Valerie Moysey BA, Palliative Support, Sound Healer & Shiatsu Therapist
I help people connect with their wholeness. Through touch, sound, and awareness practices, I encourage people to journey down into the wild beauty of their bodies.
About Me
For five years, I studied intensively NVC (Nonviolent Communication) with many trainers including Marshall Rosenberg and Robert Gonzales. I became a Soul Voice Sound Healer studying under Karina Schelde. In 2007, I was given the incredible opportunity of companioning my grandmother at the end of her life.
For ten years, I worked with people at the end of their lives as a volunteer in palliative care hospices as well as with private clients. Throughout, I’ve offered sound healing bodywork sessions to those at the end-of-life as well as those who are living in the fullness of their lives.
I began my social change work while at McGill University. After learning of a gang rape at campus fraternity, I co-founded the Sexual Assault Speakers’ Bureau which offered educational trainings about the myths and realities of sexual assault.
After university I continued working in social services with marginalized groups, most notably, women who were refugees, homeless, mentally ill, and/or who had experienced violence. I taught English in rural Bolivia and assisted in Mother Teresa’s Home for the Destitute and Dying in Calcutta, India. My community service work has continued. In Toronto, I prepared and served food to a hundred people who were homeless through Aangen Community Centre. I currently volunteer with The Pine Project helping children connect with nature.
My Philosophy
Activist, Julia Butterfly Hill, believes that all current day challenges are borne out of “the disease of disconnection”, whether it be our environmental woes, economic inequities, the rise of violence etc. In that light, my work is based on connection, connecting with: ourselves, other people, and other forms of sentient life.
Through intention, touch, and body-based sound, I’ll encourage you to descend into your body, to engage with the wisdom of your physicality, your heart, emotions, and intuition.
Experience
Hospice & Palliative Care
- Dorothy Ley Hospice
- Hospice Toronto
- 25 years of meditation practice
Qualifications & Training
- Compassionate Communication (NVC) Trainings
- 5Rhythms & Open Floor dance trainings
- Soul Voice Practitioner Certification
- Shiatsu School of Canada Diploma
Professional Associations
- Ontario Community of Practice for Death Midwifery
- Shiatsu Therapy Association of Ontario
Testimonials
Intuition and depth
Valerie is so tuned in…My sense of her is that she has unbelievable gifts: inner sense of intuition and depth.
Katrama Brooks, Minister
Kapahi, Hawaii
Universes opened for me
Valerie’s sounds are marvelous. They open universes for me. I found Valerie’s work to be very powerful. As she sang over various parts of my body, I was carried deep within myself, awakening to ancient memories. I felt my body relax as I felt the process of healing occur at many different levels. It was a powerful moment for me.
Tito la Rosa, Shaman, Musician, Sound Healer
Lima, Peru
Profound healing session
This is the most profound healing session that I’ve ever had.
Isa Maria, Artist & Musician
Kapa'a, Hawaii
A “Wow” experience
It was a definite “Wow” experience for me combining bodywork with vocal sound.
Pat Evert
Santa Monica, California
Opens people up to love
Valerie opens people up to their own love frequency.
Karen
Toronto, Ontario
Human didgeridoo
She’s a human didgeridoo.
Joan Levy, Social Worker
Wailua, Hawaii
An earthshaking experience
It was an earthshaking experience for me. I became aware that I have been living a string of moments of being asleep, instead of a string of waking moments.
JP Allen, Trainer
Kapa'a, Hawaii
Loving, nonjudgement
When I am in Valerie’s presence, receiving empathy, I am able to relax and connect so much more deeply with myself as I find she holds a quality of loving, nonjudgmental space that is fully open to receive whatever comes forth…..I am deeply grateful for the gift of powerful presence she has shared with me so many times, and in which I have grown and deepened more fully into authentic being.
Tewa Holloway, NVC Facilitator
Princeville, Hawaii
Holds loving, deep space
Valerie is an exceptionally gifted vocal sound healer who is able to hold loving, deep space while she supports her clients with compassion to support their healing journey whether it is through healing physical ailments, supporting emotional issues or assisting those at the end of life. I highly recommend working with Valerie. Receiving sound from Valerie is an incredibly soothing, powerful, and spiritual experience.
Deborah Brodey M.A., Yoga Teacher & Sound Healer
Toronto, Ontario
Felt more calm, clear headed, and centered than I had for the past year.
For the next few days after an hour and a half of experiencing a sound healing session with Valerie I felt more calm, clear headed, and centered than I had for the past year.
Glen Newbury, President Newbury Ng
Toronto, Ontario
Perfection for my being
Your work is incredible. I have never heard a human being, a person make sounds as you did. It was such perfection for my being. I wanted grounding and it happened. Amazing. My other experiences with sound healing people were always using instruments, which is fine, but yours was piercing and different. It came from your vessel, your being. You were the sound and my body needed that.
Connie Rose Borders, Psychic
Portola Valley, California
My mind stopped.
My mind stopped. It was like a massage, an internal massage. I just let my body receive. I like the simplicity of it.
