The Team
Presenters
wellness comes from within
Dr. Jared McCollum
Dr. Jared M. McCollum, Dr.Ac., is passionate about guiding people on their path to health and wellness and helping them discover the amazing healing ability they all hold within themselves. Having graduated from the Canadian College of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine in 2004, Dr. McCollum has extensive training in Acupuncture, Oriental Diet Therapy, Traditional Chinese Herbal Medicine, Meditation and Taoist Psychology and Psychotherapy. Jared has spent countless hours serving the communities he has lived in over the last 20 years, offering classes in meditation, Qi Gong and programs he has developed which identify emotional blocks and help others let go of extreme emotions and stress. He is committed to improving the health of his patients as well as their community.
Samantha Periard
Ashley Jones
Sam is a Speaker, Podcaster and Mindset coach helping women heal their relationship to themselves so they can live more abundantly. Sam helps women start where they are even when its scary so they can live a life of true abundance and get through fear. She is the founder of She Receives academy that will help women create a rock solid foundation of self worth so they can easily attract a life by their own design. Sam has been featured T.V. interviews, various blogs, virtual and in person events and countless podcasts. Through her courses and workshops she has helped 100's of women manifest wealth and abundance no matter where they came from or where they are starting at all with a baby on her lap. With her humours yet deep take on pain, Sam has a less than average background and believes the power of our struggles are the catalyst for an epic change when we use it to our advantage.
Vicky Roubekas
Vicky Roubekas has a Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology from the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology. She is a psychologist, coach, author, and speaker who helps women connect with their body so they live a life of ease, joy, and authenticity. She has a private practice in Calgary, Canada where she sees clients in person and online. Vicky is trained in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR). She is a Certified Hakomi Therapist, a mindfulness-based somatic therapy. She is a Certified Embodied Awareness Facilitator, offering spiritually-directed therapy. She is a ThetaHealing™ practitioner. Vicky is a Peruvian Shaman Practitioner and Reiki Master.
Amber Pavey
Amber is the founder of Present Possibilities offering mindfulness, yoga & reiki training to kids, teens, and adults. Her mission is to help individuals thrive, and not just survive in our ultra-busy, fast paced world. When you meet Amber, you are immediately drawn to her calm, attentive approach. It is grounding.Along her journey learning Thai yoga therapy, she also discovered the art of Reiki healing, Access Bars, and reflexology and how working with the energy at a more intimate level can optimize ones healing journey. Sara also holds certification as a Registered Dental Assistant for over 15 years and has gone on to specialize in TMJ therapy; helping alleviate pain & headache issues in the jaw joint and surrounding muscles in the head, face and neck caused by stress, clenching/grinding, or trauma. It is these things that have given her the drive to share these wonderful modalities with the world and help bring people back to their roots, reclaim their bodies and find their zen!
Samantha Baldwin
Samantha Baldwin is an eclectic witch who has displayed psychic gifts since childhood. Although she avoided these gifts until adulthood, she is now actively embracing them. Samantha is a Tarotist, Akashic reader, sound healer and writer who is passionate about guiding women into the underworld to integrate their shadows and activate their womb power. During her time as a yoga Teacher, she began playing Alchemy bowls for her students, she also started playing them on the bodies of her Reiki clients. Samantha discovered her yoga students were able to drop into their practice on a deeper level without the "monkey mind" and her Reiki clients were able to release unwanted energy at a rapid, yet gentle rate. She has gone on to study the science of sound and teach people how the power of their own voices is the most powerful sound healing tool! Samantha teaches how sound and our pelvic floors relate and that if we release trauma, we free our voices. Samantha's collection of crystal alchemy bowls has grown and she has gone "on tour" to play countless sound baths all over Alberta as well as co-facilitates sound healing retreats.
Tyrone Morales
Tyrone has a passion for soulful wisdom and holistic well-being, He is more than a holistic health coach; he is a guide to the inner realms of the self. With a profound passion for breathwork, Tyrone leads individuals on a transformative journey, delving into the soulful aspects of conscious breathing. The session, "Alchemy of Flow," is an offering of sacred exploration, where breath becomes a vessel for the soul's expression.
Todd Moroz
Todd is passionate about guiding people on their path to health and wellness through meditation and sound to help release physical and mental stress while embracing a holistically spiritual path. After spending several years practicing meditation as a means to balance his own life and manage personal traumas which plagued him throughout his life, he sought to learn more as a means to share this gift with others. This led him to completing his Meditation Instruction and Holistic Counselling course, and he is also a Sound Healing & Reiki Practitioner. Todd is currently embracing this gift and sharing with many others by initiating meditation clubs at work and being a leader in emotional intelligence. In addition, he is also a huge advocate of shedding the stigma on men’s mental and emotional health and is leading a Men’s Meditation and Wellness Club; The ShaMen Tribe.
