Cecile Thomson, B.Ed. owner and operator of renew YOGA FITNESS HEALING has practiced and studied yoga for since the mid seventies. She has been teaching in the Saskatoon community since 1993. While in university, her studies in movement education coincided with her discovery of yoga at which time she developed her own regular, private yoga practice.
Some years later, she was involved in a car accident in which the car rolled on her. She sustained multiple injuries including a broken back at T4. She credits the fact that her spinal cord was not severed and withstood the impact of that roll over, to her previous years of Yoga practice. Because all yoga poses center around the alignment of the spine, the strength and flexibility of her spine developed over the years prevented her from dire consequences. During her recovery, traditional methods of rehabilitation were unavailable to her so she learned and used her knowledge of Yoga which, in conjunction with the Silva Method and Transcendental Meditation techniques, provided a natural path of rehabilitation and have continued to be virtual life lines - physically, mentally and spiritually.
She has worked, and trained with many teachers over the years; practiced, studied and experienced a wide range of different yoga styles such as Iyengar, Ashtanga, Power, Bikram, Himalayan, and Anusara. Her main influence remains centered in traditional Hatha yoga - developing meditative awareness of body, mind and breath. She continues to study yoga, anatomy, body kinesthetics, movement and mind healing processes and therapies.
Cecile is a Level II Usui Reike practitioner. (See our Healing page)
She has completed the third module of The Keller Method Therapeutic Ball & Myofascial Stretch Techniques and offers series of special classes during the regular season.
She is a certified Brain Management Consultant, licensed to teach Dahn Yoga, an energizing, healing Korean practise which enhances the body/brain's energy systems.
(See our Healing Page)
She has attained her teaching certification from Kit Laughlin's Stretch & Strength Techniques. These unique techniques enhance and develop the flexibility of the ordinary body - taking the practice of Yoga to a whole new level.
Norma
Coulterman’s first introduction to yoga was some thirty years ago when she
watched a friend use yoga postures to speed recovery from the flu.
Shortly after that, having begun the practise of Transcendental Meditation, she
attended a TM weekend residence retreat where she learned to use yoga as
preparation for meditation. As a result, she has been practicing both yoga and
TM on a daily basis ever since. In recent years, she began exploring yoga
which, after having taken various classes, eventually led her to complete the
Sacred Ground Teacher Training Program.
Norma’s
practice of both Yoga and TM, parallel her interests of teaching, learning and
healing.
A Home Based Educator, she
home schooled her two children. She has training in
Reflexology, Reiki and Thai Massage. But, further studies have led
her to train in her main practice of Ayurveda Transdermal Marma Therapy,
with Vaidya R.K. Mishra. Norma is currently continuing her studies
with Vaidya R.K. Mishra in Ayurveda, a natural health care system from India
which, like yoga, dates back some 5000 years.
She
looks forward to working with you on the mat.
"Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape." - Author Unknown
Contact
renew yoga fitness healing
B2 (lower level) 626 Broadway Avenue
Saskatoon SK S7N 1A9
Phone: 306 343-YOGA (9642)
E-mail: renyog@sasktel.net