Clarice is a Movement Therapist, contortionist, and flexibility coach who has spent the past five years supporting hypermobile bodies—both in movement therapy settings and within the performing arts.
Her work focuses on helping people with chronic conditions such as hypermobility syndromes (hEDS/HSD), Long COVID, and fibromyalgia, often as part of a wider healthcare team. She takes a multidisciplinary, person-centred approach, recognising the unique needs of each body she works with.
As a contortionist and flexibility coach, Clarice specialises in creating modifications in training methods for hypermobile individuals, especially circus artists, dancers, and other movement-based performers. Bendy bodies need to work smart, not hard. Her approach is grounded in sensation-guided movement—encouraging people to move in ways that feel right, rather than striving only for what looks right.
Overall, she strongly believes in a collaborative, person centric approach towards movement. Her role as a coach is to guide you to connect with, and understand your body better, while journeying with you towards your goals.
Her mission is simple: to make informed, compassionate care accessible for all with symptomatic hypermobility—and to advocate for safer training practices within the performing arts. To support this vision, she is currently completing a Physiotherapy degree (Class of 2026).
Today, Clarice primarily works with hypermobile artistic athletes and individuals navigating HSD/hEDS, Fibromyalgia, and Long COVID. She brings deep respect, lived experience, and clinical insight to every session—always meeting people where they are.
As a coach, she has always been known as the one who handles students whose issues don’t “fit in a box”. Troubleshooting unique cases that have remained an unsolved mystery to others is what she enjoys working with the most.
A large majority of clients that she work with are symptomatically hypermobile artistic athletes (eg. HSD/hEDS), and many of them pursue disciplines such as pole dancing, aerial arts (hoop, silks, hammock etc), and also dance.
She has also had opportunities to work with clients who struggle with chronic issues and pain, who were looking to improve daily function and quality of life. These clients come from a wide background spectrum, from veterinary surgeons, to geriatrics (elderly).
[NOTE: For movement therapy clients, she often work alongside the client’s healthcare team. If the client has yet to seek medical care and clearance for activity, especially in the presence of potential red flags, she would always refer them out to the appropriate healthcare professionals instead. Your safety and well-being will always be her priority. If what you need does not lie within her scope, or if she feels that someone else can help you better, she will not hesitate to refer you to someone more appropriate.]
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Education (Performing Arts/Circus):
Hypermobility in performing arts (Dr Jennifer Crane, physiotherapist specializing in circus arts & hypermobility)
Circus and the Pelvic Floor (Brooke Winder)
CASEM Dance Medicine Webinar Series 2022
Flexibility Level 2 & Level 3 Intensive (Lisa Howell, physiotherapist working closely with ballet dancers, & hypermobility)
Invert, Bend and Balance Symposium 2022
Education (Ehlers Danlos Syndrome and its comorbidities):
POTS providers course, by Emily Rich (Occupational Therapist)
Hypermobility intensive with physiotherapist Dr.Jennifer Crane (cirque physio)
Workshops, courses and lectures on hypermobility (& its related disorders) & the management of it in a movement context (by physiotherapist Dr. Jennifer Crane, and MD Dr Linda Bluestein)
EDS ECHO Healthcare Student Programme (2024)
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