Keys to

Relax and Feel Radiant

with
Christina Nienaber-Roberts, MSc, RNHP, KYT

This is for those who feel ready to Let Go of the logical, left-brain, experience of figuring out and doing and to step into the intuitive, right-brain, experience of fully feeling - to Relax and Feel Radiant through experiencing the Sacred Self. In Essence – at the energetic level of the Sacred Self - we are already whole and healed. We have always been. We have just mistakenly believed otherwise. We are Spirit. Full stop! This awareness can be experienced in different ways. Sacred Movement (a form of communion with our Sacred Self), yoga, energy work, and deep relaxation during holistic massage can become ways of stepping through the Heart Gate into experiencing our innate Wholeness or Holiness. Our Oneness with Source.

As this is the direction into which Christina’s life and life’s work have been naturally evolving, the business name has changed to reflect that and is now Relax and Feel Radiant. A new website that represents this is in progress and will soon be linked to this one that you are currently visiting.

♥ Holistic Deep Relaxation Massage ♥

This is not therapeutic massage aimed at resolving physical symptoms, but a platform for dropping into a really deeply relaxed state, which allows the Being to start returning to balance and to tune into the powerful natural transformational (or “healing”) force that animates the body, mind, emotions and spirit. Energy work may be included – if preferred. Christina also has training, and teaches Palliative Massage and shared Prenatal massage with expectant couples.

For truly Deep Relaxation, 2-hr appointments are recommended and the client is encouraged to take the rest of the day off to just Relax and Feel Radiant in order to allow full integration of the process. Clients are invited to linger a little longer to enjoy the Tranquility Pond, Walk the Labyrinth, or head out into adjacent Seal Bay Park for a gentle stroll or a walk on the beach, before driving home to melt into a hot Epsom salts bath. An early night is highly recommended for maximum benefit. $120. Also available: also 90 at $90 and 60 min appointments at $75/hr. All bodywork can also be delivered in Hospital, Care Homes or at home if the client is unable to travel, at an additional $10 for call-outs.

♥ Energy Work ♥

Energy Work 101
Getting started. Good introduction and preparation for Reiki, Healing Touch, or Therapeutic Touch Level 1. Also available in-home for families and friends supporting someone who is ill or needs an operation. In energy work Giving is Receiving and the relaxation benefits is equally experienced by giver and receiver – a win-win!!!

Energy Medicine Treatments
Christina draws on a combination or Therapeutic Touch, Healing Touch and Reiki as well as her intuitive abilities to support the person she is working with in restoring balance to the subtle energy field and to tuning in to the natural healing/transformational force that flows through us. Energy medicine has scientifically been proven to help with pain relief and relaxation, increase healing after illness or medical procedures, enhance the effects of medication and more. Can be combined with Massage – if preferred. Private Sessions Full 2hr or partial 90 0r 60 min treatments, can also be delivered in Hospital, Care Homes or at home if the client is unable to travel. Same fees apply as for Massage.

♥ Yoga Plus ♥ (Kripalu Yoga with massage and energy work)

In Kripalu Yoga, “the Yoga of Compassion”, students are encouraged to be gentle with themselves, focusing on Being Present in their own unique experience, rather than on competing, or striving for the “perfect” posture - with the understanding that every body is different, and in every moment its abilities may shift. Christina Nienaber-Roberts, a certified Kripalu Yoga Teacher, teachers a particularly gentle form of Kripalu Yoga, drawing on her intimate, daily, practice of over ten years of Sacred Movement, which spontaneously blossomed within her when she faced a healing crisis - and which has similarities to Kripalu Stage 3 or Meditation on Motion. Encouraging students to work with their eyes closed in a meditative state, these voice-guided experiences become a gentle vinyassa -flow of subtle movement, with periods of stillness, taking students into a deeper and deeper experience of their own inner wisdom. This simple approach makes it an ideal practice for anyone, even those with zero yoga experience, or who may be experiencing current physical challenges – or are sight-impaired! Start any time, but if you feel a resonance, register NOW - as there is limited space per class, allowing for lots of individual assistance and attention to your specific needs. Pre-Natal Students welcome!

New Rates!

8 Consecutive weeks: $100 (no credits for missed classes). If you are registered for 8 consecutive classes and can not attend, please call a day ahead so we know there is an extra drop-in space – thanks for being considerate!
Drop-ins $15 - only if classes do not fill or a registrant is unable to attend.
Drop-ins please call at least 8 hrs (preferably 24 hrs) ahead as the phone may not be answered or checked (as Christina will be in the studio).
Please bring your own mat, blanket and water bottle. Only 2 mats for rent at $3/class.
Day/Weekend Yoga Retreats. Please enquire about dates.

Yoga also Available as Private Tuition $75/hr; $120 for 2. Includes intake and integration time.

♥ NEW!!! Yoga Plus for Chronic Pain Relief. In June of 2011 Christina had the honour of receiving some training from Neil Pearson (www.lifeisnow.com), physical therapist and yoga therapist, and a new 8-week series to help people who experience chronic pain will be starting later in September 2011.

FMI please click on Upcoming Events.

♥ Sacred Movement. Please visit our sacred movement page.

NEW: Sacred Movement Facilitator Apprenticeship Training will be starting soon. Please enquire.

♥ Labyrinth Walks at The Heart Gate, Seal Bay, Courtenay, BC

This is a warm and heartfelt invitation to walk The Heart Gate Labyrinth near Seal Bay Park, Courtenay, BC - by appointment. Walkers are invited to bring a low-growing aromatic herb (Corsican Mint, Woolly or Elfin Thyme) to plant their energy into the living quilt growing into community, and a stone or stones to remember someone who has passed - or to dedicate to someone in need of support right now. Suggested donation: $15 plus plant or $20 – for up to 2 hours and walkers are welcome to bring lunch to enjoy in the garden and/or combine a walk with a bodywork or Sacred Movement session or Yoga class. A set of notes on Labyrinths as well as a list of other labyrinths in the Comox Valley - which could well be called The Valley of the Labyrinths - are part of the package. Our labyrinth has been included in the book by Aryana Raine on Labyrinths of BC – A Guide for Your Journey, which can be purchased at The Heart Gate.

♥ Birth Doula Services

Christina is currently working on the practical requirements towards her DONA certification, and as Doula Candidate and Member of Comox Valley Doulas, she is available to serve in the Comox Valley, BC, drawing on and incorporating components of her varied training in different modalities and experience to create a unique care-giving package for prospective parents. Until her certification is complete, as part of her practicum requirements, she is offering her services for free.

As stated on the Comox valley Doulas website: “Being invited to become an expectant couples’ companion on a potentially very transformational part of their journey together is a great honour as I see birthing as truly Sacred Work. My aim is to guide and support the couple towards a deeply fulfilling, self-empowering and bonding rite of passage during their unique birth experience, in an as calm and centered a sacred space as we are able to create and hold as the birth unfolds. I totally believe that when we tap into our Sacred Self and allow that to move us physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually, we have access to everything we need in our journey through life – also during the birthing process. I draw on my vast experience in companioning people through their inner Heart Gate to that place where birthing or rebirthing can become a very natural, sensual and Sacred experience.”

Christina had had the honour of assisting in one beautiful home birth of a friend before her doula training, and since her training in a serene hospital birth in May 2010; a home water-birth in October 2010; and a second very special hospital birth in August 2011 and she is committed to the birth of a very dear friend’s baby in May 2012.

Please Enquire.