Responses from People

Passion Flower


"Canela,
With my aperture already opened a crack,
Offering a glimpse of my true nature but never lasting.
With your eyes looking into mine...
A crowbar made of soft tendrils...
Pried it wide open and invited me to jump off into NOTHING.
I did and saw that we are all the same.
What bliss to be held and nurtured by NOTHING's loving embrace!
Namaste"
- Oje, Deep Cove, BC


"My sessions with you have left deep impressions in my consciousness, and my current state is centered and peaceful.
I noticed that I received your observations about me quite impersonally; your insights are appreciated.
I got a strong mental jolt at the beginning of my private session with you.
I remember that your presence supported me to suddenly snap out of a comfortable, introverted mental state as I sat down, and into a high alertness state.
The difference between these two mental states was striking to witness, as was the rapid shift from one to the other.

I feel blessed by your presence in my life Canela, and sense a strong connection to you and your path.
I hope we meet again in the not too distant future. Keep sending those email fan-outs!
Namaste"
- Doug Christou, Carmangay, Alberta


"Canela is a radiant lover of love."
- Catherine Ingram, Dharma Dialogs, Portland, Oregon


"Thank you so much for your support and healing following my Grandmother's passing. The ReiKi sessions with you and the ReiKi I Course were significant healing and learning experiences for me. You are a wonderful teacher and you are helping me to see life in a new way. Thank you for everything! I am truly grateful! With Love and Thanks."
- Jacqueline, Vancouver, British Columbia


"During a four-hour Satsang led by Canela in June 2009, my concept of Reality shattered.
Others previously hinted that something greater laid in wait. Authors swore by It, gurus, lamas and rinpoches promised It, if one just lets go.
But in June, Canela created a safe space where I allowed myself to experience It, if for only a few hours.
Since then, she has helped me chip away some frosty edges, allowing me to become more Aware, more readily and more often.
Our latest visit was a completely transformative one-on-one.

This is, without question, one of the most important spiritual connections I've made."
- Kevin D., White Rock, BC


"The Satsangs on Bowen were deep and beautiful. When sitting in the front on 'the chair', I felt an amazing vibration coming up from the earth and through my feet and then throughout my body and filling every cell of my Being. Such a feeling of Love and Oneness!"
- Hari (Harriet), Victoria, B.C.


"I Love Satsang with Canela! It is a contagiously light and joyful
experience. Her insights bring me to a greater place of Self awareness and acceptance."
- Karen Epp, Vancouver, B.C.


"We do live a high paced life. We do think about our financial investments. However, we do not always take time to invest in our peace of mind. Most of our problems derive from detachment of our soul from our mind and from our body. Going through meditation I was thinking about world's greatest minds:
Pyphagorus, who said: '... Learn to be silent, let your mind listen and absorb ...' (580-500 B.C.)
Blaise Pascal: '... All men's mysteries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone ... (17th century)'
I experienced break-through of my vicious cycle of thoughts during Satsang meditation. I was able to enter gaps between them. It helped me to find a sense of total peace and clarity that it is the space between the notes that makes the music."
- Galena Bogatch, White Rock, B.C.


"Canela Michelle allows the Space for Rememberance to relax into Itself. Nothing is simpler or more intimate than This. Let this Satsang have you."
- Michael Beifuss, Salt Spring Island, B.C.


"Receiving ReiKi with Canela has provided an awareness of myself that I was unable to acquire through any other window. With ReiKi, Canela has invited me on a mission to 'release the comfort of carrying a burden'."
- Debra Lewis-Mahon, North Vancouver, B.C.


"My first experience with Satsang was in Vancouver, with Canela, and it was an amazing and wonderful experience. With her light, love and humour I was gently guided to the space between the thoughts. I have since experienced many Satsangs with Canela and it has changed my way of being. I am so thrilled that Lethbridge, and those that come from elsewhere, will experience Satsang with Canela!"
- Saria, Lethbridge, AB


"Hello Canela,
Thank you for this message, (speaking of the weekly email invitation) it resonates with my experience especially after the Satsang and Reiki session, going back into my sad-fearful childhood, those dark moments I kept playing in my mind. With your help in deeper seeing, I noticed the layers of peace under that known darkness that had held me hostage, until Now......I don't know what will happen next, but it feels great to let some light into that part.
Thank you."
- M.F., New Westminster, BC


"ReiKi with Canela on a regular basis has helped me develop the resilience I didn't seem to have before, to deal with life's challenges from a much more empowered perspective.
A deep store of well-being is being developed each time I visit, and I draw from this daily to use in the course of everyday life.
It helps me to come from a more balanced and fulfilled space, which means that I am more likely to contribute to everyone around me in a more positive and value-adding way, than would be the case if I felt depleted and needy.
The result is a more peaceful existence and one that feels richer and deeper; and consequently more loving of others and myself.
Added to this is the physical benefit I have enjoyed. For years I suffered with a frequently occurring bladder infection, something that I now (thankfully) rarely experience. Canela also worked directly on a very painful shoulder, which healed itself within days, and is still helping me with a more persistent hip pain, that still pops up now and again, but is no longer constantly painful when I walk.
My ReiKi sessions are my special gift to me each month and they have a significant and wonderful impact on all aspects of my life! "
- Su Townsend, North Vancouver, British Columbia


"My whole life took a turn for the better last week. Again. Because, once again, I experienced the magic of ReiKi with Canela. That means, once again, I felt my energy come back to me - on all levels: mental, physical and spiritual. Once again, I trusted the experience, the expertise and the amazing intuition that she brings into her work. Once again, I felt body mind and soul respond to her gifted play of ReiKi energy. And now, days later, I still feel its wonderful effect.
We live in a world bereft of magic, impoverished by our lack of ability to feel miracles. It is my belief
that experiencing healing through Canela's "magic" is one of my life's most lovely miracles.
Thank you Canela."
- Luan Giffin, Vancouver, British Columbia


