Meet the Team
Wanda is a registered massage therapist with CMMOTA. She has completed all courses offered for RAPID Neurofascial Reset (RAPID) & became a specialist in January 2019. Her base massage education is from obtaining a diploma with 2200 hours of education was through Alberta Massage Training (Alberta College Of Massage Therapy now) completed in July 2012. She became a certified equine therapist with HJW Equine Studies in June 2008 with training for animal osteoarticulation and massage and experience with multiple kinds of animals and disciplines. In May 2023 she became an Equine Assisted Learning Facilitator certified by Equine Assisted Learning (EAL) Canada.
Fyre, named for her passion to inspire, will allow learners to experience sessions on the ground and her back. (Centered above.)
Diamond’s amazing heart ensures learners will be able to experience their journey on the ground with him.
A note from Wanda
“Part of my drive towards becoming who I am today was living with severe osteoarthritis in my right hip. The tiny start of narrowing in my hip socket was thrown into fast forward motion when I was in an incident in August 2016. After years of increasing pain and reducing range of motion I found RAPID (which started my education with it). Taking care of myself with having a few RAPID sessions, a herb pill once a day and a healthy lifestyle I was almost able to avoid hip replacement surgery (January 2020). I was born with a shallow hip (the part that the ball sits in) and was just not able to spend the hours in the gym to rebuild necessary muscling to correct this as I had with growing up riding horses on my own since the age of 3. My hip kept partially dislocating and I could not even put my toe on the ground when it did without shear pain. RAPID expanded my vision on treatments for clients and what pain is. I further researched extensively to be able to understand pain and what I could do about it. Please do not hesitate to book a free consultation if you wish to discuss your issues.”
Wanda is now a retired third generation chariot driver. The summer of 2021 she came out of a ten year retirement for 2 years that proceeded eight years of competing. She won Provincial Rookie in 2002, was third overall in 2008 and second overall in 2022. The environment further enlightened her equine knowledge. Learning the ropes from her grandfather (49 years of chuckwagon and chariot racing) was amazing. They always put the horse first!
She was a member of 4-H for eight years and completed multiple projects including horse, canine, veterinary science, photography, and craft projects. One year she won the Regional Senior Small Animal Record Book competition with her canine records. She held every executive position, winning the highest level of record book competitions in treasurer and secretary. She (and her animals) won ribbons at district and regional levels with different projects. Wanda was then a general club leader for a year and Other Leader the year after. On multiple occasions she was mistress of ceremony and still judges for different club and district level competitions.
Wanda was a huge part of the Battle River Ride For STARS from the fall of 2017 to fall of 2019. She helped organize the event that raised over $50,000 for STARS during this time. She was happy to be involved for their 10th anniversary and bring great new features to the ride. The trail ride was approximately 18 miles with supper provided to riders, a silent auction and prizes for most money raised in support of STARS, although she could not complete the whole ride herself due to hip pain.
Wanda was a certified equine first aid instructor 2013 through 2016. During the 4 years I was able to teach kids courses, equine first aid, advanced equine first aid, safe trailering, disaster planning, and first responder courses. I really enjoyed helping to education people in these very important topics.
Striving to free bodies and minds to a grater magnitude.