Hello! I'm Deanna!
I'm passionate about helping people just like you create stability, ease, and resilience with Massage and Yoga! I work from an integrative mind-body approach and blend aspects of massage, mindfulness, movement, and breath awareness to help clients foster mindful relaxation, relieve tension and stress, and find joy in movement.
Training Background
I read an article in the first year of my massage program in 2003 about determining whether muscle tension was physical or emotional in nature. When I asked my instructor “how do you know?”, he couldn’t answer me.
I’m naturally curious and hard-wired to dig deep and connect the dots for big-picture understanding. So I've dedicated the last 20 years to ongoing study, practice, and integration, trying to answer that question. The simple truth is that mind and body are deeply connected. Our thoughts, emotions, relationships, and physical experiences all shape how we move and feel in our bodies.
My work integrates massage and yoga in a deeply therapeutic approach that honors this interconnection, treating the whole person, not just the physical body.
Massage Therapy Trainings
- 2200-hour Massage Therapy Diploma - Western College of Remedial Massage Therapies
- Muscles in Motion Conference – Western College of Remedial Massage Therapies
- Assessing Soft Tissue using Extrinsic Techniques
- Addressing a Dysfunctional Temporomandibular Joint
- Introduction to Myofascial Release
- Thai Massage
- Muscles in Motion Conference – Western College of Remedial Massage Therapies
- Introduction to Equine Massage
- Natural Health Practitioners of Canada Conference Series
- Living your Ethics
- Health starts in the Digestive Tract: The Kingdom Within
- Self Talk & the Power of Intention
- Breathe & Let Go: Yoga for a Busy Lifestyle
- Orthopedic Assessment – Seminars for Health
- Gross Anatomy Lab – Seminars for Health
- Massage Therapy for Mental Health - Registered Massage Therapists of BC Association
- Orthopedic Massage Assessment & Treatment - Orthopedic Massage Consultants
- Cervical Spine
- Thoracolumbar Spine, Hip and SI Joint
- Shoulder
- Posture & Gait Analysis
- Body-Mind Topics – Associated Bodywork & Massage Professionals
- Presence, Boundaries, and Emotional Resiliency
- Emotions: Are They Contagious?
- Body Reading the Myofascial Meridians, Associated Bodywork & Massage Professionals
- Superficial Front Line
- Deep Front Line
- Aromatherapy 101 for RMTs – Same Stars Wellness
- Thai Stem Massage - Relaxus
Yoga Teacher Trainings
- Yoga Therapy Diploma - Functional Synergy (830 hours)
- Yoga Teacher Diploma - Centered on Centre (200 hours)
- Yoga Teacher Training Level 1 - Heart Yoga (67 hours)
- Therapeutic Yoga Intensive – Functional Synergy (44 hours)
- Yin Yoga – Mona Warner (34 hours)
- Rest & Revitalization Sleep Meditation/Yoga Nidra – Functional Synergy (32 Hours)
- Myofascial Yoga Level 1 – Myofascial Yoga Institute of Canada (20 hours)
- Myofascial Yoga for Pranayama – Myofascial Yoga Institute of Canada (20 hours)
Additional Trainings
- Emergency Medical Responder – Alberta Health & Safety Training Institute
- Intermediate First Aid – Rocky Mountain Adventure Medicine
- Foot Reflexology – Reflexology Association of Canada
- Lomi Lomi – Sacred Lomi
