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Land & Teacher Acknowledgment

The Land and their People

I live and work on the traditional, unceded territory of the Tseshaht and Hupačasath First Nations - two of the fourteen nations of the Nuu-chah-nulth peoples of western Vancouver Island. These nations have tended this land, these forests, and these waters since time immemorial. Their relationship with this place is not history. It is present and ongoing and strong.

Every walk we take in the forest, every session held in this valley - it happens here, on this ground, because of that continuity. I am grateful to be received by it, and I want to name clearly that I am an uninvited settler.

ƛ̕eeko ƛ̕eeko (Thank you very much)

If you are Tseshaht or Hupačasath and would like to speak with me about this work and how it lives on your territory, I am here and I am listening.

The Teachers

This work has been shaped by many hearts, and I want to share a few.

In osteopathy, I was taught and influenced by Philippe Druelle, Geneviève Forget, and Alexandra Kaufmann. What they gave me was not only a body of knowledge - it was a way of listening. Of trusting what the hands feel before the mind explains it. That quality of attention is at the root of everything I do.

Danielle Searancke opened the language of mediumship for me - a vocabulary for what I had always sensed but could not yet name. She gave me access to trust what I was already receiving.

Darcia Dahl was my first mentor in intuitive bodywork. She showed me what it looked like to trust your own perception before the textbook - and in doing so, made it safe for me to do the same.

To Ida Rolf and Andrew Taylor Still - I honour your courage. You trusted your own experience at a time when that was not simple or safe, and you built something that others could learn from and carry forward. That lineage reaches me.