About Amy

Educating & Empowering your life with Lymphedema through Yoga & Ayurveda is at the Heart of what I do.

My Story

From Health Librarian —> Yoga Instructor & Lymphedema Ambassador

In my 20s and 30s, I was a medical librarian for many years, before having kids & changing careers. Digging through information & research for answers has been my passion and led me to study Herbalism, and Ayurveda, as well as Hatha & Yin Yoga to improve my Lymphedema, and share my ideas about Lymphedema self-care with health professionals as well as lymphies around the world.

What I’m passionate about

I am passionate about moving my body to keep well. It is my main medicines, along with living by the seasons, herbalism, and lifestyle practices that Ayurveda teaches. All our actions, thoughts, and feelings are interconnected, and can affect our Lymphedema. I LOVE helping people adapt their Lymphedema to their lifestyle, so that you don’t have to give up on the things you love.

Life these days

As a wife & mother of 2 young girls, I am their wheels to/from school or the gym. They love movement like their mama and are joining an elite sports program next year. So awesome that there are programs like this that are helping kids be active from a young age and not asking them to sit all day at school….

Why work with me?

I have had Lymphedema almost my whole life (primary since age 5) and get what it can be like to adapt to daily & seasonal challenges. Lymphedema really is a whole body experience with social, emotional, physical, and mental aspects to take into consideration.

I’ve learned to adapt my lymphedema needs to various life events like being an adolescent/teenager/university student, to going to weddings, camping, travelling across Europe with only a backpack, pregnancy, having kids, and am now adapting to my perimenopause years. As an experienced Lymphie, I’m a great person to help you problem solve how to adapt Lymphedema to your life, NOT the other way around.

Credentials:

Yoga practice - come check out my yoga offerings

Yoga practice - come check out my yoga offerings

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My Trans-FLOW-mation from 2018-2023

My Trans-FLOW-mation from 2018-2023

Teaching yoga in person for Lymphedema

Teaching yoga in person for Lymphedema

Ambassador for Bauerfeind Curaflow lymphedema garments (2023-24)

Ambassador for Bauerfeind Curaflow lymphedema garments (2023-24)

I love the pool for managing my Lymphedema. I do aquafit classes and do laps. Look at the pressure gradient we get by being in the water!

I love the pool for managing my Lymphedema. I do aquafit classes and do laps. Look at the pressure gradient we get by being in the water!

Testimonial from Erin

Testimonial from Erin

Testimonial from Anne

Testimonial from Anne

Testimonial from Shauna

Testimonial from Shauna

Flaunting my compression. No time to hide anymore, especially when it's warm in the summer!

Flaunting my compression. No time to hide anymore, especially when it's warm in the summer!

Love having barefoot shoes - These sock like shoes are from Skinners.

Love having barefoot shoes - These sock like shoes are from Skinners.

My night time bandage routine - Fast N Go Bandages & Mobiderm Foam

My night time bandage routine - Fast N Go Bandages & Mobiderm Foam

Fun Facts About Me

  • I have 3 cats and a dog. They’re fun, curious and keep our house lively!

  • I love the water and used be a competitive Synchronized Swimmer as a child. When I’m not on my yoga mat, you can find me swimming laps, or going to deep water Aquafit.

  • I love listening to Podcasts! If you have a favourite, I would love to hear about it!

  • I love reading historical fiction, and self-help genre. Favourites include: All the Light We Cannot See, Five Little Indians, The Alice Network, Yoga and Life, Braiding Sweetgrass, The Artists Way.

  • I once dreamed up the idea of doing a swim-athon for Lymphedema and swam 110 laps of the pool to raise over $1000 for the Ontario Lymphedema Association as a young adult. It was fun!

  • I have travelled to Europe 4 times, the US a few times, and New Zealand once, along the way picking up lots of travel tips to make the best of my journey with Lymphedema and still see the sites, enjoy the foods, and make memories!

  • I LOVE dark chocolate. It’s one of my love languages. LOL.

  • I was born at midnight and sometimes find the evenings to be the best work time for creative work, but…I’m still a lights out by 10pm kinda gal most nights!

  • I grew up with true homesteader parents. We heated our house with wood we cut, chopped, and piled from our acreage. We had a giant raspberry and veggie patch, beehives, and tapped maple syrup some years. We even foraged in the woods for seasonal delights like morels and fiddleheads. My driveway was a 15 min walk uphill from the road just to get to our house in the woods.

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