Meet Marijana
Hello! Let me introduce myself properly...
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I help women restore their health and calm through natural solutions for gut health, energy, and emotional wellbeing. My approach blends naturopathy, herbal medicine, nutrition, and energy healing to address the root cause — not just the symptoms. Consultations are available in Ponsonby (at The Life Center, 88 Jervois Rd) and online for North Shore clients seeking support for digestion, stress, anxiety, or low mood.
If there’s one thing I want you to know about working with me, it’s that you are heard!
So often I meet people who feel disappointed or unheard by conventional treatments — not because they didn’t try, but because no one truly took the time to listen. That’s where I begin — by understanding your story, your symptoms, and the underlying factors that may be affecting your health. Only when we uncover the real cause can we create a wellness plan that truly supports your body’s healing.
Many of my clients come to me seeking natural support for existing health conditions or simply because they no longer feel like themselves — tired, anxious, or unsure what’s causing their discomfort. Whether you’re looking for a natural complement to conventional medicine or an alternative path, my approach bridges both worlds. I believe nature knows best, yet I also value the role of modern medicine when it helps the body heal rather than just mask symptoms.
My passion for naturopathy grew from personal experience. I watched my parents rely on daily medication with ongoing side effects and saw my son transform from an anxious, allergy-prone child into a healthy, happy young man through natural therapies. I’ve also walked this path myself — overcoming anxiety, depression, digestive issues, and hypothyroidism that conventional medicine couldn’t resolve. Through naturopathy, herbal medicine, nutrition, mindfulness, and energy healing, I restored my own health and vitality.
Inspired by these transformations, I changed my career from environmental science to natural health, completing a Bachelor in Naturopathy & Herbal Medicine and a Diploma in Nutrition at Wellpark College. My deep empathy and life experience allow me to connect with people from all walks of life, creating a safe and supportive space for true healing. I’m passionate about helping women and families achieve vibrant health, calm, and balance — naturally.
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Marijana Jovanovic
What is Naturopathy and Herbal Medicine?
Those 6 principles are followed throughout your health journey with me. Starting from our first meeting and sharing your story, developing your individualised treatment plan, and supporting You to make changes in your own pace towards your optimal health.
Naturopathic therapeutic treatment includes nutritional and lifestyle recommendations, herbal formulas, and practitioner only nutritional supplements and products. Practitioners only products are developed and backed up with scientific research, in order to provide maximal absorption and efficacy.
Herbal Medicine is the oldest form of medicine and has been practiced by many cultures going back 60, 000 years ago. Herbs produce chemicals (phytoconstituents) to defend from insects, diseases and environment and we can use these chemicals to support health. Herbal medicine is sourced from medicinal plants and could be used in food, drink, bath, skin or specially prescribed herbal tincture by herbalist. Many pharmaceutical medications were derived from plant compounds (Aspirin from Willow and Birch; Quinine from Cinchona Calisaya, Morphine from Opium poppy, Digoxin from Foxglove, etc). However, during the process of isolation of only one herbal compound we losing the benefit from rest of constituents in that herb. Our bodies recognise whole herb and know how to use for correcting and supporting biochemical pathways. Our bodies often cannot utilise and often reject (side effects) individual constituents produced in the chemical laboratories.
Naturopathy is natural health care that combines naturopathic wisdom and evidence based science for prevention and treatment of chronic and acute health problems.
Naturopath will look systemically through body functions right to cellular levels and biochemical pathways assisted with latest scientific research, in order to discover root cause of your health imbalance.
The naturopathic philosophy is based on healing power of nature, body’s innate ability to heal itself and supports the Vital Force that guides all living things towards growth and healing. Everything in the World is made of four elements and their interactions. These are your Spirit, Mind, Body, and Heart and You are manifested through these four elements. By restoring balance of those four elements You will get back to who You really are, and achieve optimal health.
Naturopathic
Medicine is built on six foundational principles:
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First, Do No Harm
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The Healing Power of Nature
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Identify and Treat the Cause
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Doctor as a Teacher
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Treat a Whole Person
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Prevention
ENERGY HEALING
Your entire nervous system is represented as electromagnetic web interlacing every major organ and it is interconnected with every other system of your body. This electromagnetic web could be supported and improved by energy healing.
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Energy medicine is based on the principles that any physical, mental, or behavioural issue has a corresponding part in the body’s energies, and can be treated at that level. Energy medicine provides a holistic approach to healing by addressing not only your body, mind, and spirit, but working with your emotions, past trauma, and your relationships.
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Traditional healers and practitioners for many thousand years have supported the body’s natural healing abilities, by balancing Qi, applying breathwork, Ayurvedic medicine, Shamanic energy healing practices, Reiki, Chinese medicine. Current scientific research has demonstrated that different forms of energy medicine promote healing. From reducing anxiety and stress and assisting therapies for other chronic diseases, through chakra balancing, meridian clearing and improving vitality with the wisdom of Yoga, Breath, Qigong, mindfulness and energy healing.
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Fixing just a physical and emotional body will not resolve all health and other issues that you might have been experiencing in life. Like you experience pain, blockages and inflammation in physical body, equally blockages and mucus are built over the time in your energy field. Those energy blocks were formed due to emotional and spiritual conditioning during your childhood, while you were in mother womb, in some of your past lives, or just simply transferred through generational DNA. Energy healing allows release of our personal and ancestral stories that often keep us trapped in unhealthy, destructive, and unfulfilling lives.
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Optimal Wellness can be achieved only through ultimate balance and harmony between body, mind and soul. Applying energy healing we are able to directly clear and remove specific frequencies and stagnant energies from your bio-energy field to restore the natural flow of life force energy through your body. Once back into alignment you will be able to see clearly what your life path is, dream big again and achieve your goals.