Teacher Information

First Name

Tamara

Last Name

James

Nickname

Tamara-James

State

New South Wales

Yoga Information

Biography

Bio

Tam has been a qualified and registered physiotherapist since 1994. She has extensive experience in treating a variety of problems ranging from acute injury to long term persisting pain. Wide ranging hospital and outpatient experience have equipped her to consider the needs of clients with different health conditions. She worked for 8 years in pain management centres alongside doctors, psychologists and occupational therapists including St Thomas’ Hospital, London and PainLogic, Brisbane. During this time she was trained to incorporate principles of cognitive behavioural therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy into her physiotherapy practice.

Tam has been practising yoga since 1994 and teaching since 1998. She obtained her yoga teaching qualification with the British Wheel of Yoga (BWY) in the United Kingdom; is a current senior level 3 member of Yoga Australia (YA) and has completed a Diploma of Yoga Therapy with Yoga Therapy Australia. (Viniyoga Healing Foundation.

She has studied yoga with senior teachers in the United Kingdom, India and Australia. Her yoga therapy training was with Dr NC (N Chandrasekaran) who is a medical doctor and yoga therapist with in excess of 25 years of practice delivers this training, which expounds how traditional applications of yoga complement current medical practice. This 3 year training, included an internship in Dr NC’s Chennai clinic, a unique and rewarding opportunity.

 

Tam has studied Yoga and meditation beyond her yoga teacher training with numerous teachers in India and spent regular retreat periods in guided and self directed, silent meditation.

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