Meet Anouk

BACKGROUND

Growing up in the province of Quebec, I was introduced to osteopathy in my teenage years. Sessions would leave me calm, centred and more importantly, free of the discomfort and pain I would be complaining about. The slight touch of the therapist left me wondering how so little could do so much. I was later suffering from a series of concussions from snowboarding and a physically intense lifestyle and was left with years of headaches and brain fog. It was only after I consulted with an osteopathic practitioner that my symptoms went away and that, 5 years after the accidents. From that time onward I knew I wanted to help people the same way I was helped, with an holistic and natural approach.

Before I started my journey to studying Human Kinetics and later Osteopathy, my mother, who is a dedicated to “self-work” took me under her wing and together we attended courses and conferences in the field of New Medicine, a German form of psychosomatic medicine that identifies correlations between physical symptoms, our brain, and emotional distress in our lives. We also attended courses in trans-generational trauma, intra-uterine trauma, epigenetics, bioanalogy, geobiology, shamanism, rebirth therapy, family constellations, life regressions, the Heart/Math solution, the study of chakras, the kabbalah and more. This wealth of alternative knowledge shaped my beliefs that the human body is made of “layers” of intellectual, mental, emotional, spiritual and physical and that “health” can only be achieved when there is balance and congruence in these “layers”.

JOURNEY

I have been very fortunate to be taken under the wing of great osteopaths, and this, from very early on in my journey. When I was in second year of the Osteopathy program, I worked under an amazing team of renowned French Osteopaths while volonteering at the EHEO (Enfants Handicapés Espoirs Ostéopathiques) in Paris, France, an association that provides free osteopathic treatments for children with various handicaps such as down syndrome, cerebral palsy, autism and more. I also started assisting osteopaths in Calgary when I was in my third year of schooling therefore I have been using osteopathy as my sole modality for 10 years. During the writing process of my thesis “The Cause and Treatment of Gastroesophageal Reflux in Newborn by Osteopaths Specialized in Pediatrics: A qualitative Study”, I travelled across Canada to assist osteopaths who specialized in the treatment of infants and children. This experience left me very eager to help them be free of problems that later can affect their development both motor and physiological that can later prevent the expression of their full potential as adults.