About Carleen

‘... 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.’

Ilarion Merculieff (Unangan)

Hi, I’m Carleen,
Sacred Seer, & Soul Alignment Guide

Since 2010, I’ve worked with thousands of people as a yoga teacher and hundreds as a meditation teacher, Seer and Soul guide. I guide people to live with Soul Alignment.

In 2007, I experienced a massive Kundalini awakening, which reoriented my awareness from head to heart. With the heart open I was gifted embodied perceptual awareness, healing insights and Soul connection.

Learn more about my life journey and how I can help you.

  • My fascination with energy and stories started as a child. I was always highly intuitive and from a young age knew things that weren’t obvious to others, like who was phoning (before call display) random events (like cows on the road up ahead), accidents, how things would play out and “that person is sick under their skin.”

    The more I matured the more I realized my intuition was both a gift and a curse. It needed to be honed as a skill and shared with discretion. Seeing, even if it’s true and helpful isn’t often welcome unless it serves the needs of the recipient in the moment.

    I have learned through physics, energy medicine and personal experience that stories are energy in formation. A tree, a bird, the sky, you and I are living the energy of consciousness through the stories and archetypes that shape us.

    After the Kundalini rising in 2007, I was gifted the ability to read internal narratives in myself and others. This allowed me to see the origin point(s) of a person’s internal story. By seeing the origin point(s) of energy in formation I could guide story to align with the Soul’s life force rather than life-less, repetitive narratives. This gave me a framework for my intuition and a systematic way to help people live their best lives through Soul Alignment. I have been honing this specific intuitive gift for 18 years.

    I especially like working with the life stories of healers, physicians, wellness advocates and caregivers, creatives, artists and eco visionaries because I believe at this time in history the world needs these stories to be made conscious for the betterment of all life on our planet.

  • I had my first migraine attack at the age of 4yr, following a head injury. The event was traumatic and led to the dissolution of our family and though I didn’t know it until much later in life, a separation from my feminine Soul.

    In my 50 years of healing the physical, mental and spiritual aspects of migraine I have discovered that migraine is an interconnected body, mind, soul dis-ease. Change on one level brings change to all levels.

    From a physical, mental and emotional perspective there are hundreds of migraine triggers and they vary in combination and from person to person. Once the triggers are discovered it is helpful to categorize them into those that are controllable (i.e. food, hydration, exercise, screens, environments, certain people) and those that aren’t such as hormone fluctuations, sleep quality and the weather.

    Treating the physical, mental and emotional aspects of migraine may be enough for you depending on your migraine origin story.

    Because my migraine origin story happened at such a young age, was traumatic and coupled with heredity markers treating the physical, mental and emotional components alone was not enough to make the treatment progress I was seeking.

    This led me from a healing path in traditional western medicine to a subtle body journey with energy medicine through dream journaling, yoga, meditation and insight writing. Through decades of practice and study I have come to understand the energetic origin point (s) of my migraine story and it’s relationship to the feminine Soul.

    By intuiting the subtle body changes a migraine brings I can now stop it before it takes shape. What started as a head injury turned into a 50 year healing journey. Through self study, stats and conscious observation I have discovered that the energetic origin point of my migraine attacks is a separation from the feminine Soul.

    When I listen to other people’s migraine origin story I also hear this separation. Do you know all the layers of your migraine origin story? These layers (body, mind, soul) have a lot to say about the best treatment options for you. The feminine Soul is more about the “how” than the “what.” For example let’s say you injured yourself playing a sport and that injury led to your first migraine attack. Exercise is healthy and good for most people but within each person is a set point that shifts from feminine health and homeostasis into pushing, striving, force and aggression. Right at that edge of overriding the bodies balanced set point is both a separation from the feminine Soul AND your trigger point for a migraine attack. While the body’s setpoint is different for each person, it is the internal “how” that determines whether there is separation from the feminine Soul or not.

    Deep listening to the body and the narratives and stories that direct our thoughts, choices and actions brings us closer to understanding our relationship to the feminine Soul and to migraine pain prevention.

  • I work best with paradigms to give you back your passion, purpose and power.

    A paradigm provides the energetic template, blueprint or framework for your story. It acts like the skeleton creating the bones structure for the fleshy parts of movement. For example when I had a nine day intractable migraine due to a change of hormones there were specific energetic facts and details that shaped my paradigm, but it wasn’t my whole migraine story. I work with paradigms because they provide an energetic model for the bigger life experience of story and paradigms can fit well into our 75 min time frame.

    Within the blueprint of a personal paradigm is the energy it represents. This is where we do our work. Together we energetically re-model paradigms to create new life stories aligned with purpose, passion and power. For example, How was my life energy flowing during a nine day migraine attack? What thoughts and feelings were influencing my experience? What outcome would an energetic paradigm shift create?

    Life force flows through personal narratives, personal narratives direct thought, words, choices and action shaping life story. For example thinking or feeling, “I would rather die from the pain,” is a narrative that would affect the life force of my neurochemistry, choices, actions and the bigger migraine story of my healing and outcome. A personal narrative is so powerful it changes everything from a person’s life experiences to their DNA.

    Passion fuels our life force. Narrative provides the direction for life force and story brings many narrative streams together shaping the reality we experience.

    Purpose arrives when your passion meets the vision of your Soul. For example my purpose is to connect consciousness with the Soul’s subtle body so people can live whole, healed and meaningful lives in service to life on this planet. This power begins within with Soul Alignment.

    Your paradigm may come in the form of a life experience, nightly dream or personal vision. This provides the energetic structure, blueprint or template to work with. Together we connect consciousness with the subtle body and align with the Soul’s purpose so you can live aligned with life. This returns enormous passion and power to you.

Carleen’s Soul Story continues . . .

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • After completing a BSc with specialization in neuropsychology in 1994, I worked for 20 years in traditional western health care in various management and educational roles. During this time I completed an after-degree which no longer exists but this one would be an equivalent.

    https://www.macewan.ca/academics/programs/bachelor-of-applied-human-service-administration/

    By nature I am creative, intuitive, empathic, collaborative and I like to move. For these reasons my path shifted to holistic studies and writing.

Soul at home:

To integrate the kundalini consciousness of 2007, I’ve worked for 16 years with an advanced practitioner trained in Western and Eastern medicine; studied many sacred texts (Sutras, Vedas, Upanishads, healing texts, Jungian psychology, Kundalini psychology, etc) and developed a strong daily practice of yoga and meditation. Most of all, I realize how short and how precious my life, and all life, is, and I want to make the most of every day.

I believe the greatest teachers are what life delivers and the daily practice. My Svadhyaya (Self-studies) include: | Meditation & Yoga | Sound Healing | 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 energy 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. 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?

Read an excerpt here.

Buy book here.

You can feel seen, heard and supported by someone who has consciously navigated life’s depths with Soul guidance for 17 years and lived its messages for 50.

Let’s work together when:

You have a life experience, personal vision or nightly dream to work with.

You are ready to embrace new consciousness for insight, clarity and direction.

You are living as an Artist, Creative, Eco-visionary, Physician, Wellness Advocate, Healer or Empath.

You feel stuck, off course or struggling with your passion, purpose or power.

  • “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”

    Albert Einstein

  • “Whatever you think you can do or believe you can do, begin it, because action has magic, grace and power to it.”

    Goethe

  • “The most visible joy can only reveal itself to us when we’ve transformed it within.”

    Rainer Maria Rilke

  • Know Thyself

    Everyone

  • ... "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."

    Ilarion Merculieff (Unangan)