Our 2023 Facilitators
Joan Fernandez
Warrior for change, Mindfulness, Inspirational Leader, Motivational Speaker, Conscious Learning and Empowering, Knowledge Sharing, Networking, New Immigrant Mentor, Energy healing, Reiki.
I am passionate about spreading positivity and empowerment by activating energy circuits, using the breath to still the mind and tend the heart, sitting in quiet stillness - simply being. intenSati has been the tool, which brought forth and continues to bring forth my best self.
intenSati is a practice where we move our body to create energy and joy. We use our breath and words to send messages to our body, we change our physiology, we accept our current circumstances, yet stand in our power and find our voice to be the person we were meant to be. Knowing that we are enough, we have enough and all we need is within us to be great, feel great, and do great.
Rhonda Hall-Couch
Rhonda is a local Metaphysical shop owner, Spiritual Specialist, Intuitive Medium, Reiki Master Teacher, Hypnotist, and Crystal Skull Guardian. Her shop is one of the largest and most diverse shops in SW Ontario. She has been a Reiki Practitioner for over 10 years and healing is her passion. Through a path of her own healing and connecting to source through meditation, she has learned much about the universe and how this all works.
Missy Vermeersch
Missy Vermeersch is a Reiki Master Teacher, Energy Worker, Sound Therapy Practitioner, Reiki Drum Healing Practitioner and Level 2 Animal Reiki Practitioner. She has her own home studio in St Thomas where she practices and teaches Reiki, holds workshops, and does individual and group Sound Baths.
She weaves Shamanic Practices into her teachings and sessions with clients, intuitively assisting them to own their own healing. Through her own spiritual journey and life experiences Missy has created a life path for herself of helping others to clear mental and physical blockages so they can heal themselves.
The Calming Crystal Cauldrons Sound Bath is a meditative experience where several sound instruments are used to help you achieve a relaxed mental and physical state and to help open and align your Chakras. Quartz Crystal singing bowls are used, along with other instruments such as a gong, crystal pyramid, tuning forks, drum, rattles, steel tongue drum and other instruments to guide you into a meditative state.
Christine Noble
Christine Noble, owner and founder of the Feel Good Institute, creator of AMP – Amplified Mindfulness Practice, published author, storyteller, certified life coach, Meditation Instructor, Hypnotherapist, and long-time entrepreneur. She has been ‘unplugged’ from normal for a long time. Creating a joy-filled life that works is the number 1 priority. A better life is super simple – that is bliss! Christine has been a long-time believer in the Law Of Attraction even before the term became popular. Her motto: “If you can think about yourself, you can do it because obstacles can be overcome.” Indeed, she has had a lot of obstacles to overcome yet the climb has been an adventurous journey with lots of stories to tell and experiences to share.
Liz Underhill
Many years ago, Liz found her Heartsong in the way of entertaining. She searched for several years to see what her purpose was and when she finally unleashed her Heartsong to sing and entertain, her entire world changed.
She entertained many with music and humour and after several years thought she should pursue something “serious” as she put it. She decided she would coach women to find their Heartsong, the desire in their hearts to follow their gifts and share with the world.
To further her “seriousness” along she became a hypnotist. Now a hypnotist, for fifteen years, she decided she would specialize in regression and health hypnotherapy for those who would like to explore a past life and to see what health issues in this life might possibly relate to another life.
Along with her passion to help others discover who they really are, with her “serious” side, she continues to be a passionate entrepreneur, author, entertainer, and publisher of a Good News Newsletter .
Liz Underhill. C.H. M.HT
Transformational Mind Coach
Certified Law of Attraction Coach
Changing the World One Smile at a Time
Dr. Hailee Young
Dr. Hailee Young PhD, is an energy specialist who is passionate about the bridge between science and spirituality. With extensive knowledge and training in the world of Quantum Physics and how that applies to us as human beings, she has created modalities rooted in that knowledge while flowing and entwining spirituality into it. As an intuitive healer, she combines the power of things like light language, karmic bond releasing, energy work, and powerful technology to help people break down blockages in their lives and bodies, and expand into the unconditionally loving, limitless beings we all truly are!
