hello!

i’m raj (she/her), founder of body medicine.
i’m a qualified holistic nutritionist (BHSc), BURN creator, movement enthusiast and major ocean and potato enthusiast. a former flight attendant and party fiend, i decided to throw in the towel from a lifestyle that was no longer serving me to study nutrition at 27 years of age – a scary but incredibly rewarding leap of faith.
i whisked off to byron bay to complete my initial 200hr yoga teacher training in the midst of my nutrition studies and on graduating, i bought a one-way ticket to NYC and landed opportunities i could only have dreamed about.
my first job in NYC was a research and development chef at sakara life. this role gave me a front row seat into commercial kitchen life and i spent my days creating and testing nutritionally-focused meals from a superfood-packed, thriving kitchen in brooklyn, NYC.
my one-way ticket to NYC had a 12 month visa expiry date and weeks out from when i was due to head home, i stumbled across taryn toomey’s wednesday night class in manhattan, it was in this class that the trajectory of my future took a steep turn.
i enquired about an upcoming teacher training, landed an audition and was selected to be part of said training which started the following week. after successfully completing the rigorous course, i joined the tribeca studio’s opening team and spent the next 5 years deepening my relationship with movement under the guidance of taryn and her team. i helped facilitate international retreats, taught at events, spent summers in the hamptons at the class summer studio and soaked up all the learnings that have shaped the teacher (and student) i am today.
alongside the class, i also studied, taught for and helped facilitate teacher trainings for colleen saidman and rodney yee at their NYC studio: yoga shanti.
in 2018, i started working as a nutritionist for functional medicine doctor, frank lipman at his private practice in manhattan. i moved over to multi-disciplinary centre; the well NYC with dr lipman and worked as a health coach at their stunning space in union square. i had the privilege of learning from and working alongside some of NYC’s best integrative practitioners and some of the best team mates I could have wished for.
when covid hit, I journeyed home to sydney after riding out the lockdown for 9 long months in NYC. i continued to teach the class from a studio we set up here in sydney, as well as started to create recipes for and coach in their nutrition program; the layer.
I have set myself up in bondi beach and poured my heart and soul into creating body medicine as a way to offer all my knowledge from the two modalities that I feel most passionate about: nutrition and movement. i’ve piled all my learnings from studying, working with 100’s of clients one-on-one both digitally and IRL, my early days developing recipes in the beautiful sakara kitchen and finally ,hearing from YOU what you are needing in this space. i hope it fulfills you and provides you with a variety of tools you can apply to your daily life as you uncover the crux of what your wildly unique, perfectly, imperfect body is requesting of you!

thanks for being here,
see you all the time