Meet Tamara
I’m an Integrative Pelvic Health Practitioner, bodyworker, and guide for women reconnecting to their bodies, their sexuality, and their sense of self.
My work blends hands-on pelvic and abdominal care with trauma-informed support, nervous system awareness, and a deep respect for the body’s innate intelligence.
But I didn’t start here.
For years, I worked in the corporate world—moving from legal assistant to senior office admin, eventually stepping into a purchasing role where I was making six figures a year.
Something in me knew I wasn’t where I was meant to be. I was good at my job, climbing the corporate ladder… but I wasn’t happy. I was longing for something I couldn’t yet name.
I thought this was success — building a life in the big city, raising three kids, working downtown in 4” heels with designer handbags, making six figures a year. But the truth was, I really hated my job.
So I quit.
What followed wasn’t a straight path—it was a slow unraveling and rebuilding.
I immersed myself in yoga teacher training, energy healing, and body-based practices. I explored Reiki, Shamanic work, BodyTalk, and deepened into understanding the connection between the body, emotions, and lived experience.
Over time, it became clear… what I had been searching for was a way back to my body, my truth, and my sense of self.
And then life asked something else of me.
I gave birth to my first baby at 16. Before I turned 30, I had birthed two more. And in my late 30s, the portal of life moved through me again — and I birthed three more into my family within 27 months of each other.
For a number of years, I was in the thick of it—raising my children, navigating my own healing, and living inside the
realities of a body that had been through so much.
And eventually… that path led me here.
Today, my work is informed by both professional training and lived experience, including:
• Pelvic Floor Bodywork & Advanced Pelvic Floor Bodywork
• Chi Nei Tsang Abdominal Therapy (Level 1)
• Yoga Teacher Training (Hatha & Vinyasa, Prenatal)
• Energy healing & somatic-based practices
• Sexuality and relationship coaching (Layla Martin, VITA Method)
• Additional studies in embodiment, pleasure, and nervous system work
But more than anything—
This work is rooted in what I have lived in my own body.
And everything that follows below… is part of that story.
This work didn’t begin as a career.
It began as survival… as searching… as trying to find my way back to myself.
I come from a matrilineal line of women who have suffered deeply—through abuse, silence, survival woven through generations.
As a very young girl, I myself was sexually abused, and from early on I carried a deep sense of not belonging. I felt like my body did not belong to me and I felt like I did not belong in my family. I was lost and very disconnected from my Self. I was constantly searching for love, affection, and acceptance, without fully understanding why.
I was at school when I got my first period at 12 and I thought I was dying. I was too ashamed to ask anyone for help and I spent my day with toilet paper wadded up in my panties. When I got home and told my mom, I was handed a tampon, told to read the box, and figure it out. My older sister was pissed that I got my period before her.
That moment reinforced the disconnection that was already there, and I had to learn to manage on my own, quietly and without support.
My moon cycles - when I was bleeding, were painful, often debilitating, leaving me curled up in a ball on the floor in tears. The solution I was given was birth control and medication to manage it. Again my body was was being managed and controlled—now by medication—, fueling even more disconnection and definitely not something to listen to.
As I grew, that disconnection deepened. I began to resent my body, my curves, and what it meant to be a woman. I hated everything to do with the Feminine. My relationship to my sexuality formed from that same place— it didn’t feel like my own, because it wasn’t. It felt disconnected, performative, something I didn’t quite understand or have the language for.
When I was 16, I gave birth to my first baby.
I was a child having a child.
That moment shifted my entire life’s trajectory in the most profound and beautiful way, but it also placed me on a path where I continued to lose pieces of myself. I hardly knew how to take care of myself, and I had to learn very fast how to care for another human while putting their needs before my own.
Not long after, I found myself in an eight-year abusive relationship. During that time, I learned to override my body completely—to say yes when I meant no, to perform instead of feel, to disconnect as a way of surviving.
For years, I lived that way—disconnected from my body, my voice, and my truth.
Everything began to shift when
I met my husband.
For the first time in my life, I experienced safety in my body. And in that safety, everything I had ever suppressed began to surface—memories, trauma, truth.
