Peephole on the Locksmith

Christina Nienaber-Roberts

Christina’s childhood love of Nature led to a Masters degree in Geology – a ticket to travel for over 25 years as an Earth Scientist cum Naturalist and freelance Photographer, Writer, Speaker and Artist, living in Africa, Australia, Arabia, the UK and now Canada’s beautiful Comox Valley on Vancouver Island, BC. Her world-view was essentially that of a left-brain analytical scientist, trained in the Newtonian tradition. That was until April of 1999, when the inexplicable way in which she discovered a lump in her lymph hit her like a proverbial earthquake.

This precipitated a shift in consciousness that compelled her to take responsibility for her own healing. Then and there she refocused her scientific research skills towards understanding the causes of dis-ease, with the aim of holistic wellness, stepping into an intensive 4-year ‘degree’ at ‘the University of Life’. In applying what she learnt she essentially became her own scientific experiment. Within 3 months the lump was gone and the quality of her life had changed on all fronts.

Soon she started receiving invitations to share her experiences – and the key tools she had used during her own journey - through workshops and writing. In gratitude for the new understanding of life that she had gained along the way, she accepted the opportunities this offered to inspire people to take responsibility for their own health and wholeness, and to follow their dreams. She fully believes that we are all truly capable of creating the life we’d love. All we need to do is ground ourselves in the present moment, go deep within to reconnect with Self and acknowledge - and then change - our own self-limiting beliefs that hold us back.

Exactly a year after the wake-up call, Christina acted upon inner guidance to do a home-retreat in celebration of the anniversary of the discovery of a new way of living. She chose to use the opportunity to intensely focus on the inner work required for a counseling training programme she was enrolled for. Concurrently she undertook an Ayurvedic cleanse, while practicing lots of Hatha Yoga, participating in an experiential Chakra a Week Workshop, and receiving various forms of body work. She also did energy work on herself on a daily basis. One day while in deep meditation her neck started spontaneously moving round and round in circles very, very slowly. As this happened, she became aware of realignment in her spine, muscles, tendons and at ever-deeper levels she could not quite pin-point at the time. When it had come to natural completion, she slowly stood up and felt lighter – and amazingly also taller – than before. Checking in the mirror, she found that her back was perfectly straight. Both the scoliosis as well as the strong S-curve that had bothered her all her life were gone – in only 20 minutes! She measured herself and found herself to be a full centimeter taller.

Totally in awe - sensing it to be a Sacred Gift - she chose from then on to surrender to It as a twice-daily practice. With every immersion, the experiences altered to slowly revealed more and more of what It was about. Eventually she understood this to be an incremental transformation or ‘healing’ and integration of body, mind, spirit and emotions - right down to the level of the DNA.

In 2003, while counseling a client, the spontaneous movement revealed itself to be an energy healing modality as well – that empowers the client to do their own inner healing as well as energy work. Even if they have had no training at all. This brought the realization that this was a Gift deep within each and every one of us - that we have just forgotten how to access.

The name Sacred Movement came independently to two yoga teachers who had experienced It with Christina - and it seemed a perfect fit, for some of the slow, graceful movements and some of the moments felt truly Sacred! Soon after this, workshops started manifesting themselves spontaneously and she has come to Love sharing Sacred Movement - more than anything else. For It totally empowers those who are ready to become One with their own Healer Within - or Higher Self – and to start remembering Who They Really Are.

After numerous requests and subtle – and sometimes not so subtle - messages, Christina has finally said yes to writing a book about the experiences that transformed her life from skeptical scientist to seeker, to sharer and speaker – under the working title is “Unlocking the Healer Within”.

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