Stephanie Marie Lafazanos
"Our destiny is not in our doing , it is in our being unfolding itself." Master Dhyan Vimal
Stephanie's practice is born out of her own life journey and path in healing and seeking her truth. Her curiosity to know herself, follow her heart , and help others has lead her to express her natural and trained abilities in work she loves. Stephanie currently runs a healing practice in Vancouver B.C. and over the internet and looks forward to teaching in natural retreat settings around the world.
Stephanie was born in Toronto Ontario and raised in the beautiful rural area north of the Toronto area. It is here as a child that she made her first deep connection to nature and the power it holds for all. Graduating with a Bachelor of Kinesiology from McMaster University in Hamilton Ontario with a minor in Psychology, Stephanie at the university level began making the mind body connection taking interest and self guided study in advanced scientific areas such a psycho-neuro-immuno-biology. Coming from a history of dance, athletics, and outdoor enthusiasm, Stephanie showed her love for life as a leader and teacher in these areas.
Stephanie found alternative sustainable lifestyles while traveling in Australia and New Zealand and started opening up to her powerful sense of intuition while on this one year journey. She found the beautiful healing arts of Thai massage and Buddhist meditation in Thailand on her traveling adventure. She taught English as a second language for two years in Japan and traveled in Asia and North America.
Called back to her home country Stephanie received a certificate in Ecotourism Management from Sir Sanford Fleming College and followed her love for outdoor adventure by seasonally working as a wilderness guide and outdoor adventure instructor at various wellness retreat centers. Observing the emense powers of nature to heal Stephanie began an interest in integrating healing and wellness with nature retreats.
Upon settling in B.C. she was reawakened to depth of her intuitive skills and her ability to tune in to the energetic body, mind connection in her self and in others. Much of her awareness and self healing skills were put to the test while healing her own systemic candida, an illness that doctors knew little of at the time. This forced her to seek a healing path through alternative medicine, body centered therapies and spiritual practices including massage, qi gong (Chinese energy cultivation), yoga, meditation, tantra, intuitive studies, energy healing, energy medicine, traditional healing therapies, somatic or body centered psychotherapy, martial arts and dance.
Grounded in Vancouver since 2003, Stephanie has fine-tuned her healing and intuitive abilities studying with Qigong masters, teachers and healers. To give her skills a structure she dove into a two year Medical Intuitive program from which she graduated in June 2008. She is now one of less than 30 Certified Medical Intuitives in Canada.
Stephanie has also started helping educate individuals and couples to embrace the sacred and energetic aspects of their sexuality and love relationships. The skills, training and healing she offers in this branch of her work are a result of a life long love and journey into the sacredness and healing benefits of an empowered sense of sexuality. They are informed by ancient Taoist practices of health and longevity and traditional east Indian tantric studies. Her perception that there is a deep need for more positive and open education in these most important areas of life, for well-being, personal and societal evolution.
Stephanie is currently stepping into a role as a modern energy medicine woman, in the cutting edge fields of holistic health, integrating body-mind healing, nature and spirituality. She can still be found snow-boarding down glaciers, kayaking with whales, and walking in the forests gaining inspiration from Mother Nature.
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