Dr. Erin Tremblay R. Ac.
(She/Her)
I am so glad you are here!
This whole space is devoted to supporting you in defining your own health goals and achieving them in a joyful supported way.
I offer in person treatments, virtual consults, doula services, and courses that are all focused on vibrancy through joyful embodied health.
This whole space is devoted to supporting you in defining your own health goals and achieving them in a joyful supported way.
I offer in person treatments, virtual consults, doula services, and courses that are all focused on vibrancy through joyful embodied health.
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I have been a Doctor of Acupuncture for 10 years now. I started in large multi-disciplinary clinics and began my own practice in 2018.
We are so bombarded with messages around health that focus on pushing harder and punishing ourselves and so I facilitate space for a more empowered, embodied approach. For me, it is also important that treatments are simple, safe, and effective. I care that it actually works. Centering pleasure and ease is not about coddling or escape. They can be used to access to the deeper more difficult aspects of healing and transition. I encourage you to keep hold of your power and responsibility for your health – to have a deeper more embodied connection with your own body, your own voice, and your own knowing. When I first began my practice there was so much pressure to specialize – but I wanted to work on everything. Over the last few years it started to be clearer. My calling was transitions – the big gates we walk through that transform us. The move into a new career, having a baby, getting divorced, losing a cherished person: all the things that destroy and make us. I am daily grateful that I had the honour of learning Traditional Chinese Medicine because it is uniquely capable of supporting and healing the multitude of ways that big transitions can turn up in our physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health. Five years ago I experienced a deep grief process in my personal life. The collateral beauty of that has been being able to more deeply hold space for the ways so many of us are experiencing grief communally. |
Identity, Location, and Lineages
I live and work in Moh’kinsstis (also referred to as Calgary).
I hold deep reverence and gratitude to be living on the ancestral land of the Niitsitapi (Blackfoot Confederacy): Siksika, Kainai, Piikani, as well as the Ĩyãħé Nakoda and Tsuu T’ina nations. It is also the home of the Métis Nation of Alberta, Region 3.
I very much acknowledge that my ancestors did not come to this place, nor build a relationship with these lands in a way that was rooted in reciprocity or mutual respect, and I am dedicated to working in reconciliation of the violence and extreme harms of colonization that continue today.
I am a cis, hetero, able bodied white settler from German and Scottish Highland ancestry. I am devoted to life long effort to be closer to right relationships - to make mistakes, correct and try again.
I humbly and messily commit myself to this emergent process of decolonization with gratitude to the Indigenous peoples who have tended these sacred places since time immemorial, and to honor all future generations yet to come.
I hold deep reverence and gratitude to be living on the ancestral land of the Niitsitapi (Blackfoot Confederacy): Siksika, Kainai, Piikani, as well as the Ĩyãħé Nakoda and Tsuu T’ina nations. It is also the home of the Métis Nation of Alberta, Region 3.
I very much acknowledge that my ancestors did not come to this place, nor build a relationship with these lands in a way that was rooted in reciprocity or mutual respect, and I am dedicated to working in reconciliation of the violence and extreme harms of colonization that continue today.
I am a cis, hetero, able bodied white settler from German and Scottish Highland ancestry. I am devoted to life long effort to be closer to right relationships - to make mistakes, correct and try again.
I humbly and messily commit myself to this emergent process of decolonization with gratitude to the Indigenous peoples who have tended these sacred places since time immemorial, and to honor all future generations yet to come.
Traditional Chinese Medicine
I had the privilege of studying Traditional Chinese Medicine at the Alberta College of Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine which was founded in 1997 by Dr. Benny Xu and works in partnership with the Beijing University of Chinese Medicine and the Yunnan University of Chinese Medicine (they have since added even more partnerships). My teachers were also deeply influenced by the works of Master Tung and Dr. Richard Tan.
Doula
The deep desire to be a part of birth had been calling to me for almost 20 years ago, but I knew I wasn’t ready.
Then in February 2022 I sat at the other side of the gate. I held my own mother’s hand as she passed away and my whole world shifted.
That summer the ask came. Two very cherished friends asking if I would sit with them during their birth.
I realized I wanted to learn in the old way. So while I studied and certified with Doula Canada, I also did a 2 year apprenticeship with Treeka of The For.Rest, who has sat deeply and sacredly with birth for almost two decades.
We sat down and we drew it into art. How could it look if we were radically honest? How could it look if we followed our hearts? How could it be so deeply in integrity that everyone involved was nourished and fed by the work we were doing? After all this is how traditional medicines have been passed down. This is the medicine of the sacred feminine – the medicine of the dark hours of creation.
So we created our loving cohort and made commitments in years and I am deeply in awe of my apprenticeship and unraveling; dancing with learning how to hold space this much bigger and more bold then I have before – sitting at the gate of birth.
Then in February 2022 I sat at the other side of the gate. I held my own mother’s hand as she passed away and my whole world shifted.
That summer the ask came. Two very cherished friends asking if I would sit with them during their birth.
I realized I wanted to learn in the old way. So while I studied and certified with Doula Canada, I also did a 2 year apprenticeship with Treeka of The For.Rest, who has sat deeply and sacredly with birth for almost two decades.
We sat down and we drew it into art. How could it look if we were radically honest? How could it look if we followed our hearts? How could it be so deeply in integrity that everyone involved was nourished and fed by the work we were doing? After all this is how traditional medicines have been passed down. This is the medicine of the sacred feminine – the medicine of the dark hours of creation.
So we created our loving cohort and made commitments in years and I am deeply in awe of my apprenticeship and unraveling; dancing with learning how to hold space this much bigger and more bold then I have before – sitting at the gate of birth.
E-RTY200 Embodiment Yoga
I have had the honour of doing my 200 hours in the study of the trauma-informed Embodiment Yoga that included: functional anatomy, restorative yoga, adaptative yoga, pranayama, ayurvedic foundations, and yoga philosophy at the Mandorla Yoga Institute.
Mandorla is predominantly informed by Pavrtti marga philosophy and my direct teacher, Stefani Wilton, has studied in the Krishnamacharya lineage with her teachers Karen Claffey, Michelle Cormack, Lucile Palencher, Remco, Jack Kornfield, and Robin Rothenburg.
I am so grateful to now be part of the faculty.
Mandorla is predominantly informed by Pavrtti marga philosophy and my direct teacher, Stefani Wilton, has studied in the Krishnamacharya lineage with her teachers Karen Claffey, Michelle Cormack, Lucile Palencher, Remco, Jack Kornfield, and Robin Rothenburg.
I am so grateful to now be part of the faculty.
Bachelor of Arts in Rural Development and Sociology
My deep gratitude to my undergrad teachers at Augustana University who introduced me to anti-oppressive practice and challenged me to see and transform my own biases– especially to Dr. Kierstin Hatt and Dr. Dittmar Mündel.
Collaborate with me
As an experienced therapist I offer a variety of services including:
~ Workshops
~ Teaching
~ Public speaking
~ Employee wellness events
Connect with me to explore how I may be of service to you or your organization by sending an email to: [email protected]
As an experienced therapist I offer a variety of services including:
~ Workshops
~ Teaching
~ Public speaking
~ Employee wellness events
Connect with me to explore how I may be of service to you or your organization by sending an email to: [email protected]
