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A foundation of peace and welcoming energy embodies my environment, transforming my approach with my practice.
This is the stage for trust and honest dialogue to settle in.
Not only do I ensure this environment for people entering my space, but it must exude all the qualities I should need to exist in this space on earth.
My space is sacred to me. It’s a place where I can draw in. Become centered. Set an intention to be present, engaged.
I hold space to educate and empower people that I work with. I am a conduit and it is with utmost sincerity I provide my presence for patients or students.
Be it in my SOMATIC RESTORATIVE YOGA or my manual CRANIOSACRAL THERAPY practice, I encourage people to commend themselves ,to give themselves self acknowledgment and self love.
My requirements are my vast training and my ability to provide a safe, nourishing, trusting environment for processes to unfold. I am so very pleased when a person makes a conscious decision to want to create room for their body to shift, release and unwind. I am honoured to provide and hold space for those willing and wanting to step in, sink in and embrace the journey.
I encourage people to have a relationship with their body. To look in the mirror to say I love you and really mean it. To say, I love all of me.
Self love is a foundation for living. If you cannot love yourself how can you love others? How can you let others love you?
It’s with positive affirmations towards our self and our bodies that allow a relationship with oneself....
Last year I read, A Time For GRACE
SACRED GUIDANCE for EVERYDAY LIFE, by Caroline Myss. I feel this book was transformational for me. I am a soul not a body. I borrow a body. When I am in touch with my soul, that is that gut feeling, that sixth sense I have.
When creating my boutique studio I knew I needed to have heated floors. We live in a four season climate. Being that my studio is in the basement it’s always going to be cooler than the rest of the house. This might be welcoming in the summer months when it’s very hot, but it’s not in the spring winter or fall. I have been to studios that did not have heated floors and I pretty much wore my toque and a lot of clothing during a class. I was not comfortable.
This experience set the stage for how I wanted to present my space. It had to have heated floors. I want the ultimate comfort for myself, my patients and students.
Various breathing techniques are always brought fourth. Whether you’re having Craniosacral Therapy, taking a Somatic Restorative Yoga class or have booked into a Somatic Yoga Series Workshop. Conscious breathing, stimulates the parasympathetic (rest and digest) nervous system. Focussed deep conscious breathing, changes our brain waves from beta to alpha. Which is a reflective restful brain state.
Everything I offer in my practice, I actively do in my own life.
GUIDED MEDITATION encourages visualization, concentration and gives the mind a job to do. Truly what meditation brings to us is the ability to separate ourselves from the mind. If I don’t give my mind a job to do it will find a job, and usually that job is reverting to the past. I should have done this, tendencies. Or jumping to the future. I want this to happen this way. Will I get what I want? Will it all work out? Both can cause anxiety.
Guided meditation helps, relieve stress, manage anxiety, reduce inflammation, pain, and improves memory and attention.
SOMATIC YOGA is a gentle inward practice. It relieves or dissolves, persistent pain conditions. Posture and flexibility is greatly improved when doing somatic’s. This type of yoga reduces or eliminates, muscle, stiffness and cramping, boosts health, vitality, and well-being.
Somatic Movements are science and heart based. A whole body approach for self healing. Most people experience immediate and long lasting results.
What I love most, is, Somatic movement encourages a loving, compassionate, and trusting relationship with your body.
RESTORATIVE YOGA is a practice of surrender that helps the body integrate and heal rest and relaxation are the key elements to healing processes that take place in the body to help us rest and relax Restorative Yoga encourages well-being for the body mind and soul.
It is a quiet practice that harnesses the power of stillness and emphasizes psychological and physical support and comfort. The intention is to promote the deep effects of stress in our lives. This type of yoga differs from others in that the goal. Stretch or strengthen muscle muscles, but to tap into the Resources to establish balance.
Poses are held for long haul times and are done with the support of props to support the body in comfortable positions. This encourages 100% relax.. Nothing is held, and the time is truly Restorative. When sinks into and melts with the divine earth, giving one self over to space and stillness.
CRANIOSACRAL THERAPY Therapy (CST) is a gentle, hands-on method of evaluating and enhancing the functioning of a physiological body system called the craniosacral system - comprised of the membranes and cerebrospinal fluid that surround and protect the brain and spinal cord. Using a soft touch generally no greater than 5 grams, or about the weight of a nickel, practitioners release restrictions in the craniosacral system, which has been shown to improve the functioning of the central nervous system, as well as many other systems of the body, such as digestive, musculoskeletal, respiratory, circulatory, and more. CST has also been shown to help with the physical components related to such somatic conditions as Post Traumatic Stress, depression and anxiety.
MUSCLE ENERGY TECHNIQUE uses the muscles own energy in the form of gentle isometric contractions to relax the muscles via autogenic or reciprocal inhibition and lengthening.
Namaste ~
“The divine in me, recognizes and honours the divine in you.”
It’s waking up to the divine God-Love energy that runs throughus all, connecting us in sacred and indisputable ways. To truly love and honor all people with all their limitations.”
