Our Story

Jan Trewartha is the founder and Principal of  Body in Harmony Training. She has been in healthcare since 1979, originally training as a State Registered Nurse in the Queen Alexandra Royal Army Nursing Corps (QARANC), working with patients on the wards and in the operating theatre; a superb if non-deliberate foundation for her future career.

In 1988 Jan took time out to go travelling for three years, where her life was to dramatically change direction. Being trained by a blind massage therapist to really 'feel' the body led to a lifetime passion for body work. Jan was a massage volunteer at the Auckland Commonwealth Games where she learned from professionals from all modalities. Her work now is the culmination of many years of training and experience in different disciplines. She was in clinical practice for over 30 years, and now focuses on teaching, writing, speaking to online and in-person audiences, and on running The Fascia Hub, a community education platform focusing on fascia and related topics.

Through her school, Body in Harmony Training, Jan runs a variety of light touch therapy courses including Sharon Wheeler's ScarWork for which she was the first accredited teacher in the UK. Having had surgery in Great Ormond St. Hospital as a young child, resulting in major scarring, Jan was treated by Sharon Wheeler back in 2012, putting her on the path to training in this remarkable modality herself, and eventually becoming a teacher in 2014. Her own experience gives her an awareness of the effect of adhesions and an empathy with people who have problems caused by their scarring. She loves teaching ScarWork and her other light touch training, and says: "I find it fascinating, the sharing of knowledge, watching the students develop, the ‘oh wow’ moment when they ‘get it’, and the way that understanding then informs their clinical practice and ability."

Jan co-edited and lead authored the book Scars, Adhesions and the Biotensegral Body, published by Handspring Publishing in 2020, to help those who work with scarring to understand biotensegrity (the tension/compression system of the body) and how that way of looking at ourselves explains the potential full-body damage that scarring can cause.

Apart from a missionary zeal for spreading the word about the effects of scarring on the body, Jan's passions are for travelling and for anything that gets her outdoors and moving.