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Dear Satori Community,
We are excited to announce new team members to Satori: Dr. Chayanne Khodabandeh DC (Chiropractor), Nancy Paulin (Acupuncture & Craniosacral), Shawn Mercer (Energy & Somatic Healing & Fascial Release CoAT) and Jay James (Women’s Circle Facilitator). Please check out their Summer 2025 offerings.
We hope you enjoy our new address 150-12211 First Avenue, in the heart of Steveston Village. Please check the website for all our new groups and nature classes.
A credit card number may be required for booking a new appointment online; if you do not have a credit card please call the office to book your first appointment. Please reschedule your appointment if you have any symptoms, even mild, of fever, cough, sore throat, runny nose, chills or nausea. Please note, video sessions for Counselling, Coaching and Nutrition will appear in Pacific Time when booking. The cancellation policy is 24 hours notice for appointments and 7 days for group classes.
As always, we are here to help you keep healthy and we look forward to seeing you soon (online or in-person).
Yours in health, The Satori Team
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Chiropractic
Acupuncture
Massage Therapy
Counselling
Please note: Services of Registered Clinical Counsellors are now GST exempt.
ADHD & Academic Coaching
Kinesiology
Ben Unsworth is a Registered Kinesiologist (BCAK/CKA) who uses active rehabilitation aimed at restoring physical functions such as walking, lifting, and sports performance that may have been compromised due to an accident, injury, illness or other causes.
Ben's treatment plans encompass therapeutic exercise, stretching, postural correction, heat therapy, nutritional counselling, and manual muscle manipulation. He collaborates with a diverse team of healthcare professionals, including physiotherapists, chiropractors, RMTs, dietitians, and more, to ensure that you receive holistic and integrated care for the best possible outcomes. Services are offered in-clinic, in-home or in the community, depending on needs and goals.
Ben firmly believes that reducing pain and enhancing patient quality of life are important markers of successful treatment and recovery program.
Nutrition
Energy Healing
Energy healing is a broad term that describes treatment through connecting to subtle energy/life force that flows through and around the body (and all beings). Intuitively guided and intentional hand placement on or off the body helps reorganise, replenish and balance the energetic field that supports our vitality and healing capacity.
In this energy healing practice, there is respect and reverence of each person’s journey in life, of science, and of spirituality. We strive to operate from a place of humility, knowing that what we might want to feel or experience inside and outside a session may or may not transpire in the time we want it to, or in the way we would expect it to. For example, while catharsis and abreactions may occur, they are not persued, but rather welcomed if they are meant to be expressed. Here are some principles that sustain this practice:
1. Sessions are collaborative - the practitioner co-creates a safe and loving environment with the participant, so the willing and resourced individual can yield into the session and allow the body to self-adjust.
2. We intend to “allow and support” rather than “force and demand”.
3. We aim to radically listen to ourselves, others, and our environment.
4. We welcome all emerging information (feelings, visuals, sensations, movements), even if it cannot be intellectually understood.
5. We view every being as having innate intelligence, from its spiritual to its atomic levels.
6. We understand that everyone progresses at a unique pace.
7. We respect the nature of trauma therapy, and therefore create safety by emphasizing moments of self-organization and ease.
8. We consider the concept of mirrors - other people and our surroundings can help us see what we cannot readily perceive on our own.
9. We acknowledge our free-will - sessions are filled with invitations, we have the ability to make conscious choices.
10. We appreciate the spiritual nature of this practice, where spiritual beliefs of all kinds can coexist.
11. The practitioner continues self-care and education to check her own default modes and biases for sensible interpretation of information and for the ensurance of relevant and sound techniques.
12. The practitioner must understand her own being’s direct impact in the session - her self-awareness is imperative for the well-being of the participant.
13. The practitioner understands that she abides by the scope of practice from her specific trainings, and will refer the participant to other practitioners/resources as needed.
CranioSacral Therapy
Craniosacral Therapy (CST) is a light touch approach that can create dramatic improvements in your life. It releases tensions deep in the body to relieve pain and dysfunction which in turn can help to improve the whole body's health and performance. As time goes on, we endure stresses and strains and overtime our bodies absorb them. We can only handle so much tension before the tissues begin to tighten and potentially affect optimal function. Once this threshold is met, disfunction can occur within our whole being including the central nervous system and eventually every other system within.
A variety of conditions that are inflammatory in nature may begin to develop in adults starting in their thirties and onward. What may seem like minor issues at first can gain momentum and cause severe problems and complications as we age if the inflammatory response is not being managed.
CST releases the tensions to allow the entire body to relax and auto correct by using a gentle touch technique. This therapy naturally eliminates pain and stress, strengthens our resistance to disease and enhances our health and well-being. Because it is such a gentle therapy it can be effective for all ages from newborns to elders.
Some conditions that can be managed are Osteoporosis, Headaches/Migraines, Arthritis, Scoliosis, Alzheimer's/Dementia, Chronic fatigue, TMJ syndrome and ADD/ADHD. CST can also assist with neurological balancing which may help with stabilizing sleep patterns, improve balance and vestibular control and help with anxiety and depression.
Craniosacral therapy is performed fully clothed.
Nature Therapy/ Forest Bathing Group Class
Nature or ecotherapy helps people reconnect with their natural healing potential by connecting with the energy and rhythms of the natural world.
Nature therapy group sessions include healing activities for the 5 senses, movement exercises, art therapy and interaction with the outdoor environment to lower anxiety and enhance both physical and mental health.
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