Sherry Jibb has been empowering, inspiring & educating women in midlife to connect with their breath, move with ease & think positively for over 20 years. Using Yoga, Pilates & the energy healing of Reiki  Sherry creates an experience for her clients that connects the mind, body & spirit, helping  them step into the healthiest version of themselves. 

Sherry is passionate about  her Yin Yoga teaching, creating a deep journey into the body that helps to heal and release Yin tissues, creating more space in the joints, calming the mind, bring more balance to the Nervous System and creating mindfulness. 

Sherry lives, loves & laughs in beautiful Kenabeek with her husband Ken. She lives on 160 acres in the Northern Ontario bush where she enjoys all of the great outdoor experiences the north has to offer. 

She can be found online at The Healing Place Virtual Studio as well as in her home studio The Healing Place or at Studio North in New Liskeard.

Chongo is a business graduate, yoga teacher, wellness activist, and founder of “Anona Wellness”, an initiative focused on reducing cultural barriers to wellness. After years spent neglecting her own mental health due to the cultural beliefs she was raised with, she was introduced to the practice of yoga, and this facilitated her entry into the world of wellness. Now, she is focused on advocating for the importance of wellness and self-care amongst Black, Indigenous, and other racialized communities.

Kristen is a leading nutrition & whole-istic lifestyle expert who carries over 2 decades in the wellness industry. She is a mom of 3, a woman of faith and TV Host & Personality.

Kristen equips the busy woman with simple strategies to incorporate daily health habits that will bring sustainable health and aging free of chronic dis-ease. Through seasonal cleanses, whole foods, toxin-free homes and bodies, mindful movement and stress management Kris-ten helps busy women become the CEO of her life.

Her personal mission is to provide women and families around the world the tools, knowledge, and inspiration to look and feel their best while living more energized vibrant lives.

Nancy is a Health & Wellness Coach, Teacher, Consultant, ThetaHealing™ Practitioner and ThetaHealing™ Instructor at Inner Healings, where she brings clarity, understanding and support to people going through emotional pain. No stranger to pain herself, she has amazingly overcome a merciless series of accidents, diseases and emotional traumas to live a life of health and vitality. For this reason, Nancy isn’t a Survivor, she’s a Thriver! To express her gratitude, engage her passion and give back to the community, she works as a Counsellor on weekends for adults in need and runs her business during the week. In addition, she continuously creates new teachings to help others understand how to become more aware of their destructive thoughts and patterns so that they can consciously choose to create better lives.

To say that Nancy’s journey began out of necessity would be a tremendous understatement. She has had to learn, practice, and master health and wellness on all levels in order to battle allergies, asthma, depression, panic attacks, 7 months of debilitating hip pain, 5 years of anaphylactic shocks and 2 separate bouts of cancer. As if that wasn’t enough, she was in a major vehicle accident when she was 13 that had doctors predict that she would be in a wheelchair by the age of 30. Then, three years later, she was in a second accident that brought about 28 years of chronic headaches. Shockingly, at that same time of her life, she was abandoned by her mother in a small northern town, left to grow up without parents, siblings or other family. And yet, in spite all of these cruel and relentless setbacks, she embraced all of her learnings to successfully heal herself, with nothing but a seasonal allergy left over from her unbelievable list of tragedies. Now, She teaches others what she had to learn for herself.

Nancy’s teachings formally began in 2007, when she founded Inner Healings to provide nutritional consultations and massages. It wasn’t long, however, before she realized she had to expand her services. After all, she knew very well from personal experience that health and wellness isn’t just about what you eat or how your body currently feels; it’s more about why you eat what you eat and why you feel the way you feel. Thus, with her thirst for knowledge and her desire to connect mind, body and soul, she enrolled in and graduated from the iPEC Coaching Academy, and later immersed herself in a multitude of courses from the THInK ThetaHealing™ Institute of Knowledge.

