The story & team that started it all.
Hi, we’re Soulaia!
Five soul-sistas who’ve come together with a purpose- to create an inclusive community for self-discovers like you to learn to care for your inner world, your way. Why?
Because we’re seeing a generation of anxious and disconnected young people, in need of a place to find their truth and express themselves freely. Experiment, discover, belong. We created a space to do just that. Because we’re like you, and we’ve been there, too.
We know what it’s like to feel uncertain and a little lost in life. It sucks, but it doesn’t have to be that way. We know what needs to change.
But how do we change it?
It’s all about the way we take care of ourselves. Practising holistic wellbeing - looking after body, mind, and soul - and navigating soul-fulfillment in a supportive community, means that loving growth can become a virtuous circle. The ultimate win? The more you look after your inner world, the more you can make changes out in the world.
So let’s vibe-higher together and uplift the greater collective - it’s a consciously better way to live!
You with us?
Xxoo,
Emily, Kalie, Maddie, Raynie, and Toni
Meet your team
CERTIFIED HOLISTIC NUTRITION COACH
Emily
Superpower: Freakishly well-calibrated inner GPS.
Fun Fact: She’s been on TMZ. Twice.
Emily is a dreamy Cancer sun/rising, Capricorn moon (she’s the responsible one) with a passion to inspire others to live a purposeful and playful life. She believes in the restorative power of a walk in nature and that humour is healing.
Emily is certified in Holistic Nutrition and Sound Therapy, and has a B.Sc. from the University of Calgary in Natural Sciences. Her favourite thing about Soulaia is that it pushes her to constantly learn and grow, and that she gets to meet interesting new people all the time.
Emily considers herself an explorer, nature-lover, cinephile, music lover, and weirdo. Her life philosophy is to be kind, be curious, and to always look for the beauty in everything.
EVENT HOST AND MARKETING LEAD
Kalie
Superpower: Very patient and eager teacher
Number of Justin Bieber Concerts attended: 7
Kalie is a fun, adventurous leo sun and a straight-shooting Sagittarius moon (with all the fire in her natal chart, she’s hot in more ways than one ;p). Kalie is a take-no-prisoners, tell-no-lies kind of woman. Underneath that steely veneer hides a gold heart. Her teenage enthusiasm for the Chicken Soup For The Soul series and Tuesdays with Morrie betray her true nature.
A student of culture, Kalie’s passions are dance, business, and telling you what’s what. She has a BA in Communication and a Public Relations certificate which she uses every day in her work with Soulaia.
She is an award-winning dance instructor and has been an 8-year performer and brand ambassador for The Calgary Sports and Entertainment Corporation, with the CFL and NLL sports teams where she has committed 200+ hours of volunteering. Kalie’s passion for teaching goes beyond dance. She loves to inform and inspire her peers to live a clean, happy, and purposeful life.
ENERGY MEDICINE PRACTITIONER
Madison
Superpower: Choosing love
Fun fact: Mama of a sweet boy named Zane
Maddie is an intuitive Pisces with a healthy imagination. At any given time she’s got one foot in reality and the other in another realm. Her Aries moon is complemented by her Rising Scorpio. She is deeply passionate and leaves a trail of peace and love wherever she goes.
Madison is a Registered Nurse and is completing her training to become an Eden Energy Medicine Practitioner. Her dream is to empower women to live a healthy, informed, and love-filled life. Her life’s purpose of healing is fulfilled by working both in the medical surgical services and one-on-one with energy medicine clients.
Maddie compliments her western medical training with a keen interest in alternative modalities. If she’s not at the hospital, you can find Maddie cuddling babies or prepping energy supporting noms.
She is passionate about natural and organic everything, including food, wellness and personal care products. This book-loving, beach-going, coffee-drinking gal has recently embarked on a journey of purpose, consciousness and gratitude.
