General
“Thank you for facilitating a ‘workshop for two’ for my husband and myself using your Sacred Movement approach to self-awareness and personal growth. Your quiet support and intuitive sense of what we needed in the moment was wonderful, and led both of us, in our different ways, to a higher level of consciousness and understanding. A real bonding experience! I also thoroughly enjoyed your course on Palliative Massage – your instruction was clearly presented with lots of time for practice and your endless patience was astonishing… What a transformative experience my massage session elicited! Like nothing I have previously experienced… Definitely you provide energy work with an edge.”
Ruth Barry, Palliative Liaison /Bereavement Counsellor, Hospice Society
“It is with immense gratitude that I let you know how deeply you effected my own personal growth. Your guidance has been enlightening. The atmosphere of safety that you create has allowed me to release fears of my body and in doing so has provided a softening of the tension and deeper release then I had ever experienced. The energy that emanates from you is awe inspiring. Your clairvoyance is remarkable. Your ability to be magically drawn to particular areas in my body is astounding. What a gift!”
Nancy Moeleart, Kripalu Yoga Teacher, Merville, BC
“Hi Christina….i am pondering all the things i am thankful for and you are one of them…thank-you for your open heart and all the love that pours out…i hope you are well and that we connect some time again…..love to you”.
Tracy Nessom, Victoria, BC
Massage
“Thank you so very much for the wonderful birthday massage – I slept like a log and Jerry said how much better I look this morning! I so appreciated your tenderness last night – I had no idea I was so in need of that at this time… Everything feels balanced and all the dots are joined up!!!”
Ruth Barry, Palliative Liaison /Bereavement Counsellor, Hospice Society
“Thank you so much for the wonderful massage treatment on Friday. I still feel very very good:) It was such a great experience to feel the power of such gentle focused touch!”
Katie White, RMT and Yoga Teacher, Comox Valley, BC.
Sacred Movement
“Thanks so much for the beautiful weekend of healing. I had an incredible time and appreciate and love your generosity and hospitality:) It took me about an hour to recover from the last sacred movement series. I will have to talk to you about that experience because it was incredible! I have never done rebirthing prior to Sacred Movement, but I think that is what happened. It sure felt like it:)”
Katie White, RMT and Yoga Teacher, Comox Valley, BC.
Be Who You Are Book
“Oh this is so funny that we meet now (in Edible Island Health Food Store in Courtenay). I was going to call you! I wanted to tell you. We practiced in your studio on Tuesday evening (where your photogrpahs were hanging) and then on Wednesday I went to the chiropractor and saw your pictures there as well, and I smiled. Then I had to wait, so I picked up your book (Messages from a Father’s Life and Passing) and read some of it. It is so well written. You bring so much information into it – and so suscinct. You know I have read many, many books, and I do not often go back to one, but this one I feel I want to buy. Have you ever thought of presenting workshops on grieving?”
Udita Oterholm, Retired Creator of Winds of Change Metaphysical Store, and Spiritual Seeker, Courtenay Comox Valley, BC.
“Just as I was about to sign off after sending you the second draft of the father book, I ‘got’ that I immediately had to send it to two of my clients, which I did. This morning while having breakfast I received a phone call from one of the – in tears. “When I got your e-mail something compelled me to start reading it straight away. I got to the point where you had the flood of grief in the forest and I have been crying since. There seems to be no end to it.” I suggested that she just allows it to come to natural completion. “I did and went to Sacred Movement and cried and cried and cried and it felt like I was grieving all the losses in my life at once. Then I just got a strong feeling that I needed to call you – just like you called Tio… It is so amazing. It felt like I had lost touch with Spirit and then yesterday I said to my sister on the phone that it felt like I never really allowed myself to grieve my mother’s death and straight after that I got your e-mail. Reading what you wrote also made me realize that I have not yet followed up on my intention to start volunteering with hospice. It may sound funny, but I yearn to sit with people who are dying and just send them Love. It feels like it will be a very healing thing to do – also for myself.”
Julie, Ontario.
