Marina James

Marina James

Joined on Mar 29, 2024

Marina is a Yoga Therapist and Mental Health Professional who has over 20 years experience of working in wellbeing and mental health and is a member of Yoga Australia.


Marina’s approach is underpinned by considering the body and mind as one integrated whole. Her professional practice fuses yoga (practices and philosophy) with knowledge from psychological science. Marina brings a steady, gentle and compassionate approach to her teaching, where she seeks to work collaboratively with clients to explore accessible ways to heal, transform and grow. She is a trauma sensitive therapist.


Marina is particularly interested in using mind-body practices to deal with stress, anxiety, burn out, transition and adjustment, and to enable mobility, ease pain and cultivate self care practices clients can use in their daily lives.


Marina uses yoga practices (posture, movement, breathing, concentration, meditation), mindfulness, relaxation, compassionate communication and compassion focused therapy when working with clients. She uses props and modifications to enable clients to receive benefit from yoga practice and believes that yoga can be accessed by all people. Marina encourages clients to increase their bodily awareness through yoga to understand their unique bodily experience, which is fundamental to healing, transformation and growth of one's mind and body.


Marina values deep connection (with self, life, others), belonging and uplifting life (aliveness). Marina believes that understanding ourselves deeply through mind and body is important to living a well human life – to our belonging and aliveness - and to our being of service to other living beings and the planet. This is Marina’s inspiration for her practice with clients.


Marina’s qualifications are:

Graduate Diploma of Psychology Advanced 2022 Monash University (equivalent to Psychology Honours)

Post-graduate Yoga and Meditation (150hrs) 2021 Biomedical Institute of Yoga and Meditation

Diploma of Yoga Teaching 2016 Dru Yoga Australiasia

Graduate Diploma of Psychology 2014 QUT

Certificate IV in Assessment and Workplace Training 2002

Bachelor of Laws 1994 University of Queensland

Bachelor of Arts 1992 University of Queensland


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