Find the practitioner who best suits your needs.
Shantini Iyngkaran
Naturopath | Herbalist | Yoga teacher | Personal Trainer
Shantini focuses on maternal care, including pre and postpartum experiences. She believes the vitality of a mother is the result of unconditional support, attuning the mother to her body and replenishing all her cups, emotionally, physically, and relationally. Shantini also has a special interest in gut and immune health.
Lucy Moores
Naturopath | Nutritionist | Herbalist | Yoga Teacher
Passionate about helping her patients rejuvenate, protect and balance one of the largest and most exposed organs of their body – the skin. Lucy helps you not only with skin as it relates to restoring your natural healthy glow and addressing dermatological issues, but also as relates to immune health, your microbiome, your hormones and your vaginal health.
Carly Woods
Buteyko Breath Coach | Life & Brain Coach | Naturopath
Breath, life and brain coaching in addition to naturopathic diet and lifestyle foundations have been so profoundly transformative to Carly’s own health that she feels compelled to help other women use these tools to grow and move beyond current obstacles to create the life they want. Carly teaches simple and powerful techniques that create significant change quickly. Step into creating the life you want.
Kiah McGowan
Registered Acupuncturist | Chinese Herbal Medicine Practitioner
Kiah is passionate about helping people struggling with stress, depression, anxiety, sleep, reproductive health and hormones. They are also the go to for general health (eg muscular pain or tension, fatigue, and digestive issues). In addition, Kiah offers Cosmetic Acu-facials with a signature treatment to enhance your skin’s natural radiance.
Our team
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Shantini Iyngkaran
NATUROPATH | YOGA TEACHER | PERSONAL TRAINER
Shantini Iyngkaran is a Naturopath whose practice focuses on maternal care including pre and postpartum experiences. She believes the vitality of a mother is the result of unconditional support, attuning the mother to her body and replenishing all her cups, emotionally, physically, and relationally.
She also has a special interest in gut and immune health. As someone who has struggled with her own health challenges in these areas, she approaches this with lived experience and compassion.
Shantini values time and presence in her consults as she learns about the individuals physical, spiritual, emotional, and home health. She discerns a variety of modalities, techniques, herbal, and nutritional knowledge to identify and support health needs.
Shantini brings insights to her work from her multifaceted career as a solicitor, entrepreneur, personal trainer and yoga teacher. Her multi-passionate approach to her career and life, allows her to provide a holistic and tailored naturopathic practice.
When she isn’t working at the Melbourne Apothecary, you will either find Shantini walking in nature, with her beloved pooch, Sir Waffles, creating in the kitchen, serving her local community, enjoying a matinee at the cinemas or relishing the company of her friends. She is a connoisseur of hugs, so if you feel like a warm embrace, book in with her.
As someone who deeply values connection and community, Shantini is currently offering free Naturopathic 10-minute consults to help to get you started towards better health. These sessions are a chance for you to make sure the therapeutic relationship is a great fit and get clarity about what you want to achieve on your health journey.
Book a free 10-minute consult to get started working with Shantini
Navigate to “Naturopath – Apothecary General Health”
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Lucy Moores
NATUROPATH | NUTRITIONIST | YOGA TEACHER
Book a free 10 minute introduction consult with Lucy Moores
Lucy Moores is a passionate nutritionist and naturopath dedicated to helping you achieve optimal health and wellness. She has a particular passion for helping her patients rejuvenate, protect and balance one of the largest and most exposed organs of their body – the skin. Lucy helps you not only with skin as it relates to restoring your natural healthy glow and addressing dermatological issues, but also as relates to immune health, your microbiome, your hormones and your vaginal health.
With her expertise in nutrition and naturopathy she can offer a unique perspective and comprehensive support to guide towards a balanced and vibrant life.
After dedicating 8 years of her life to studying and immersing herself in the field of natural healing, Lucy’s passion for this transformative approach to health burns brighter than ever. As a qualified nutritionist, Lucy has a deep understanding of the vital role that proper nutrition plays in optimising well-being. Having personally experienced the challenges of autoimmune disease, she knows firsthand the impact this can have on quality of life. This personal journey ignited a passion for exploring the intricate connection between nutrition, autoimmunity and inflammation and she believes that food can be one of our most powerful medicines.
Additionally, as a qualified naturopath, Lucy combines the best of traditional healing with evidence-based natural therapies. As mentioned, Lucy has a special interest in all types of dermatological skin concerns as well as vaginal health, menstrual irregularities and general immune or inflammatory conditions.
She is passionate about collaborative health care and integrates functional testing alongside natural healing principles, enabling a comprehensive understanding of your body’s unique needs.
