About Us

Our Founder

Elizabeth Cordle is the founder of Corefulness and a Chartered Physiotherapist.  Over many years her work has been wonderfully varied but her main focus has been on rehabilitation which encompasses identifying the root causes of problems and providing solutions.

Our Story

Elizabeth qualified as a Chartered Physiotherapist in 1998.  After years of working with experienced consultants and developing her rehabilitation skills, she launched the Corefulness Foundation Programme in 2017.  This innovative programme helps individuals strengthen their core muscles through functional, everyday activities.  Its success paved the way for the Corefulness Nursery and Primary School Programme, which continues to flourish today.  Designed for adults, the Foundation Programme will be available here soon.

In addition to her passion for core stability and rehabilitation, Elizabeth is an avid runner with years of experience working with elite athletes and runners across the UK.  When asked to assist her children’s primary school athletics club with their running programme, she quickly discovered how a few simple exercises could significantly improve the children’s running technique.  The sessions were not only effective but also great fun – the children listened, learned, and ran with greater efficiency and, ultimately, increased speed.

However, Elizabeth soon noticed that some children struggled with coordination, balance, and following instructions.  She was aware that research had linked underdeveloped movement skills to poor functional and cognitive development, and her own experiences in clinical practice supported this.  She had seen many children one-on-one who suffered from injuries, poor coordination, and weak core stability.  Working with the school’s pupils sparked a strong desire to help more children on a larger scale and led to a pivotal moment when she decided to officially develop her movement skills programme.

The Corefulness Programme for nurseries and primary schools is Elizabeth’s specialised movement programme that integrates medical science into the educational system.  This programme not only develops fine and gross motor skills, balance, and coordination, but also supports the maturation of retained primitive reflexes, helping to reduce potential barriers to learning.

William’s Story

Elizabeth’s journey with her own son reinforced the importance and effectiveness of the Nursery and Primary School Programmes, inspiring her to make them accessible to as many children as possible.

When William was 11 years old, he encountered significant barriers to learning that, despite the best efforts of his teachers, remained unexplained.  He was incorrectly assumed to be dyslexic, but Elizabeth wasn’t convinced.

“I remember telling Mum, ‘It’s not that I don’t like reading; it’s just really hard for me’.  But after having worked through and followed the exercises, everything felt different – learning has become so much easier, and now I actually enjoy school.”

William Cordle

After assessments in Educational Psychology and Behavioural Ophthalmology, it was discovered that William had retained primitive reflexes from infancy.  This affected his eye-tracking, as well as his fine and gross motor skills.  In short, he never fully grasped phonics, making all aspects of reading and comprehension immensely challenging.  To cope, his brain developed numerous compensations in an effort to overcome these obstacles.

The solution was for William to follow specific, science-based exercises designed to mature his retained primitive reflexes and movement skills.  These exercises, now incorporated into the Corefulness Programme, have significantly improved the learning potential of many children.

Four years later, William is thriving.  He has developed a newfound self-belief and a genuine joy for learning.