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Anne-Marie trained at Arts Educational Trust and completed all R.A.D examinations. Her career started off with the BBC children's television series 'Playaway', in which she featured as a dancer/actress. She went to New York in the seventies, dancing with leading choreographers, acting in off-Broadway plays, and working as a free-lance teacher and choreographer. She taught Ballet, Jazz, and Graham and Horton-based Contemporary Dance both with adults and children. An injury introduced her to Robert Fitzgerald and the Pilates Method in 1975. She went on to train and work with Fran Lehen. Her first Hatha yoga training was with Ginny Flowers at the NY Yoga Centre, back in the seventies. Other accomplishments were a pre-medical degree, Marymount Manhattan, NY, USA. Returning to England in 1985, Anne-Marie worked with Alan Herdman for six years, also working in conjunction with the Remedial Dance Clinic. She has taught both Pilates and yoga workshops around the country including for Dance UK and was a consultant at the Royal Ballet School. Since then, she has been directing her own centre, Pilates and Yoga Movement. She has also diversified into other areas including appearing and consulting for children's television: the BBC's 'Teletubbies' and Channel 4's 'Investigators.' Both these programmes were showing the children doing Yoga. She specialises in teaching movement mechanics and adapting Pilates and Yoga to dancers, actors and to those recovering from injury. Anne-Marie's knowledge of yoga derives from thirty years of study with various teachers - in particular, Mary Stewart, with whom she studied and assisted, for three years. Her Yoga teaching has been mentioned in Good Housekeeping and Vogue. Her further studies include studying Patanjali's yoga sutras with , completing the Gyrotonic® certification and the City Lit Adult Education teaching certificate level one. Anne-Marie is one of the founders of the PILATESfoundation UK Ltd, and sits on the Teachers' Training and examiners committees established to raise and maintain high standards of teaching. This involves setting guidelines for member studio teacher training studios and examining their candidates. Her principal contribution was the setting up of the PILATESfoundation teachers' training accreditation. Her main drive throughout all aspects of her work is to teach each student adapting the breathing, exercises and asanas to suit their needs. Because of her extensive knowledge and understanding of the body acquired over the last 20 years whilst working with Physiotherapists and Osteopaths, she particularly enjoys working with remedial and rehabilitation clients.
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