A Greeting from Nicola (she/they)
Registered Social Worker. Somatic Experiencing Practicioner. Trauma Center-Trauma Sensitive Yoga Facilitator.
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We're wired for connection, but it doesn't mean we feel that connection. Too often many of us feel isolated and alone, disconnected from who we are or want to be. There might be a longing for things to change, maybe to feel at home in your own skin, but instead there is a feeling of being stuck. Change, healing, and transitions don't have to feel overwhelming or exhausting. Consider an experience of change with greater ease, embodying a presence of connection, joy or kindness? "And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom," Anais Nin This is an invitation to take steps towards your becoming and your belonging through choice, vulnerability, and movement. Together, we will engage with a gentle and trauma-informed approach that offers generative opportunities to befriend your body and clarify your sense of self, to feel some calmness and clarity in your thoughts. I take time to meet you where you're at, engaging with curiosity while supporting you to gain direction for your life. I refer to myself as a body and land-based practitioner, bridging the internal landscape with the wilds of the land. So much so, outdoor sessions are available to integrate land-based inquiry into your healing journey. In addition, collaboratively designed private land-based boutique retreats are available upon request. Combining skills developed within my Masters of Social Work at the University of Calgary, I integrate years of experience as a wilderness expedition facilitator with Outward Bound Canada. As someone who has healed from chronic lyme disease, I believe in the importance of spiritual connection. fostering a relationship with embodiment, and working softer. As a registered Social Worker, I integrate support for one's nervous system and body as a Somatic Experiencing Practicioner®️ (SEP) with a trauma informed lens and as a movement practicioner of Somatic Yoga applying my skills as a facilitator, trainer and supervisor in Trauma Center- Trauma Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY) through the Center for Trauma and Embodiment. I am inspired and humbled by healing journeys that require vulnerability, humility and sometimes a leap of faith mixed in with some playfulness! I support youth aged 17 or 18 years old and adult individuals within my practice, striving to collaboratively create a space for you to authentically engage iwth your pathway to connection and belonging. Please reach out when the timing feels right for you. If you have any questions, please feel free to visit my website at www.traumasensitiveyogawest.ca or reach out to me via email at [email protected]. I look forward to when our paths cross! Warmly, Nicola Pronouns: she/they |
Dr. Melissa Jay is an Indigenous, Nehiyaw-Métis member of the Métis Nation of Alberta. Canmore Counselling is located Châ Ûpchîchîyen Kudebi (translated from Îyârhe Nakoda as “shooting at the willows”), colonially known as Canmore. The physical location of Canmore Counselling & the Trauma-Informed Yoga Psychology is in the beautiful Rocky Mountains, which is considered Treaty 7 land and home of Métis Nation of Alberta, Region III, and the traditional territory of the Îyârhe Nakoda, including the Bearspaw, Chiniki, and Wesley First Nations, as well as the Tsuut’ina First Nation, and the Blackfoot Confederacy, including the Siksika, Piikani, and Kainai First Nations. As an act of reconciliation and commitment to decolonization, we are committed to the TRC's Calls to Action.
At Canmore Counselling, we are also privileged to be yoga students, practitioners, and guides. Our offerings centre on the root of yoga as Indigenous to South Asia, and we are grateful to learn from and amplify the South Asian practitioners and teachers whenever possible. We are grateful for the eight limbs of yoga, as taught by Patanjali. It is a joy to walk alongside our incredible alumni of the Trauma-Informed Yoga Psychology School as they create opportunities for care, connection & curiosity within their communities.
We believe wholeheartedly that community, social justice, decolonization, anti-oppression, and anti-racism are inherent to trauma-informed care. Thank you for being here.
At Canmore Counselling, we are also privileged to be yoga students, practitioners, and guides. Our offerings centre on the root of yoga as Indigenous to South Asia, and we are grateful to learn from and amplify the South Asian practitioners and teachers whenever possible. We are grateful for the eight limbs of yoga, as taught by Patanjali. It is a joy to walk alongside our incredible alumni of the Trauma-Informed Yoga Psychology School as they create opportunities for care, connection & curiosity within their communities.
We believe wholeheartedly that community, social justice, decolonization, anti-oppression, and anti-racism are inherent to trauma-informed care. Thank you for being here.