Anna (Tish) Robinson
Director and Founder
Tish has been working in her local Tower Hamlets community since 2001.
She taught ESOL (English for speakers of other languages) for 16 years. And since 2017, she has co-created, co-facilitated and project managed innovative and pioneering health and pain management programs for local disadvantaged women, including those with emerging English language and literacy.
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Tish is passionate about sharing the benefits of health coaching, mindfulness, personal lifestyle medicine and complementary therapies with those least able to access or afford them.
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She has faced a chronic health condition herself and brings lived experience of her recovery to this work.
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Tish is a fully qualified Health Coach, Breathworks mindfulness and pain management teacher, CHIP (complete health improvement program) lifestyle medicine facilitator and holds a PGCE for adults. She is also a trained "happiness" facilitator.
Vishvantara (Julia Lewis)
Director
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Vishvantara is a semi-retired Piano Teacher and still-working Poet who lives in a Buddhist Women's Community and loves all things connected with wellbeing. She has, to her surprise, through lifestyle medicine discovered the joy of exercising.
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In 2015 her debut pamphlet of poetry, Cursive, was published by Happenstance Press, and she has been commended and longlisted in the National Poetry Competition three times.
Vishvantara was ordained in 2005 in the Triratna Buddhist Order, when she was given her Buddhist name. She also teaches at the London Buddhist Centre.
Lesley Murphy
Director
Lesley trained as a homeopath 30 years ago, and since then has worked in East London with a wide range of people. For 26 years she ran a homeopathic clinic for MIND in Tower Hamlets and Newham, seeing patients living with severe depression and anxiety states, and other mental illnesses. She also worked alongside the GPs and Health Visitors at the Bromley-by-Bow Centre, where she specialised in treating pregnant women and children from babyhood to 10 years old. She also lot of experience treating people with HIV/AIDS, both in England and in Botswana and Swaziland.
Hayley Roda
Mindfulness and Pain Management Teacher
Hayley has been practising mindfulness formally for five years and meditating for over 20 years. She is a fully accredited Breathworks mindfulness teacher, working with the Take Back Your Life project and practising privately, in person and online. She is also a practising holistic aromatherapist and teacher with over ten years of experience, is a writer and has a background in the performing arts.
Hayley also has fibromyalgia, is neurodivergent, and manages chronic conditions. Becoming disabled and living with chronic pain is challenging; mindfulness helped her rediscover herself and find her joy again. Now she loves to bring the practice to others; she never gets tired of seeing people discover the same joy. She loves sharing the neuroscience research that underpins mindfulness and the interplay between modern science and ancient wisdom. A particular interest is studying the connection between trauma, pain, and chronic illness; she always practises trauma-sensitive mindfulness. She believes chronic pain is best managed in an integrated way and hopes that someday more people can access this approach to managing pain and chronic conditions
Visiting Coach
Outreach and Marketing
Author "Happiness from Within"
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Shahida works with women to help them achieve all that they are very capable of. She helps them to become the best version of themselves, to love themselves for who they are today and to embrace life and live in the present moment.
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After setting up Butterfly Charity which gives women in rural villages of Bangladesh wings by providing funding for their business, Shahida wanted more women to be able to give back or start their own charity and have an abundance mindset.
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Shahida says
"Having lived most of my life on autopilot and not being present, mywakeup call in life happened when Isuffered depression. It made me turn inwards and Istarted finding happiness from the inside, instead of searching for the outside world to make me happy."