Armed with passion, personal experience and professional qualifications, Nancy brings you inner healings by taking you down your personal memory lane, making you aware of the root of your issues, and getting your inner voice to tell you how to overcome them for good. After a session with her, clients report feeling lighter, happier, clearer and more emotionally balanced. Her work is done both online and at her business location situated in Temiskaming Shores, Ontario.

To contact Nancy, please email her at [email protected], or visit www.InnerHealings.ca.

Marie-Lune is a soul igniter, an animal communicator and healer and a channeler.

Through multiple challenging and traumatic life lessons, she has healed herself physically, mentally and spiritually. Those valuable life lessons have led her to her own path of healing, realigning her with her true self and therefore her life.

One soul at a time, with love and empathy, she holds space for others to align with their own true selves so they can also find the path that leads them to their purpose.

 

Marie-Lune est passionnée par la reconnexion de l’âme et tout ce qui touche l’évolution humaine. Elle est guérisseuse énergétique, communicatrice et guérisseuse animale et canalise les messages des Guides et d’êtres chers décédés.

C’est à suite de multiples expériences de vie difficiles qu’elle a elle-même trouvé le chemin vers la reconnexion avec son âme et à entamé un grand processus de guérison physique, mental et spirituel.

Au fil de sa guérison, elle a découvert qu’elle portait en elle des dons pouvant faciliter le cheminement des gens qu’elle accompagne.

Aujourd’hui, une âme à la fois, elle accompagne ses clients, humains ou animaux, vers leur propre chemin, avec beaucoup de respect et d’empathie.

Jennifer Nobel has a background in architecture and design and a deep passion for health, nutritious food, and earth care. Located in Timmins, Ontario, Northbound Bloom is an ecological land design service focused on the creation of gardens with purpose. With a sustainable landscape approach, areas of kitchen gardens, edible landscaping, and soil building are explored. Grounded in permaculture ethics and principles, Northbound Bloom brings a fresh perspective to the landscape design industry. Not only do clients experience the fulfillment of growing food in their own yards, but they also work towards restoring and regenerating the soil and the ecosystems that surround them. Northbound Bloom was born from both experience and passion to help others navigate the complexities of natural system connections and to help shed perspective on local environment and the source of food that we eat.

Kate Drummond is a Health and Life Coach, Plant-based practitioner, and founder of The Purposeful Life. Teaching women across the globe how to fall in love with themselves again, rediscover their purpose, and establish healthy habits that will leave them feeling happy, healthy, and in control of a life they love.

Leah Castle lives in San Diego, CA with her husband and two children. She is a Certified Holistic Nutritionist who has a passion for helping women stop the yo-yo dieting and get back to eating real food easily and tastefully. Her blog and business “Living On Roots” is a true passion! It is her way of providing new ways to get more roots in others’ lives and helping them start lifelong habits.

Leah enjoys sipping all kinds of teas, scrolling Pinterest (I am not alone, right?!), and petting her cat.

Leah is available for private and group coaching. You can reach her at [email protected]

Chef Crystal is a Private Chef to some of Los Angeles’ most talented entertainers and health enthusiasts. With over 10 years experience working for several high profile clients such as her current Will.i.am, and previous clients ranging from The  Artist Prince, George Lucas(Lucas Films), Mike Tyson,  and Jessica Simpson to name a few.  A graduate of the California Culinary Academy and an alumni of San Diego State University with a degree in Nutritional Science, Chef Crystal has combined her education and professional training to formulate a healthy cuisine ideology. She has been able to create a name for herself by sharing her passion with an emphasis on organic produce, grass fed meats, and even provides the necessary tools to go vegan.  Chef Crystal has worked in various environments that has given her space to perfect vegan cuisine in a way that enhances the benefits of this lifestyle; which positively affects her clients personally as well as the global environment.

Chef Crystal wears many hats. A co-parenting Mother of two, owner of Chef Crystalz World (lifestyle Chef brand), Chefs Guide to Divorce (divorcee dinner events and recipe blog), #CineSoul Dine (community film, music, and dinner series in partnership with AirBnb) and lastly her partnership in a culinary urban development project called Inner City Kitchen set to open in the city of South Los Angeles where they will cater to the community by providing healthy food options but also bring in health experts to share their knowledge on a healthier way of life.  

