About The School
A Founder-Led School for Practice, Transformation, and Sacred Study
Shamanic Yoga Institute brings together shamanic practice, yoga, expressive arts, mentorship, retreat, and leadership development within one coherent field of work. Rooted in the Siyám Smánit Dharma Mesa Path and the Medicine Wheel, the school offers a serious and relational path for students seeking depth, integrity, and transformation.
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School Story
We are a collective of teachers and mentors committed to training practitioners in the technologies of the soul through Shamanism, Yoga and Expressive Arts.
We are currently aligning with post-lineage Yoga and a feminist perspective for collective liberation and working for social change. Our open learning mystery school is based out of the mountains, rivers and trees of Squamish, British Columbia.
We practice nature informed Yoga and Shamanism.
Founded by Dr. Christine Selda, in close partnership with Rochelle Quarry, MEd, the school grew as a grassroots, female-led field of practice shaped by long study, direct experience, and lived devotion to the work
Vision
The school honours ancient sacred technologies in forms that remain rigorous, relevant, and alive. Its work is oriented toward healing, awakening, participation, and trustworthy service.
Spiritual and Land Acknowledgement
We acknowledge with a moment of silence the impact of patriarchy, of colonization on the medicine peoples and the conquest of the land, of all that has been lost due to appropriation, racism, abuse, oppression, exploitation and forgetting. We acknowledge that we are doing this work on the unceded territory of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh peoples.
We bow to Shakti and the motherland of Yoga. We bow to the medicine people of the Andes, the mothers of our mesas in this lifetime. We bow to the mountains, the stars, Mother Earth and the waters of this land of the Sea to Sky in British Columbia, Canada as our teachers now.
We aim to uplift all beings, in all worlds, to activate hope as individuals and for the Earth and Cosmos. We aim to untangle the roots of division and to stop the violence within and without.; to live in right relationship, uncondition love and widen the circle of inclusion.
May we remain devoted to the heart of inquiry and philosophy; to keep learning and unlearning, to be teachable as devoted students of life with full engagement; to participate and share where there is need. May our work be of service in some way.
What the School Holds
At its heart, the school brings together Mountain Shamanism, Shakta/Shaiva Tantra, Bhakti Yoga, Hatha Yoga, and Expressive Arts in ways that ask not only for learning, but for practice.
We stand for love, liberation, and truth.
The purpose of our school is to share methodology and practices that open individuals up to their own power and to engage people in their own healing.
Through experiential learning, we believe we can cultivate a better understanding of what it means to be in right relationship with ourselves, each other and the earth and cosmos.
Our aim has always been to dissolve the barriers so that this work continues.
Our hope is to widen our community of risk-takers, change-makers, artists, and leaders who contribute to a just world for all.
Student Experience
Students often come for training and stay for the wider field: mentorship, community, retreat, and a deepened relationship with the sacred, with land, and with their own work in the world.
Can you participate in the world with a multiplicity of perspectives and hold the space with integrity?
Can you call AND respond?
Can we Listen without Judgement and collaborate instead of compete?
Enter Through the Root of the Work
For many, the Medicine Wheel is the clearest beginning. From there, the wider pathways of the school unfold
About The School FAQ
The Shamanic Yoga Institute is a small, grassroots, female-owned school and collective of teachers and mentors focused on training practitioners in the technologies of the soul through shamanism, yoga, and expressive arts.
The school is based in Squamish, British Columbia, and our work is rooted in the local mountains, rivers, and trees. We also co-create retreats throughout the world.
At the Shamanic Yoga Institute, Shamanic Yoga is a nature-informed approach that brings together shamanic practice, yoga, and expressive arts to support healing, awakening, and right relationship with self, community, Earth, and cosmos.
Our work draws from Mountain Shamanism, the medicine teachings of the Andes, Himalayas, and coastal mountains of the Pacific Northwest, as well as sacred yogic and tantric texts such as the Upanishads, Bhagavad Gita, Yoga Sutras, Devi Mahatmyam, Prtyabijnahrdyam, and Vijnana Bhairava Tantra.
