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<h3 class="widget-title">My Certifications</h3>			<ul>
<li>​​Can Fit Pro Certified Personal Trainer</li>
<li>Can Fit Pro Certified Group Fitness Instructor</li>
<li>Medical Exercise Specialist</li>
<li>Certified Yoga Teacher with Chakra Yoga school 340hours</li>
<li>Yin Yoga Teacher Training</li>
<li>Core Strength Vinyasa Yoga Instructor</li>
<li>Rainbow Kid yoga</li>
<li>Tabata Bootcamp Instructor</li>
<li>Zumba Instructor</li>
<li>Bellydance teacher certified Level 1 &amp; 2 with Hadia</li>
<li>Thai&nbsp;Massage level 1 with Lotus Palm School</li>
<li>Holistic Nutrition Certificate</li>
<li>Spin Instructor</li>
<li>Drum Alive Instructor</li>
<li>Bellyfit Instructor</li>
<li>Classical Stretch Method</li>
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<h3 class="widget-title">﻿My Journey</h3>			<p><strong>Growing up﻿</strong><br>
I have always been active. In high school, I was a competitive swimmer and kickboxer.&nbsp;At age 19, I was badly injured in a car accident. I suffered a broken femur, cracked ribs and emotional shock. It was a major turning point in my life. My road to recovery created a deeper appreciation for holistic healing as I learned to overcome my injuries through healthy lifestyle choices and fitness. One holistic therapy led to another: &nbsp;herbal medicine,&nbsp;bellydance, therapeutic bodywork,&nbsp;organic farming, and,&nbsp;weight training,&nbsp;to name just a few. A tragic accident became a blessing in disguise, inspiring me toward this path of fitness and wellness.&nbsp;﻿<br>
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<strong>My yoga path</strong><br>
At age 21, I moved to BC to study organic farming and improve my English. In the first year, after moving to Nanaimo, I was in two more major accidents and began to wonder if I had bad karma. I had to heal my body and spirit again, this time by attending a yoga teacher-training course in Thailand at the Chakra Yoga School.  Since then, I have discovered many styles and studied with different teachers. I also attended three, 10-day Vipassana retreats.</p>
<p><strong>Weight Training Room&nbsp;Coordinator&nbsp;​</strong><br>
From 2005 &nbsp;for five years I worked at the CÉgep&nbsp;de Gaspé as a weight room coordinator. My employers generously sent me to numerous training courses and workshops, including the Can Fit Pro conventions in Montreal and Toronto. &nbsp;Taking advantage of my summers off, &nbsp;I&nbsp;continued my adventurous lifestyle by going to dance training, yoga retreats, bicycle tours in BC,&nbsp;and volunteering at Kalani, a holistic center on the Big Island of Hawaii.<br>
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<strong>Dance​</strong><br>
I have play around with many styles of dance, studied Cuban style salsa in Cuba but mainly studied bellydance.&nbsp;I am so grateful for all the beautiful and generous teachers I met along the way. I received three grants from Conseil des Arts et Cultures de la Gaspésie; for intensive training in salsa and bellydance.&nbsp;<br>
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<strong>Since my return to BC​</strong><br>
I returned to BC in the summer of 2010 and motherhood became my next great adventure. &nbsp;The following spring, I gave birth to our&nbsp;son, Elohw Mai,&nbsp;after maintaining an active and healthy pregnancy.&nbsp;​During the winter of 2012,  we completed a 7 weeks&nbsp;internship at Bellyacres; an artistic community and circus school in Hawaii. I've gave birth to our second son, Sunny Oak, in 2013. Since march 2014 we been living at Pacific Garden Cohousing in Nanaimo, BC.</p>
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<h3 class="widget-title">Lessons learned: over-training and balance</h3>			<p>When I first starting working out, I believed that cardio was the route to slimness, but education and experience taught me how to attain optimum health and strength. Therapeutic recovery from my first car accident led me to work with weights; beyond the benefits of accelerated healing, I discovered I enjoyed using weights. I then decided to enter a body fitness competition. I&nbsp;worked very hard with the guidance and training of a number of respected colleagues. Nutrition was the most difficult part, since I had never followed a “diet” before.&nbsp; It paid off: I placed second! I also completed a 128 km rollerblade challenge around Montreal in 2009. The elation over my achievement motivated me to train even harder for the next competition. However, my approach was too extreme and I burned out.&nbsp; The physical and emotional trauma forced me to take a year long hiatus.<br>
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That experience was a great lesson about balance, and reminded me that fitness is about being healthy and strong. I returned to short-duration bodyweight training (H.I.I.T.) and loved it, appreciating how beneficial and calming it can, and should, be for the body. A strong core and musculoskeletal system creates the optimum human condition. Healthy lifestyle choices and fitness not only help people achieve greater overall strength and their true body shape, but also regulate their hormones, and reduce the experience of pain and stress in their lives (by increasing natural endorphins, the “feel-good” hormones).</p>
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