Barb Kunz
Barb Kunz is a Nia Blue Belt Instructor. She has taught people of all ages, body types and all abilities movement for the last 23 years. She is passionate about helping people find JOY in their movement. When people move with comfort and ease their bodies feel better resulting in a greater quality of life and happiness. Barb works with children, adults and seniors. Barb believes that we can be 'Stronger' and that a dose of 'Daily Joy' is important!
Helen Murray
Spiritual Money Coach, Energy Guide, Reiki Practitioner, Yoni Steam Practitioner, Meditation Teacher, Crystal Healing Practitioner, Ho' Opono Pono Practitioner, and creator of Good Vibrations Kombucha Helen is the Mary Poppins of Money Mindset; a little bit magic, a little tough love and a whole lot of action! In addition to helping you UpLevel your money, yourself and your business to $10,000.00 months she also helps online Intuitives, Healers and Coaches break the chains of generational poverty, scarcity and trauma and shift into wealth consciousness to become a Woman of Wealth.
Beatrix Enter
Beatrix has been blessed with the gift of intuitively affecting amazing change in many people, animals, and businesses through guidance from outer worldly sources. This Gift and Intuitiveness often provides insight, physical healing, clarity, emotional healing, and direction from the Angelic, Spiritual, and Extraterrestrial realms, including clients’ Past Loved Ones. Leaving behind the fast-paced corporate world, Beatrix answers her higher calling to facilitate the empowerment of individuals, businesses, families, and couples to direct their lives in ways that enhances and enriches their being in so many ways.
Celtae Lynne Baxter
Celtae Creatrix is a visual artist and singer/songwriter who creates healing and visionary art and music. After completing her degree in vocal performance and music at Western University, she embarked on a soul journey of her own, which led her to use singing and painting as integral parts of her healing process. Through therapy and various plant medicines, Celtae was able to shift her perspective on life and let go of past traumas. Her art and music allowed her to integrate her shadow work into beautiful expressions of her heart and soul. Renewed in voice and purpose, Celtae has released new music as a solo artist and as part of the band Collective Evolution, and opened up her art business for commissioned work and original visionary artworks. She creates art designed with intention to help people deepen their own spiritual awareness and connection. Celtae has even had her paintings accepted into the 7th Annual Toronto Visionary Art Exhibition. With feet firmly planted on the healing road, Celtae continues to explore, express, and create music and art that not only reveals her truth but will help others uncover theirs.
Dayna Dekroon
Dayna is an intuitive artist, medium and soul led guide. She is a mother to two beautiful daughters and lives in Lambton Shores ON. She works with inspired women to help them reconnect with their true self, their soul, so they can live a life with more ease, joy and freedom.
Dayna believes creativity and play are an essential part of our lives as the air we breathe and is on a mission to help women discover the joy in creativity and play. Dayna uses an intuitive approach to her work, surrendering, letting go of the end result and just allowing the process to unfold. She uses a variety of mediums such as acrylics, watercolour and pastels in her work. Each piece is unique and comes with a beautiful message/story.
Dayna offers various workshops and courses both online and in person. Combining her passions of art and intuition to help her students reconnect to themselves and the present moment.
Dayna also uses her gifts of art and intuitive abilities through intuitive Paint Readings and soul-led coaching to help her clients discover their souls' medicine, the medicine they need to come back into their hearts and to own their worth.
Chris Dancey
I am passionate about color and art! My earliest memory of being called an artist is when I was in Kindergarten. My teacher, Ms. Irwin, wrote in my report card that I have an artistic flair. After earning an Honors Degree in Fine Art from the University of Guelph, I also studied Interior Design at the University of Manitoba and Japanese Silk Dying at the Alberta College of Art. I’ve taught art and worked fulltime as an artist in both Alberta and Ontario. I recently designed and built a new home on the edge of a forest on my farm. My home includes a studio and gallery. In 1995, I created a large collection of paintings called COSMIC CONNECTIONS that were exhibited in Ontario and Germany. Currently, I’m working on Part II of this series.
