Hello, my name is Lena Watt I am a small-town girl from Gold River, on Vancouver Island. I've always felt deeply connected to nature and her rhythms.
In my teenage years, after years of being an athlete my body changed, I started to experience a lot of pain, restriction with movement, and could no longer play the sports that I used to love. After many different tests and seeing many different specialists, I was finally diagnosed with Spina Bifida.
This was the same year I started to explore yoga.
There were no in-person yoga classes in my community, so I learned and practiced with Rodney Yee videos. A few months later, I noticed I was experiencing less pain, and feeling more grounded and calm. So I decided to keep practicing yoga as it was making me feel better.
In university, I wanted to study the human body on a deeper level to help understand my condition and my body better. So I went into Nutrition, Physical Education, and Art. Throughout university, I was a National level badminton athlete and loved to train, challenge and explore different movements. I worked out a lot to keep my spin and core strong and healthy out of fear that I would get worse and have more pain.
It was during this time I also became a certified coach and volunteered with the Special Olympics, and other sports teams to help young athletes connect with their bodies.
My yoga and meditation practice helped bring balance, groundedness and clarity to my body and mind for myself and when coaching others.
But, there was still something missing. It was a connection to the Earth and the environment. So I decided to change my second major to environmental Geography. This helped me understand the impact human beings have on our earth and what I could do to reduce my ecological footprint to be more aligned with nature and her rhythms. For me, being a conscious and mindful collaborator will remain at the root of my practice and service.
I graduated with a double major in Physical Education, Environmental Geography and Teaching. I taught for 4 years in my home town and loved it. Until unexpectedly I got into a car accident, and then a year later another one, even worse where I was hospitalized and lost work for a little while, and then two years later a major collision that completely redirected my life.
Some may call this a divine intervention; I can now look back on it as that with gratitude.
They say things happen in threes, and the final accident happened on August 9th, 2014, a day I will never forget.
It was a pivotal point in my journey, but at the time I could not feel or see that.
I was hit head-on when a man fell asleep at the wheel. It happened in a blink of an eye, and yet as if it was in slow motion at the same time. As my car flipped three times in the air I felt the arms of my deceased grandpa surrounding me, protecting me, keeping me safe.
It was not my time yet.
I was found unconscious and eventually brought to the hospital. I don’t remember much the following 6-12 months. I was unable to care for myself, I couldn’t drive, feed myself properly, walk very far, count change or do simple tasks, understand left from right, do simple math, I was sensitive to sounds, lights, smells, movement, I struggled with my short and long term memory, with word recall, writing, having coherent conversations, let alone do yoga, meditate, or play sports.
At about 4 months into recovery, I had to move into my parent’s basement at 33 years old so they could take care of me as I was healing. I am forever grateful for this.
This was one of the hardest times of my life.
I felt broken, defeated, worthless, and stupid.
Like I was nothing. Like I didn’t matter.
That I had nothing to offer the world.
I felt like I was not enough.
I was finally diagnosed with a Traumatic Brain Injury, depression, migraines, anxiety, panic attacks, PTSD, insomnia and night terrors.
That was a lot to take in, and I was in denial for a long time.
I was given medication, most of it made me feel disconnected, disassociated and numb. Which was better (truth be told) than all the scattered and crazy thoughts that were running through my mind.
Over time, I realized I wasn't healing. I felt the need to stop taking medication. To feel my emotions, my body and try to heal myself naturally.
This is where my Yoga Therapy and Ayurveda journey began. This is when deep healing and transformation took place. The constant shedding of my old self and who I thought I was.
Through self-love, acceptance, gratitude, surrender, dedication and practice I slowly began to heal and love myself again.
This is forever my practice.
I believe healing is a lifelong journey.
Yoga isn’t something I do, or try to attain.
It’s a way of being, of living, of loving myself.
Of being connected and attuned to all of life.
I believe in the teachings, tools and practices of yoga and Ayurveda.
They have guided me along my healing journey, helped me rediscover my truth, my personal strength and power.
I believe on a basic level, we are nature.
We are not separate.
We are all interconnected, we are one.
I now dedicate my life to working with groups of women to guide them to their own intuition, to their own Inner Compass.
To live their life in sync with nature and her rhythms.
To connect deeper to their own innate wisdom within and their power to heal themselves.
If this resonates with you, I would love to work with you.
Join my free Facebook group and email list below to receive my free “This is your body, This is your home,” meditation to help you reconnect to your body.
