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Our Team
Lexi Gaia Verano, Crp
Ocean Bay Wellness, a Reiki and holistic practice was founded by Reiki Master, Holistic Practitioner and Spiritual Coach, Lexi Verano. Lexi is a compassionate and dedicated Reiki Master, Holistic Practitioner, and Spiritual Coach who has spent over a decade helping individuals achieve their wellness goals. She has developed a unique approach to holistic wellness that combines her expertise in meditation, mindfulness, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, (CBT) Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT Tapping), AromaTouch, life coaching, and holistic wellness. Lexi is a published author and is certified and accredited by several organizations, including the Reiki Healing Association and the Canadian Reiki Association. She is also an approved Teacher/ Trainer with the International Practitioners of Holistic Medicine. Her Reiki studio has grown and now offers an additional range of holistic wellness therapies, including yoga, counseling, and acupuncture. She has worked hard to make Ocean Bay Wellness a safe, comforting and welcoming space in which to heal mind, body and soul. Lexi now combines her experience in alternative medicine and vast history of client success to be of service and empower others to live happier, healthier lives. Her work is inspired by Mahatma Gandhi's quote "The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others."
Michèle Bisson-Somerville
Michèle is a Reiki Master Teacher, Inferno Hot Pilates© instructor, nutritional coach and published author. She teaches clients to incorporate a connection between mind, body, soul in her practice, to ensure a whole experience. Michèle cares about your health and wellness, believing in mind-body exercise and focusing on educating her clients in making smarter choices in order to achieve their nutritional and wellness goals. Empowering women in every phase of menopause to graciously navigate all aspects of their lives to create a redefined version of themselves. Combined with her strong, powerful intuitive gifts and mediumship abilities, she creates a space and guides you in discovering your own intuitive gifts. As a mom of 3 grown men, Michèle has extensive experience in helping men flex their intuitive muscle.
Babi G. Ferraz
Babi is a Health & Lifestyle Coach and a Mindfulness Teacher, Certified in Solution Focused Brief Therapy. She joins our holistic practice and is the founder of Babi's Health Universe. Throughout her Mind-Body-Soul healing approach she helps her clients in healing and integrating all aspects of their health, breaking through the blockages from the success and happiness they deserve and are able to reach. With her expertise in nutrition, Babi helps her clients to improve physical and mental symptoms like IBS, muscular and joint pain, anxiety, mood swings, depression, lack of energy, brain fog and more. She also helps them to understand how to cope better with difficult emotions so that these don’t affect mental, lifestyle or dietary habits. Babi is experienced with trauma and its effect on physical, mental, and spiritual health, and gives full support to her clients in healing Mind, Body and Soul, by addressing trauma wounds, changing limiting beliefs, understanding and reprogramming the mind. Her understanding of different aspects of health combined with her deep love and connection to intuition creates a safe, empowering and nourishing space for her clients.
Vanessa Hayton, Bsw
Vanessa is our Associate Counsellor. Her areas of specialty are assisting clients experiencing challenges with: self-esteem, depression, anxiety, relationships, or feeling stuck and unable to change. Whatever challenge you are facing, Vanessa is here to help you navigate it authentically with presence, integrity, and intention. In her practice she utilizes a holistic approach based on the tenets of Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT), Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), and empowerment. These transformative processes are based in a collaborative counsellor-client relationship that aligns with the client’s individual values, beliefs, and self-determination. Her goal is to focus on the inherent strengths of the client to empower them to make real change in their lives. With a genuine passion for helping others, Vanessa has dedicated her life to mental health and wellness. Her curiosity in Reiki and holistic wellness drew her to us. She provides counselling as a family counsellor in the Tri-cities, and graduated from the University of British Columbia with two degrees in Psychology and Social Work. Her warm and gentle approach assists her clients to feel validated, encouraged and empowered.
Vivian ho
Vivian is one of our amazing Registered Yoga Teachers that combines private one-on-one yoga with meditation in her sessions at Ocean Bay Wellness. Registered with the Yoga Alliance, Vivian is a 300 HR Hatha yoga teacher, yoga practitioner, artist and lifelong academic. Vivian teaches clients to use movement and breath to rehabilitate the body, mind and soul. Vivian has a yoga approach of healing from within, combined with her specialization in Yoga Nidra (sleep yoga), that helps clients that suffer from anxiety, insomnia and stress to find restful sleep and calm the mind. She believes in mindfulness or as she says, "Enjoying the little thigs we often walk past without a glance. " Vivian can assist and empower you to heal through yoga and devotes her spare time in attending more training in yoga philosophy and different yoga lineages. Vivian also focuses on her own well-being by going for long hikes and doing things that she enjoys like painting, sculpting and reading. We are thrilled to have her as one of our yoga practitioners.
elnaz miri
Elnaz is our registered acupuncturist and we are so excited to have her join our Holistic Practice. She is the founder of Green Chi Acupuncture. Elnaz graduated from PCU college of Holistic Medicine in Vancouver and is a member of The British Columbia Association of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture Practitioners (ATCMA) She is very passionate about all holistic methods of treatment. This passion motivated her to move on from a career as a Microbiologist to studying the human body, mind, and spirit, and the connection between them to find a better way of living a healthy lifestyle. Learning about Traditional Chinese Medicine opened an ocean for Elnaz to swim in and guide others to this beautiful and natural healing modality that we inherited over 3000 years ago. Elnaz has practiced balance method acupuncture and distal needling for years. She has successfully helped many clients in private and community styles of practice, sometimes treating over 20 patients per day!! She is highly experienced with acupuncture needle techniques, cupping, hijama, moxibustion and tuina massage. Elnaz takes the time to get to know you and all about any health conditions or challenges you may be facing. Her mission is to assist you in living a happier and more enjoyable life by getting to the root cause of illnesses and balancing your energy through acupuncture. Her gentle and caring spirit helps her patients to restore their physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being, all while achieving realistic health goals. To book with Elnaz, click below or visit her website at: Green Chi Acupuncture.
