Karen & Tina
Owners
Karen Nancarrow
Karen has always had a passion and calling for spiritual healing and growth. From learning meditation techniques from her neighbour at age 16, to finding a variety of teachers over her lifetime, she has continued to be a seeker. Most recently, she has studied with Tanis Day, PhD, with the School of Energy Enlightenment for the past 20 years and in the intensive programs for 5 years. In one of the last classes of the course, where the class was discovering their 'master level work', Karen connected with her guides and had a clear vision of a healing centre that was to be created in downtown Kitchener! And the Mindful Hub was born! Karen lives in Kitchener, with her husband, Scott and their 5 kids (combined families!). Scott and Karen met in Tanis' course and it was love at first sight! They found the space downtown Kitchener and renovated it to be the beautiful space it is today! The Mindful Hub first opened its doors in September of 2019. Karen is a retired teacher, who now teaches Educational Assistants at Conestoga College. Karen is so excited to work with Tina, to create programs that will facilitate healing of mind, body and spirit! 
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Tina Lackner
BACYC, MSc, RP (CPT) (CYA- RCYT) (RYT) Registered Psychotherapist Certified Play Therapist Tina has always been drawn to the field of mental health and emotional well-being starting her career off as a Child and Youth Care practitioner and then very early on expanding her scope of practice to include adults and families. Tina has her diploma and degree in Child and Youth Counselling, her Masters in Family Work and is currently completely her PhD in Philosophy, Human Relationships Psychotherapy and Spiritual Care. After years working in nonprofit organizations Tina made the shift to private practice in 1999. Tina has been a full-time faculty at Humber College in the Child and Youth Care programs (diploma/degree) since 2002 and an Adjunct Faculty at Martin Luther University College, federated with Wilfrid Laurier University, since 2018, in the Masters of Psychotherapy and Spiritual Care program. Tina’s years of personal practices with meditation, mindfulness and yoga drew her to take a sabbatical in 2016. During this time off Tina dug deep into eastern practices for healing at which time she became Certified as a Children’s Yoga Teacher, Adult Yoga Teacher, trained using yoga for anxiety and depression and received her Certificate as an Applied Mindfulness Mediation Specialist. With these eastern approaches, as well as being a Certified Play Therapist and Registered Psychotherapist, Tina utilizes a holistic approach in her work with individuals. Tina also believes in understanding more about the role of healing and what contributes to someone’s personal experiences and is currently principal investigator in a national research project exploring Hope, Self-Compassion and Authentic Collaboration and the role they play in an individual’s healing journey. Tina has always had the dream of opening a healing centre that aligns with her professional and personal philosophy that taps into the mind, body, and soul and upon meeting Karen knew that she had found her soul-sister and business partner. Tina’s vision is for a healing space that provides a multitude of services that can support individuals to organically work through things that block their true authentic being and living their most authentic life. |
Eryn Handley
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Tanis Day, PhD
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Eryn has been dancing since she was 2 years old and has had many years of training and competitive dance in her life. However, she used to be extremely shy and self-conscious when it came time to freestyle or improvise. When she discovered Conscious Dance Parties and ecstatic dance it was as if her heart and soul finally felt permission to express, shine and be seen through the support of a non-judgemental, inclusive, safe space to explore and experiment. She came to learn the true meaning of dance as a form of self-expression and self-discovery.
Eryn has been a student of yoga for over 15 years and is a teacher of hatha, restorative and kundalini yoga. Ecstatic dance is now a profound part of her personal practice after learning, dancing, and completing a facilitator training with Liz Diaz in Toronto. She is passionate about offering tools for embodiment, self-study and reconnecting to our true nature. Eryn is honored to hold space for women to explore and nourish themselves physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. |
Tanis Day, PhD, has been a lifelong spiritual seeker, and for over 25 years, a uniquely gifted energy healer and spiritual teacher. In the 90s she studied alternative practices extensively, including energy healing, energetic awareness, nature connection, shamanic practices, Sufism and the mystical path of surrender, and completed a four-year program to become a Certified Advanced Energy Healer. Before that, she applied her unusual perspective to social change as a feminist professor of economics at Queen’s University and is internationally known for her pioneering work measuring the economic costs of violence against women and children.