Alex Dunn
Alex is the co-founder of Eunoia Equine Assisted Learning and Wellness, where she serves as a Counsellor, Life Coach, Reflexologist, and Equine Assisted Facilitator. She is passionate about her work, understanding the correlation between physical, emotional, and mental well-being. Alex works in an integrative way, adapting each session to suit the unique needs of her clients, ensuring they are successful and positively impactful.
Jody Crawford
Jody H Crawford, BFA/Ed/EC, is a recovered overworker and an optimistic life coach with nine years of experience and a 23-year background in teaching; she has mastered the art of balancing energetic drive with essential downtime. Her journey began under the common misconception that success required relentless hustle and dominant masculine energy. However, embracing a feminine, slow-paced lifestyle refined her entrepreneurial skills and significantly enriched her life. This pivotal shift inspired Jody to create the Pink and Blue Solution, emphasizing the importance of "Pink Time"—dedicated periods for rest and rejuvenation essential for calming the nervous system, reducing stress and preventing overwhelm. Through her teaching/coaching, Jody now guides others to achieve a harmonious balance between their professional ambitions and personal well-being, helping them lead happier, healthier, and more productive lives.
Sandy Mulroy
Sandy of Solar Power Health is a professional Astrologer who specializes in Psychological, Business and Relationship Astrology. Sandy has her own Sound Studio in Alberta where she hosts many events with her Planetary Gongs and Singing Bowls. She also facilitates multiple Nature Wellness Retreats both in Canada and Globally.
Daria Soltysiak
Daria Soltysiak is a caregiver, yoga practitioner, professional communicator, and tender-hearted human living with her children and partner in Calgary, AB. In early 2024, she completed Francis Weller’s six-month grief ritual training and also participated in the Human Venture Institute, a program focused on reducing waste, suffering, and injustice. Brought to grief work after the death of her mother and love of her life, Janice Holloway, Daria works to hold a container for grief to be seen and moved, aiming to help fellow grievers develop a steadying practice and stay upright when the winds of grief are fierce. While the work is deeply personal, it’s sustained by her love and sense of responsibility to the living and those within it. For Daria, grief work is not for self-improvement, but instead how we might find our way back to each other.
Amanda Blaire
Amanda is a Wellness/Spiritual Life Coach who focuses on turning moments of trauma and pain into transformational moments of purpose and growth. After spending years searching for fulfillment, and enduring a few "dark nights of the soul", Amanda was able to find meaning in one of her most difficult experiences to date- an abortion that left her feeling alone, judged, and ashamed. It set her on a path of spiritual healing and self improvement that she desperately needed. Through her healing she found that sharing her experiences, modalities, and insights was uplifting those around her and inspiring them to also move forward on their journey. She quickly saw that she was being called to contribute to the greater good in coaching/helping others. Professionally, Amanda has spent years in coaching roles working in management, human resources, and personal training. She brings a well rounded approach calling in both spirituality and doses of reality to help others move through their blocks towards wholeness, authenticity, and purpose.
Christina Tulloch
Christina Tulloch founded Hiraeth Grief in 2024 after a lifetime of experience with love and loss. Christina’s journey with grief motivates her commitment to grief tending as a practice that brings balance to a society that avoids grief. An
apprentice grief tender with Sophy Banks, she creates safe spaces for communal grief and often leans on her experience in teaching, facilitation, and leadership. Chris lives near the Bow River with her two rescue dogs and is the mother of three ​adult sons. She sometimes refers to herself as a “wise griever” and shares that being a grief activist is on her bucket list. Her journey with death and divorce involved creativity, deep connection with others, walks by rugged seas, and a willingness to challenge boundaries with compassion and courage. By coming alongside fellow grievers in ritual and ceremony, Chris hopes to help us all carry what is heavy together.
Gita Grahame
Gita has 2 levels of Integrated Community Drumming Circles (ICDC) plus Gentle Therapeutic Drumming training from Circles of Rhythm out of Calgary and has been facilitating drumming circles, large and small, at various places around the community since 2016, including - but not limited to - schools, Okotoks Children's Festival, Canada Day events, retirement homes, community centres, and private locations. Gita has recently founded her own venture, Infinite Rhythms, and offers drumming circles as well as other forms of sound healing and stress release experiences. Her mission and vision is to build community and help you create Joy, Inner Peace, Balance, Authenticity, Fun and Vitality in your life, a drumbeat at a time.
