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Those on very low incomes or experiencing financial distress are able to get a discount - just talk to us.(L-R: Marina Chand, Roimata Clark, Angela Zappata, Thomas Blake (back row), Chandi Powell, Christine Howard (seated), Oytun Demirer and Omid Rahimi) Marina Chand (B App Sc Hlth Ed. Ad Dip Hlth Sc Hom, Cert in Meditation Teaching & Chair Yoga) Marina is a registered homeopath and also a Foundation Director of the World Wellness Group. Marina has worked in the community and health sectors for 24 years. In the NGO sector she worked for torture and trauma services, refugee health services, women’s health and advocacy, disability support, and she also worked in human rights organisations. She has freelanced as a consultant for government and non-government agencies in the development of training programs, evaluations and resource development. As a qualified homoeopath, Marina treated refugees for eight years at QPASTT and also lectured in homoeopathy in Brisbane’s most eminent traditional medicine college.
Currently she treats refugee clients for World Wellness Group and coordinates the traditional medicine program. She specialises in treating post-traumatic stress disorder, stress, chronic illness, mental disorders and helping people to link body-mind-spirit. As a qualified meditation teacher, she also teaches clients breath-work (pranayama - a yogic practice), mindfulness and qi gong to small groups and treats with homeopathy, nutrition and flower essences. Reema Naresh(B Sci Psyc Hon, Ayurvedic Life Style Practitioner, 350 Hour Yoga Teacher) Reema is a qualified Ayurvedic Life Style Practitioner. She has worked in the nutrition and health promotion sector for the last 5 years and her involvement with working with multicultural community spans over 15 years in Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and United States. Recent roles in this sector are as a multicultural health worker (nutrition and health promotion), bicultural mental health promoter (mental wellness) and cultural consultant.
She is passionate about connected and healthy living. She runs interactive workshops to inspire people to learn about self care and ways to nourish the body and mind. Reema uses her knowledge of Ayurvedic spices, herbs, massage, yoga and story telling to create an enriching learning environment. Christine Reynolds (B Hlth Sc Nut Med, Masters Human Nut) Christine is a highly qualified nutritionist and is registered with the Nutrition Society Australia. Christine specialises in working with children, families and vulnerable people and has a background in working with the elderly and people with disability. Christine’s work focuses on practical and accessible nutritional strategies to manage a range of health conditions. She runs a private practice at Bardon and also works at the World Wellness Community Clinic with people who have experienced trauma and mental illness. Mark Vanniekerk (M. TCM, BHS (Comp Med), Adv Dip Ac, Grad Cert Rs, Adv Dip (Homoeopathy), Associate Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Homoeopathy (Kolkata).
Mark is a registered Chinese Medicine Practitioner with the Chinese Medicine Board of Australia in both acupuncture and Chinese Herbal Medicine. Mark has a Bachelor in Health Science and over 15 years experience in health care provision. Mark’s interest in Chinese Medicine started after receiving acupuncture for the relief of chronic low back pain following surgery. In 2008, Mark completed an Advanced Diploma in Acupuncture and then trained and worked under the guidance of Scott Zhao and Shirley Ho of Hong Ren Tang in Sunnybank from 2008 to 2010 in pain management and sports injuries, and Jarad Bianchi 2008 to 2012 in fertility support. Mark has since completed a Master of Traditional Chinese Medicine at the University of Western Sydney. During this time Mark had the opportunity to study with highly experienced Australian and Chinese practitioners specialising in musculoskeletal health and women’s health. Mark currently manages Your Acupuncture Clinic in Greenslopes focusing on pain management and women’s health and IVF support.
During his studies Mark became interested in the delivery of community based health care. Traditional medicine programs are highly accepted by clients - an estimated 60 per cent of Australians use some form of traditional medicine. Adding traditional medicine to the suite of services your organisation provides, can greatly enhance client outcomes. Our services can be contracted and provided on behalf of your service at a location nominated by you. If your organisation would like to add traditional medicine services, either to individual clients, or through small-group work, please get in touch with us. We can also provide guest speakers to your client groups. Current services available include naturopathy, homoeopathy, massage therapy, flower essences, mineral therapy, naturopathic nutrition, meditation, relaxation and ayurvedic stress management. Traditional medicine provides primary health care to 80 per cent of the world's population (Alves & Rosa, 2005).
There are complete systems of traditional medicine such as traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), ayurveda in India and Arabic unani medicine. There are also many forms of indigenous medicine, often called ethno-medicine. Ethno-medicine is often focussed on herbalism and cult healing (Alves & Rosa, 2007). While 80 per cent of the population in developing countries have traditional medicine as their only means of health care, in many developed countries, 70 to 80 per cent of the population has used some form of traditional medicine (World Health Organisation, 2008) as an adjunct to orthodox medicine. Herbal treatments are the most popular form of traditional medicine, and are highly lucrative in the international marketplace. Annual revenues in Western Europe reached US$ 5 billion in 2003-2004. In China sales of products totalled US$ 14 billion in 2005. Herbal medicine revenue in Brazil was US$ 160 million in 2007 (World Health Organisation, 2008). In 2005 Australians spent $4.13 billion on 'alternative medicine' - more than was spent on prescription drugs in that year (Ellis & Zilko, 2008).