Sivanna Health

MBBS (Lon); LMSSA (Lon); Dip Hom (Syd); Dip BT (Syd); Dip Unani Tibb Medicine. Dr Jaimini Raniga qualified as a medical doctor from St Mary’s Hospital Medical School, London University in 1982 and has been a medical practitioner of Family and Integrative Medicine for the last 30 years. Jaimini applies a multidisciplinary approach to health and wellness, integrating the best of conventional and complimentary health care modalities. Her special interests are lifestyle and functional medicine and preventive medicine. Jaimini’s conviction that a more personalised approach to treating and resolving medical problems and illness, has culminated in a unique, integrated health and wellness programme, that draws on the many techniques she has learned over the last 22 years, viz. Nutritional and Environmental medicine, Natural Bio-identical hormones, Ayurveda, Unani-Tibb Medicine, Homeopathy, Cold Laser Therapy and the Bowen Therapeutic Technique.

ND; Adv Dip Nat; Adv Dip Nut; CPC ( Coaching); MBA; Cert. Yoga. Brenda qualified as a naturopath in 1992 from Sydney’s Nature Care College where she was the winner of the Blackmores Best Clinician Award. She went on to work for the iconic brand for 6 years obtaining valuable expertise, qualifications and experience. Since then Brenda has deepened her knowledge of natural medicine and healing through clinical practice, corporate training and ongoing professional studies. Brenda is qualified in naturopathy, nutrition, herbal medicine, homeopathy and massage. She has recently upgraded her qualifications for the latest advances in naturopathic and nutritional medicine. Brenda is a credentialed life coach (PCC) and has an MBA from Macquarie University. Brenda is also a yoga teacher trained by Swami Sarasvati. Brenda has a special interest in nutrition and food and is a passionate advocate for home cooking, kitchen medicine and natural, wholesome foods. She believes the more we grow and prepare our own food the healthier we will be. She’s had some interesting interludes in her career for travel to Bhutan, Zimbabwe, Brazil, Nepal, USA and Indonesia where, in each place she investigated the traditional medicine practices and foods of the country.

BCom; Dip.in Acc; ACA; CA(SA); Cert.IV Life Coach. (Executive) (Health & Wellness) Girish completed his BCom (Hons) degree at the University of Durban Westville in 1979, having served his articles with Goldby, Compton & Mackelvie (Associate of Touche Ross). He then immigrated to Australia where he qualified as a chartered accountant, and spent the next 30 years in this industry. Specialising in Mergers & Acquisitions, Girish gained vast international experience in corporate finance, having worked in South Africa, Australia, the United Kingdom and Central Africa. Having witnessed firsthand the pressures and stress that the corporate environment imposes on people, he began to explore techniques and methods to handle this problem. Girish decided to expand his studies in the field of stress management and corporate wellness, and is now a fully qualified professional life coach. Coaching is not new to Girish. He was a South African provincial (Natal) tennis champion in his youth, and in his twenties he captained the Natal inter-provincial team for many years and coached hundreds of scholars.

MBBS; ADY; DPC; DSM; PGDFH; PGDY; FIAY; MD (Alt.Med) Dr Ananda Balayogi Bhavanani is Chairman of the International Centre for Yoga Education and Research at Ananda Ashram, Pondicherry, India. He is also chairman of Yoganjali Natyalayam, the premier institute of Yoga and Carnatic Music and Bharatanatyam in Pondicherry. He is son and successor of the internationally acclaimed Yoga team of Yogamaharishi Dr. Swami Gitananda Giri Guru Maharaj and Yogacharini Kalaimamani Ammaji, Smt Meenakshi Devi Bhavanani. He is a Gold Medallist in Medical Studies (MBBS) with postgraduate diplomas in both Family Health (PGDFH) as well as Yoga (PGDY) and the Advanced Diploma in Yoga under his illustrious parents in 1991-93. A Fellow of the Indian Academy of Yoga, he has authored 19 DVDs and 23 books on Yoga as well as published more than a hundred papers, compilations and abstracts on Yoga and Yoga research in National and International Journals.