Tara received her Honours Bachelor of Science degree in Kinesiology in 1995 from the University of Waterloo after completing five years of focused studies, including two years (3800 hours) of clinical practice. She is a Practicing Member under the British Columbia Association of Kinesiologists (BCAK) and Canadian Kinesiology Alliance (CKA).

Tara became certified as a Medical Exercise Specialist through the American Academy of Health, Fitness & Rehabilitation Professionals in 1997 and voluntarily elected to recertify under clinical examination by a Registered Physiotherapist in 2006. 

In 2009, Tara gained certification as a Functional Movement Systems™ Provider.  She incorporates the Functional Movement Screen™ and Selective Functional Movement Assessment™ into her Functional Biomechanical Assessment approach to identify your motor recruitment patterns and precipitating factors to injury.

The History of Medical Exercise Specialists:

Dr. Michael K. Jones founded the AAHFRP in 1992 to address the need to “bridge the gap between health care and fitness by providing a forum to educate fitness professional to work cooperatively with the medical community in developing safe and effective fitness programs for special populations and post-rehab clients”.  The AAHFRP developed the Medical Exercise Specialist training and certification program in conjunction with licensed medical professionals who recognized the need for supportive fitness training for those individuals with special medical considerations.  The AAHFRP has played an integral role in certifying health professionals in the provision of post-rehab and medical exercise to clients with a wide array of medical conditions worldwide, including Canada, the United States, Australia, England, Burma, Bermuda, Ireland and Germany.

Raina obtained her Bachelors of Human Kinetics degree from the University of British Columbia.  She is a Practicing Member under the British Columbia Association of Kinesiologists (BCAK) and Canadian Kinesiology Alliance (CKA).

Raina carries a passion for rehabilitating the human body using an active exercise approach. Her experiences vary from helping clients achieve general health & fitness goals to pre-post rehabilitation and injury management. As a wife and mother of two, Raina understands the demands that come with life and health and teaches her clients how to find this balance with carefully constructed programming. She maintains a cutting-edge approach, providing you the latest methods in injury and health management that are proven by health science.

Raina has been an active community volunteer, working with spinal and brain injury patients at the GF Strong Rehab Centre in Vancouver and running in clinics for Lululemon Athletica. She carries her passion for health into personal pursuits that include hiking, snowshoeing and wakeboarding. She also holds her blue belt in Shitu-Ryu Karate and remains in pursuit of her dream of obtaining a black belt.

Jillian delivers training programs that are based on the foundation of improving function.  She applies her expertise as a Massage Therapist when required to assist your tissue response during exercise and delivers corrective and progressive training programs to guarantee your success in your health initiatives.

When this Australian is not practicing yoga or exploring Vancouver, she is having fun training clients and encouraging others to see the benefits that living a healthy, balanced lifestyle creates. Jillian is passionate about health and wellbeing and firmly believes the benefits of exercise far outweigh the hard work (she also believes the hardest part of exercise is putting on your shoes and turning off the tv!).  She loves nothing more than making exercise a fun part of the day and always finds that time flies during her training sessions.  Her main passion is encouraging you to see exercise as a part of daily life and training with her will teach you various ways to fit in exercise around any schedule (single leg balances at the traffic lights anyone?).  She firmly believes that exercise should be easily integrated into daily life.