MY JOURNEY

Nutrition

My journey initially started with nutrition, with the intention to resolve my mental health issues and understand how to heal the body with food. After coming to understand how much food influences our internal world, I was driven to learn everything I could about eating closer to nature, and received my diploma as a Registered Holistic Nutritionist back in 2013. Since then, I have remained dedicated to my eating practices, and continue to grow and evolve my knowledge base around what it means to eat holistically, & why nourishing the body naturally is so important. Having healed my own relationship to food, I was for a very long time driven to help others shift their habits and thought patterns surrounding the food we eat and the choices we make. Although this background in holistic eating continues to influence my offering in a profound way, it is no longer my primary focus.

Movement

I began my fitness journey in my early adolescence, taking up martial arts, dance, running, and a daily workout routine. Later, I began my yoga practice using DVDs that I would practice at home. Around age 17, I made my way into a proper yoga studio and fell madly in love with the practice and all it’s powerful healing benefits. However, in 2016 I discovered the Bowspring algorithm – a wildly dynamic, functional, and deeply primal movement practice, and began training one-on-one with my teacher, Elisha Jane. The practice made me strong and light, taught me how to use my body in a healthier, more functional way, and has since transformed every aspect of my life both on and off the mat. I officially gave up yoga in 2017, and completely shifted my focus to exploring this revolutionary practice, as well as many other modalities that support functional movement & full-bodied expression. I have not looked back since.

Intuitive movement & full body awareness continues to be a major emphasis within the practices I teach today - when you work with me, rest assured I will have you dancing, shaking, jumping, & wiggling every step of the way!

Spirituality

Above all else however, I can say with confidence that turning my heart towards a spiritual path has been the most critical shift in my healing and wellness journey, and is by far my most powerful offering.

I was raised non-religious, and although I dabbled in spirituality as a child – reading the bible and finding comfort in prayer – I eventually turned away from it as I moved into early adolescence and became “religiously atheist”, rooting my faith firmly in science and logic.

I began to shift my perspective in 2010, when I was invited by a friend to a Christian festival. This event, although putting me exceedingly outside my comfort zone, left me with one very important realization: this may not be the right path for me, but I knew with certainty that I was desperate to feel whatever it was they were feeling in there – that faith, that devotion, that Love for something bigger than ourselves.

The philosophy and practice of yoga eventually became my church, and I began seriously studying the yogic path in 2012 – reading yogic texts such as the Bhagavad Gita and the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. As well, I had heard about Vipassana meditation in 2014, and finally got up the courage to attend a ten-day silent meditation course in January 2016. My only intentions going in were to challenge my capacity and to strengthen my seated meditation practice.

However, I didn’t realize just how potent this practice could be, and mid-way through the course I experienced a profound & earth shattering spiritual awakening experience that forced me to start looking far beyond the physical realms for the Truth I had been seeking. I was never the same again. The wisdom and healing that came through was powerful, and from that moment I devoted my life to transforming my inner world on a grand scale.

I began pulling the weeds from my inner garden relentlessly, meditating daily and paying close attention to everything that occurred within the confines of my mind and body. I took careful inventory of what programs had been running subconsciously all my life, how and why they had been put into place.

I completed multiple 10-day silent meditation courses, a vision fast in Death Valley, read countless self-help and spiritual books, explored practices for raising vibrations in the body and tapping into our innate psychic powers, opened my channel to receive wisdom, attended workshops with channels, teachers, monks, and shamans, listened to lectures and speeches from every spiritual teacher I could find, took wisdom from tarot, astrology, and Source Herself, and began ceremoniously incorporating plant medicine and other sacred psychoactive medicines (such as psilocybin mushrooms, bufo alvarius, cannabis, LSD, huachuma, peyote, ceremonial tobacco, and ayahuasca) into my lifestyle.

I have been jumping deep into the mystical abyss, and am profoundly honoured & grateful to be able to share the wisdom I have gained from this journey with the world in hopes that it might be the Light that guides others towards their own path to healing.

May we all rise together as One.

xo Cecilia