The Parents Passing Book Set
“ I received the little books on Thursday and Friday evening I devoured both of them and when my husband arrived home at 12:15 from call I was busy crying of course. Many wounds have been scrptched open and I have discovered so many truths that are specifically applicable to me and my children that suffer from depression that I am now going to study those books slowly and underline the truths and then think about them. That photograph after your sprinkled your other’s ashes is unbelievable! I think it is amazing what you received from your parents (the messages). You described your father and mother so beautifully. I really loved them and remember all the hero-worhsip that I had for them. You have inherited so many of their talents as well as the love of nature and their writers’ talents. I still have so much to learn from you and can’t wait to see you again!” (Translated from Afrikaans).
Erina Hancke, Brooks, AB.
The Heart Gate
“Christina, I was just going through your incredible photos, and wanted to tell you that I just realized what it was that I felt when I walked into your space in the back by the gate.. I went to England once on a school trip, and visited a cathedral, and I had that exact same feeling in your yard – just a peace and presence that is indescribable … how honored and lucky I feel to have met you!…”
Karen Segee, Website Designer, Grasshopper Graphics, Saltspring Island, BC
Doula to the Dying and the Grieving
“My hat off to you for your continued courage and love that you grace your clients and their families with each and every occasion you have to visit. It is such a special gift that you give…one that is immeasurable. Thank you, again, for sharing your light with me and my family during my mom’s illness and beyond…it gave me strength and continues to give me courage today. With deep, deep love and gratitude”
MB, USA
Yoga
“They loved you!!! Thanks so much Christina, It makes me feel very confident to leave the clients in your capable hands! Blessings”
Nancy Moelreart, Kriplau Yoga Teacher, Merville, BC (after substitute teaching for her)
“The only other time I was this relaxed was when I knocked myself out on my mountain bike!”
Steve Paterson, new yoga student, Courtenay (after his first yoga class).
“I have noticed that when I wake up on Thursday mornings I have no pain, then as the week progresses, it becomes worse again. I can’t wait for Wednesday to come around so I can come to class again! I LOVE it!” and a few months later he shared with a new student: “The first time I came to yoga class, my body was a wreck. Now I have been surfing in Mexico and doing yoga on the beach. It is just awesome! “
Scot Baird, Heavy machine operator, Courtenay, BC.
“I had the amazing experience of attending a yoga class with my daughter at The Heart Gate facilitated by Christina Nienaber-Roberts in the summer of 2009. I had been taking a yoga tour of the Comox Valley with my daughter Jasmine to show her all the different types of yoga available, hoping that she would find a good fit as she was experiencing incredible amounts of stress in the last year of high school. When we arrived we were greeted by an incredibly warm and loving woman, there was sense that I was encountering a true healer and that this yoga experience may prove to be a little different. Sure enough there wasn’t a lot of body contortions, but more of a soulful journey into the deepest corners of my burdened mind. The deep breathing we were instructed to do seemed to flow light into every energy pathway. About 15 minutes into the breathing and deep relaxation that Christina facilitated I experienced rays of coloured light flowing from the top of my head. A deep sense of peace came over my body and mind. I left the studio that day in a warm blissful state along with my daughter who also appeared to be extremely relaxed. I explained to my daughter this wasn’t a typical yoga class – something profound had shifted within me.
“I didn’t know how powerful this instruction would become in my life until a few weeks later I had started on an antibiotic and I proceeded to have a severe adverse reaction to the drug. All my tendons seized up to the point I could not walk without crippling pain to every tendon in my body as if they would snap. I managed to crawl from the bed after wreathing in pain for a couple of hours. I lay on the floor and proceeded to relax my body in the way Christina had facilitated. I allowed energy to flow through me to every cell. Behold within minutes the pain ceased. I stood up and walked away from the physical torture I had just been experiencing for the last several hours. My friend who had a similar adverse reaction told me the excruciating tendon pain had lasted almost a week for them. I was so grateful to have been released from this painful agony so gently and quickly and without relapse. I walked away that day with a deep prayer of thanks to Christina for facilitating such an amazingly effective healing tool for me to use in my life. I feel such gratitude for her loving healing energy. I highly recommend her class for profound healing, stress release and spiritual awakening.”
Maggie St Aubrey, Nurse in Courtenay BC
