About Joy Taylor

Joy has worked in proactive and preventative healthcare since starting out in private practice in 1993. She has worked both nationally and internationally with a wide range of clients, from high level business people to film and music industry professionals.

Joy assisted Paul McKenna on his weight loss seminars and also on various other Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), hypnosis and business communication courses.

She taught Shiatsu and personal development at Sheffield University for nine years, has worked as a weight loss consultant with a nutrition company, and as a smoking cessation hypnotherapist. Joy also developed the ‘Jiggy-break’ 2-minute exercise routine for reducing stress in the workplace.

Joy is a qualified practitioner of Shiatsu and Cranio-Sacral Therapy and has undertaken extensive background study in many other health related disciplines. She is also fully trained in NLP, hypnosis, advanced communication, integral leadership and health coaching. She is a member of the Institute of Leadership and Management.
 

Qualifications and training attended:

• Integral Leadership. Sheffield (level 5 award ILM)
• Diploma in Stress Management Training - The Stress Consultancy Open Learning Institute. Sheffield.
• Professional Health Coach Certification - HealthcoachingU. USA
• NLP Practitioner – Richard Bandler, Paul Mckenna, Michael Breen. London
• NLP Master Practitioner - Richard Bandler. John LaValle, Michael Breen. London
• NLP Business Practitioner - Michael Breen, Ed Percival London
• NLP Meta Programmes ‘Words that Change Minds’- Shelley-Rose Charvet. London
• The Enneagram - Integral Leadership, Sheffield
• Easy Weightloss seminars. Paul McKenna. London
• Shiatsu Practitioner - British Shiatsu Association Sheffield
• Cranio-Sacral Therapy Practitioner- College of Craniosacral Therapy London
• Feng Shui Practitioner training - Feng Shui Academy. Buxton
• Kinesiology Foundation Course - Association of Systematic Kinesiology. London
• Jin Shin Jyutsu - Cynthia Broshi. Redhill
• Jin Shin Jyutsu - Carlos Gutterras. Rugby
• Jin Shin Jyutsu - Matthias Roth, Winchester
• Advanced Hypnotherapy - Tom Silver (USA) Bristol
• Smoking Cessation Hypnotherapy Practitioner - Dr. Barry Neale. UK
• Master Practitioner, Neuro-hypnotic techniques - Dr. Barry Neale. UK
• Modelling Spirituality - Thom Hartmann, Michael Breen. London
• NLP for ESP - Seka Nikolic, Jo McMoneagle, Michael Breen. London
• Pranic Healing - Institute for Inner Studies Dr. Hazel Whardha. London.
• Advanced Pranic Healing - Institute for Inner Studies Dr. Hazel Whardha. London.
• Pranic Psychotherapy - Institute for Inner Studies Dr. Hazel Whardha. London.
• 3-day Leadership retreat with Jim Rohn - Suffolk. UK
• Advanced Shiatsu - Toru Namikoshi. Holland.
• ‘Stress-busters’ On-site massage - Robert The. London
• Bodily Healing Holistic Hypnotherapy - The Howard College of Hypnotherapy
• Indian Head massage - Narendra Metha. London
• Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) - Positive Change Centre. London
• Photo Reading (Learning Strategies Corporation) - Philip Holt. NLPNow. UK
• C&G Certificate in Adult education Teaching, Sheffield College
• Massage Diploma, Sheffield College
• Effort-Free Life System - Lifetools. Cheshire
• Life coaching training attended - Noble Manhattan
• Dr. Paul Lam's Tai Chi for Arthritis Instructor training, Lesley Roberts. Stockport
• Qigong Shibashi Instructor training, Master Cheung. Surrey
• Tai Chi Qigong Shibashi Intensive retreats - Larry Butler. Scotland
• Taiji intensive retreat - Dharmamudra. Scotland

Other areas of study that have influenced Joy’s approach:

• What Doctors Don’t Tell You - Lynn McTaggart
• Tao Te Ching – Lao-tzu
• The Way of Qigong, The art and science of Chinese energy healing - Kenneth S. Cohen
• The Four Agreements - Don Miguel Ruiz
• The Paradoxical Commandments - Dr Kent M.Keith
• 9-Star Ki Astrology
• The Magic of Colours - Jerry Clark
• Highest Level of Enlightenment - Dr. David Hawkins
• Speaking the lost language of God - Greg Braden.
• Sedona Method - Hale Dwoskin
• Changing for Good - Prochaska, Norcross, Diclemente
• Kaizen - Dr. Robert Maurer
• Spring Forest QiGong - Chunyi Lin
• Creating an Unshakable Character - Jim Rohn
• 7-Habits -Stephen Covey
• Tai Chi and Mindfulness - Larry Butler, Amoghavira. Dhanakosa Retreat Centre
• The work of Byron Katie
• Magical Mind, Magical Body. - Deepak Chopra
• The Pleasure Principle – Paul Pearsall PhD