About NikiahGreetings!
My name is Nikiah, {Pronounced Nik-eye-ah} My ancestors made their way here to Canada via Romania, Ireland and Scotland three generations ago, and it is a gift to live on the unceded Indigenous land belonging to the Coast Salish peoples, including the territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), Stó:lō and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. My calling lays in deep shadow work, and the liminal space between this world and the spirit world. My goal is to support those who are called to walk into these spaces with me, and who are committed to picking up their medicine and diving into their own healing journeys. I am deeply inspired by the strength and wisdom of those who come to work with me, and it is within this inspiration that I hold space for others as they follow their own inner wisdom. My ability to hold strong space for others comes from years of working with woman and their families in the most tender of times during childbirth and in the creation of ceremonies for all sorts of transitions, from births and deaths to weddings and rites of passages of all kinds. My gifts lay in the support of crossing thresholds and in the required transitions that life brings us. I currently live on the west coast of Canada with my husband, two children, several thousand sweet honey bees and a cat named Solstice. For the past 20 years I have been following my soul song down many different holistic pathways, each one of them leading me to my soul's purpose and calling. A little more.... |
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I am a traditional animist Spirit worker/Healer initiated by a northern european animist tradition, and informed by the many teachings and teachers in this realm over the past decade.
For the past 20 years I have been following my soul song down many different holistic pathways, each one of them leading me to my soul's purpose and calling. For many of these years I worked in the realm of women’s spirituality, dedicated to the world of sacred birthing as a birth doula, and educator where I was able to pull in my various trainings in herbalism, nutrition and sacred ceremony into what I offered the couples I worked with. Much of that work however, has now become a small piece of the pathway that lead me to what I am today.
My shamanic training/apprenticeship journey began in 2006 and comes from many different teachers over the years, however I am eternally grateful for my shamanic spiritual elders who all have given me much guidance, mentorship, and support as I step out into my work as called by community.
As an ordained Minister and Certified Life Cycle Celebrant, I love crafting ceremonies for life's sacred transitions, and I currently offer the creation of unique weddings, ceremonies, rites of passage, and sacred ceremony for those in their death journey, or who have already passed.
These days I often can also be found in my bee yard as a sacred beekeeper, and teaching at the Collage of the Melissae-Center for Sacred Beekeeping.
For the past 20 years I have been following my soul song down many different holistic pathways, each one of them leading me to my soul's purpose and calling. For many of these years I worked in the realm of women’s spirituality, dedicated to the world of sacred birthing as a birth doula, and educator where I was able to pull in my various trainings in herbalism, nutrition and sacred ceremony into what I offered the couples I worked with. Much of that work however, has now become a small piece of the pathway that lead me to what I am today.
My shamanic training/apprenticeship journey began in 2006 and comes from many different teachers over the years, however I am eternally grateful for my shamanic spiritual elders who all have given me much guidance, mentorship, and support as I step out into my work as called by community.
As an ordained Minister and Certified Life Cycle Celebrant, I love crafting ceremonies for life's sacred transitions, and I currently offer the creation of unique weddings, ceremonies, rites of passage, and sacred ceremony for those in their death journey, or who have already passed.
These days I often can also be found in my bee yard as a sacred beekeeper, and teaching at the Collage of the Melissae-Center for Sacred Beekeeping.
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Experience and training
Animist/shamanic Apprenticeship training 2006
I have been blessed to have had many animist/shamanic teachers over the years offering me their wisdom teachings and supporting me.
Within that time I have studied both core shamanic techniques, and earth based shamanic/animist techniques, initiating as a spirit worker within a Northern Celtic animist tradition. Some of those I have learned form and worked with are, Angela Prider, John-Luke Edwards, Chrstina Pratt, Betsy Bergstrom, Alison Skelton, and Simon Buxton to name a few...
Death Midwifery/Doula:
Death Doula training in Bellingham with A Sacred Passage.
Home Funeral Practicum training with Don Morris.
Chaplaincy and Funeral training with John-Luke Edwards.
Ministerial Funeral ceremony.
Sin Eating, Soul ushering, and Psychopomp work has been taught directly to me through hands on apprenticeship.
Ceremonial work:
Priestess- Elder priestess and High priestess trainings received through Order of the White Moon and the 13th House mystery School.
Certified Life cycle celebrant-Life cycle Institute.
Trained to create and oversee ceremonies of all kinds from weddings to coming of age ceremonies to funerals.
Ordained minister licensed to marry couples in British Colombia Canada.
Women's Rites of passage training with Hemitra Crecraft. 2005
Natural Healing Modalities:
Birthing From Within Childbirth Educator/Mentor 2003
Childbirth Educator-Douglas Collage 2000
Aromatherapy training-Natural Wellness Aromatherapy 1999
Birth Keeper-Shamanic Midwifery-Jeanine Parvati Baker 1999
Birth Doula-Douglas Collage 1999
Holistic Birth Doula Gloria LeMay 1999
Chartered Herbalist 1998-Dominion Herbal Collage
Holistic Nutritionist 1998-CSNN-Canadian School of Natural Nutrition
Reflexologist-1998-Natural School Of Reflexology Ontario
I have been blessed to have had many animist/shamanic teachers over the years offering me their wisdom teachings and supporting me.
Within that time I have studied both core shamanic techniques, and earth based shamanic/animist techniques, initiating as a spirit worker within a Northern Celtic animist tradition. Some of those I have learned form and worked with are, Angela Prider, John-Luke Edwards, Chrstina Pratt, Betsy Bergstrom, Alison Skelton, and Simon Buxton to name a few...
Death Midwifery/Doula:
Death Doula training in Bellingham with A Sacred Passage.
Home Funeral Practicum training with Don Morris.
Chaplaincy and Funeral training with John-Luke Edwards.
Ministerial Funeral ceremony.
Sin Eating, Soul ushering, and Psychopomp work has been taught directly to me through hands on apprenticeship.
Ceremonial work:
Priestess- Elder priestess and High priestess trainings received through Order of the White Moon and the 13th House mystery School.
Certified Life cycle celebrant-Life cycle Institute.
Trained to create and oversee ceremonies of all kinds from weddings to coming of age ceremonies to funerals.
Ordained minister licensed to marry couples in British Colombia Canada.
Women's Rites of passage training with Hemitra Crecraft. 2005
Natural Healing Modalities:
Birthing From Within Childbirth Educator/Mentor 2003
Childbirth Educator-Douglas Collage 2000
Aromatherapy training-Natural Wellness Aromatherapy 1999
Birth Keeper-Shamanic Midwifery-Jeanine Parvati Baker 1999
Birth Doula-Douglas Collage 1999
Holistic Birth Doula Gloria LeMay 1999
Chartered Herbalist 1998-Dominion Herbal Collage
Holistic Nutritionist 1998-CSNN-Canadian School of Natural Nutrition
Reflexologist-1998-Natural School Of Reflexology Ontario