About Me

I am Olivia Core, the founder of Core Yoga and Therapies. In 2009, I graduated with a BSc (Hons) degree in Physiotherapy at the University of Southampton. I spent my first three years working as a junior physiotherapist at Chelsea and Westminster hospital in London. During these first few years, I realised that Oncology and Palliative Care was a great passion of mine. Over the next six years in London, I developed and refined my skills as a specialist Oncology, Haematology and Palliative Care physiotherapist, working at The Royal Marsden Hospital, Guys and St. Thomas’, Kings College and St. Bartholomew’s Hospital. In 2019, I specialised further as a Lymphoedema Therapist at the Royal Marsden Hospital, working with their experienced lymphoedema team.

In early 2020, before the pandemic, I moved from London to Frome, to focus on living a quieter, more simple life in the countryside with my partner and dog. For the first time in my professional career, I left the NHS and started working as a Lymphoedema Practitioner for Dorothy House Hospice Care, a wonderful hospice near Bath.

I completed my 200 hour Hatha Yoga Teacher Training course in May 2021, under the Academy for Yoga Training in Bath, and have been guiding weekly yoga classes in Frome and Bath since 2021 and an online class for Penny Brohn UK since 2022.

I am also trained to provide therapeutic Manual Lymphatic Drainage (MLD). I completed the Fluoroscopy Guided Manual Lymphatic Drainage (FG-MLD) training with the Lymphoedema Training Academy (LTA) in 2019, and now attend training updates every two years.

My real passion is to support people affected by cancer. I have seen firsthand the physical, emotional, psychological side effects that a cancer diagnosis and its treatment can cause. I wish to share my specialist knowledge and skills to promote physical, emotional, psychological and spiritual wellbeing, while trying to find balance in an often busy and chaotic world.

 

“Olivia’s passion and patience shines through her sessions. Her classes are balanced, absorbing and considered. She is a fantastic teacher and dedicated practitioner.”

— Scott, 41