CERTIFIED NATURAL MAKEUP ARTIST
Raynie
Superpower: Seeing the good in people
Fun fact: She once won $20 in a dance-off
Raynie is a sensitive yet powerful Pisces. She’s a Gemini moon and a rising Leo, which explains why she’s a recovering problem child. With most of her problematic ways in the past, she loves to connect with people and tends to see their best side. Raynie is a kinesthetic learner and loves to do things hands on.
She is a globally certified makeup artist, and has a strong passion for dance, which she has been doing professionally with the Calgary Roughnecks Drill Crew and Calgary Stampeders Outriders for a combined 8 years. She is currently finishing up her Business Administration diploma at SAIT and can’t wait to be a part of the Soulaia marketing team full time. Raynie is her best self out in nature, and loves finding natural, low waste alternatives for everyday things. Being a Gen Z, she isn’t afraid to stand up for what she believes in and has no problem sharing her opinions, even the unpopular ones.
PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT COACH
Toni
Superpower: Knowing the sh*t that’s beneath the surface
Fun fact: She grew up near the Arctic Circle in a town with no road in or out.
Toni is a free-spirited, analytical Virgo with a Sagittarius rising and an Aquarius Moon. A lover of life, she lives to inspire others to create their own alchemy. A true mix of earth, wind and fire, you can count on her to tell it like it is. Enamored with the interplay of psychology and spirituality, Toni is a life coach and a Certified Myers Briggs Practitioner who is passionate about personal transformation.
Toni loves Salsa (the dancing kind), her own coffee, beautiful vistas and organic red wine. She’s a recovering control freak who is learning to let go, surrender and soar. Her favorite thing about Soulaia is the community and connection that comes from shared spiritual growth. Toni’s own spiritual growth is expanded by the time she spends going within and her almost daily immersions in nature. She is a work-in-progress.
The journey began here…
Hi, I’m Toni 👋 and together with Emily, Kalie, Madison, and Raynie, we’re Soulaia!
Five women based in Calgary, Alberta who are friends, family, and soul sisters. We’ve come together with a purpose. To create a place for soul care, for growth and for self-love. We’re seeing a generation of young women and girls with high levels of anxiety and far too many health and life concerns. Because we’re just like you, we know what it’s like to feel uncertain and a little lost in life. It sucks, but it doesn’t have to be that way. We know what needs to change.
But how do we change it?
I’ve had a long (but not that long ;-)) journey of personal development that has included creating a self-care routine, meditation, mindfulness, soul care, finding my purpose, holistic health and wellness and a natural, organic beauty focus. Through this, I’ve really created the life of my dreams.
I was always asking myself “how can I share this with my people?” Well, I knew how to share it, but it was sharing it without receiving eye rolls that was the challenge. I learned that a great way to avoid being on the receiving end of their eye rolls or blank stares was to email the information, a link from something online, so they weren’t “actually” hearing it from me. Haha, tricked them! Sometimes they’d even read it.
Understand that this was curated content, this information was written by popular thought-leaders and bad-ass women. It was going well until it became an everyday thing. At which point, Madison (my middle daughter) jokingly asked “why don’t you just do a power-point presentation for us once a month and save us reading all these emails?”. Instead, I decided to do something even more drastic. I set up a weekend retreat.
This retreat was the brainchild of me and my cousin/sister-in-soul-care Trish who herself has five (yes five), daughters. We pooled those girls, invited some amazing practitioners we’d met along our journeys, and headed to the mountains. The girls had a full weekend of immersion into ideas like energy healing, self-compassion, the power of creative visualization, and the importance of a self-care plan. It struck a chord in all of them. Haha, got them!
They were so charged up with self-loving, soul-caring, energetic power that we decided together to make this happen for as many women as we possibly could.
Soulaia was born! Now you can join us and discover a deep connection to yourself and your soul, the earth, and the universe. Sound daunting? We promise it’s not!
We know because, like I said, we did it first!
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Warmly,
-Toni