There was a period where even the simplest forms of intimacy felt overwhelming. My body would shut down, I would become a sobbing mess that could hardly function or care for those around me. I experienced triggers in moments that were meant to feel safe.
Even something as simple as kissing in the dark was triggering for me, something we couldn’t even do for close to 2 years. Even now, I sometimes feel for his face in the dark to guide him to my lips. It took a lot of time for me to understand what was happening in my body—and how to move through it.
But instead of turning away, my husband held me through it all. Never pushing or asking for more than I was ready or able to give. Just holding space for me, anchoring me, being my rock.
And slowly, I began to rebuild. Safety began to override the triggers and the trauma. I could feel his touch once more and not recoil from past memories.
I learned how to communicate—something I had never truly known how to do. I learned how to listen to my body, to feel what was actually there instead of overriding it. I started to explore sexuality in a completely different way—not as performance, but through presence. Not as something to give, but something to experience and receive. For myself, and not anyone else.
Through safety, I began reorienting to touch in a way that was felt through presence, surrender and opening, rather than disconnection, fantasy, and clenching my body.
And in that… I became orgasmic in ways that
I didn’t even know were possible in my body.
At the same time, my body was asking for attention in
another way
After having my children—especially my last three in under 27 months—my body was exhausted. My pelvic floor had been through so much. I developed prolapse, experienced leakage, and felt deeply unsupported within my own body.
And once again, I was given one option: surgery.
For me, that was a very clear… hell no.
I wasn’t willing to accept surgery as my only path. I knew my body deserved more than that, and I was willing to do whatever it took to find it.
So I began searching—pelvic floor physiotherapy, abdominal massage, yoni steaming, movement, and holistic approaches to healing. I was willing to try anything to heal my body. And through that process of searching, something shifted.
I began to understand that my body wasn’t broken or failing me.
It was responding. Adapting. Communicating in the only ways it knew how.
I only had to learn how to listen.
While living in Nicaragua in 2023, I received the kind of news that shifted everything for me.
I got a message that my mom was in the hospital and they didn’t know if she was going to make it.
I dropped everything and immediately started making plans for how to get from Nicaragua all the way to Yellowknife, Northwest Territories Canada, more than 8,300 kilometers away. It took me 3 days of travel, 3 flights and over 23 hours of non-stop driving to get there.
What started as a routine bladder surgery in 2019 led to years of excruciating pain before my mom’s doctor finally took her seriously enough to perform exploratory surgery in 2022.
What they discovered was devastating.
Her bladder had been perforated during the original procedure, and during that exploration, the same doctor caused additional complications. What followed was a cascade of six surgeries, including the loss of her kidney just before the end of 2022.
By early 2023, her body was in crisis.
My mom fainted, and her blood pressure couldn’t be stabilized. It took seven blood transfusions to keep her alive. They discovered her spleen had ruptured, and that extensive scar tissue had fused her colon to her abdominal wall—forcing them to remove part of her colon just to access her spleen.
From what was meant to be a routine bladder surgery, she lost her kidney, her spleen, and part of her colon. I nearly lost my mom—all from what was meant to be a routine surgery.
Complications like these happen far more often than we’re led to believe.
Watching my mom go through all of that—and trying to advocate for herself within a system that wasn’t built to truly support her shook me to my core. It changed everything in me.
That was the moment I knew:
There had to be another way.
Later that year, I traveled to Bali to complete my Women’s Pelvic Floor Bodywork Certification. Since then I continued my training through the Advanced Pelvic Floor Bodywork Certification and a Chi Nei Tsang abdominal therapy.
But this work is not just what I’ve studied. I know it so well, because it’s what I have lived.
It’s the years of disconnection… and the slow, sacred return.
It’s the body I had to learn to trust again, the voice I had to reclaim, and the relationship to pleasure that I had to rediscover from the ground up.
Today, I support women navigating pelvic pain, prolapse, incontinence, digestive issues, chronic tension, painful cycles, disconnection from intimacy, and fertility journeys. Through slow, trauma-informed touch, abdominal and pelvic bodywork, and deep presence, I work with the body to release tension held within the tissues and gently restore connection within the body—supporting fascia, circulation, lymphatic flow, and the nervous system along the way.
