Education

Statement of Teaching Philosophy I use an intermodal approach through the arts to teach. I believe the best way to learn is experiential. I work as a client-centered therapist and support worker. I believe in experiential education as the basis of integrated knowledge that can give all students practical tools. The intermodal curriculum foundations are […]

When the external sensory field has disappeared, but sleep has not yet come, that liminal mental state is attainable in which the Supreme Goddess (Parā Devī) manifests. || 75 – Christopher Wallis Yoga Nidra is a state of conscious deep rest, where the body falls asleep, the analytical mind falls asleep, but awareness remains aware.

A small bundle sits beside me at the river, tucked tightly in a woven cloth; from above, you can see the geometric shapes and bands of colour that cross the centre, and you might notice the way it is ribboned closed with a plaited tie lined of a similar pattern. It is wrapped with care,

*This story contains disturbing images, topics of mass incarceration, harm, and, violence.  As I lie in crocodile pose, I feel my belly is cold from the concrete gym floor. As my cheek rests on my hands, I move my head from one side, then the other. The class has gone silent; you can feel the

In my current GDE course at SFU, Holistic Approaches to Teaching and Learning, our term focus was on Self-study. We were asked to inquire about the “ecology of our being” by initiating a writer’s practice, a land practice and a maker’s practice. Greatly inspired by the Indigenous Poesis and Métissage frameworks offered through the writings

 “What is the Soul, Christine asks?” We sit together in the abnormally warm October sun. Some of us tuck away into pockets of shade, bolstered up by the driftwood that lines Camp Fircom’s beach. For three nights, a group of 15 of us have gathered for the second annual Shamanic Yoga Community Retreat in the

In each direction of the Medicine Wheel, we encounter and learn from an archetypal guide. These aspects of consciousness act as mirrors of our own gifts, showing us the power and capacity of our being. An archetype is a collectively inherited model, idea or pattern that can be found universally present in all individuals, like

Salutations to Lord Shiva, who eternally (through his Shakti) brings about the five processes (of manifestation, maintenance, re-absorption, concealment and self-revelation or grace); who gives the supreme knowledge that the Self – a mass of awareness and joy – is the highest reality.  Ksemaraja, Pratyabhijnahrdayam What is Non-Dual Tantra?In The Woman, the Artist, and the

After months, even years of restrictions, we gathered once more for an evening of kirtan. On nights such as this, the community floods the cozy four walls of the Yoga Studio in downtown Squamish. Children snake around bolsters and bodies, on their countless trips to the snack table, while past students, friends, family, and newcomers

By definition, lineage is an unbroken line of descendants that trace their origin from a common ancestor or founder. In the context of mystery schools, this refers to a sacred tradition of passing knowledge from teacher to student through a series of secret transmissions and initiations decided upon by the master. Most lineages are exclusive