Chris Dancey's Art, Heart and Hearth Studio and Gallery Dancey Family Farm
Christine Cardoza
Christine Cardoza is a Soul Transition coach for Entrepreneurs, Intuitives, and Indigos looking to gain clarity & confidence in what you're here to do. She is the owner of www.oasisofhealingspa.com with Salt Rooms in Waterloo, ON She teaches you how to clear your own root blocks using Human Design, German New Medicine, Quantum Energy, and emotional intimacy tools (lower 3 chakras) to shift and empower you to your next level of consciousness. Christine left a religious cult as a young teen and began experimenting with other religions. Her spiritual awakening led to healing her depression, addictions, generational childhood trauma, emotional intimacy dysfunction and finding her authentic voice. Now she helps you find your inner power & joy in the life you really want.
Allison Sophia
Allison Sophia is an Embodied Love & Leadership mentor who has been activating passion, pleasure, and play for thousands of people through her community development project Archer+Kow since 2018. Harnessing the powerful medicines of sound, music, dance, and our collective belonging, Allison alongside her best friend Kevin has been creating intentional events and festivals under a mission to ‘Elevate and Inspire the Empathic’. She is driven by the work that reconnects humans to nature, the elements, and the consciousness of our living planet as one with our own, helping people to disorganize the structured orders that live inside so that they can unleash and experience their most authentic and untamed expression. Through practices that offer a gateway to exploring their sensual wild nature and sacred ecstasy & aliveness, her group and individualized offerings are designed to cultivate an embodied sense of safety, connection, power and love. The intimate containers she creates allows people to access their own innate divinity and intelligence as one with nature and all life, and to develop the tools and skills that un-shame themselves and their experiences, their relationship with their bodies and sexuality, and to develop the courage to go after the dreams and desires their heart holds no matter how taboo or scary it may be. Through weaving Embodiment and Somatic Practices with Ritual and Ceremonial Arts, Allison helps sensitive and caring women and men to become strengthened by their story and Truth, activate empowering inner archetypes, and connect with the allies within to become Self resourced in their own capacity to fulfill their heart’s unique mission and vision in life, love, and leadership.
Sheila Horrell
Sheila Horrell has been drumming for the last 30 years, ever since being introduced to the primal magic of the drum by master percussionist Ubaka Hill.
After studying percussion with various drummers here and internationally, she has been facilitating workshops and Drum Circles for many groups in Southwestern Ontario, including schools, universities, camps, nursing homes, conferences and agencies.
The experience of introducing new drummers to the ease and joy of music making with the drum has been a prime motivator for Sheila's continued success. There is nothing like witnessing someone relaxing into their own rhythm and having fun contributing to the music of the whole drumming community.
As well as facilitating drumming, Sheila is also a member of percussion groups in London - including "The London Groove Collective", a group which weaves melody (sax and keyboard) with various percussion instruments to create everything from jazz fusion to ambient soundscapes. As well she sings and plays with WomenSpiritSong choir, and Joyful Noise choir. Sheila is a proud volunteer at My Sister's Place where weekly drumming on a Monday morning gets the week off to a fine start, and also volunteers with the Grand Theatre, the Women's Circle at Brescia and Heart-Links, a small London NGO which walks in solidarity with a community of women and children in the desert regions of Northern Peru.
ShantiMaya
ShantiMaya is Betty and Bill, from Kitchener, Ontario. They have been leading kirtan since 2014 and chanting for many years before that. ShantiMaya has trained with many of kirtan’s leading artists including David Newman, Seán Johnson and Brenda McMorrow, and have led kirtans at over 100 yoga studios, festivals and private events throughout North America.
