Madrona Holistic Arts
Madrona Holistic Arts is located on Vancouver Island, the place I love and call home — where every road eventually leads to the water and beautiful arbutus trees grow along the shores.
Madrona is another name for the arbutus tree, exquisite with broad glossy leaves and russet bark that curls and peels back to reveal the smooth new layers underneath. I find myself often turning to nature for solace and discover there, in the implicit rhythms and cycles of change, timeless templates for growth and evolution.
The word Holistic comes from the root ‘hale’ meaning whole or holy, an origin that carries the sacredness of life and reflects my belief in the inherent wholeness we each harbour as an essence.
Through the ‘twists and turns’ of life, our essence remains whole - to find health is to find wholeness.
I love living as ‘an artist of life,’ engaging in inner and outer worlds through the sensory experiences of an artist. These explorations have become gateways to deeper inquiries — invitations to look beyond what meets the eye. Through my involvement with Continuum I’ve discovered the many ways water is like art: a continuous movement — ever shifting, changing, evolving — and very alive. Water is creation and has participated in the shaping of every form of life. I’m ever grateful for our fluid origins and the creative art of perception that guides me through my learning.
Over the years I’ve studied several modalities — Bodytalk, Lymphatic Drainage, Reiki, Healing Touch and Continuum — and am nourished by the rich diversity of learning that life can be counted on to provide. These influences, as well as the gifted teachers I’ve encountered along the way, have helped to inform and shape my path. I bring these experiences together in my own unique and creative ways, providing services through Madrona Holistic Arts.
Through exploring breath, sound and movement Madrona Holistic Arts offers:
- opportunities for self-discovery
- a deeper understanding of the healing process
- ways to develop confidence in our ability to meet life’s ‘twists and turns’
The symptoms we experience are often the body’s way of calling attention to parts of ‘the soma’/our lives that may seem as though they are operating in isolation, returning to a remembering our undivided state of wholeness.