Gina~Rae Horvath photography 2014
Sylvia Sienikehä Elysiana |
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Sylvia Sienikehä Elysiana is a death doula, holistic therapist and the owner and founder of Soulmilk Healing Arts Studio. Her practice is based on Hornby Island, British Columbia on Canada's west coast where she hosts monthly death cafés, writes death-centric poetry and makes sculptural cinerary urns for ashes.
SOULMILK HEALING ARTS STUDIO offers a multidimensional and organic approach to wellbeing, honoring the balance of the soul-mind-body. Trained in the traditional Usui Shiki Ryoho Method of Natural Healing as a Reiki Master Teacher and certified in Eastern Therapies and Bodywork as an Ayurvedic Marmatherapist and Yoga Therapist/Teacher, her work integrates two decades of active self study in alternative holistic therapies and in-depth training in energy based medicine, bodywork, yoga, shamanism, astral exploration and meditation practices including vipassana, metta/loving~kindness and open eye transfiguration. Passionate about alternative deathcare and conscious end-of-life issues, Sylvia is a certified death doula, hospice volunteer and member of the National Home Funeral Alliance, Order of the Good Death and the Funeral Consumers Alliance of Maine (FCAM) along with the Salish Sea Hospice Project and CINDEA (Canadian Integrative Network for Death Education and Alternatives) in British Columbia, Canada. Incorporating a love of poetry and cosplay, she can sometimes be found at open mikes, talking about death and life pre-womb in full costume and antlers. The Finnish translation of her middle name, pronounced sea-annie-kay-huh, is 'faery ring' or 'mushroom circle.' Elysiana is is a variant of Elysium or the Elysian Fields, the realm of the dead, in classical Greek mythology. |
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Training & Credentials
Pacific Rim College, School of Integrative Health
Certification in Complementary and Integrative Medicine
Foundations of Yogatherapy
Fundamentals of Ayurvedic Marmatherapy
Cupping and Scraping in the Thai Tradition
Prenatal and Postnatal Thai Massage
Three Winds Academy
Yanumoja Yoga Instructor Training Certification
Reiki Method of Natural Healing
Certification in Traditional Usui Shiki Ryoho
Levels I, II and Master Teacher Degree
Quantum Touch Healing
Certification
Magnified Healing
Master Teacher Certification
Emotional Freedom Techniques
Level 1+ Professional Training Certification
Out of Body Exploration Intensive | The Monroe Institute
Certification, residential intensive consciousness exploration program
Passages Death Industry Certification Program | Momdoulary Method, LLC, Mourning Doula Program
End-of-Life Doula, Death Doula, Mourning Doula, Death Midwife, Re-Organizing Professional & Post Loss Coach
Certification in Complementary and Integrative Medicine
Foundations of Yogatherapy
Fundamentals of Ayurvedic Marmatherapy
Cupping and Scraping in the Thai Tradition
Prenatal and Postnatal Thai Massage
Three Winds Academy
Yanumoja Yoga Instructor Training Certification
Reiki Method of Natural Healing
Certification in Traditional Usui Shiki Ryoho
Levels I, II and Master Teacher Degree
Quantum Touch Healing
Certification
Magnified Healing
Master Teacher Certification
Emotional Freedom Techniques
Level 1+ Professional Training Certification
Out of Body Exploration Intensive | The Monroe Institute
Certification, residential intensive consciousness exploration program
Passages Death Industry Certification Program | Momdoulary Method, LLC, Mourning Doula Program
End-of-Life Doula, Death Doula, Mourning Doula, Death Midwife, Re-Organizing Professional & Post Loss Coach
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