About
Yoga Qualifications:
200 hour Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga Teacher training: Wild Warrior Yoga School
60hr Teen Yoga, Foundation Yoga Therapy Training with Charlotta Martinus
50 hour Empowering Children through Yoga and Creativity with Ayala Homossany
25 hour Postnatal and Mums n Bubs Yoga Teacher Training with Bliss Baby Yoga
300 hour Advanced Yoga teacher training: The Shala Yoga Centre - Ongoing training
Tessa is a specialised children's physiotherapist and yoga teacher based in South West London. Over the past six years, she has worked across different specialist areas within paediatric physiotherapy at 3 highly reputable NHS London hospitals. Prior to working with children, Tessa worked with adults in orthopedics, musculoskeletal outpatients and neurology.
Tessa has years of experience working within the acute hospital setting, primarily in neurology and oncology for children. Tessa has also worked with children with joint pains, injuries, long term disabilities and infants with developmental delay and neurological conditions.
Currently, Tessa works in the community and special schools setting, with children who have a variety of developmental, neurological and long term conditions and disabilities. She is passionate about working closely with each child/young person and their family towards meaningful goals to support them to reach their potential.
Tessa has experience working with children and young people with complex physical and mental health conditions including chronic fatigue, long covid, chronic pain, functional neurological disorders, ADHD and Autism.
Through her work, Tessa has developed a passion for supporting the physical and mental wellbeing of children and young people. This has naturally led her to pursue further training as a yoga teacher, allowing her to share the physical and mental benefits of yoga with the young people she works with.