She specializes in seeing the unseen, making the invisible aspects of life become real, both globally and individually. Tanis approaches both healing and enlightenment through energy awareness. She teaches about all the fields of human consciousness, how to access them and make use of them for healthy, happy, whole-self living. This work transforms individual lives and relationships at the deepest levels. Here at The Mindful Hub, Tanis will be offering one-on-one sessions, and once things open up again in KW, possibly some other events. The foundation of Tanis’s work is available in her book, The Whole You: Healing and Transformation through Energy Awareness. |
CAROLYN MUIR
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STEPHANIE FEENEY
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Marta redecopp
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suzy nunes
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Hi there, my name is Marta and I'm excited to be joining the Mindful Hub team. I've been a student of Yoga and Meditation since 2015, with over 500 hours of teacher training. During this time I've taught Hatha, Vinyasa, Yin, Restorative, Yoga Nidra and various types of meditation. One of the most important things I've learned is that each of us will have our own unique yoga practice because our bodies are unique and 1 in 5 of us experience chronic pain. It is my heart-felt intention to create a safe and welcoming series of classes for all levels of experience. I thoroughly enjoy helping others feel more at ease and feel a sense of belonging with themselves and with others.
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Suzy Nunes (Dove Dass) is a certified QiGong instructor from the Tai Chi, QiGong and Feng Shui Institute with Sifu Wing Cheung and of Radiant Lotus Women’s QiGong with Sifu Daisy Lee. Her goals are to teach QiGong, share the benefits of a healthy, positive lifestyle and to empower you to stress proof your life. She provides revolutionizing common wisdom of the crucial body-mind connection in prevention, maintenance and recovery of health. She gives classes in both Kitchener and Waterloo. She is a practitioner member of the National QiGong Association (NQA). She combines her intuitive gifts with her broad knowledge of energy healing; Chinese medicine; yoga; nutritional healing, meditation and many other spiritual healing practices to help people become empowered in their health so they can live full and satisfying life.
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Krista Harrison
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Rhonda Schlueter
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I have journeyed through the fascinating world of holistic health for over 20 years; practicing and teaching nutrition and culinary nutrition, as well as learning and experiencing reiki, and reflexology. Recently stepping into the field of children’s yoga has been such a joy and a privilege! Yoga allows us to pause and appreciate the magnificence of who we are.
I am so excited to move, flow, create and imagine with the kids in the yoga classes! Expressing thoughts and emotions through yoga and therapeutic play will help to strengthen children’s resilience, faith in themselves, and allow them to trust their own heart and intuition. |
Rhonda has been blessed with a certification in Reflexology since 2005. She is a member of RRCO - Reflexology Registration Council of Ontario.
Rhonda’s training started in 2005 at Conestoga Colleges Complimentary Care Course. This course opened up a new world in Holistic Health and Healing for Rhonda. Once certified Rhonda opened her own Holistic Healing practice home-based shop and did consulting offsite. Rhonda is truly passionate when working with clients to customize treatments to suit their needs, releasing stress, calming the mind and body, opening the pathways to the entire body, restoring it to a balanced state of relaxation.Coming soon! |
David Villada
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Amanda Ingall
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David has been exposed to meditation and healing arts since birth, he started to practice the art of musical healing and found an innate path that has led him to work with Himalayan full moon singing bowls and frequencies. “I am part of a scientific team that researches the impact of advance resonance kinetics on all living things, I was introduced to the resonance generators years ago. After being able to transmute various challenges in health and life, I have dedicated myself in helping others create coherency from within with all surroundings. Resonance coherency works on a wide spectrum of possibilities. So, I have set to combine the ancestral knowledge with practical sound therapy. This can be applied at any level from personal needs to large scale balancing. Take some time to tap into the sounds of healing and inspire true health from within, leaving stress and clutter behind.”
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I am passionate about awakening. I have spent have spent 25+ (<-don’t ask) years seeking wisdom from great teachers such as Jack Kornfield & Ken McLoed (mediation), Stanislav Grof (non ordinary states of consciousness), Anodea Judith & Layne Redmond (energy and chakra wisdom). I offer workshops, yoga and meditation classes and Mind/Body sessions. One of the biggest driving forces for me has been to make these ancient and timeless understandings relevant in today’s world. I want to share what I have learned and bring it alive in you.
I am also a proud Grandmother who loves motorcycling, (and of course wine) and have started a program for Conscious Eldering for women 50+ I am thrilled to be joining the Mindful Hub! |
emily arthur
Office manager
Emily is a recent psychology graduate from the University of Guelph. Her passion and commitment to mental health, mindfulness and mental well-being drew her to the Mindful Hub. Emily believes in the holistic approach to healing and is excited to be a part of the Mindful Hub team to support individuals in accessing their desired services that will support their personal growth. Emily is happy to answer any questions or provide guidance on services, programs and workshops offered at the Mindful Hub. You can reach Emily at: info@mindfulhub.ca.
