..if you didn't attend The Movement Convention,

WHERE WERE YOU?!

TMC16 was BUZZING!

Social media STILL IS!!

The entire even has been such a massive success, social media has been going nuts, I am literally floating and still feel quite emotional.

This awesome event began in 2014 and really has evolved since our debut! With twice as many attendees and such a fantastic line up of presenters we completely nailed it this year!

I am not sure where to begin to describe this amazing experience but I will have a go with the help of the attendee feedback…

Firstly Friday saw the gathering of the Biomechanics Education Master Trainers for our annual standardisation meeting. Some of these guys drove for 3hrs to attend a 3hr conference only to then drive back 3hrs to service their clients. THIS is the commitment and calibre of trainers we take on!

With such talent in front of me all feeling passionately about spreading the word and ethos of our academy I felt moved AND responsible. This special team are going to be delivering even more of our education programmes moving into 2017 -

Read on to hear about those already representing us by presenting at TMC16!

Then Friday afternoon saw the largest national gathering of Biomechanics Coaches™, who ravelled from Cumbria, Amsterdam, Dorset, Bristol, Norfolk and all the corners of the UK for a private mentoring session;

<b>Chris Wright</b> - A business mentoring guru who's energy infected us all as he shared his skills with humour and vitality

AND

<b>Martin Haines</b> delivered an inclusive and very advanced Movement Analysis session that took our programming to the next level while confirming the INTEGRATED SYSTEM approach that Biomechanics Coaching™ is.

Friday evening was a bit of a social at the Universities, Burleigh Court for a few drinks! Some of whom took great advantage of!

BUT

TMC16 was what it was really all about and so Saturday began at 7am at Loughborough University as the SSSPA crew arrived to help get us set up!

<b>Amber Keats</b>, events manager, was cool as a cucumber organising things as I ran round like a headless chicken, not much use to anyone!

Amber - is an outstanding example of both a stunningly skilled professional AND flipping awesome friend.

Everything apparently fell into place pretty easily although I shouldn't have been surprised because the team was well prepared with Amber at the helm!

Everyone arrived to an apple and ginger shot from Mairi of FABfitness, Gandorma coffee from Brendan and Kengan water from Tracey to set them up for the first session.

A very professional, slick and fascinating presentation from <b>Ben Coomber</b> about ‘<i>Recovery &amp; Performance Strategies’.</i>

Post event Ben said<i> “Strong morning presenting at The Movement Convention 2016 run by Biomechanics Education </i>

<i>Rachel France a strong host as ever, quality line up for one day of</i>

<i>learning, get there next year </i><i>”</i>

<b>Brendan Chaplin</b>’s session ‘<i>Forget Strength, Let’s Build Power!’</i> demonstrated his clear knowledge in the very popular subject of strength and conditioning.

Post event Brendan said;

<i>“Enjoyed talking at the movement convention today, great event with a really cool crowd thanks for having me” </i>

<b>Chris Kitson</b> - This up and coming industry influencer is a breath of fresh air and keen to communicate some simple but useful ideas from his session ‘<i>Dealing with Symptomatic Clients’</i>

Post event Chris said;

<i>‘What a whirlwind weekend at The Movement Convention in Loughborough! Met some awesome people and caught up with a few too! Can't wait for next year now”</i>

‘<i>Going with the Flow</i>’ was the FABulous <b>Mairi Taylor’s </b>session - She’s seriously passionate and very candid in her sessions expanding on training women through the cycle and post event Mairi said;

<i>“So I am going to share some of take homes from this weekends awesome event as one of them may just resonate with you and ensure you keep following your "North Star" - because as Mark Laws</i><i> said "one should be an eternal white belt" and one of the great things about this weekend was Rachel France</i><i> had brought some new ( WELL new to me) speakers into the arena and it was so refreshing to hear new and different perspectives on such important aspects of coaching and WELLness ! </i>

<i>"Stop waiting for permission to live"</i>

<i>"Circle gets smaller pain gets bigger"</i>

<i>"Focus on innercise"</i>

<i>"Let's build power"</i>

<i>"Sweet taste makes you work harder" </i>

<i>"If you put your body in a place where it can recover then it will perform"</i>

<i>"Biopyschosocial model"</i>

<i>"It's about movement and capacity"</i>

<i>"Try not to be a wally"</i>

<i>And of course for me look after your hormones and surround yourself with people who get it - are happy to disagree and have an open minded conversation where we can respect each other's maps of the world - unless of course they are a wally!”</i>

LUNCH BREAK included a fabulous healthy choice of salmon with noddles, chicken with rice of tofu noddles all with salad.