ShantiMaya embraces traditional Sanskrit Mantras and layers them upon original melodies played on harmonium and classical guitar, while also sharing short tales and anecdotes about the mantras, their meanings and origins, and how they may be adopted for our own personal journeys in the twenty-first century.
In the studio, ShantiMaya has produced three studio albums covering a cross section of mantras from a diversity of sources from ancient India. The studio music has been described by David Newman as “a lush bhakti feast for the heart and senses! betty and bill’s voices embody a mystical quality and burst out of the music with compassion and deep devotion!”
Betty and Bill have shared a life journey of 40 years together as engineers, travellers, yogis and bhaktas. These long years of partnership become evident the moment the music starts to flow!
Collective Evolution
Collective Evolution was created by collaborators and life partners Kory Adcock and Celtae Lynne during the summer of 2020 – a project born of their shared desire to write uplifting music, bring people together, and celebrate a love of community.The songwriting duo are backed up by a full band on their debut album "Medicine Music”, and when they play live in concert to display their powerful high energy sound. Kory, the lead guitarist, has been a part of the London Music scene for over 15 years, playing all over Ontario while creating a total of 11 albums with Vultures Playing Ruckus and The Crystal Kage. Celtae graduated from Western University with a degree in Music and Vocal Performance, and released her first album as a solo artist back in the summer of 2016. Throughout the recording process, Collective Evolution worked with various different musicians to produce the unique sound and energy of their debut album. Collective Evolution's sound is a mixture drawn fromdifferent genres such as rock, reggae, soul and dub. With clear vocals, steady rhythm,and mean guitar solos, you can follow the beauty of the melody while still being able to groove along and dance to the music.
Ashley Park
Ashley Park supports others in deepening their connection with the nature by creating moments that let’s Earth teach. Ashley offers educational, therapeutic, and restorative experiences through guided Forest Therapy Sessions, Nature Connect Workshops, and herbal tea ceremonies. Forest Therapy is an ancient practice of bathing in the atmosphere of the forest. There are many benefits to having a guide to allow you to fully deepen without worrying about the time, where you are, or what to do next. Ashley will invite you to engage with nature with you natural sensory self after a guided meditation to aliven your sensory organs. With her you can find therapeutic value in your sensory experiences in nature in a safe, non-judgmental, gentle, container while healing your mind, body, and soul. Ashley believes that when you have knowledge, you have more compassion and understanding and are able to let go of fears. Some of the in-person and online workshops were created to educate the community on local ‘pests’, wildlife, and poisons plants to improve identification skills, prevention awareness, and confidence in treating ailments in the rare opportunity they may be experienced. Participants learn to prepare herbal remedies and are equipped with knowing to safely explore and bask in the healing powers of the natural world more openly. When we build connections with nature, we care and a positive byproduct is environmental awareness; healing the Earth, healing ourselves.
Ashley Park is a Certified Forest Therapy Guide, Herbal Educator and Student Practitioner with a Diploma in Child and Youth Work and over a decade experience working with youth and adults in the Addictions, Mental Health, and Developmental Services. Ashley brings 20 years’ experience as a facilitator and her ongoing training with trauma informed care and wellness practices to her offerings in the community. Her personal experiences healing from a traumatic brain injury and parenting a neurodivergent child have taken her passion for nature, deepening connections with the Earth, and nature’s healing powers into something sharable for the community.
Jen Hewson
Jen Hewson is the founder and inspiration behind She Rises. Several years ago, Jen was diagnosed with an invasive form of breast cancer.
She left her career in education and went on a quest to learn and discover how she could heal her mind, body, and spirit, which were destroyed by the effects of allopathic medicine, and a lifetime of trauma and abuse.
What she found were many extraordinary ways in which we all can heal. It is her mission to help facilitate this healing journey with those she works with, in her clinic Take Back Your Health, located in Springfield, Ontario.
