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About Connie Quayle

My story.

One iteration. A view.

We all live so many stories.

My Story

My story, like others, has moved through many phases.

And in my perception, there is a before and after event that changed my life.

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Before

I used to work as a teacher, mostly with children and youth in alternative schools. I focused my practice around self empowerment, creative expansion, connection to nature, wellness of communication, healthy connection and personal discovery. All good stuff. And I was much loved for this work I did for twenty years.

I raised my children and lived a life homesteading in community.

I practiced healing arts with certifications in herbalism, reiki and therapeutic touch. I made herbal medicines for my family and friends. I supported and attended ceremony as part of my life. 

I had finally come out as a queer trans woman, was loving the freedom of being myself, and started my second masters degree... this time in Social Work... 

...when my brain broke and my world changed. ​​​​

Connie Quayle sitting with Owl medicine

After

The things we shrug off and try to bury don't always leave us. Healing takes more than just trying to let go and move on. Painting a sunny picture of one's life doesn't erase trauma or pain we don't know how to process. The hidden weights of my past caught up with me and knocked me flat.

I spent years floating in darkness, drifting between trance and dissociation, no longer working, no longer able to function. Diagnosed with Complex PTSD I re-storied my life understanding the things that I bore were not always bearable and I began my healing journey in earnest. I learned to ask for help when I had no other choices. 

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I'm deeply thankful to all the practitioners from so many modalities in many traditions who held and supported me to find myself again. I have walked those paths of darkness, of shadow and confusion, and brought back with me ways to navigate and heal from those times and spaces.

A few of the practices that supported me on my healing journey have become integral to who I am. ​

These form the core of my practice that I share with you, as I build on my skills of the past, with new understandings.

And I live my life in a more authentic way, full of love, vibrancy and connection... healing, learning, growing... it really is possible.​

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I offer

  • Transition counselling support for queer and genderqueer people and those who love them.

  • Gender Diversity and Inclusion workshops and consulting to help build a safer world.

  • Conscious Dance facilitation and DJing as a somatic mindfulness practice for health and connection.

  • Metaphysical Herbalism through my MoonCat Magicals product line and client sessions.

  • Spiritual & Energy Healing client services will be returning soon... 

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Credentials

Credentials

Experiential Learning, to me, is at least as significant as structured education in colonial institutions. Here I share a bit of both. Learning is everywhere.

Academic Degrees

  • BA in Native Studies and Biology from Trent University

  • BEd in Outdoor and Experiential Education from Queen's University

  • MA in Conflict Analysis and Management from Royal Roads University

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Counselling, Teaching and Social Work

  • Coursework in Psychology (TRU), Interpersonal Communication for Counselling (UVic), Anti-Racist Practice (UVic)

  • Family home learning support and teaching for 20 years (Linnaea School, SelfDesign, HeartWood)

  • Gender diversity and inclusion trainings, support group facilitator and individual human support since 2019

  • Life experience as a queer and transgender human with disability

  • My own transformative healing journey in trauma recovery, learning as a client to many practitioners

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Herbalism and Plant Medicine

  • Certificate from Dominion Herbal College

  • Self directed research and learning for thirty years.

  • Mentorship, Learning and Workshops with many humans including: Cat West, Lee Saunders, Edna Manitowabi, Nicole Bell, Della Rice Sylvester, Akayah Lynn, Aditi Ruth Holden, Vasanti Daigle, Jim Patterson and more...

  • Sitting with plants, master plant dieta with rose, learning from the plant spirits, decades of medicine crafting

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Dance Practice

  • Dance Weavers DJ & Facilitation training and mentorship with Naomi Jason, Lila Spencer and Alex King-Harris

  • 5 Rhythms workshops with Bettina Roth, Shauna Devlin, Anne Marie Hogya

  • Soulskin and Portals of Transformation programs with Naomi Jason

  • Founder and resident DJ of Dance Temple Cortes, DJ experience with Dance Temples in many places, conscious dance class facilitation, Pride event and festival DJing.

  • A deep love for and commitment to conscious and ecstatic dance practices for embodiment and healing.

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Energetic and Spiritual Healing

  • Therapeutic Touch lvls 1-3 and Practitioner certification with Linda Nelson

  • Reiki lvl 1 twice. With Carina Verhoeve and with Rebecca Hay

  • Spiritual Healing Practitioner level 1 (in progress) with Julie Kramer

  • Lifetimes worth of memories and learning from spirits

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