Chef Crystal has proven that healthy eating can be achieved by demonstrating to others through her personal experience as a single working mother of two. Chef Crystal believes we have lost touch with our communities and families by making eating a part of our daily checklist as opposed to a priority.  It has become her mission to lead others in her philosophy that “Food is not only a necessity for survival but also a way to connect with one’s body. Allow food to nurture your body by making it a priority and not a chore”

Lisa McIntosh is speaking on behalf of a newly formed Canadian collaboration, Lathered Essentials. It is the coming together of 2 businesses : Lathered, with owners and franchisors Meghan Cassidy and Kristin Willoughby-Verbeek; and Jennifer Cote of J.Co Organics.

Lisa started with Lathered in early 2018. Her strength is systems and natural gravitation towards integrity earned her a seat at the table within the first two months. Lisa now manages a team of 28 staff and runs playbook on how to deal with each circumstance as it arises, always handling each problem with a level head. She believes that each person on her team is a leader and an ambassador for the very core values that Lathered can not operate without.

​My journey with health and healing began at birth. Throughout my childhood, I was blessed to encounter a wide variety of philosophical thinkers. They inspired me to delve more deeply and discover what was hidden within the familiar.

After working as a massage therapist for several years, I again began to look deeper, which led me to the study of Traditional East Asian Medicine. Although I started my studies in 1992, I did not finish until 2003 due to a detour to obtain a PhD in integrative theology.

Through Traditional East Asian Medicine, I finally found an existing and well-founded language to discuss the integration of the body, mind and spirit. The power of this understanding of the soma and psyche allows me to work with my patients to unfold their destiny in the most powerful and concurrently gentlest way possible.

I believe in the power, subtlety and majesty of the medicine I am trained to practice, in the transformative properties bound within this medicine and the boundless ability of the human body/mind/spirit to encompass that transformation.

(Dr Dia Vickery, DACM, LAc, Dipl. O.M.(NCCAOM) draws on her background in philosophical studies and theology and merges this with her deep passion and developmental understanding of Chinese Traditional East Asian and energetic medicine.

In addition to Traditional East Asian Medicine, Dia is a trained Aroma Point Therapies practitioner, certified Face Yoga instructor and Certified Functional Medicine Practitioner. She has taught at the Masters level in her profession and continues to work in academia at the doctoral level. She is the owner and director of the Valley Wellness Institute, a wellness incubator located in Woodland Hills CA. The VWI provides economical clinic space for practitioners of a variety of modalities to enable them to establish their practice prior to renting a full office suite somewhere. Dia is also the owner of Vickery Health & Wellness an acupuncture and wellness clinic in Woodland Hills CA.)

Kristina Virro is a psychotherapist and holistic nutritionist who is passionate about the ways that physical and mental health intersect. Her wellness clinic, Fresh Insight, provides psychotherapy and nutritional counselling to individuals, couples, and families in the GTA with the goal of inspiring hope, catalyzing change, and fostering a sense of personal empowerment. A published author, Kristina has also shared her expertise with a number of media outlets, including ELLE, Canadian Living, FLARE, and more. Outside of work, she is a huge animal lover, fitness enthusiast, and wine connoisseur.

Angela Atkins is certified as an Integrative Health and Nutrition Coach, a Nutritional Therapist, an Advanced Clinical Weight Loss Specialist, a Lifestyle Coach and a Hypnotherapy Practitioner, serving clients around the world.

Angela is recognized as the Top Health Coach for the Howard, Anne Arundel, and Baltimore Counties in the Maryland region and is featured on the TOP Doctors Interviews which are seen on CNN Headline News, FOX News, Oprah Winfrey Network, BRAVO, MSNBC and other networks.

As the founder of Your Health Unbound™, Angela is dedicated to empowering individuals to look at their whole health picture, equip them with the information they need take control of their health, and be their own best health advocate.

