About Cheryl
Cheryl leads her company, Peace and Power Movement Services Inc. and her Kind Power programming as a way to empower people to move and live fully, with kindness, peace and power.
She provides personal coaching, classes and hands-on support to people so they can move more freely recovering from injury, as part of healthy aging or to support performance in sport.
A Whole-Body Approach to Presence, Power, and Peace
Her work combines martial arts, conflict resolution, Being-in-Movement ™, Integral Coaching™ and the Feldenkrais Method to support her clients to have the resources to meet the challenge of each moment.
She is passionate to guide people to find ways to do peace in their bodies, and in their lives.
Cheryl’s interest in “kind power” started young
As a girl she asked, “If we can make war, how do we make peace?” Kind Power is the culmination of years of seeking and study on how to embody peace.
Cheryl has a black belt in aikido and trains Tai Chi through the Abundant Peace Internal Martial Arts school led by Sensei Brad Schultz. She also trained karate with Sensei Taka Kinjo (10th dan) at the Taka Karate School. My training with Sensei Brad Schultz is rich and transformative, developing my capacity to be calm under attack, to be responsive and present to what is happening now and to join with power beyond my own. With his teaching, I am learning to connect and be free.
Cheryl values kindness, connection, compassion, curiosity, growth, wisdom and wholeness
She is an Integral Master Coach ™ with Integral Coaching Canada (Joanne Hunt and Laura Divine); a Being in Movement™ practitioner with the Columbus Center for Movement Studies (Dr. Paul Linden) and a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner (TM) with the Feldenkrais Training Academy (Dr. Jeff Haller). She worked as an applied researcher and project lead on approximately 50 projects related to inclusion, learning and intercultural communication. She has a Masters of Education and a thesis on the “teachable” moment. She has published articles on education, somatic education and active aging . She sits on the ASU wellness committee to support safe and healthy aikido training.
Cheryl loves co-discovering possibilities with her clients, especially ones that her clients believed were impossible. In the possibilities of movement we can find joy. When her client says, “I can’t believe I just did that, with no pain!” It is a good movement day for Cheryl.
Living Kind Power — In Practice and in Action
A life rooted in movement, community, sustainability, and compassion
Cheryl finds joy in movement and growth. She gardens, including a hydroponic indoor garden, kayaking, cycling and walking in nature. She camps with cars, tents and kayaks, and dresses up in costume for an annual polar swim on Vancouver Island. She studies Japanese and enjoys Japanese calligraphy. She works for environmental sustainability by volunteering with her neighborhood community league, helping to build a demonstration rain garden and native plant teaching garden for the neighborhood elementary school.
She is dedicated to personal practices that increase and integrate her capacity for kindness and to bring that kindness powerfully into the world. She invests her time, money and spirit into causes that demonstrate kind power in action, including the No Limits Collective mission to increase accessible housing in Alberta and create a future where accessible housing is the norm, not the exception. Her Kind Power Studio includes a wheelchair accessible suite.
She is inspired by her Mother, Lura Mae, who taught through her daily example how to live fully within the uncertainty and limitations of a life lived with MS. Her commitment to reduce barriers to participation in movement study is supported by her mother’s spiritual and financial legacy.
In Lura Mae’s memory, Cheryl has set up The Happy Body Cell fund. This fund supports my capacity to reduce barriers to access Kind Power classes and services. Learn more about Lura Mae and her Happy Body Cell philosophy.
Clients working with Cheryl can expect to be deeply listened to
Cheryl asks her clients questions to understand their movement in the context of their life, their relationships and their environment.
Together we will put our curiosity and attention into more deeply understanding who you are in motion.