Jo Tandberg, Ayurveda Wellness Counselor
Jo Tandberg
Joanna is a NAMA board-certified Ayurveda Wellness Counselor from the Kerala Ayurveda Academy and a certified yoga teacher from Sundara Yoga and Yoga Spirit studios Memberships include American Herbalists Guild, National Ayurvedic Medical Association, Yoga Alliance, and more. She is a NAMA Pace Provider and Veda Talk presenter.
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Jo teaches Ayurvedic wellness classes and retreats, offers ayurvedic wellness counseling, and creates powerful herbal remedies. She strives to balance her life through yoga and mindfulness practices to better fulfill her life’s work of sharing her own experience of healing and helping others. Jo lives in the pacific NW with her artist and physicist partner Erik Tandberg and their pack of furry animals.
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Jo's passion for healing naturally extended to her creating a healing protocol for her father, who in 2015 was diagnosed with Stage IV metastatic melanoma to his lungs, stomach, lymph and adrenal glands. He overcame this devastating diagnosis by following an Ayurvedic and plant medicine regime, and recently received his “no metastatic masses” radiology report by his oncologist at Emory Medical.
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Jo counsels by sharing stories and experiences, and teaching the foundations of healing through the wisdom of ancient systems blended with modern science. She offers compassion and dedication to helping people find and attend to the root causes of their pain and disease. Ayurvedic medicines and lifestyle, yoga, mindfulness, massage, herbal supplmentation and nutrition proved to be her most effective medicines in her life as a form of healing from a debilitating life with Crohn’s and Thyroid disease, along with severe degenerative arthritis of her spine and disk disease, spanning three decades of her life.