And I'm here to help you discover who you really are...
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The Truth Is....
The guidance, knowledge, insights and trust you need already exists within you.
I'm here as a compassionate witness, with a pathway of tools & practices to help you embody the life you deserve & desire.
How? By returning yourself to you.
Offerings
For program inquiries + to work with me, send an email at jackie@kealaliving.com ​​
or take a peek at my upcoming offerings here:
Mindfulness Based
Somatic Group Therapy
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Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) & Cognitive Therapy (MBCT)
Mindful Self-Compassion
Trauma Informed Mindfulness
Somatic IFS
​OHIP covered with valid health card for residents of Ontario
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Yoga Education
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80-hr Meditation Teaching Training
50-hr Restorative Spectrum
20-hr Trauma Informed Facilitation
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Meditation + Movement
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Restorative & Yin Yoga
Elemental Qi Gong
Tantric Hatha
Yoga Nidra
Vedic, Buddhist + Tantric Meditation
Sound Bath
Monthly Crystal Singing Bowl Immersion Offered with Reiki + Gentle Yoga
Private sessions available
Retreats
1 Day, 3 Day + Weeklong Immersions
@ Bodhi Tree Yoga Resort
@ Yogashala Wellness Center
// THE MISSION
Our wellbeing is collective.
While we are each uniquely impacted by our personal and intergenerational trauma, our return to compassion and the recognition of our wholeness and humanity unfolds when we are held in community.
It's not for everyone.
And it can be for most.
The only way to know is to give it a try.
// THE METHOD
As a therapist, group based programs are my primary modality... because the works.
So much of our wounding arises from states of disconnection. Disconnection from the earth, from ourselves, from our bodies, from consistent and attuned relationship....
Too often, we bear our challenges alone, mistakenly believing that we are the cause of our struggle, defective, or a problem to be fixed.
Group therapy opens the door to the missing elements for healing: an embodied experience that we are not alone in our struggles, an opportunity to heal through relationship and a unique alchemy of being able to grow and heal as we are witnessed in our wholeness by another (and in turn do so for the next).
While it may seem unconventional, community is at the heart of most indigenous wisdom traditions. Group is not a replacement for individual therapy, or a 'better than'.. but rather a powerful, meaningful, natural path to transformation.
About Dr. Ang
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// MY STORY told professionally
Dr. Ang is a medical doctor turned group psychotherapist, wellness educator, yoga and meditation instructor.
Her life’s path has been driven by a single question: how do we heal humanity? She holds a medical degree from Queen’s University, certifications in Spiritual Healing and Energy Medicine from the College of International Holistic Studies and over 20 years of study and practice in vajrayana buddhism, vedanta and contemporary mindfulness. Her inquiry on wholeness ultimately crystallized in the field of trauma-informed somatics, sensorimotor psychotherapy, tantra and yoga nidra, where the technology of ancient and modern science meet.
She weaves these threads together in multiple roles: as a group psychotherapist, combining mindfulness meditation, nervous system regulation, somatics, buddhist psychology and radical self-inquiry for the treatment of mental health and stress related disease; as an educator, serving on faculty of several 200/300 hour YTTs locally and internationally, and as sacred space-holder, facilitating retreats, workshops and immersive experiences for collective awakening and healing.
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About Me...
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// MY STORY told personally
You could say I finally landed on the mat when I became a family physician. Days, hours, weeks of being asked ``What do I do for my suffering?`` ultimately led me to share my methodology of self care and burnout prevention.
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My meditation practice gave me a sense of inner peace, calm and clarity in my purpose. What I gained through my yoga became so essential, so relevant to the people I was witnessing daily.
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My practice is what taught me who I was, what I was passionate about and how I wanted to live my life each day. Navigating from within, moment to moment.
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During my medical career I saw again and again that living well and living happy requires a foundation of both emotional and physical wellbeing.
No matter the diagnosis, the symptoms, it was lack of clarity, dis-embodiment, unbelonging and loss of self-connection that created the most suffering.
My greatest patient success stories came from were those who were willing to embrace their mind-body connection and use it to transform their lives. In teaching these tools, I witnessed people living their same lives outwardly but experiencing them totally differently inside.
It was the reclamation of this capacity, a remembrance of wholeness, that in the end, that my patients and students were looking for.
I believe there are many ways to create the life you want to live, and I can only offer the things that worked for me. My practice is influenced by humanistic psychology (trauma informed mindfulness + sensorimotor psychology, IFS, interpersonal neurobiology); somatics (Hakomi, Somatic Experiencing, polyvagal approaches), eastern philosophy (Vedanta, Tantric Yoga, Mahayana/Vajrayana Buddhism) and energy medicine (the work of Janet Amare & Barbara Brennan).
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