My Story

In my 20’s my trainings included metaphysics and meditation.  I lived as part of a spiritual community with a living teacher.  I also participated in the secular world of work and commerce.  It was a time of enormous physic openings, transcendent experiences as well as deep frustration, and emotional pain!  There were moments when I felt myself fully alive and centered in the midst of the refiners fire; times when I flew!  And moments where I was full of blame and judgment, unable to navigate through the maze of living symbols that is this life in form.

In my 30’s I became deeply involved both externally and internally.  In the External world I enjoyed travel in the hospitality industry, then excelled in finance and related consulting.  During that time period meditation, yoga, and psycho-spiritual work supported my inner life and helped me to stay centered in a very challenging, stimulating  and exciting external environment. 

I moved into the study of Jungian psychology, Ashtanga yoga, transforming art and dream work.  Internally it was a time of emotional challenge and clearing.  I probably filled 100 journals, drew a 1000 soul images, and attended untold seminars and workshops – working it all out!  I cried on the yoga mat as feelings purged and clarity surfaced.  This was an alchemical process.  The Ashtanga yoga practice activated and facilitated a huge cleansing and release.  And it kept-the-heat-up, so I was able to move a lot of energy - particularly first family issues and cultural paradigms - through other means, including art and Jungian work.  And so I became an Ashtanga teacher and taught while also being in the corporate world.

My art came through me as spiritual self-lessons and initiations.  My journals helped me to accept so much of what was being denied – just below the surface – playing havoc with what I though was my life.  It was a time to take the metaphysics and begin to see how it all really works in this land of form. 

As my 40’s started I could feel a new wind coming - change.  Energy was withdrawing from the external world of commerce.  My body was saying-NO to stress.  One way this showed itself was as physical illness that kept increasing.  I left the corporate world entirely, moved to Salt Spring Island, taught yoga and prepared to die.  I wanted nothing.  A living death-cycle commenced.  Over several years, interest in the external world withdrew – almost totally.  To a point where there was a type of peace, freedom and neutrality around life & death. 

Then a new birth-cycle began, also over several years.  A new energy entered.  I do not believe that the shift could have happened without the fallow period where I allowed a certain-kind-of-death.  And that is why I will periodically offer a Dying-to-Live workshop – because I know the value. 

With the new energy I added Kundalini yoga to my teaching platform,  This is a powerful transforming technology which works on the physical, emotional and spiritual levels..  I studied a variety of energetic healing modalities to understand more fully how we affect our health and how we can facilitate the healing of others.  Spiral-of-Fifths is the foundation I now use, augmented with other modalities.  I married a wonderful soul partner who challenges me to see in new ways and supports me with a wonderful knowing.  I also started to feel a new earth.  A new possibility for all of us.  Fully formed but not yet manifest; a place that is healed and vibrant.  This felt-earth seems to be what ‘all those metaphysics had been talking about’  decades ago.

Now in my 50’s I am working to be a clear channel for soul fulfillment and spirits energy.  It’s a daily practice!  The work I do helps me to raise my energy and get-out-of-the-way.  I value the teaching practice I have and the new information I learn by being part of the circle-of-knowledge-and-growth.  The energetic work I offer forces an impersonal stance with clear liberating energy.  The modalities I offer are based on my own experience.  I've chosen methods that have had the most benefit for me and for those I work with.  In my experience self-transformation requires focus, energy and internal heat.  Then at some point a shift happens, and it feels like grace.  What I focus on is preparing the vessel for the moments of grace. 

Internally there is ‘curiosity’ energy now.  It is as if much of the work is done - now it is time to see how we can play in this land of form.  It is my wish that all may find an internal pathway to liberating their highest potential.

Peace to all,

Cornelia J Krikke-Allison

Trainings:

I have been gifted with many great teachers over the years.  Some I worked with for extended periods, others just briefly.  What follows is only a few.  Ten years were spent as a student of metaphysics with Kenneth Mills.  I have an MBA from UWO and am completing an MA in Trans-personal Studies at AU.  I was certified in Ashtanga Yoga at Downward Dog in Toronto, thank you to Dianne and Ron.  I studied Anusara repeatedly with Desire Rumbaugh, was certified in Kundalini with Gurmukh Khalsa in Rishikesh India, and certified in Spiral-of-Fifths Sound Therapy in Virginia.  My Jungian work started with the Toronto Jungian society, I have studied Mindful Dreaming techniques for 5 years with David Gordon and Dani Vedros in Virginia.  I have traveled and studied with Mayan Elders and worked with the energies of that paradigm. 

I carve stone, draw insights, dreams and visions.  For 5 years I showed regularly at the Women’s Art Institute in Yorkville Toronto.  Now I show in Virginia or at my home studio on Salt Spring.  I trained at the Haliburton School of Arts, Avenue Road Art School and have taken countless workshops.

In my life I have seen and felt the process of burning away the dross to stand in radiance.  This is what I seek to enable for others.