Many of her clients are on the autoimmune spectrum, living with chronic illnesses, including weight issues. She is committed to guiding clients to reach their goals using a whole foods and natural solutions approach to resolve health issues while reducing or eliminating the use of medication. Angela supports her clients by looking at their whole health picture – physical, emotional, spiritual, and relational – and bring everything into alignment.

Renée Paradis, Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine, received her undergraduate degree with honours in Human Nutrition from the University of Guelph in Ontario. She then completed a four year doctorate program in Naturopathic Medicine at the Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine (CCNM) in Toronto. CCNM is one of the six schools in North America eligible to grant the designation of Naturopathic Doctor (N.D). Dr. Paradis is a member of the Canadian Association of Naturopathic Doctors, the Ontario Association of Naturopathic Doctors and she is registered with the Ontario Board of Directors of Drugless Therapy – Naturopathy. She is bilingual and offers naturopathic services in both the English and French languages.

Dr. Paradis’s clinical practice focuses on helping patients understand the value of their health and the importance of self-care and preventative medicine. She practices as a general family naturopathic doctor and she works with her patients to enhance resilience against disease and restore balance.

Currently, Dr. Paradis is practicing naturopathic medicine at her primary clinic in Guelph and services patients of surrounding areas. For many years, she has also practiced in her hometown in Northern Ontario travelling to the area for one week a month. However, since having her daugther in 2013 she has not been able to continue the travel to her Northern location but does continue to offer naturopathic services to the Northern community via telephone and skype consultations.

Dr. Paradis encourages you to continue making positive changes to improve your health and looks forward to working with you on your journey to wellness.

Susi Hately is the owner and principal instructor of Functional Synergy in Calgary Alberta. She has a B.Sc. in Kinesiology with a focus on exercise physiology.  As a certified yoga instructor, she has been teaching yoga since 1999, obtained her yoga therapy training in India in 2001 and has since developed a yoga therapy certification program and numerous other programs and resources. She is a published author and podcaster and shares her expertise world wide with yoga teachers, students and anyone who wants to move with less pain and more ease. 

Hi, my name is Kelly Benson, and I’m a mother of two kids, Wife, Woman of Faith and a huge lover of all things natural.

My passion for health and wellness started back when I was diagnosed with skin cancer, and at the same time my son was diagnosed with ADHD and my 2 year old was diagnosed with Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis.

I not only got into the natural health industry because I wanted to improve my family’s wellness, but because I knew in my heart that this was the direction I needed to take to allow our bodies to heal.

I became a wellness advocate with doTerra 3 years ago, and I have grown a passion for plant-based therapies and how minerals can feed our cells to thrive. All we need for our body to thrive is found in nature: Food, water, essential oils (plant) and minerals.

My passion and drive is to educate women that are ready to live their most healthiest life naturally. Ultimately, I empower you with choices for your family.

Jahanavi Schriefer holds a dual master’s degree in intercultural communication and human rights, and a bachelor’s degree in education, with a focus on kinesthetic learning. Jahanavi has been a part of the Living Somatics team for over a decade, bringing Somatic Education to people around the world. She offers workshops and personal sessions, specializing in coaching clients living with chronic pain. Jahanavi is known for her facilitation of compassionate, transformative space. She has written several research papers in the field of compassion and its power to change our state.

Jahanavi was born and raised in Sweden but has lived many years of her adult life abroad in Australia and the Netherlands. In her early twenties, she was introduced to Hanna Somatics, meditation and compassion practices. These led her to the discovery of her own deep gifts as an intuitive and a seer.

Hello there! My name is Yvonne Garcia. I’m a Registered Nurse, a Certified Ayurvedic Wellness Counselor, and a Certified Integrative Nutrition Health Coach. I support women who struggle with health issues such as anxiety, depression, low energy, hormones imbalance, digestive problems, etc. and they want to understand how to support their body with a natural approach. I do this by providing 1:1 coaching, education, support, online courses, and group coaching.

