About Cheryl - Healthy Hands

Cheryl Uphill

With Cheryl’s passion for lifelong learning and focus for well-being, she started her yogic journey back in 1992 after a physical way of life in martial arts for 25 years. In search for balance in the daily stresses of life, and managing chronic pain from many injuries, she discovered yoga, mediation and energetic awareness trainings. The melding of these disciplines created a more balanced Mind Body & Spirit approach. With the internal balance & focus that she acquired through karate, her transition to Hatha yoga was a natural progression that led to her into incorporating yoga into her daily life. Just as Karate was a way of life for Cheryl, then so became yoga and many certifications to follow;

200hr Hatha in Anand Praksh, Rishikesh, India and 500hr Yoga Therapy, Hot, Yin, Restorative, Advanced Chronic Pain Management, Thai Yoga Massage, Dermo Neuromodulation, Marma Therapy, 10-day Human Dissection training, and is a as a Certified Therapist with the International Association of Yoga Therapy (IAYT).

Cheryl prides herself on being an educator, especially in Yoga Therapy and Chronic Pain Care Management. As a survivor of overcoming severe long-term chronic pain, Cheryl’s love of learning led her to heal her Body and Mind by the power of knowledge and surrender. This led to obtaining her Provincial Instructional Diploma and is currently a Masters student at SFU in Adult Education.

She plans on sharing her creativity in teaching and inspiring healing education through her accumulated Yoga Therapist tools. Her energy of infectious enthusiasm and positive light will hopefully shine the way for the students to learn, grow and heal into the integrated Yoga Therapist they wish to be. She is honored and humbled to be part of the educational faculty of the VSOHA team.

Please visit www.UphillAllTheWay.ca for more info about her intuitive body work.

Going Deeper

Why am I passionate about Yoga Therapy?

Yoga therapy is one of the fastest growing modalities of therapeutics in western society today. Many clients have exhausted every effort in trying to find the style of therapy that works for them and they are now looking to yoga and therapy for answers.

After 5000 years since yoga birthed itself, it is now practiced worldwide by many people for over 50 years, Yoga is here to stay and is not the next best faze in fitness. This is one of the many reasons I have become a teacher and now a therapist. I have had many sports injuries and surgeries and yoga is now an integral part to my own healing journey and will continue to help me age gracefully.

I have dedicated a better part of a decade to taking classes, workshops, teacher trainings and now working with clients one on one. with yoga therapy.

A typical response from a new client to Yoga Therapy is they have tried everything else for their health issue and now will look outside the box with the approach of mind, body, and spirit. They express they have been “medicalized” by their doctor’s and therapist’s and they have only seen the physical body. They want all three dots connected. In short they are looking to relieve pain naturally, find alternative methods to healing and find ways of empowering themselves back to health on their own terms. And this is exactly what yoga therapy does, it is without a doubt one of the main bridges between mind, body and soul.

Yoga Training

“Foundation Restorative Yoga Teacher Training” with Nevah Wendy Eaton & Swan at The Path Yoga ~ 35 hours

Thai Yoga Massage – Trained at Kirpalu. Lotus Palm School Trained & Certified (Teacher: Eleonore Piquet)

Heaven on Earth Yoga Institute of Intergraded Health & Yoga Therapy – Certified Yoga Therapist – RYT – Hamilton, Ontario ~ 500 hours ~ 11/2013 – 01/2014

Semperviva Yin Yoga training with Bernie Clark ~ 80 hours ~ 02/2013

World Conscious Yoga Family – RYT – Anand Prakash Ashram, Rishiskesh, India ~ 200 hours ~ 10/2010 – 11/2010

Yyoga – Yhot/Ansura-Richmond ~ 80 hours ~ 03/2011

Certifications

SFU MEd Candidate (Masters of Education) – Curriculum Development & Instructional Design

PIDP – Diploma Adult Education

Yoga Alliance – E-RYT 500 & E-RYT 200 # 58796

Certified Yoga Therapist (C-IAYT) – 500 hrs # 46727325

Marma Therapy – 80 hrs

Thai Yoga Massage

Hot Yoga – 80 hrs

Yin Yoga – 50 hrs

Pain Care Certificate – 50 hrs

Restorative Yoga – 50 hrs

Yoga Anatomy Training with Ray Long MD FRCSC – 08/2014

Standard First Aid CPR/AED Level C (valid until May 25, 2017)

Black Belt Karate

Plans for 2014/2015

My plan for 2014/2015 is to have world wide yoga retreats with local workshops and group therapeutic classes that address certain issues, such as; Low Back, Shoulders, Relaxation, Recovery & Rehabilitation and autoimmune diseases.

I’ll continue group yoga classes at Goodlife Fitness and take on as many clients as I can handle for Yoga therapy one on one sessions.

I will eventually practice out of many facilities offering a day here and there at many institutions. (For example;, wellness centers, yoga studios, chiropractor/ physiotherapyRMT offices and corporate offices)

Specialization

Yoga Therapy

Hatha Yoga

Hot Yoga

Energy Healing

Martial Arts

What others say about Cheryl

I started practicing yoga only few weeks ago; the first time, I took lessons with Cheryl at a local studio and I really enjoyed it. Since I wanted private lessons I asked Cheryl to be my teacher. She taught me a daily routine, how to breathe properly, relax and concentrate. After three weeks I started to feel the benefits of yoga, and how my body was more flexible and my mind more relaxed. Cheryl is a very good yoga teacher; she is very clear with the instructions and constantly checks your posture and breathing. She also varies the routine according to each student; in my case I have thyroid problems so she has taught me some postures that will aid my health.

Aline SuziYoga Beginner

Nine years ago, I thought I would try Yoga for exercise. At the time, I felt that jogging is only for leg exercise, I wished to do some whole-body workout. It happens that a friend referred me to see Cheryl who teaches Hatha Yoga. In the beginning, 94 degree temperature was hard to get used to. Later on, I do realize exercising in a hot room prevents muscle injury. Three times a week at one and half hour each session, from standing to lying down, there are so many postures. With sweat pouring down freely, it truly is an ideal workout. I feel my body relaxed and softer, though shoulders and abdomen muscles tightened nicely. No more lower back aches and pains. It also improved my blood pressure, cholesterol and thyroid hormone functions. Choosing Hatha Yoga exercise is one of the better decisions I made in life.

Chin XueWork At Home Mom