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Mia Kalef
It's possible that I've been involved in health care for over 25 years. I was only 11 years old when I attended my first orthopaedics lesson, but it just so happened that that the patient was me! How could I have guessed that my own sports injuries were indadvertently introducing me to studies of Anatomy, Radiology, Kinesiology, and esentially training me for what would later become my life's path?
At the age of 17, a rowing injury radically changed my teenage life. I learned a lot while being passed around the medical field with no answers. After being given a diagnosis called 'tiusse irritation' that 'might one day leave me', I was left dissatisfied and a jumping off point towards self-awareness was created. Being plagued by pain and stiffness at that tender age was illogical to me, so a natural search was underway. By the age of 19, I learned that unresolved emotion could cause pain and disease. Those experiences insipired me to delve into working with knowledge traditions that supported whole healing. By age 22, I was in Chiropractic College to earn my credentials, and by 24, was practicing Craniosacral Therapy and doing my Chiropractic internship at Anishnawbe Health Toronto, a native health center. Finally at age 29, my body decided it could reveal what was at the root of my challenges, and I began a deep healing journey from childhood injuries. It taught me how to hold the deepest of wounds with tenderness and compassion and that the courage to face these places brings untold beauty and peace.
It was several years later that I met one of my teachers, Ray Castellino. http://raycastellino.com/. His work inspired me to create my program of therapy, education and research now called Emerging Families. Ray's work with Midwife, Mary Jackson, has also informed the work I do with very young babies and their families. http://www.raycastellino.com/aboutconnections/
So today, after many jorneys and appreciation for humanity's creation of spiritual and healing traditions, I look through the viewing lens of all traditions. Whether it is through the Buddhist practice of Metta (Lovingkindness), our pattern of inheritence called Morphic Resonance, the comprehensive and timeless teaching of Ayruveda, or through the Biodynamic Osteopathic Principle of The Long Tide, I, the viewer observe a consistent image; we are one and our loving message carrying peace, no matter its language, is the same.
May we never divide.
Emerging Families is built on a vision of a peaceful, compassionate world that begins with treating all beings, espcially babies, in this way.
I am thankful to all my teachers, and especially to Dr. Ron King; an embodiment of kind wisdom. I am grateful to my patients, old and young, who over the years have generously included me in their healing paths, it is through you that all great teachings come to life.
~Mia