Let me explain what brought me to my practice. Being in the nursing profession, I thought I had a good handle on being healthy. I was doing everything by the books. But it wasn’t until I found myself suffering from a debilitating illness that rocked my world. Before I knew it, I was taking massive doses of prescription medication, and boy, was I in for a rude awakening!

After suffering significant side effects and becoming numb to the world around me, I finally said, “ENOUGH IS ENOUGH”! There had to be a different way to support my body and get my health back! That was the day I decided to think “OUTSIDE THE BOX” and looked for an alternative to help my body heal.

I was fortunate to find the healing I was so desperate to achieve with the help of an Ayurvedic Physician. Yes, this western medicine trained nurse found healing with an eastern medicine approach, imagine that! I am forever grateful for this experience because my whole life took a change for the best!

As I implemented this eastern medicine approach, I quickly realized everything I was doing incorrectly, which lead to my illness. Once I was able to provide my body with the right resources it needed to function, everything fell right into place, and the healing process began.

Because of my health journey, I have a strong desire to support women who are ready for that change. They want to understand what they need to do to help their body heal. They are tired and want their health back once and for all. I am passionate about assisting women in finding healing with a holistic approach by supporting their body’s innate ability to heal naturally with proper Nutrition, Stress Reduction, Digestive support, Daily Routines, Meditation, Movement, decreasing toxicity, and Essential Oils, to name a few. With this concept, my friends, life will take a different approach for you, just like it did for me. I am grateful I had this opportunity, which changed my health and my life! Are you ready to do the same? ❤️

Lorene Sauro has been a holistic nutrition professional for 20 years and a food professional for 30 years. As co-founder of Canadian Holistic Nutrition Conference and the Canadian Association of Holistic Nutrition Professionals (CAHN-Pro) she has taught hundreds of holistic nutrition students and graduates, helping them with their educational and professional needs. She is a teacher at the Canadian School of Natural Nutrition (CSNN), food developer, acclaimed speaker and published author. 

She founded the Healthy Gut, Healthy Hormones, Mastering Online Workshops and Simply Fermentation programs for practitioners to help provide accurate information and the latest research about food and the wellness industry today to her fellow professionals. She received the Lifetime Achievement award from CSNNAA in 2017.

It was her struggles with endometriosis  that led her to study holistic nutrition at CSNN. She has spent years reading the research on gut health which has helped her solve her problems and helped many others as it is now understood to be the underlying imbalance with all health conditions.

Suzanne Mongrain-Smith obtained her bachelor’s degree in music education from the  Université du Québec À Montréal in 1990.  Ever since, she’s been teaching instrumental music and voice inside and outside the Ontario Educational System.  With over 30 years of experience teaching children, teenagers and adults, she feels stronger than ever that lives can be changed through the joy of singing or playing an instrument. 

At the age of 30, Suzanne encountered a more challenging period in her life battling with anxiety and depression.  It was then that she discovered meditation, yoga and mantra as self-healing tools; practices she has since integrated into her daily life.  

Today she teaches music and voice at Algonquin Secondary School in North Bay where she has started introducing chanting to her students.  Their responses and testimonies have been astounding. Many have opened up to her about their anxiety issues and have shared how chanting is helping them feel calmer and more at peace.  

Suzanne is constantly learning about the healing power of sound vibrations through her daily practice and hosts live sessions of chanting mantras on her Kuvalaya Facebook page on a regular basis.  She recently obtained a 200hr Nada Yoga Teacher Training Certification from the Heart of Sound institute.  By refining her pronunciation of Sanskrit, she has learnt to better channel the vibrational power of chanting. In the future, she hopes to continue sharing the transformative power of this practice through weekend retreats, yoga festivals and other wellness events.  She is also on the verge of launching her first Mantra Album “Kuvalaya”.  You can find her first three singles on several streaming platforms like itunes, Apple Music and Spotify.  

Feeling blessed by having had teachers and healers that have guided her towards a fuller, better life, she now feels compelled to share her knowledge and experience with anyone wanting to explore the joy of chanting.  She is an avid, enthusiastic and devoted sound yogi!

