About the Author

Berkshire-based Galina Imrie is a detoxification therapist and an educator with 27 years of experience.

Galina ImrieGalina Imrie was born in Moscow, Russia. After receiving her MA in Education in 1981 from Moscow Maurice Thorez University where she specialised in advanced learning technologies, Galina went on to become an educational reviewer, journalist, interpreter and teacher. She continued writing practical learning guides, as well as teaching CPD courses for teachers and lecturing.

Between 1987 and 1989 Galina was responsible for writing, editing and presenting the educational feature of “Children’s Hour”, an immensely popular programme on Russian Education TV that was on air three times a week. Galina’s feature received 40,000 letters from children and adult viewers in April 1989 alone, something that Galina is immensely proud of to this day.

After moving to the UK in 1989, Galina worked for the BBC World Service and later spent some time in the City’s financial and banking sector.

In mid-90s Galina realised she wanted to go back to education. As health promotion has always been her great interest and passion, Galina took a sabbatical to do an intensive diploma course in Sports Therapy and Health and Fitness Studies. After qualifying, Galina very quickly acquired a varied and challenging client base, consisting of performing artists, City financiers and her former journalist colleagues.

Her treatment centre Wellbeing Now (www.wellbeingnow.co.uk) in Maidenhead, Berkshire, UK, which she opened in 2002, has gained an astounding 4,500 customers in its first four years, and now has a team of outstanding therapists. Galina lectures and writes on detoxification, health management and systemic stress reduction. She has published articles and teaching materials and lectured for professional bodies.

Galina has been teaching colon hydrotherapy since 2004. Till 2006 her College, The Chi Centre for Practical Detoxification, trained individual post-graduate students, mainly in Colon Hydrotherapy, on the basis of internship. At the beginning of 2006 Galina was contacted by Fortina Hotels and Spas in Malta to train a group of beauty and massage therapists in Colon Hydrotherapy for a new Detoxification Spa that was being built in their flagship Fortina Spa Resort in Sliema.

This was a beginning of a new exiting stage in the history of the college. The same year, the College had its courses approved by I-ACT, the largest self-regulatory body for colon hydrotherapists, and by the CMA, the largest organization for complementary medicine practitioners in the world.

Since then, the Chi Centre has trained, on-site and off-site, about 200 therapists, who are now working in around 60 locations in the UK and 15 locations around the world. Galina has been developing new courses and improving our existing courses, to meet educational and continuing professional development demands of her students.

 

 

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