Here's my story
I began questioning conventional beliefs as a child and started exploring the nature of reality around 14 years of age. I went on to voraciously explore and study a wide array of body-mind practices and healing arts over the past 26 years. During this period, I went through approximately seven years of what some might refer to as a dark night of the soul culminating in a 16-month hermitage aimed at waking up.
The richness of these studies, the gamut of my life experiences, and a deep curiosity about reality, perception, and the seamlessly inter-connected mechanisms of mind and body have led to an increasingly integrated approach to healing work.
Little known fact: I started out as an engineer...but quickly knew this wasn't my path.
In addition to my therapeutic work, I taught Yoga for 15 years, co-developed and co-facilitated numerous 200-hour yoga teacher trainings for both Trinity Yoga and Gaiatri Yoga, and in recent years developed and facilitated Conscious Connected Breathwork Facilitator trainings and NÅ«ma Somatics Facilitator trainings. I have had the blessing of sharing these trainings and related workshops all across Canada as well as leading yoga retreats in Canada, Costa Rica, and Peru.
What matters to me ..
Our human community. Our human experience. Our shared messiness. Our creative, eccentric, passionate nature. Our never ending curiousity...
The Resume
So there was that early stint as an engineer and the BSc that accompanied it. That was just the beginning of my explorations, certifications, trainings and learnings.
- Diploma in Acupuncture Though I don't practice as an acupuncturist, my 3-year diploma in Acupuncture often influences my work with clients as I can often see connections within Chinese medicine..
- Transformational Breathing and other forms of Conscious Connected Breathwork. These trainings were the beginning of my journey into Breathwork and formed some of the basis of Numa Breathwork which I created in 2017.
- Somatic Experiencing ® Bodynamics Somatic Psychotherapy and Hakomi Body-Centered Psychotherapy, IFS (Internal Family Systems) have been incredibly strong influences in how I work and the courses and trainings I have and do create.
Other trainings and certificates I hold include Chi Nei Tsang (Visceral/Abdominal Massage), Acutonics® Vibrational Healing, Thai Massage, numerous personal development and spiritual growth group processes, North American and Peruvian Shamanism, and a wide range of personal practices including Shaolin Kung Fu, Tai Chi, Qigong, Hatha Yoga, Raja Yoga, Jnana Yoga, Vipassana and other forms of meditation, Contact Improvisation, and Continuum Movement.
Where to next?
Just You
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