"I have been receiving Reiki sessions from Canela for a couple of years, and have also completed her Reiki Level One training. I have recommended her sessions and classes to several friends and clients, and all who have gone to see her have been extremely happy with their experiences. My own sessions with Canela have
been invaluable. There is something that opens up in me, something that is so precious and important that begins to awaken when she makes available the space for it. I come closer to myself each time I have a session. I feel so fortunate to be able to experience this healing, and it is Canela's talent and powerful natural capacity for healing and compassion that enables it. In addition to this natural ability, her dedication to herself and her own growth is clearly reflected in her work. To be able to meet with her and experience the consequence of that commitment is an indescribable gift."
- N. Deagan, Vancouver, B.C.


"Hi Canela - I feel so much better after my session! It was amazing. It felt like a whole bunch of stuff surfaced, and released. Wonderful!!"
- J.V., Vancouver, BC


"When I have a Reiki session with Canela I always feel very taken care of and loved. Considering I do not have my mom living close by, Canela sometimes takes on that part of the loving mother for me... Canela's guidance supports me in every day life. After a session I feel emotionally balanced and my body feels refreshed.
The room she works in has a very nice atmosphere and is close to the sky which I personally like. Thank you Canela!"
- Alexandra Busse, North Vancouver, BC


"We completed our 4 hour Satsang and I wanted to share with others on my experience of sitting in the chair as a journey home. I feel like who I am has expanded in a very gentle and loving way and, if only fleeting, experienced the divine in self and others. It was experiential and a state of being that I would like to experience again and again....""
- Kate O'Hare, White Rock, BC


"Canela has unveiled the truth that lies dormant in all of us, and has chosen to share this beautiful uncovering through Satsang. It is easy to be drawn into the awakened state while sitting in her presence and listening to her words. With unconditional love and supreme gentleness, she is openly committed to sharing this sacred news with all who enter her radiant field of being. Canela's radical acceptance of life continues to serve as a vast portal for consciousness to reveal its Self unto its Self."
- Kyle Hoobin, Vancouver, B.C.


"Canela's Satsangs in Tucson were exquisite. Canela's ability to speak straight from the heart touched many people."
- Will (Brahm) Foster, Phoenix, Arizona


"ReiKi with Canela is a deep, grounding experience. I always leave feeling 'back' in my body and centered."
- Karen Epp, Vancouver, BC


"Satsang with Canela feels like a gentle reminder for me of who and what I really am - light, laughter and love.
Thank you Canela!"
- Andrew Fawcett, Vancouver, B.C.


"The Group Satsang sessions are eye-opening...to see that other people have the same problems in life I have already been through or where I am right now. And I always learn something about life and what it may throw at you and what possibilities there are to make them easier on you or help you through them.
The One on One with Canela after the meditation part is always releasing and in the end fulfilling and enjoyable... she and I never know what might come up but she is with me in my laughter and my tears and I appreciate that very much!
Thank you Canela!"
- Alexandra Busse, North Vancouver, BC


"I am so grateful for the weekend Satsang that happened here and I so enjoyed the time we shared together. When I went to the garden centre/greenhouse on Monday, the plants and flowers were so much more vivid. Even though it was vivid prior to the weekend it is even more so now and continues to be so. Each time I water or work with the plants there is such an energy from them. Being One With All takes on a new meaning for me, such a "coming together" so to speak."
- Saria, Lethbridge, AB


"I highly recommend Satsang with Canela. The format Canela has chosen is creative and in my experience very effective. I found the toning to be powerful, the meditation facilitated by strong stillness and the work with individuals transformative. I looked forward each week to the Monday evening Satsangs and experienced the benefits during the whole day before the session began. Canela's Satsangs are a wonderful gift."
- D.J., North Vancouver, BC


"I met Canela in Satsang in Seattle, and I experienced her as clear, and alert, taking each thing that came her way graciously, and with an ease I recognize as that of one who is awake. Her laughter, her joy, her great compassion, all reveal her to be one who is aware of her true self. I recognized my true self, in her ease. Canela has become my friend, and confidant, helping me recognize once again, my own true self that had eclipsed, and I was searching to find, to rest in once more. She has been supportive of me with compassion, love, and wisdom, I am grateful that we have crossed paths in this large life. There is a sense of wonder in that, and a sense of personal love coming from this wholeness, this largeness of life."
- Sherry Stewart, Seattle, WA


"This is the gift of Canela Michelle. Words and wisdom are all around us, I have plenty of it myself. But being with Canela is a complete invitation into the Moment, where wisdom and mind and ego fade and simple truth shows up. Canela "gives" nothing more than the opportunity to throw away your props and Be. I've never received a more beautiful gift!"
- Wayne Froese, Burnaby, B.C.


" While attending Satsang with Canela, I experienced a profound sense of indifference, as to my fate at the hands of anyone who might disagree or wish me ill and this indifference allowed me to proceed in any direction I wished, with confidence - absent of fear of any potential reprisal."
- Hank Leis, White Rock, B.C.


" Hi Canela,
I only have a minute and I want to thank you for that great session the other day. You are very good at what you do - all aspects. I felt very supported by your words, they offered new possibilities on a couple of fronts and I am still feeling the sense of 'Oneness' in my being. My cleanse has been working away, adding to the experience and all and all I am in great shape.
Thank you THANK YOU
Blessings"
- Duncan Fraser, Gabriola Island, BC