Khushbu Shah
Khushbu is one of our talented Registered Yoga Teachers. She is certified with the Yoga Alliance, is a trained Marma Point Therapist in Ayurveda and a Pre and Post Natal Yoga Teacher with the International Federation of Yoga Professionals . We are fortunate to have her as one of our gifted yoga practitioners. Khushbu is a 500 HR yoga teacher with over 3000+ hours experience in teaching people of all ages and abilities in studios, and corporate settings. She began her yoga practice to balance the emotional, mental, and physical aspects of her own life. Little did she know she had taken the first steps on her spiritual path to self-realization, joy and happiness. A Geologist by qualification, Khushbu has travelled across many "geographies" exploring many cultures and meeting different people. The one thing she found in common amongst people everywhere is the way they dealt with stress and anxiety. As yoga had played an instrumental part in her own healing journey and transformation, and helped her reach levels of peace, bliss and joy, she felt the need to share this with as many people as possible. She graduated from Exhale Yoga School and Sri Sri Yoga School in India and is an active teacher and volunteer with the global foundation: The Art of Living. She has delivered close to 300 group sessions and 500 private sessions and led teachers' training programs. She is passionate about yoga and her warm and friendly approach allows her students to leave her sessions feeling happier, mentally calm and feeling stronger than ever before. When she is not in the studio you can find her enjoying the beautiful West coast and all that Vancouver has to offer.
Aśka Siedlecka
Aśka is our resident massage therapist and bodywork expert. She combines energy work techniques with her dynamic massage skills and experience of 20 years. In 2004 she graduated from Rhodes Wellness College, and since then has honed her skills to a fine art, tailoring each session to her clients’ needs. She continues updating her education and personal development. For the last 9 years, she has delivered exceptional mobile massage services all over Metro Vancouver with a world-renowned company – Soothe. Her clients include movie stars, athletes, famous musicians, the film industry and other corporate events, as well as over 2000 Lower Mainland residents and visitors. Working with energy and breath, she can release the toughest of knots, combined with deep tissue, or Swedish relaxation massage for the ultimate pampering of the body, mind and soul. She also offers pre- and post-natal massages. Aśka provides individualized energy therapeutic sessions using Quantum-Touch®: emphasizing the body’s innate ability to heal itself, where the practitioner acts as a facilitator rather than a “healer.” Quantum-Touch® emphasizes the importance of self-responsibility and empowerment in the healing process, suggesting that true healing arises from within. She also offers Access Bars®, a tool that facilitates a different way of functioning in the world. The Bars are 32 points on the head where you have stored all your thoughts, ideas, beliefs, considerations, emotions, and attitudes you thought were important in any lifetime. When you have your Bars run, the brainwaves slow down, allowing you to let go of all the patterns that run your life. The points are being held with a gentle touch on the head in different configurations. No matter which treatment you will choose, as a professional and client-focused practitioner, Aśka creates a spa-like atmosphere for an unforgettable experience.
Kwikwetlem first nation
Ocean Bay Wellness is a Holistic Practice that respectfully acknowledges that our work is done on the unceded core traditional territory of the kʷikʷəƛ̓əm (Kwikwetlem) First Nation, which lies within the shared territories of the Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), sq̓əc̓iy̓aɁɬtəməxʷ (Katzie), xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), qiqéyt (Qayqayt) , Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish), and ˈstɔːloʊ (Sto:lo) First Nations.
We would like to express gratitude for the continuous bounty and beauty these lands provide for us and our families through many generations. It is our privilege to be in these ancestral territories and we pledge to raise our children and grandchildren to treat the lands with respect and dignity.
Our Healing Space
Our Holistic Practice is easily accessible via Skytrain, (Inlet Centre Station) with ample street parking and accessibility. Bridging the gap between Western Medicine and Alternative Medicine we are committed to making our space as peaceful and healing as possible. Here's what others are saying about it:
"A comfortable, warm, bright space where I can easily relax and allow energy work to flow within me. When I step into Ocean Bay Wellness, I immediately feel welcome and peaceful. - W.J.
"What a beautiful and relaxing space to heal in." - M. B.
"I love visiting Lexi's wellness studio. I immediately drop out of my head and into my heart when I step in there. Smells so good too." - S. H.
"Lexi is an extremely professional and talented Reiki practitioner. She really cares about her clients and makes sure you're comfortable and at ease during each treatment. I leave feeling like gold every time."
- V.H.
We are closed
**Effective August 22, 2024: Please note we are moving and will be temporary closed until further notice. It is anticipated our new location will be ready approximately September 15, 2024 and we look forward to welcoming you in our new space.