Richard specializes in Body Centered Psychotherapy and Couples Therapy.

Richard has completed a four year course of studies in Hakomi Body Centered Psychotherapy with Hakomi founder Ron Kurtz and master techer Jon Eisman. He took the mindfulness based stress reduction training with Jon Kabat Zin in 2008. Richard has worked as an aquatic therapist and a life coach. He is the director and founder of Mountain Waters Retreats, a wellness retreat centre near Nelson where he also facilitates programs, including a yearly couples retreat that he teaches with his wife Yogita and senior Hakomi teacher Beth Falch-Neilson.

Richard has completed a two year certification in Relational Somatic Therapy, a body-based form of trauma resolution work. He is presently registered as a therapeutic counselor with the Association of Counseling Therapists of Canada.

It feels important to share that in my life, the times of greatest challenge, have been the very times when I grew most as a human being. We all have an instinct to protect and contract around the places that are painful and difficult. I am committed to providing you the counselling and therapeutic support that allows you to move forward from whatever place you find yourself, with greater self-understanding, increased self-acceptance, and more abilty to consciously choose how you wish to show up in your relationship, at work, and for yourself.

I will encourage you in the practice of a kind of noticing that I call mindful awareness, where you develop the ability to more clearly observe what is happening inside yourself. Together by deep listening, accessing the wisdom of the body, and by uncovering old self-limiting beliefs, we can address the unresolved issues from the past that interfere with your ability to live more fully in the present and create the life you wish for yourself.

I have five adult children and a new grandchild. I am passionate about lifelong learning, growing food in the garden, hiking and skiing in the wilderness, and giving back to life in small but meaningful ways.

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Yogita brings presence and passion to her work with clients.

She has been working in the Health,Wellness, and Personal growth fields since 1995 when she completed a 500 hour training and certification in Acupressure and Chinese medicine.

A year later, she began a four year series of professional trainings in Hakomi, a body centered form of Psychotherapy. This was the beginning of a long and meaningful path working with clients through the body, creating the safety to bring healing to the emotional, psychological and trauma content that is often present. In the year 2000 Yogita began a 6 month training in Prenatal Psychology as an outgrowth of her work as an Aquatic Therapist.

In 2014 Yogita graduated from a two year certification program at the MH Viccars School of Massage Therapy. Cocurrently she studied mayo-fascial release with John f. Barnes.

In 2017 Yogita graduated from a 2 year training in Relational Somatic Therapy and has become a certified Therapeutic Counsellor.

She continues her studies in the field of Trauma and is presently in a two year training in Embodied Developmental Shock Trauma.

The 24 years during which I have been working with clients has intertwined with my own journey of personal healing and transformation. I have immense gratitude and humility for the people who have trusted me to hold with them the tender and vulnerable places, and for those teachers and mentors, who have held me in this same way.

Yogita fascilitates couples and women’s workshops at Mountain Waters Retreat. Last autumn she led a three week Women’s Pilgrimage trek in Nepal. She brings care, passion and a deep sense of reverence to her work. She has a passion for nature, the outdoors and allowing the deep Mystery to unfold. Together with her husband Richard they have 5 adult children and are now delighted to be grand-parents. To have further information on my trainings and journey visit our website: www.somatherapies.ca

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