Tamara Viner
YOGA TEACHER | SEN STRATEGIST | SEN CAMPAIGNER
A UNIFIED FOCUS ON THE WHOLE CHILD
A UNIFIED FOCUS ON THE WHOLE CHILD
MEET TAMARA
Founder and Mum of two children & dog Biscuit
The vision of a ‘unified focus on the whole child’ grew from a simple but deeply felt frustration
When my eldest had turned two and a half years old , I started to notice Autistic traits. My youngest daughter was a newborn and we had just moved house during the “social bubble” covid era, it was a challenging time. As I began looking for support, I kept running into the same problem, while many public services exist to help parents, none truly addressed a child’s individual needs or offer a roadmap for on how to source early intervention.
Local Authority support can often feel too general, with long waiting lists for the diagnostics and therapies that actually matter.
Private options exist, but therapists can be hard to find, often expensive, and tend to work within their own frameworks making it difficult to find someone who truly fits your particular child.
Most professionals have little overlap in understanding outside of their own remit, and so the responsibility to connect all of the dots, bridge the knowledge gaps, reconcile different clinical perspectives, and coordinate everything, falls squarely on the parent.
And many families simply don't have the bandwidth for that.
And whilst I would leave no stone unturned for my daughter, I also knew that wanting an occasional quiet evening or just a real conversation with my husband without the constant weight of deadlines wasn't too much to ask. I felt that we could do better, and provide services that would suit my family and thousands of other families like ours.
Families like ours, deserve a more straightforward and compassionate route.
I too know what it feels like to be off-balance, to have to figure out, often alone, what is needed to find steadiness again.
Now, as a qualified Adult and Child Yoga Teacher, I help parents and children find their own tools for calm. When parents learn to regulate themselves, something remarkable happens, there's a ripple effect that also helps to calm your child's nervous system.
This work is also deeply personal to me in another way. Growing up, I spent my summers walking barefoot through the rainforests of Trinidad, long before barefoot walking was fashionable, staying with family in a wooden bungalow on a cocoa plantation and small farm. Surrounded by nature, I experienced a life of freedom and connection:
sleeping in hammocks, exploring lush valleys, and bathing in local rainforest waterfalls.
It was during those summers that I watched my uncle transform his health following a diabetes diagnosis, through daily yoga, meditation, and an Ital way of eating; a natural, plant-based approach that prioritises whole ingredients in their purest form, free from processing and anything artificial.
I didn't fully understand it at the time, but looking back, I can see how those experiences laid the foundation for everything I do now.
It's a return to what I've always know, that with the right support, environment, and understanding, both parent and child can truly thrive.
Yoga & Mindfulness
Sen strategist services
Therapeutic Support Practitioners
Loving your kids is easy. The day-to-day reality of raising them is a different story.
I’m here to make family life a little simpler. My mission is to nurture the whole child from the inside out, providing a safe space to gain the clarity and tools needed to support your child’s unique physical, emotional, and educational journey, through either yoga and mindfulness or SEN strategy support, or a blend of both!
Together, we'll work towards the calm and clarity your whole family deserves.
RESOURCES
Substack
Blog
Here’s what I’ve learnt …
SEEING THE WHOLE CHILD
My approach is rooted in something I keep coming back to, an ancient Indian and Buddhist parable known as "The Elephant in the Dark."
In the story, a group of people who have never seen an elephant are led into a dark room where one stands. Each person reaches out and touches a different part of the animal. One feels the leg and decides it must be like a tree trunk. Another finds the tail and thinks it's a rope. Someone else touches the side and imagines a wall. Each person is completely convinced they're right and yet none of them truly understands what they're standing in front of.
It's a simple story, with an important moral that real understanding only comes when we bring perspectives together rather than treat them in isolation.
As both a Yoga Teacher and a SEN Strategist, this is exactly how I love to work. When we collaborate, listen to each other, and look at the whole child together, that's when we see the real progress happens!
Course and Certifications
Hatha-Vinyasa - 200hr Registered Certified Yoga Teacher with Yoga Alliance International course run by Michael James Wong + Adam Husler (TriYoga Camden)
“Teaching Yoga to Children Training” course run by Susannah Hoffman (TriYoga Camden)