the founder, tanja luck

The aquawellbeing seed had its unknown beginnings overseas in North America where Tanja was introduced to fundamental health and wellbeing principles from ancient and current evidence based practices. She accepted opportunities within Health Spa Resorts, private residences and hydrotherapy centres, offering a diversity of discliplines such as water therapy movement, yoga, sports massage and womens dance for wellbeing.

After completing her exercise certifications with both the American A.F.F.A, Australian W.A.F.A.C she was destined to create and realise an unfulfilled need in the wellness industry which combined both her love of ancient dance, yoga, pilates, and qi gong. It was in 1994 she began to develop wellbeing programs and in 1997 she nationally launched the unique mind-body water exercise therapy program, AQUABALANCE; which was way ahead of its Industry trend at the time... This was the ripe beginning of realising the link between the powerful combination of water therapy, ancient dance movements and wellbeing for her many clients suffering from mental health and associated trauma challenges.

Always drawn to ancient  Holistic teachings and their foundation in energy science, she began a combination of self-education and learning from Masters in their fields about the philosophies of pre-existing ancient and modern disciplines; exploring Qi gong, Tao Tai Chi, ancient dance forms, meditation, Yoga, Feldenkrais and Pilates. After completing her Advanced certificates in Pranic Psychotherapy and Sacred Alchemy, studying with the renown Master Choa Kok Sui, she was invited to coordinate and lecture training workshops in energy medicine. These endeavours lead to positive transformations of her Clients which only encouraged her to further improve her knowledge and skill to study various movement disciplines and qualify in Body Work specialisations.

During this time she was also invited to research and author the Cert IV Course in Health and Fitness specialising in Aquatic exercise for special populations; in which she was employed to lecture in four of the State Training Organisations at the time.

Tanja was also invited to form part of the West Australian fitness body management committee; assisting with strategic planning and consulting on water exercise industry standards. She served 7 years on the Board and coordinated the first State Personal Trainers Fitness Conference; in which Specialists were united to share their Industry knowledge.She continued on for another 9 years as a National fitness program assessor for Fitness Australia assessing aquatic, pilates and yoga programs that were rapidly arriving to Australia.

She has since presented Nationally at various Fitness expos, globally in Thailand, Indonesia, Costa Rica, Mexico and at a London convention specialising in aquatic mind body programs to support mental health challenges & associated trauma. Tanja was invited to contribute on the National advisory board ASQA, University of W.A. School of distant education, Royal life saving W.A & Future-NOW advisory board.

The many water and wellbeing programs that were since created certainly continue to evolve with ongoing research, and with the valuable input of collaborating with specialists in their fields such as physiotherapists, Qi Gong Masters, Energy Medicine Practitioners, Feldenkrais Practitioners, Women’s Community health trauma Specialists, Dancers, Nutritionists, Artists and Clinical Pilates Leaders.

Tanja now has focused her attention on working with multi diagnosis mental health challenges with complex trauma and continues her study journey in mental health, understanding psycho somatic pain and somatic neurobiology.