About Carleen
I have always been highly intuitive with a love for the energetic body. As a child, my imagination soared with books and stories where “real” life became magical and people and their inner and outer worlds could become anything. From a certain point of view, I still believe this.
As I grew older I became fascinated with the personal meeting places of fiction and non-fiction, with synchronistic events, dreams and mystery. As a Seer, highly sensitive Empath and Migraineur I was especially drawn to studies that could explain anomalous traits, personalities and characteristics. I was motivated to understand my intuitive gifts, to understand the brain and to discover the subtle body. This led me to the University of Alberta where I studied psychology (psyche + Logia) and received a BSc with specialization in neuropsychology.
While ready to embark on an international life overseas, I was halted and spun by an unintended life event and a powerful dream. This led me to a career in healthcare and further studies in healthcare management. While raising a young family I worked in primary and acute care for 20 years. During this time I balanced my inner and outer lives through writing, dream journaling and nature.
While I loved being a liaison in health care along with the diversity of people, the busyness, and the teaching roles, I was also struggling with frequent migraine attacks and my intuition was nudging me to work differently in the world.
In 2007, I attempted to eradicate my migraines and triggered an unprecedented spiritual awakening which I describe as a Kundalini crisis. This spiritual event blew my world apart and re-oriented me with my soul. I now understand it as a re-aligning of consciousness from head to heart and an initiation to live differently. I write about this transformation in my memoir, Orchid of Fate.
Soul alignment gifted me with heightened intuition, spiritual insights and embodied perceptual awareness. My intuition was persistent, “You are meant to be working in the field of universal love.” The time had come to leave traditional health care and step into the world differently. Not having any idea how to do that, I followed my heart.
“... we must not think love. We must not do love. We must become love. Every human on Mother Earth has this charge, and some are going to listen.’”
Carleen’s journey continued . . .
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In 2010 I left my traditional career in health care to explore the world of holistic health and spiritual actualization. By 2011, I had completed my first certification in Heart and Gaia Yoga with Karuna Erickson, turned my living room into a studio and began teaching embodied yoga to people in my community. People loved this immediate form of health and I continued studying and began teaching at studios throughout the city. It was rewarding. I loved the real-time connection to wellness I was offering and its reception. I completed certifications in Prenatal Yoga (Seattle Holistic Center), Yin Yoga (Semperviva, Vancouver) and Ayurvedic Yoga Therapy (Sacred Seed). I did special trainings in Restorative Yoga (Nourish), Chinese Meridian Therapy (Nourish), Yoga Nidra (Yoga University), Yoga Anatomy (Yogalife), Yoga & Meditation (Yogalife), Mindfulness (MBSR), Sound healing (Nourish) & Power Yoga (Hot in Leduc) and in a short time had taught 100’s and then 1000’s of classes.
Please note: If I have not linked the training it is because the service or the studio is no longer offered.
Yoga Revealed
The more people I taught the more I realized my new life role as a sacred seer was learning how to best apply heart consciousness to everyday life problems. Things like insomnia, overwhelm, racing thoughts, a meh existence, poor range of motion, and chronic pain . . . yoga always helped.
I realized all bodies tell a story and that this story is interconnected with mind and soul. I see these subtle body stories and use yoga to align awareness with freedom for pain-less living.
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In 2014, I realized I loved my daily meditation practice but I had no idea how to teach meditation. So I began looking for a non-denominational training with umph. In 2015, I completed a challenging certification with the McLean Meditation Institute and began teaching meditation.
From there, I developed a 10-week Learn to Meditate with Soul Program and have since taught hundreds of people to meditate. Teaching meditation was immediately as rewarding as teaching yoga, but in a different way.
I loved the depth of conversation and the spiritual insights. I also began to understand how my sacred story, my life choices, and my soul were all interwoven and I wanted to understand more of that.
What Meditation Revealed
I realized all minds tell stories; mental awareness becomes stuck or repetitive (also called samscara or neural grooves); and meditation is a process of freeing space up so new life can flow.
I love my daily meditation practice and continue to teach because of the spaciousness and peaceful self states it delivers.
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In 2018-19, I certified in Story Coaching & Wellness Training with Dr. David Krueger’s (Mentor Path) New Life Story Coaching Program. Dr. Krueger is a physician, psychotherapist, and a long-time neuroscientist. His training tied together the mind-body-soul connection I was looking for, especially as it relates to the power of self-narratives in personal story.
Nine years after beginning my holistic journey, I had arrived full circle and realized I was living the sacred life story of health, care, and wellness I wished to live, teach, and bring to others.
What New Life Story Coaching Revealed
I realized the fictional worlds we write about are often aspects of our own psyche, projected onto a page and, in this way, all life becomes the soul’s story. A story directed by the ego looks and feels very different than a story led through the heart and soul.
Sacred Life Stories are soul inspired, pain-less, and aligned for life. As a Sacred Seer I teach, and inspire others to live their own sacred life stories aligned with soul.
About My Soul’s Journey
It’s taken me over a decade to fully integrate the spiritual awakening I experienced in 2007. To do this, I’ve worked for 16 years with an advanced practitioner trained in Western and Eastern medicine; I’ve studied many sacred texts (Sutras, Vedas, Upanishads, healing texts, Jungian psychology, Kundalini psychology, etc); I’ve developed a strong daily practice of yoga and meditation; and I realize how short and how precious my life, and all life, is.
My daily and weekly Svadhyaya (Self-studies) include: | Meditation & Yoga | Sound resonance | Dream sketch art | Active imagination | Living language | Elemental embodiment & apprentice to the movement of air and sound. I have finished a second manuscript, which is in the submission process; I’ve published in Samiksha, Life of Pie, Capital City Press, among other publications; and I am advancing my studies daily in subtle body medicine.
After publishing Orchid of Fate in 2020, I started The Migraine Alignment Collective (MAC). MAC is a monthly online meet-up designed for subtle body alignment and best practices for people living with migraine disease. I call it Soulfull wisdom for painless living. In my 50 years of living a migraine pain paradigm, I’ve learned that change on one level of the body-mind-soul triad affects all levels; and that Self-advocacy and addressing the psycho-spiritual aspect of migraines and the sacred story they tell, gives individuals with migraine disease back more life. You can join MAC here at no cost.
Aligning with heart consciousness doesn’t mean the way is paved. One thing I know for sure is that not making change comes at an even bigger price, not only to ourselves, but also to our fellow humans, and to the future of our planet.
Have you asked yourself what that price is?
“... and so the elders say you have a gift to give to the world, not to yourself, but to the world. And the only place you’re going to find this gift is in your heart.”