12/31/2023
I am not perfect, but I am excellent. Wishing you safety, serenity, love and health in 2024.
Creating community and promoting healing through Meditation, Sisterhood Circles, Reiki and Workshops
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Beaumont, AB
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The healing journey is not always easy (or glamourous), but I believe it’s always worth it. My name is Dawn, but I also answer to Dawn-Marie, Mama, Honey, Love, Mrs. Dawn, Mrs. Pielak, and occasionally to Ma’am (though I secretly hate that one). I started New Dawn Meditation in 2016, as a way to share to my passion for meditation with my community - in both my personal and professional life- and in 2018, I added Reiki to my portfolio. This part time gig is my full time passion, and I am always looking for ways to connect with people like you to share my story, to offer you support and guidance on your journey, all while doing my own healing work. I want to connect, collaborate, conspire, and co-create in a way that leaves all of us feeling better for having shared space with each other.
My healing journey began when I was first introduced to meditation in 2o15. I thought of myself as someone whose mind was always “on” - anxious, critical, overthinking, chaotic. When a girlfriend suggested I try meditation, I thought she was crazy. Had she met me? I wasn’t capable of relaxing! And even if I thought meditation “could” work, when the hell would I find the time? Well, I “grudgingly” drank the Kool-Aid for the first time at a women’s wellness retreat in Banff. (Because let’s face it, if you’re going to try to it, you might as well go to a 5 star hotel in the mountains, so if you fail, well, you’re doing it in comfort and style)! Full disclosure, I sucked. I could barely sit still, and of course I couldn’t quiet my mind. I kept opening my eyes to see what everyone else was doing, and to check the clock (to see when this torture would end)...In spite of my perceived failure, I was reassured by everyone that it’s always like that when you first try, and that if I could just sit for a few minutes a day, it would get easier...So, not wanting to disappoint this group of strangers, I committed to practice a little bit of meditation whenever I damn well felt like it! And, as you have probably figured out, since you’re on my business page, I stuck to the practice and it changed my life!
In 2016, I became a Lifestyle Meditation Teacher, certified to offer Introduction to Meditation Workshops for kids, teens, and adults of all experience levels. In 2017, I graduated from the Lifestyle Meditation 200 Hour Teacher Training, which certified me to teach their signature 10 hour workshop, The Path. Each of these courses was transformational in its own way, and helped me to more deeply connect to my own healing journey. In 2018, I studied Usui Reiki with Soul Tree Connection. The self-healing that was awakened through these Reiki courses has helped me to uncover some deeply rooted belief systems and experiences that were holding me back from living my most authentic life. I had spent most of my life unconsciously disconnecting from my Self. Now that I know better, I can choose better.
Healing can be hard work. Some days I find myself asking, “Am I done yet? Can I please not have any lessons today, Universe?” It can be exhausting, frustrating, overwhelming. But, it can also be cathartic, rewarding, and joyous! Meditation and Reiki have allowed me to access the stillness that exists within all of us. A daily(-ish) practice of both has helped me to shine light into the darkness, to find calm in the chaos, to respond rather than react to situations or people. Meditation is not a cure - it’s a curriculum. The more you practice sitting in stillness, the easier it is to find stillness in any situation.