I believe deeply that your body is not working against you—she is communicating.
When we learn to slow down, to tune in, and to listen, something begins to shift.
This isn’t about fixing you. Your body and your tissues are not failing you—they are asking you to listen. This work is about creating a space where you feel safe enough to come back into relationship with yourself—your belly, your womb, your sensations, and your truth.
Each session is a co-creation. Nothing is rushed, and your body leads the way. You are met exactly as you are.
It is an honour to witness what unfolds from that place—bodies softening, breath returning, stories changing, and pleasure awakening.
Women coming home to themselves.
My Background & Training
My work is shaped by both formal education…
and lived experience.
By the women I’ve supported…
and the relationship I hold with my own body.
My work is shaped by both formal education and my own lived experiences. I have had the honor of learning from some incredible teachers over the years learning the anatomy, physiology, sexuality and hands-on skills that ground this work.
I have also learned through my own body and the experiences I have had. Through the abuse I have lived through, the six babies I have birthed— both in hospital settings and in birthing tubs in my own home as well as through the depths of sensation and ecstasy I have learned to feel within my own body and breath.
While I have studied a varied range of clinical and holistic teachings, I sincerely believe that the deepest understanding of the body unfolds through lived experiences… through touch, safety, presence and relationship with the body, mind and spirit.
My work continues to evolve as I refine my skills through ongoing education, mentorship, and collaboration with peers, exploring the relationship between anatomy, physiology, sexuality and the emotional and energetic layers held within the body. My curiosity and thirst for knowledge, my desire to support women, and yes… even my husbands pocket book keep me devoted to being a lifelong learner.
The wonderfully brave women I work with are some of my greatest teachers. It is through their willingness to allow me to witness and hold space for their healing, their stories, and their return to their bodies, that my work continues to deepen.
I believe in bridging the worlds of anatomy, bodywork, and energetic healing—so that women receive care that is both grounded
and deeply intuitive.
My training spans over two decades of study across clinical and holistic fields…
Below is a non-exhaustive list of the trainings and lineages that support the way I hold this work today.
1st Year Bachelor of Nursing – Aurora College (2000)
Office Administration (Honors) – Academy of Learning (2003)
200 Hr RYT Yoga Teacher Training (Hatha Vinyasa) – S.B.C. Yoga (2012)
Reiki Levels I, II, III (Master) – Divine Light Ministries (2012)
Tibetan Reiki Levels I, II, III (Master) – Beyond Belief Hypnotherapy (2013)
Chakra Healing & Balancing – Divine Energy Healing (2013)
Certified Angel Card Reader – Doreen Virtue (2013)
Crystal Healing – Maureen Durant (2013)
BodyTalk Fundamentals Level 1 & 2 – International BodyTalk Association (2014)
85 Hr RPYT Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training – Mamata Yoga (2014)
Wildwood Priestess Initiation – The Wildwood Witch School (2018)
Sacred Menarche – Sacred Living Movement (2018)
Shamanic Studies – Foundation for Shamanic Studies (2019)
Medicine Making Mentorship (Wish Bundle) – Treeka Drake (2019)
VITA Sex, Love & Relationship Coach Certification – Layla Martin (2019–2021)
VITA Live Practice Immersion (Mexico) – Layla Martin (2019)
Yoni / Lingam / Prostate / Tantric Massage – Beducated (2019)
Women’s Pelvic Floor Bodywork Certification – Beaudoin Bodywork (2023)
Advanced Women’s Pelvic Floor Bodywork Certification – Beaudoin Bodywork (2025)
Chi Nei Tsang Level 1 – Tao Touch (Peter Melnychuk) (2025)
✧ Currently Studying
Peristeam Hydrotherapist Certification – Steamy Chick Institute (2024–Present)
✧ Upcoming Training
Chi Nei Tsang: Healing the Emotional Body – Tao Touch (Peter Melnychuk) (Sept 2026)
Integrative Womb Hara Practitioner Training – Institute of Feminine Arts (Oct 2026)
This work is more than a practice for me.
It’s a devotion to women… to their bodies, their stories, and their return to themselves.
If you feel that quiet pull in your body, that sense that something is asking for attention— I would be honoured to walk alongside you.
