Dr. Tanis Farish, PhD. Founder of W+W Lab
Tanis is an advocate and ambassador for life long movement and mental health. She has been a teacher and researcher in the fitness & performance field for over 25 years. Curious and inspired through her training as a clinical exercise physiologist, health coach and yoga instructor, her research focuses on the connection of how we move, feel, and think.
She holds a doctorate in the area of mental health and fitness promotion where she conducted her research with the Department of National Defense. She also holds degrees in coaching (MEd – University of Victoria) and life sciences (BSc – Queens University). Tanis teaches and conducts research in the Centre for Sport and Exercise Education at Camosun College in Victoria BC. She is an adjunct faculty in the School of Public Health at the University of Alberta and is a lecturer and graduate supervisor at several other post secondary institutions.