a high performance sports coach with some of the worlds top athletes, supporting teams for two Summer Olympic Games in 2012 and in 2016 and the Winter Olympics in 2018. During this time Richard gave end-of-life care to his mother which left him emotionally exhausted but profoundly changed his life.

Following on from this he navigated his own health challenges with the diagnosis of an autoimmune disease called Hashimotos. This diagnosis took him on a journey of discovery, learning more deeply about what helps us to heal.

He trained in Yoga, breath work (with NIcola Price, Brian McKenzie and Dr Joe Dispenza) and meditation and now specialises in working with and supporting high performance sports coaches. He also works with the Mcamillan Horizon Cancer support centre in Brighton running weekly breath classes.

Annie Akasati McAuley

Annie is a co-founder of Love Mindfulness.

Mindfulness and meditation have been the source of much creativity and joy since she took up these practices in her early 20s. She completed Buddhist ordination training in 1999 and has taught regularly since that time in both secular and Buddhist contexts. She has managed and led many meditation retreats in her work as an events organiser for the UK charity Buddhafield.

She has a background in education and has substantial experience of teaching mindfulness and compassion in a range of settings. She is also qualified in Counselling Skills and Counselling Studies.

Annie is a mindfulness supervisor and a registered member of the British Association of Mindfulness-based Approaches (BAMBA).

Gillian Shippey

Hannah Dallison

Oxygen Advantage Advanced breath coach (for efficient and functional daily breathing)

Breath Guru Graduate (Conscious connected breathing for opening the respiratory system, emotional release and self-discovery)

Hannah is a PT, APPI Pilates instructor, breath facilitator and ex-amateur triathlete. Her experience as an amateur athlete and PT finally led to her having chronic fatigue for 10+ years. CFS and two slipped discs really started to make Hannah slow down, be kinder to herself and understand the body from a holistic standpoint. Hannah decided to train with Patrick McKeown's' Oxygen Advantage' and Alan Dolan's 'Breath Guru' to be able to combine functional breathing for sports performance and Long Covid, alongside emotional release breathing. Her main focus now is educating people on the importance of their breath for physical, emotional, mental and spiritual health.

Sammy Hawkins

Sammy is an ICF-accredited coach & facilitator (PCC level) with a focus on mental and emotional wellbeing and leadership in social impact. She has trained in leadership and group coaching, neuroscience-based & somatic coaching, and is trauma-informed.

Her passion for helping to empower people who are marginalised or disadvantaged has driven her throughout her career, and she continues to develop new skills and expertise in order to better support these individuals. She has a background in education, working as a teacher and head of department in a secondary school for several years, and as a consultant for educational charities in low income countries. She holds a PGCE and a Masters degree in Education. She currently works with a variety of individuals and organisations specifically around wellbeing, resilience, confidence-building and leadership development. Sammy has also faced significant chronic health challenges from a young age, and has developed an expertise on resources and strategies to support herself and others to lead full lives even while facing physical setbacks.

Outside of work, Sammy gets her joy from playing board games and puzzles, belly laughing with friends, exploring new places and ideas, drinking great coffee, and being by (and in!) the sea.

Kate Knowles

Kate Knowles, teaching yoga since 2004, with a focus on health and wellbeing. Kate has trained in Hatha yoga, restorative yoga, menopause yoga, yoga for healthy lower backs, yoga for CFS and long covid, therapeutic yoga for the nervous system as well as yoga for people living with cancer. When she’s not practicing yoga, Kate enjoys rambling, reading, swimming and crocheting. Having experienced intermittent vertigo since 2010, Kate has first hand experience of the importance of rest to allow healing to take place and loves sharing this with the RRR community.

Sarah Bradley

I am an Occupational Therapist and I offer advice on living well with long term or progressive health conditions and have worked in pulmonary rehab, hospice care, vocational rehab, learning disabilities and community/inpatient mental health.

My clinical practise is currently as a specialist NHS clinician working in long covid and ME/CFS. I also run a weekly webinar on the Rest Repair Recover Programme..

I qualified as a Hather Yoga Teacher in 2021 and I am experienced in using gentle movement and breathwork in clinical settings such as pulmonary rehabilitation, long covid & ME/CFS, breathing pattern disorder, palliative care, dysautonomia, and in management of chronic pain, fatigue and breathlessness.

Sam Loe

Based in Whakatū, Nelson, on New Zealand's South Island, Sam brings an open perspective enriched by her experiences living in Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and Aotearoa, New Zealand. As a Yoga teacher, Yoga therapist, wellbeing mentor, and certified iRest supervisor, she has dedicated more than two decades to deepening her understanding and practice of yoga.

As a senior associate of international yoga teacher Donna Farhi and an instructor of History and Philosophy at the Contemporary Yoga Teacher Training in Auckland, Sam's teaching emerges from a place of in depth study as well as deep somatic awareness and inner listening. Her approach has been profoundly shaped by her in-depth study with Farhi, fostering a sustainable and loving practice that she shares with others.

Sam's work particularly emphasises the power of Yoga Nidra, recognising its transformative power for recovery and burnout. Through her integration of subtle breathing practices, therapeutic yoga, and restorative approaches, she creates accessible pathways for individuals managing various health challenges, including anxiety, depression, cancer, long-COVID, and chronic fatigue. She finds deep fulfilment in running retreats, workshops ands being part of an online platform community, where she can support people on their healing journeys through gentle movement and breathing practices.

Beyond her yoga practice, Sam is also an artist who explores drawing and painting as extensions of her somatic experience. She lives with her partner Rob, their teenage kids Eli and Sol, and their Labradoodle, Frankie, embracing the natural beauty of their New Zealand home.

Support

Jackie Wickham

Support

Jan Robertson

Jan has a background in marketing, and was marketing manager for a science festival, as well as for arts, tourism and heritage organisations. Long Covid meant she had to leave this hectic world, but she found solace and community in the Rest Repair Recover and Fern programmes, and now is pleased to be giving something back by working in the Support team for Suzy Bolt.
In her spare time, Jan enjoys playing in bands, Urban Sketching, outdoor swimming (when it's not too cold) and finding joy in the little things in life.

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