HEALING ARTS QUALIFICATIONS - CHRISTINA NIVEN

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IN PROCESS

• Masters of Arts in Counselling Psychology (expected completion August 2024)

• QMUNITY Counselling practicum specific to counselling the 2SLGBTQIA+ community (completion December 2024)

• Bringing the Body into Practice - Somatic attachment psychotherapy training (completion November 2025)

 

CERTIFICATIONS

• Certificate: Stepping Stone and IFS Advanced, Internal Family Systems Counselling Association (IFSCA)

• Certificate: Somatic Experiencing Practitioner

• Certificate: Breathwork Senior Facilitator & Trainer, Breathwave

• Certificate: Yoga Therapist: C-IAYT, International Association of Yoga Therapists

• Certificate: Yoga Therapist training, Centerpoint Yoga Therapy

• Certificate: Restorative Yoga teacher training, Levels 1, 2, The Path Yoga Centre

• Certificate: Restorative Yoga teacher training, Judith Hanson Lasater

• Certificate: Ashtanga Yoga teacher training, Downward Dog Yoga Centre

• Certificate: Esther Myers Studio, Pre-Natal yoga, Monica Voss

• Certificate: Bihar Tantra Hatha Yoga teacher training, The Yoga Studio Toronto

• Certificate: Transformational Arts College, Holistic Health Practitioner

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YOGA TEACHER TRAININGS:

• Leila Stuart: Yoga therapy teacher training @ Centerpoint Yoga Therapy, 2011 – 14, 1000 hours

• Judith Hanson Lasater: Invitational Advanced Teacher Training: The Hallmarks of Being an Integrated Person, 2013, 42 hours

• Judith Hanson Lasater: Restorative Yoga teacher training, level 1, 2012, 22 hours

• The Path Yoga Centre, Wendy Eyton & Swan: Restorative Yoga teacher training, levels 1 & 2, 2012, 65 hours

• Lorin Roche: Radiance Sutras Meditation teacher training, 2011, 10 hours

• Yoga Outreach: Teaching Trauma Sensitive Yoga, 2011, 12 hours

• Downward Dog Yoga Centre, Ron Reid & Diane Bruni: Ashtanga Yoga teacher training , 2001 – 2004, 300 hours

• Esther Myers Studio: Pre-natal Yoga teacher training, 2002, 15 hours

• The Yoga Studio, Toronto, Tantric Hatha Yoga teacher training, Bihar tradition, 2000, 365 hours

 

OTHER:

• Breathwave breathwork facilitation training, Robin Clements: Levels 1, 2, 3, 2015 - 2018

• Breathwave senior facilitation experience with Robin Clements, 2019 - three years, 8x/year x 50 hours each

• Institute for Shamanic Medicine, Gael Carter & Marilyn Keefer: Shamanic Coaching and Practitioner Programs – 7 years, 2006 - 2014

• Institute for Contemporary Shamanic Studies, Gael Carter: Red Lodge Program, 4 years, 2001 - 2005

• Transformational Arts College: Holistic Health Practitioner Training (Reiki, Aromatherapy, Massage, Herbology), 250 hours, 1996-97