<b>Stephen Aish</b> - WOWZERS! My personal favourite 10 minutes of the whole event was watching 70 people completely under his spell of meditation - Emotional for the WHOLE room if you read social media, he literally changed lives in his ‘<i>Mindset Coaching</i>’ session. Perfect after lunch and to relax everyone.

Stephen said post event;

“<i>Huge thank you to the superstar that is Rachel France</i><i> for inviting me to speak at The Movement Convention today.</i>

<i>I got to meet friends old and new, hear some fantastic speakers and see the impact some very basic material can have on those ready to take it on board with an open mind and learn.</i>

<i>There is no higher purpose than helping others and I am always grateful for the opportunity to impact lives”</i>

<b>Mike Grice</b> - My all round favourite speaker on my professional subject with the kind of vocabulary I only dream of. <i>‘Working with Allied Health Care Professionals</i>’. Mike’s session was an eye opener for all of us not just the Biomechanics Coaches™ about being mindful of the langue we use with both clients AND other health care professionals to keep us all up to date and have some clarity.

<b>Tom Waldron</b> along with his beautiful sister Rachel gave us an ‘I<i>ntroduction to the Franklin Method</i>’ with a fresh, interesting and very modern approach, Tom had us all on our feet moving which fitted perfectly in the schedule of the day. This presenter is one to watch!

Post Tom’s debut presentation he was rather pleased with how things went stating…<i> “Nailed it!!!!” ..</i>you certainly did Tom!!

<b>Mark Laws</b> - Hilariously honest - LOVE this guy! His session called ‘<i>Surviving the Industry</i>’ had the whole room belly laughing at just the right time in the day when everyone had taken on a lot of new information and really needed some light hearted humour.

Mark had made a huge effort to deliver his 45 minute session;

<i>“Made it back to Fitness Fiesta in time for a couple of well earned beers with some fellow presenters!!!!</i>

<i>7 hour, 392 mile, round trip journey to Loughborough was well worth it to be able to start to pay back Rachel France</i><i> for all the awesome things she has done for me in the past!!</i>

<i>Shame I didn't get to see anyone else present at the Biomechanics Education Movement Conference but it was a huge honour to be invited to share my ramblings with such a good crowd and close up the day!!!</i>

<i>Today has been a good day!!!</i><i>“</i>

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We had a Twitter competition for the most and the easy winner was Hazel Oliver who took home £30 worth of cinema tickets!

The TMC16 Raffle was for The Big Cheese Society in honour of Sam who was killed in a cycling accident in may this year. Sam was passionate about helping kids to play sports who may have limited access due to funds. He was also our events organiser, Amber’s boyfriends and so

we are really thankful to all those of you who helped us to raise over £450!

Now we couldn’t have done this with out our amazing sponsor donations;

Indigo Fitness

Group X Training

iamtools

FABfitness

BTN

S&amp;C Education

The Strength Academy

Mark Laws

Movement Therapy Clinics

Tom Waldron

Carbon Claw

Jordan Fitness

Awesome Supps

Brasilfit

Grypit

We also had a small exhibition with;

Grypit

Kengan Water

Organo Coffee

Brasilfit

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The Audience…

Now I did attempt to close the event with a speech of thanks you’s but I got so emotional looking out at all of you and feeling the atmosphere in the room that I couldn’t speak, SO to officially close TMC16….

THANK <b>YOU!</b>

To all of YOU who attended the event. Those of you who travelled huge distances, flew overseas and took time out of work, clients and family to INVEST in this stupendous event.

Everything WE do is because of YOU!

So spread the word, <a href="https://www.www.biomechanicseducation.com/membership/intrinsic-biomechanics-association-membership/">join the IBA</a>, lets support each other and share our experiences!