Lucy’s greatest joys come from witnessing transformations with her patients as they make positive changes in their lives. She provides compassionate guidance and unwavering support throughout your wellness journey, empowering you to take control and live your best life.
Lucy takes her passion beyond one on one consultations and educates and inspires the wider community through workshops and patient education. Her goal is to create awareness and empower you to gain a deeper understanding of your body and equip you with the tools to make positive changes that promote optimal health and radiant skin.
Embark on a transformative journey with Lucy to revitalise your quality of life, restore your skin from within, reclaim your vaginal and hormonal health and/or nourish your immunity!
Lucy is available via telehealth and in person.
Book a free 10 minute introduction consult with Lucy Moores
Navigate to “Naturopath – The Melbourne Apothecary”
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Carly Woods
BUTEYKO BREATH COACH
LIFE & BRAIN COACH
NATUROPATH
PRACTICE DIRECTOR
Book a free 10 minute introduction consult with Carly Woods > under heading “Coaching”
Buteyko Breath Coaching with Carly for total health
Carly is passionate about teaching people simple and powerful ways to be able to regulate their nervous systems and enhance healing using Buteyko breathing therapy and Naturopathic lifestyle support, because these are foundational aspects that have been so profoundly transformative to her own health. Carly believes in making health fun, engaging, and practical. She loves to give you simple tools to help resolve your stress and anxiety, optimise your respiratory health, enhance your sleep and soothe your digestion. Carly runs Deep Rest Buteyko workshops, retreats, talks and trainings for patients nationally and online. Book online for a 1:1 breath coaching with Carly (under heading ‘Coaching”).
Begin to experience the effects of healthier breathing ahead of time by accessing Carly’s Free Buteyko Breathing Starter Pack. Maximise your healthy life by rewiring the patterns of your respiratory tract, nourishing your nervous system, resting easy with better sleep and easing your digestion by using these simple Buteyko breathing techniques.
Life & Brain Coaching for women who want to grow, transform and move beyond current obstacles to create a life and experience that you choose on purpose, not accept by default. This work is exceptional and life changing - highly recommend for women who want to understand and work on their default patterns (emotional, thought, mood, behavioural), as well as women who feel like they’re in any situation of discomfort and want help navigating through it and out the other side.
Carly is qualified as a naturopath, Buteyko breathing practitioner (trained by Patrick McKeown) and certified Life Coach in the Brooke Castillo Life Coach School lineage. In 2020 Carly bought into and became co-owner and co-director of the renowned Melbourne Naturopathic fertility practice, Fertile Ground Health Group alongside her partner, Charmaine Dennis. In the same year (whilst navigating COVID in Melbourne) both women birthed naturopathic general health practice, The Melbourne Apothecary.
Book a free 10 minute introduction consult with Carly Woods > under heading “Coaching”
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Kiah McGowan
REGISTERED ACUPUNCTURIST | CHINESE HERBAL MEDICINE PRACTITIONER
Kiah is a Traditional Chinese Medicine practitioner who completed studies at University of Technology, Sydney, as well as at the Chengdu University of TCM in China. In their 4 years of practice, Kiah has developed a deep understanding and respect for holistic health, and treating people as whole beings rather than just their symptoms. Their goal is to cultivate a space where you feel valued, heard, and supported in your journey toward balance.
Kiah has a personal passion for mental health - initially finding Chinese Medicine in their teenage years as relief for anxiety and insomnia, they now find it incredibly fulfilling to help those struggling with stress, depression, anxiety and sleep issues. Kiah quickly began to discover their fascination with female reproductive health early in to their studies, and enjoys seeing people along their journey through all aspects of hormonal health: from regulating hormones and cycles, promoting optimal fertility and conception, assisting during pregnancy, supporting mothers through the postnatal phase and the transition to menopause. Kiah also provides Acu-facials: a signature combination of traditional Chinese facial tool massage and cosmetic acupuncture to enhance the skin’s natural radiance.
Outside of these special interests, Kiah works enthusiastically as a general health practitioner, being able to apply holistic problem-solving skills to all areas of health and the concerns that may arise with them. On a regular day, Kiah may see everything from shoulder pain, to anxiety, to gut issues, the period pain, to sinusitis. Kiah is committed to nurturing a sense of understanding and self-awareness within all their clients, so that they may recognise the ways their body speaks to them through their symptoms.
Kiah loves to balance the ancient intricacies of Chinese Medicine with their love for modern science and research, and enjoys practicing in an evidence-based manner. Kiah believes in empowering individuals on their path to health, both inside and outside the acupuncture room. They do this through creating highly structured treatment plans which highlight weekly at-home self care tasks, so that patients can take an active role in their healing journey.
Ready to get your journey started?
Book in with Kiah for acupuncture.
Navigate to “Acupuncture”