Services

Hayley has 20 years experience in the healing arts.

Hayley also offers Reiki Training Programs, Meditation Courses & private Mindfulness, Breathwork & Yoga Sessions

as well as her Well Rounded Birth Course with roots in HypnoBirthing.

Cranio Sacral Therapy

CranioSacral Therapy (CST) is a gentle, hands-on approach that releases tensions deep in the body to relieve pain and dysfunction and improve whole-body health and performance.

Few structures have as much influence over the body's ability to function properly as the brain and spinal cord that make up the central nervous system. And, the central nervous system is heavily influenced by the craniosacral system - the membranes and fluid that surround, protect and nourish the brain and spinal cord.

Every day your body endures stresses and strains that it must work to compensate for. Unfortunately, these changes often cause body tissues to tighten and distort the craniosacral system. These distortions can then cause tension to form around the brain and spinal cord resulting in restrictions. This can create a barrier to the healthy performance of the central nervous system, and potentially every other system it interacts with.

Fortunately, such restrictions can be detected and corrected using simple methods of touch. With a light touch, the CST practitioner uses his or her hands to evaluate the craniosacral system by gently feeling various locations of the body to test for the ease of motion and rhythm of the cerebrospinal fluid pulsing around the brain and spinal cord. Soft-touch techniques are then used to release restrictions in any tissues influencing the craniosacral system.

By normalizing the environment around the brain and spinal cord and enhancing the body's ability to self-correct, CranioSacral Therapy is able to alleviate a wide variety of dysfunctions, from chronic pain and sports injuries to stroke and neurological impairment.

Somato Emotional Release

SomatoEmotional Release is defined by Dr. John Upledger, the founder of CranioSacral Therapy as: the expression of emotion that, for reasons deemed appropriate by some part of the patient’s or client’s nonconscious, has been retained, suppressed and isolated within the soma.

It is well-known in the world of CranioSacral Therapy that emotions trapped in body tissues can lead to pain and other ailments. Emotions have a powerful effect on our psyches, as well as our bodies. Positive/constructive emotions generate a sense of lightness and ease of movement. They can manifest as a desire to run, sing, smile and even dance. Negative/destructive emotions also generate body responses. They cause our shoulders to slump, our muscles to contract and our blood pressure to rise.

When we experience sadness, anger, resentment, loneliness or sorrow, we feel it deeply. And because it hurts, we sometimes suppress those parts of ourselves to keep the pain from intensifying or spreading. Imbalances often occur when we resist an emotion and its natural path through the body. Resistance can cause an emotion to lock into body tissue, eventually leading to physical ailments.

There are a variety of ways to release trapped emotions: journaling, talk therapy or even exercise. But the most reliable method of is SomatoEmotional Release (SER), that it was developed by Dr John E. Upledger. SER was designed specifically to release trapped emotions and allow the physical ailments that often accompany them to resolve naturally. The powerful results often include improved body functioning, loss of pain, greater mobility and more enjoyment of life.

Reiki

Reiki is a Japanese technique for stress reduction and relaxation that also promotes healing. It is administered by "laying on hands" and is based on the idea that an unseen "life force energy" flows through us and is what causes us to be alive. If one's "life force energy" is low, then we are more likely to get sick or feel stress, and if it is high, we are more capable of being happy and healthy.

The word Reiki is made of two Japanese words - Rei which means "God's Wisdom or the Higher Power" and Ki which is "life force energy". So Reiki is actually "spiritually guided life force energy."

A treatment feels like a wonderful glowing radiance that flows through and around you. Reiki treats the whole person including body, emotions, mind and spirit creating many beneficial effects that include relaxation and feelings of peace, security and wellbeing. Many have reported miraculous results.

Crystal Healing

In times of uncertainty, many of us look for ways to be more mindful, to calm anxiety stress, so alternative therapies like crystal healing are becoming more sort after. The concept of using crystals to heal has been around for centuries but, it's had a more mainstream resurgence in recent years.

Crystal healing is a type of alternative therapy that involves using gemstones to bring balance to an individual's life and mind. Crystals are said to "have a stable and unchanging energy pattern, each with a unique frequency and energy field, or resonance" that gives them special properties, explains Judy Hall, in her work, The Little Book of Crystals. As a result, "they act like tuning forks," helping bring "harmony" to the "very unstable energy field of the human body".

Massage Therapy

Massage therapy is a discipline that targets muscles; therefore, it has many benefits on the body. In fact, in addition to relieving muscle tension, massage therapy can also help reduce the effects of stress on the body.

Lower stress
The long-term effects of stress can take emotional and physical tolls. Massage therapy may relieve stress and conditions associated with it, such as tension headaches.

• Increase immune function
  Medical research indicates that massage therapy can help boost immune system strength by increasing the activity level of the body’s natural “killer T cells,” which fight off viruses.

• Boost mental health and wellness
  Research suggests that symptoms of stress, anxiety and depression (all associated with mental health) may be directly affected with massage therapy.

• Manage pain
  Pain can negatively affect a person’s quality of life and impede recovery from illness or injury. Recent findings highlight the role of massage in pain management.

• Improve physical fitness
  Elite and recreational athletes alike can benefit from massage therapy-massage can reduce muscle tension, improve exercise performance and prevent injuries.

Well Rounded Birth Course with roots in HypnoBirthing

3 week course incorporating breath work & yoga to support your prenatal months. Private One On One Classes Available at $100/hour.

This course is designed to help prepare you and your partner for a beautiful birth experience, with roots in Hypnobirthing. We will spend time focusing on different breath awareness techniques that are effective for pain management and hormonal release at different phases of labour.

We will also learn why it is important to surrender during the final phases of pregnancy, how to create a positive birth environment and how your partner can be fully involved by being your anchor and having the tools to empower him while supporting you.

In each 2 hour class, we will begin each practice with 15 minutes of prenatal yoga and breathwork to connect with your body, breath and baby. You don’t need to have practiced yoga before.

Pricing: $395 for 3 classes

Class 1 - Building a Positive Expectancy

How did we get to where we are with negative impressions of birth? How the subconscious mind plays the most important role in birth.
How guided meditation (visualizations) & deep relaxation create positive birth outcomes.

Laws of the Mind and creating positive change Breath used in birth
How fear interrupts the birth process

Class 2 - Relaxation techniques, Breathwork, Hormonal Gifts

Relaxation techniques for pregnancy and birth
The foundation of a positive birth - the breath of life
The gift of women’s hormones and their role in pregnancy/birth
How your partner plays a huge role and ways they can assist and support Visualizing your Birth
Fear Release

Class 3 - The final touches

Hallmarks of labour
How to prepare the birthing room/environment Birth positions
Preparing your birth environment
Surrendering to birth

You will receive a booklet of handouts at the beginning of the course. After each class there will be homework to complete and this is the cornerstone of the program. You will gain the most benefit out of the practice and time you put it your homework and together as a couple.