Hello, my name is Lena Watt I am a small-town girl from Gold River, on Vancouver Island. I've always felt deeply connected to nature and her rhythms.
In my teenage years, after years of being an athlete my body changed, I started to experience a lot of pain, restriction with movement, and could no longer play the sports that I used to love. After many different tests and seeing many different specialists, I was finally diagnosed with Spina Bifida.
This was the same year I started to explore yoga.
There were no in-person yoga classes in my community, so I learned and practiced with Rodney Yee videos. A few months later, I noticed I was experiencing less pain, and feeling more grounded and calm. So I decided to keep practicing yoga as it was making me feel better.
In university, I wanted to study the human body on a deeper level to help understand my condition and my body better. So I went into Nutrition, Physical Education, and Art. Throughout university, I was a National level badminton athlete and loved to train, challenge and explore different movements. I worked out a lot to keep my spin and core strong and healthy out of fear that I would get worse and have more pain.
It was during this time I also became a certified coach and volunteered with the Special Olympics, and other sports teams to help young athletes connect with their bodies.
My yoga and meditation practice helped bring balance, groundedness and clarity to my body and mind for myself and when coaching others.
But, there was still something missing. It was a connection to the Earth and the environment. So I decided to change my second major to environmental Geography. This helped me understand the impact human beings have on our earth and what I could do to reduce my ecological footprint to be more aligned with nature and her rhythms. For me, being a conscious and mindful collaborator will remain at the root of my practice and service.
I graduated with a double major in Physical Education, Environmental Geography and Teaching. I taught for 4 years in my home town and loved it. Until unexpectedly I got into a car accident, and then a year later another one, even worse where I was hospitalized and lost work for a little while, and then two years later a major collision that completely redirected my life.
Some may call this a divine intervention; I can now look back on it as that with gratitude.
They say things happen in threes, and the final accident happened on August 9th, 2014, a day I will never forget.
It was a pivotal point in my journey, but at the time I could not feel or see that.
I was hit head-on when a man fell asleep at the wheel. It happened in a blink of an eye, and yet as if it was in slow motion at the same time. As my car flipped three times in the air I felt the arms of my deceased grandpa surrounding me, protecting me, keeping me safe.
It was not my time yet.
I was found unconscious and eventually brought to the hospital. I don’t remember much the following 6-12 months. I was unable to care for myself, I couldn’t drive, feed myself properly, walk very far, count change or do simple tasks, understand left from right, do simple math, I was sensitive to sounds, lights, smells, movement, I struggled with my short and long term memory, with word recall, writing, having coherent conversations, let alone do yoga, meditate, or play sports.
At about 4 months into recovery, I had to move into my parent’s basement at 33 years old so they could take care of me as I was healing. I am forever grateful for this.
This was one of the hardest times of my life.
I felt broken, defeated, worthless, and stupid.
Like I was nothing. Like I didn’t matter.
That I had nothing to offer the world.
I felt like I was not enough.
I was finally diagnosed with a Traumatic Brain Injury, depression, migraines, anxiety, panic attacks, PTSD, insomnia and night terrors.
That was a lot to take in, and I was in denial for a long time.
I was given medication, most of it made me feel disconnected, disassociated and numb. Which was better (truth be told) than all the scattered and crazy thoughts that were running through my mind.
Over time, I realized I wasn't healing. I felt the need to stop taking medication. To feel my emotions, my body and try to heal myself naturally.
This is where my Yoga Therapy and Ayurveda journey began. This is when deep healing and transformation took place. The constant shedding of my old self and who I thought I was.
Through self-love, acceptance, gratitude, surrender, dedication and practice I slowly began to heal and love myself again.
This is forever my practice.
I believe healing is a lifelong journey.
Yoga isn’t something I do, or try to attain.
It’s a way of being, of living, of loving myself.
Of being connected and attuned to all of life.
I believe in the teachings, tools and practices of yoga and Ayurveda.
They have guided me along my healing journey, helped me rediscover my truth, my personal strength and power.
I believe on a basic level, we are nature.
We are not separate.
We are all interconnected, we are one.
I now dedicate my life to working with groups of women to guide them to their own intuition, to their own Inner Compass.
To live their life in sync with nature and her rhythms.
To connect deeper to their own innate wisdom within and their power to heal themselves.
If this resonates with you, I would love to work with you.
Join my free Facebook group and email list below to receive my free “This is your body, This is your home,” meditation to help you reconnect to your body.