Sandi’s training spans 40 years in health and wellness, working in various therapeutic professional capacities – within athletic clinics, for athletic teams, hospitals, public and private clinics. She has experience serving in businesses, sports events, arts/music events, schools (primary, secondary, college and university) and within people’s homes, in urban and rural settings. Sandi has experience with both acute and chronic conditions, rehabilitative and health promotion capacities. She serves able bodied and differently abled people.

Sandi’s post graduate Integrative Medicine training occurred in the United States and Mexico with the Center for World Indigenous Studies (CWIS) and the Center for Traditional Medicine (CTM). The program instructed in alignment with standards of Harvard University, NIH (National Institute for Health) and WHO (World Health Organization) for public health and health clinics. Further training has occurred with Dr Leslie Korn in Advanced Applications of Mental Health, PTSD and complex trauma, along with diabetes and cognitive decline.

Sandi’s full academic and complementary training is vast. Beginning by the age of 18 with Athletic Therapy and Canadian coaching training, followed by a Jt Hon BSc in Psychology and Kinesiology, specializing in neurobehavioral studies. From there, she worked as a Cognitive Therapist in acquired brain injuries and neurological rehabilitation before it was a recognized field. Her academic and professional experience involved all forms of nutrition (rehabilitative, weight loss, chronic disease, performance) with a special emphasis on food as medicine and ethno-nutrition, culturally relevant ways of preparing food. Training in plant medicine (also referred to as herbalism) specializing in ethno-botany – culturally relevant applications of plant medicines, bodywork (manual, bio-energetics and polarity therapy), counselling and educating all styles of learners were constant for her.

Finding many systems of academic thought quite linear and limited in Canada, she pursued post-graduate raining outside of Canada (described above). With the help of the CWIS/CTM she was able to upgrade her clinical skills, expand and put ‘name’ to her entire scientific, complementary therapeutic and Indigenous Medicine methodology skillset, complete research and teach. She has a long list of complementary modality training, including intuition, channelling and medical intuition, along with a large amount of bio-energetic healing modalities. She progressed to teacher training for Intuition development and Medical Intuition. Sandi’s musical inclinations combined with Indigenous-informed vocal and music traditions, also led her to training in sound healing and natural ASC (altered states of consciousness). Her traditional Kundalini yoga, mantra training with Thomas Ashley-Farrand, augmented meditation, movement, stillness and breathwork practices from her Indigenous traditions. Developing her fluency in quantum literature, she also studied traditional and quantum physics systems of energy anatomy.

With an affinity for form, function and action, uniquely combining her Indigenous teachings with scientific information, sacred geometry and universal principles, she went on to study Osteopathic Manual Therapy – preferring to focus on Classical Osteopathy for a more well-rounded, inclusive osteopathic approach (as compared to newer forms of divisional osteopathic efforts). She has also pursued Master level training in NLP (neuro-linguistic programming)). A long-time interest in genetics and human migration, naturally led her to study epigenetics applying the knowledge gained to health and wellness.

Sandi is a consummate learner, continuing to achieve CEU (continuing education credit units) in osteopathic, integrative and functional medicine, that far outweigh her requirements for professional association accreditation. It is also a mandate of her Indigenous traditions that she is continually open to self-reflection, learning, growing and evolving, as movement is constant in the world within and surround her. Sandi is adept at taking complex information systems, synthesizing multiple fields of information and relaying it in a manner to people that is understandable and actionable. She is now looking forward – after a sabbatical from teaching, while recovering from organ failure – to more research, writing and course development.