Kate Galliett has been a fitness trainer and coach for 18 years, working first in a commercial gym setting, then opening her own facility in the suburbs of Chicago for a number of years, before moving her entire coaching practice online – and subsequently moving to Utah to become more active in the outdoors. Her online writing and coaching programs can be found at her site, The Unbreakable Body. She can often be found moving her own unbreakable body through the mountains of Utah – and she hopes to encourage more folks to connect to Nature in whatever way suits them best.

Marie-Josée Forget has 19 years of clinical experience as a Pelvic Health Physiotherapist.  She graduated from the University of Ottawa in 1995 and began pursuing post-graduate studies in Pelvic Health in Canada and the USA in 1997.  MJ regularly attends international conferences and courses related to pelvic health, allowing her to stay current on relevant research.  

MJ enjoys public speaking in her community and throughout the North.  She provides continuing education for physicians, nurse practitioners and other health practitioners and has been a regular speaker at the Physio North conference.  She is a preceptor for medical students with the Northern Ontario School of Medicine. 

She was honored when asked to join Pelvic Health Solutions as an Associate Instructor since 2011 and currently teaches the Non-Internal Introductory Pelvic Floor Courses and the Level I, II, IV courses.  She had the pleasure of speaking at her first International conference, in February 2015, for the Combined Section Meeting of the APTA with her teaching colleague, Carolyn Vandyken.   

MJ has developed a hand-drawn female and male pelvic floor model that is being used as a teaching tool allowing physiotherapists to learn the anatomy and proper palpation of the pelvic floor muscles.  Her pelvic models can be purchased on her website www.totalpelvichealth.ca.

Marie-Josée co-owns Gateway Physiotherapy Center in North Bay and operates a satellite pelvic health clinic in New Liskeard.  You can follow her on twitter at @gatewaypt

Nikki Gangemi is a certified law of attraction coach and founder of Mindful Matters LLC.  She helps heart-centered professionals and entrepreneurs recondition their mind for success. Through her own journey, Nikki discovered that you alone have the power to transcend all obstacles and access the self-love, confidence, happiness, and peace that were always inside of you. She uses an inside-out approach and loves watching her clients expand their awareness and become empowered as she guides them on their own journey to reaching new levels of success and abundance in both life and business. Nikki will be speaking to us about “connecting to our confident selves”.  

Kelly Howard is the motivation and adventure coach who works with women who want to upgrade their habits, increase motivation, and bring fun and even some adventure into their lives.

She empowers clients through fitness coaching and outdoor activities like hiking, biking, backpacking, and kayaking.  Her Fit is Freedom podcast, courses, and events have changed the lives of thousands of women. As a frequent guest on podcasts and television, she is also the creator of the FOX Outdoor Houston Adventure series.

She’s a serial entrepreneur, who’s created and sold four different companies and is the founder of Bayou City Outdoors, the largest outdoor and activity social club of its kind.  She currently calls Houston, Texas, her home, but can frequently be found kayaking rivers and traveling trails around the world.

www.FitisFreedom.com

Rachael Kable is a mindfulness teacher, published author and host of The Mindful Kind podcast. With a background in psychology and lived experiences of stress and anxiety, Rachael provides compassionate support and practical resources for overthinkers who want to feel more resilient, intentional, and connected.

Mary Ayers, PhD., is internationally recognized as a Solution Focused EFT Practitioner, author and speaker who specializes in helping professional women replace their fear and anxiety with self confidence For more than 30 years, Mary has worked with thousands of clients guiding them to identify core issues and release old pattern of anxiety that can get in the way of a thriving career  and then teaches them how to install the inner resources that lead to happiness, contentment, and success.

Mary’s professional background includes over three decades as a licensed psychotherapist, as well as five years with the Anthony Robbins Organization as a coach.  She is the creator of The Tapping Solution For Anxiety Relief and is a featured presenter on the annual Tapping World Summit.

Currently she offers a wide range of programs and services and can be reached at [email protected]