“Take care of your body, it’s the only place you have to live.” – Jim Rohn

Even as a little girl Doreen was interested in the functioning of the human body and dreamed of becoming a doctor. Well, she didn’t and instead went into engineering and technology. For the next several decades she progressed in a career in oil and gas while building a home, raising two sons and generally enjoying a country style family life in NE BC. Eventually the career called for more formal education and she moved to Calgary to attend university, earning a B.Eng. in Electrical Engineering together with a B.A. in International Relations.

Her career continued to progress in the city but life has a way of catching up and soon the stress of long days at a desk and little time for physical activity aggravated old childhood injuries. She was in chronic severe pain from nerve impingement in her neck with frequent loss of the use of one hand and her balance, and it was just getting worse. Looking at probable full disability within years she instead reached out for - and fortunately received - some excellent healing through a combination of chiropractic and massage treatments. This stabilized her condition over just a few years, without surgery and with using very few drugs.

Her curiosity for how the human body heals was re-ignited. She started with energy healing and trained in Reiki at the Master level, as well as in other modalities. Health became a passion with more and more satisfaction in pursuing those learnings. In 2018 she completed the 3000 hour Advanced Massage Therapy training at Makami College while gradually reducing the oil and gas work. She went full time as a Registered Massage Therapist (RMT) in the spring of 2020.

Doreen continues to work constantly on expanding her toolkit of techniques and knowledge to provide better service - focusing on therapeutic treatments to achieve lasting and optimum health.

Today she considers it an absolute honor to be included in your path to integrated wellness of being and spirit, to protect and care for the body that you live in. She provides proactive and preventative massage, with both empathic and intuitive understanding. She listens carefully and strives to fully understand how you, the client, see your needs and to always act within your best interest.

When she is not working she enjoys gardening between frequent long distance motorcycle road trips. Being a new resident of the Crowsnest Pass she has lots to explore locally as well! You may meet her on a trail with her large white sheep dog, Hope. They are quite distinctive so if you see them be sure to stop and say Hi!

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