The Movement Prescription
Movement is Medicine

Dr Jodie (Jyoti) Gillam

(CMBA) MApSc (CHM), MApSc (Acupuncture), BHSc (Musculoskeletal Therapy), Dip RM, MYoga (Acharya SYVC), Fascial Kinetics (Bowen), Cert Thai Yoga Massage (Chang Mai).

 

Jyoti is one of Australia’s most extensively trained Sivananda Yoga Teachers.  Schooled in classical yoga in the Gurukula Yoga Vedanta lineage as a Brahmacharini, in Tamil Nadu India, guided by direct disciples of Swami Vishnu Devananda and His Holiness Swami Sivananda Saraswati. 

 

Swami Sivananda was a skilled Doctor and a Yogi who founded “The Divine Life Society”.  His manifesto was; “Serve Love Give Purify Meditate Realise”.  Jyoti was drawn to his light and continues his work as a Yogi and Complementary Medicine Practitioner dedicated to helping others find their own guiding light and highest purpose through the practice of Yoga and integrative medicine.  

 

Jyoti is also trained by Dr Ray Long, Orthopaedic Surgeon, founder of Bandha Yoga and Direct disciple of B.K.S Iyengar.  Her teaching methods combine the alignment principles of Bandha Yoga with neuromuscular rehabilitation techniques. She is also a student of Gregor Mahale and integrates his methods with neuromuscular anatomy to teach pranayama and transformative breath work.

   

Jyoti owns a Complementary Medicine Clinic & Herbal Medicine Dispensary where she works as an Acupuncturist. Her research interests include ethnopharmacology, endocrinology and developmental  education.