My background and training
Qualifications

2024: Yoga 200 hour Teacher Training

Completed with Zama Yoga, Brisbane.


2023-ongoing: Shaolin Wellness Program, Shaolin Temple Yunnan

Training in: Qigong based exercises such as Ba Duan Jin, Zhan Zhuang, as well as Qigong breathing techniques; Meihua Quan Kung Fu (Five Animal) poses; and Classical Chinese Medicine principles and concepts.


2016-ongoing: Traditional Medicine Practitioner

Offering services in traditional Thai massage, cupping therapy, nutritional therapy, nature and exercise as medicine.


2020-2022: Personal Assistant

Work as Bruce Bentley’s personal assistant with Health Traditions.


2019-2021: Support Worker

Work as an Aged Care and NDIS support worker for private clients in Northern Tasmania, Australia.


2018-2019: Brukerstyrt Personlig Assistent / Home Carer

Work as an in-home disability support worker for Ringsaker Kommune, Humana Omsorg AS and ULOBA AS in Norway.


2018: Accredited Practitioner Training in Trad. Thai Massage

Northern style Thai Massage training with Valentina Gombi of Byron Thai Massage School in Byron Bay, Australia.

  • Thai Massage (Levels I and II)
  • Level III Practice Week
  • 4 weekly Yoga sessions with Uschi Steedman
  • 1 weekly Body Movement sessions with Peter Notley

Byron class

The TTM class in Byron Bay, Australia after 3 weeks training


2017: Advanced Certificate in Integrated Cupping Therapy

Cupping therapy training with Bruce Bentley of Health Traditions in Melbourne, Australia.

  • Different cupping applications and vacuum levels
  • Diagnosis of cupping marks
  • Russian cupping massage
  • Chinese and Vietnamese cupping techniques to alleviate pain and discomfort
  • Cupping for sports injuries and joint pain
  • Cupping for deficiencies
  • Cupping for mending fascia and hip problems
  • Cupping treatment for scar tissue, cellulite, and stretch marks
  • Abdominal cupping techniques
  • Cupping for neck, shoulder and back relief
  • Facial cupping techniques for sinus, TMJ and headache relief, as well as skin conditions
  • Use of hand-blown cupping glasses with an attached pump, Haci magnetic cups and flexible silicon cups


2016-2019: Registered Homøopratiker

Registered naturopath (Norway) offering services in nutritional therapy, yoga-based Thai massage, sliding cup massage, bodyweight-based exercise training and outdoor guiding.


2015-2016: Naturmedisinsk grunnutdanning og VEKS

Natural medicine studies and VEKS (vitenskap, etikk, kommunikasjon og samfunn) course at Tønsberg medisinsk skole in Norway.


2014: Formation en graphothérapie

Training courses in graphomotor therapy at the ACADEG ASBL - ACADÉMIE de graphologie & graphothérapie in Brussels, Belgium.


2013-2016: Brukerstyrt Personlig Assistent / Home Carer

Work as an in-home disability support worker for Dialogue AS and ULOBA AS in Norway.


2012-2016: Heilpraktiker Ausbildung

Naturopathic studies (anatomy, physiology, biology, pathology, etc.) at Isolde Richter Heilpraktikerschule in Kenzingen, Germany, with extra courses in nutritional therapy, sports medicine, the fundamentals of Traditional Chinese Medicine, fasting and cupping therapy.


2010-2011: Psychology major

Psychology study with specialisation in cognitive psychology and neuroscience at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia.


2008: Certificate in Traditional Thai Massage

Southern style Thai Massage training and introduction to sliding cup massage with Bruce Bentley of Health Traditions in Melbourne, Australia.


2007-2008: Certificate III in Fitness Instruction

Foundational course in fitness instruction with Australian Institute of Fitness in Sydney, Australia


1995-2007: Psychology-based Consultant

Personal assistant to a practical psychologist and trainer of handwriting analysis - the study of graphic movement for psychological, neurological and physiological diagnosis.


1995-2005: Personal Development

Study and training in Northern European shamanism, animism, forest culture, urmedisin and nature-based health and healing traditions.


1995-1996: Reflexology

Foundational course in foot massage and reflexology in Darwin, Australia.

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