Narelle Carter-Quinlan BAppSc, member BKSIYAA, Ausdance

Narelle has been passionately engaged with embodied yoga, dance and movement practices for over 40 years. Based in Brisbane, she directs Yoga.BodyTorque, specialising in yoga for scoliosis, backcare, and anatomy; the only service of its kind in Australia. Her yoga practice and teaching is sourced and anchored within her formal training as an Iyengar teacher and apprenticeship with senior Iyengar teacher Alan Goode, with whom she began studying in 1990. Narelle has also studied Iyengar yoga with Peter Scott and Sri Laksmi Ramanuja.

Narelle has studied movement with Peggy Hackney and Body-Mind Centering with Carola Crusche and Martha Eddy. She has studied advanced yoga practices extensively with Donna Farhi, whom she now assists regularly in Australia. Narelle is currently teaching the Spinal Anatomy and Pathology component of Donna Farhi's Teacher Training in Christchurch.

In 2008-2009, Narelle undertook Elise Browning Miller's Yoga Therapy for Scoliosis Training in San Fransisco and subsequent research Practicum. During late 2009, Narelle studied with Alison West and Deborah Wolk at Yoga Union Backcare in New York City; she plans to return 2010. These experiences broadened and enriched her already substantial personal investigations in this inner scoliotic terrain; her own physical landscape.

An "Embodied Ecology" together with an experiential anatomy infuses Narelle's work. She has a deep reverence for the land and its echoes within our physicality. Original dance performance and movement research works, "Bones of the Earth - Body of the Land" and "Cathedral of the Body", created by Narelle, seek to bring this consciousness to audiences and students alike. Narelle is currently working towards her Masters by research in a project "House of the Broken Wing", exploring the changing experience of the spine through practices of developmental movement patterns, embodied ecology, dance improvisation and yoga. She is deeply touched by the felt poetic space of the body and its resonance.

During 2007 and 2008, Narelle presented her preliminary scholarly research in this arena at the International Dance Medicine and Science Conference in Canberra, the Australian Osteopathic (AOA) Convocation in Christchurch, the World Dance Alliance Global Summit in Brisbane, and was accepted to present at the World Congress for Low Back Pain in Barcelona. Her previous postgraduate research (2001-2002) centered around lumbopelvic stabilisation training and the neurophysiology of postural control in elite dancers. During 2010, Narelle will be presenting workshops and her research on yoga for scoliosis at AOA meetings.

From 2001-2007 Narelle served as Senior Tutor in Anatomy, Histology and Physiology, and tutored in Functional Anatomy and Pathophysiology at Queensland University of Technology. She has lectured at The Australian College of Natural Medicine for two years in Systemic and in Musculoskeletal Anatomy, and has authored and taught the Anatomy and Physiology components within several yoga teacher trainings. She originally graduated from UTS with her University medal in Clinical Biochemistry, majoring in Cellular Pathology. Narelle is an ex-elite Ballroom dancer. She is a Transformation Facilitator. She lives in a treehouse at the edge of a rainforest and small mountain on the outskirts of Brisbane.

Narelle can be reached at dwipada@hotmail.com
Please visit http://sites.google.com/site/narelleyogascoliosis/
Tel +61 7 3165 0571
mob 0434 862 088