People

• Zoë passionate subjects:
• Body Work: 
• Raynor Massage, Shiatsu, Emmett Technique, Deep Tension Relief
• Nutritional Therapist 
• (DipNT, BANT)
• Functional Medicine & Nutrition
• POSE running coach 
• Mobility & Flexibility coach
• Functional Movement

Zoë Boston

PuraVida Health Founder

Zoë spent her youth participating in local distance runs & triathlons, swimming competitively and teaching children how to swim. Following university, she travelled the world for several years, exploring new places and cultures, while squeezing in as much climbing, skiing and adventuring as possible. Returning to the UK, she decided to get 'sensible' and started a career in the financial markets.

Ten years on Zoë decided that her stressful and energy-draining City life was not compatible with her deep desire to be free, healthy and fit. She realised that there was a need for a concept integrating one-off intense fitness holidays with everyday activities that enable stressed and time-strapped urban professionals to maintain their newly acquired fitness, health and energy levels over longer time periods. 

Zoë retrained in the subjects she felt passionate about. Finding and studying massage techniques from around the world her true passion is to work with clients to help release deep tensions held in the body from physical or emotional stress situations.  Combining deeply healing and therapeutic bodywork techniques with other healing practices for the body Zoë uses an upstream approach to address client issues.

She is a qualified Nutritional Therapist and Functional Medicine practitioner working with clients to improve their diet and lifestyle for better overall health.  

In addition she has trained with Frank Forencich in play based fitness training, and with Erwan Le Corre in his MovNat philosophy, and is a former Wild Fitness coach.  She has worked in the UK, Europe and Africa.

Combining these studies she worked to develop a holistic health maintenance and recovery programme along side her PuraVida partners that has developed her ideologies into a reality.

Contact: zoe@puravidahealth.co.uk

• Kristie key skills:
• Nutrition & Clinical Dietetics (BSc Hons) 
  Functional Medicine and Nutrition
  Functional and Natural Movement Coach
  Mobility and Flexibility specialist
  Kettlebell Instructor
  POSE Running Coach
  Ante/postnatal specialist

Kristie Walker

PuraVida Health Nutritional Therapist & Dietician

Kristie grew up in Australia competing in triathlon - where she became national amateur champion, long distance running and off-road adventure racing.

Health, fitness and a lust for the outdoors have always been essential elements of her life and passions she enjoys sharing with others. 

Kristie studied clinical dietetics at university, which gave her a solid medical foundation, but which left many questions unanswered as to how to integrate natural health with modern lifestyles. To answer these questions she went on to study functional medicine, hormonal balancing and evolutionary nutrition.  She includes her insights in her nutritional specialist practice. 

She has worked in the health and fitness industry in Australia, Africa, Greece and the UK, and is a former Wildfitness coach.

Kristie strongly believes that a holistic lifestyle approach is the best step towards good health and vitality and has recently added massage to her repertoire of skills. 

Her quest for the perfect philosophy has brought her together with like-minded, highly skilled and passionate people, and together they have formed PuraVida.

• Matt's expertise: 
• Functional Kettlebell training 
• Head coach England Kettlebell team
• Functional & Natural Movement
• VIVOBAREFOOT Running coach 
• POSE Running coach
• Boxing coach
• Flexibility & Mobility specialist

Matt Walker

PuraVida Health Head Coach

Matt’s skills, expertise and experience in the field of movement instruction are second to none.

Since he was young, Matt has run, climbed and played his way to the top. Health and fitness has always been an integral and enjoyable part of his life and hence it was a natural transition for him to make it his career. In his earlier days he went to explore America and worked as a snowboard and ski instructor. He then spent seven years as Army Commando in the Royal Marines where hard physical work and optimal fitness were existential. Upon leaving, he began his own personal training business and travelled the world in search of the best training methods, which ultimately led him to the joint development of the PuraVida concept.

He has extensive fitness instruction experience and has worked on fitness holidays around the world, for Wildfitness, British Military Fitness and his own business, Summit Personal Training.

Matt is passionate about the PuraVida philosophy and believes that the  specific movement, nutrition and massage techniques have become key factors in the improvement of his urban clients health, fitness and happiness levels.

He is also Crossfit certified and a MovNat enthusiast