Hello there, thanks for checking me out!My name is Maria de Sousa.
I’m a Feldenkrais Method and yoga teacher.
My thing is posture… or in another words taking care of the human frame.
I’m a posture teacher and coach.
I founded my business called Posture Queen to spread the seeds of good posture.
I help people improve their posture to get out of pain, to prevent a hunched back and, of course to look good.
I live in the UK, England, Kent.
I’m from Portugal (from the Douro region, yes, where the Port wine comes from) but I live in England, UK since 1997.
I lived in London for the first 17 years. In London, I had a 9 to 5 job, as you do! It was a good job with lovely work-colleagues and a good salary too but I knew it wasn’t for me. There was a call inside me and I decided to pursue it. In 2000, I started practising yoga and a few years down the road I embarked on a journey to understand the body mechanics: studied, trained and qualified as a yoga teacher and then as a Feldenkrais Method teacher.
I also happen to have a BA (Hons) in business studies and speak four languages (Portuguese, English, Spanish, French and I can find my away around in Italian too).
In 2014 I decided to leave city life (I guess I’m a country girl) and started a new life in Kent. But if you are wondering why Kent, well, I haven’t chosen Kent, Kent chose me – a fellow yoga teacher and friend in Canterbury needed a house-sitter and that was my ticket out of London. Then, I moved to a small town nearby, on the seaside called Herne Bay (again it chose me!), where I currently live. Here, it also happens that I found love, my man Raymond – yes, the Universe has its way!
What I’ve learnt about my decision to pursue my call is that you can only have the life you want by leaving the life you don’t want.
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The idea of creating something around posture awareness came about when I started noticing how much of the pain I saw around me (working in an office then and doing my yoga training) was mainly due to the poor postural habits people had and the lack of knowledge about how the body works and how to stay out of pain. Something else that was (and still is) painful for me to observe was the postural habits of children, in this highly tech world. I used to think: “How much pain these children will have to go through by the time they reach adulthood or even before that?” I realised there was a big problem in the world, if not a crises. I refused to turn a blind eye and Posture Queen was born.
My trainings on the Feldenkrais Method, yoga and further studies of body mechanics with experts like Dr Stuart MacGill (author of ‘Back Mechanic’) have given me the tools, knowledge and confidence to embark on a journey to raise awareness of good posture to prevent and mange back problems.
My mission is to bring posture education to teachers and parents so that children are given the chance to grow up with the understanding and awareness of good posture, maintain a healthy spine and avoid the suffering that many adults go through due to the lack of understanding of the principles of good posture.
Ultimately, my aim is to be of value and service to the world through posture education with compassion and respect because we all deserve a life without pain.
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Official BiographyMaria de Sousa is the founder of Posture Queen.
Maria is a Feldenkrais Method and yoga teacher.
She is a posture teacher and coach.
Maria developed a her method called Healing Movement with which she helps people get out of pain and improve posture.
Maria gives posture trainings and workshops in schools, private groups, communities and offices.
Maria teaches throughout the UK and beyond.
Maria’s mission is to raise awareness of good posture and spread the seeds of good postural habits throughout the world.
Maria lives in Herne Bay, UK.
If you would like to invite Maria to do a training session or workshop where you live or to your office or your child’s school send a message to [email protected]
loving my man
(ahhhhhh!)
studying…
nourishing my spirit by connecting with Mother Nature
walking bare feet on the beach
(yes, ouch!)
having breakfast at the beach hut
running on the beach (with shoes!)
cooking and baking
asking the Universe to guide me
making home pretty
