Kasia Verissimo

BA Economics, Financial Markets Executive, Advanced Professional Fitness Instructor (Modern Approaches to Core Stability and Postural Alignment) , Founder www.healthyintheoffice.com

Prior to becoming an Advanced Professional Fitness Instructor, Kasia Verissimo qualified as an Economist and had a successful career as an Executive in the City of London . Meeting large numbers of otherwise healthy and fit people, affected by pain working with computers, prompted her to study the reasons behind the problem as well as to find solutions.

A programme of specific Pilates-based and physiotherapy exercises combined with a number of appropriate stretches has proven to be the most effective method to counterbalance posture misalignments caused by prolonged sitting and use of computers, rectify muscle imbalances, help avoid computer-related aches and pains as well as encourage healthy office work and happy lifestyle.

Initially trained by Giovanna Curati during some one hundred one-to-one sessions, she later qualified as an instructor with Modern Pilates, which had been founded by Cherry Baker and Chris Norris.

Giovanna Curati

BSc Hons Physiotherapy MCSP SRP, Pilates instructor, Consultant to www.healthyintheoffice.com

Prior to qualifying as a physiotherapist in 1998, Giovanna Curati trained as a classical ballet dancer. It was during this time that, through her own injuries, she became involved in Pilates-based corrective and rehabilitative methods. As a physiotherapist, she worked with athletes and dancers but a large part of her work was the rehabilitation of office workers suffering from musculoskeletal problems caused by prolonged computer use.

Corrective Pilates-based exercise was an integral part of treatment and very quickly it became evident that by changing poor posture and ensuring good muscle balance, patients were able to change their symptoms and get back to work. It was here that Kasia Verissimo met Giovanna Curati.

Mikolaj Kuca

BSc Biological Chemistry, MSc Business Administration, Managing Director of Polex Publishing
Web Designer, Editor and Model for www.healthyintheoffice.com.