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<i>TESTIMONIALS…..</i>

<i>Dear Rach,</i>

<i>Totally brilliant my dear!! </i>

<i>I enjoyed last year's convention but this year blew it out of the water. Exceeded all my expectations (&amp; they were decently high!).</i>

<i>The presenters today were great &amp; you scheduled them brilliantly - presentations to match energy levels throughout the day. I got seriously good things to take home from every single one.</i>

<i>I've come home on a high, buzzing, motivated, and really excited to be part of such a cool crowd.</i>

<i>Huge thanks to you and the whole dancing team for all your hard work.</i>

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<i>Those who really know me will vouch that I usually talk rubbish, so this next bit may come as a surprise. I get up every morning with the intention of helping someone, a random act of kindness or helping someone achieve something, today was different,I was invited by Rachel France </i><i>to the Movement Convention 2016 at Loughborough University to meet some fitness professionals and like minded people, I listened intently to some very interesting speakers, however to get to the point, someone who I don't know, have never met and didn't speak directly to me had a remarkable effect on me, his words meant something to me and has helped me to see that I need to live life in the present, I hold toxic nocebo thoughts from previous jobs, relationships and decisions that spoil the moment that is now, I spend(waste) many hours worrying over things that have already happened or may never happen. I overthink things but now realise that I never actually had an influence on others behaviour, that was all down to them. Tonight I will sleep well, content with my life and my decisions. Tomorrow I resume posting shi7e and rants about BMW drivers just so the world won't stop spinning. Good night all x</i>

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<i>What a superb day at the Movement Convention. Rachel France</i><i> your hard work has paid off. The lectures and lecturers were brilliant, I even got a bit star struck meeting Ben Coomber! </i><i> I have no more words but if I had one, you'd go in my gratitude book!</i>

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<i>Great day at the Movement Convention with Rachel France </i><i>the day flew by with lots of take home snippets for clients this week.</i>

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<i>Just wanted to say briefly how much I enjoyed today, some great speakers but your S&amp;C coach ..... I was guilt initially of being judgemental about meditation but he just made sense of the last 5 years of my life and given me a new perspective in which I can move on, so please pass on my thanks, he will make a difference to so many people in my life, clients, family, friends, I spoke at length to a friend on the way home who is suffering from previous relationships and I can say definitively that I have already made a change to her by relaying some of the info. Thanks again to your wonderful team and if I can do anything to promote them to my members then please just ask ,</i>

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<i>Have had a fab time at the movement conference learning from the best in the movement biomechanics and therapy world. It's always a pleasure to spend time with these amazing people thanks Rachel France </i><i>and all the other Biomechanics C</i><i>oaches</i>

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<i>Hi Rachel! Just thought I'd text to as didn't get a chance to say thank you for the movement convention! I have already learnt so much and loved everybody I met! &#x1f600; see you Thursday morning in London for the shoulder! X</i>

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<i>Back safe and sound from The Movement Convention at Loughborough University.</i>

<i>Great event from Rachel France</i><i> and the rest of the Biomechanics Education team.</i>

<i>Enjoyed the lectures today and a few cheeky cold ones last night!</i>

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<i>An amazing day of learning &amp; listening at the TMC16 </i><i>at Loughborough University with </i><i>Mairi Taylor</i><i>, and a room full of other professionals and of course all the brilliant speakers .. thank you Rachel France</i><i> for such a Fab event .</i><i> </i><i>&#x1f61c;</i><i> </i><i>&#x1f4aa;</i><i> </i><i>&#x1f44d;x</i>

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<i>Thank you Rachel France</i><i> for a fab day. You have an amazing job and an amazing group of inspirational friends. </i>

<i>Now on my way home back to Suffolk to get booked in onto your iMoveFreely course. </i>

<i>Hope to see you then x</i>

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<i>Hi Rachel- just a quick note to say what a great day it was on Saturday-the range of speakers was good and everyone was so friendly and positive.</i>

<i>I stopped going to lots of fitness industry stuff as it can be very “superficial” but really love the vibe of other biomechanics trainers/coaches.</i>

<i>Have a great week,</i>

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FINALLY….!

Someone asked me what the purpose of TMC16 was and it set me off thinking and this is where we have realised its true purpose…

<b><i>The Movement Convention is a celebration of beautiful human movement and ways to improve human movement through education. Changing lives by empowering others. </i></b>

<b><i>One very special person changed my life by empowering me thus allowing me to do the same for others. </i></b>

<b><i>So through this annual celebration WE share his gift. THIS is the purpose of TMC!</i></b>

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