Jill Richardson, Massage Therapist
Kapahi, Hawaii
Affected me deeply on both physical and spiritual levels
Valerie is a healer of extraordinary courage and creativity. She worked with me twice during a visit to Hawaii. The experience of her work was unlike anything I have known before. She helped me be able to trust and let go to a wholly new experience so that I could let it take me inside where I experienced various levels of my being melting and reforming with the sound. Afterwards we spoke about the experience. I was amazed to discover that what she experienced in terms of her work with me was very similar to what I had experienced. Her work affected me deeply on both physical and spiritual levels and I am eager to work with her again.
Ailish Schutz, Entrepreneur & Facilitator
Mill Valley, California
Heart and soul a true sound healer
Valerie Moysey is heart and soul a true sound healer. The deeply personal sounds that emanate from her depths are authentic to the core. They took me directly to a conscious recognition of Source.
Elaine Valois, Professor Emerita Dance Education, Performance and Therapy
Kapahi, Hawaii
Incredible healer
Valerie is an incredible healer. One sound healing session with Valerie and my hip went from non-functional back to full use!
Kira Leskew
Toronto, Ontario
Dedication and compassion
Valerie’s presence was invaluable for me. Her ability to intuit what we needed to go deeper into our selves with authenticity was remarkable. She has a wonderful combination of strength and gentleness that enabled me to trust her guidance and facilitation. Thank you Valerie, for your dedication, focus, and compassion.
Donna Corry
North Island, New Zealand
Affirmation of the power of sound
Valerie gave me a sound healing. I was so totally amazed at her depth of clarity and perception. It was an affirmation of the power of sound, also a deep experience and connection to my own soul.
Mary Marsh, Organizer & Healer
Wellington, New Zealand
She has a fabulous, deep belly laugh.
Throughout the two-hour sound session I reached levels of expression, insight and experience new to me…Valerie was gentle, centered, present, and confident. I felt she would willingly go anywhere another human being would go in their experience. She has a fabulous, deep belly laugh. I am certain that the depth of my experience in this session was due in part to the quality of her presence. And for that, I am grateful.
Kesstan Blandin
Los Angeles, California
Caring presence
Valerie’s caring presence and focus, with sounds sometimes “beautiful” and sometimes compelling, provide inspiration and support for the ongoing inner journey.
Lee Joseph, Founder Pacific Center for Awareness & Bodywork
Molowa'a, Hawaii
Human tuning fork
Valerie is a human tuning fork.
Karuna Thal
Kapahi, Hawaii
I come to break out of my shell
I feel so much more open and connected when I’m done. I feel like I can express my love more…feel like I’m part of the family. Dance is a nice way to develop intimacy and connection with others.
-Eliel Starbright
No pressure
We can be with each other and there’s no pressure. You could come here for six months and dance on your own and you’d still be in the soup.”
-Rose Rose
Being born again
Free-form, expressive dance is like dying and being born again moment to moment…
-Ken Burch
Authentic
There’s sacred space here. Everyone’s moving their authenticity.
-Judy
Unique
It’s not Barefoot Boogie, it’s not Gabrielle Roth’s Sweat Your Prayers, you have something unique here. You’re holding space for birth, rebirth, resurrection, and death every time.
-Rose Rose
Dance = pleasure
Every time I think, “this dance is the most fun I’ve had in my life.”
-Isa Maria
Kindred spirits
…dance for me is an evening of exercise of mind, body, and spirit; a reconnection with myself and kindred spirits. Well selected music…Amazing! Try it and you will be back!”
-Dr. Larry Magnussen
Connect with spirit
Dancing is one of the ways I connect with my spirit…a place to “BE” WHO I AM!
-Naoka
Tenderness and grace
I experience our dance as a Bendex washing machine of tenderness and grace.
-Merlyn Rudell
We transform
It’s like a dance family here. We transform and transmute all through the night. There is a thing that builds – you have the pillars of this Parthenon of movement.
-Jenny
Express yourself
…for lovers of dance – with music you can’t help but move to, in a safe space where you are free to express yourself through movement – in wild abandon, in slow graceful expression, or slumped in a tired pile on the floor…What fun!
-Joan Levy
Musical dance meditation
Thanks from the deepest hub of my heart for the powerful musical/dance meditation.
-Arturo Mundigo
Still feeling the glow
from last night’s amazing dance at The Move…many thanks to Valerie for an incredible set…and a beautiful offering in the invitation…so simple, so genuine…so compelling…many thanks to all the dancers who opened up and showed the vulnerability that makes us all human. I left with that glorious feeling of being completely emptied out and completely full…
-Dino Paoletti
Feeling of oneness
Thanks for the music! What an amazing feeling of energy, love, and oneness last night!
-Kristin Lindell
A welcomed depth
Thank you. You bring a welcomed depth to conscious dance.
-Tara
Beautiful journey
I loved the variety of music and the invitation. It was a beautiful topic – poignant, the most I’ve experienced in all my years. Thank you for sharing light.
-Rachelle
Honest & true
At the dance I move whatever is alive in the moment. It’s a space to be honest and true. A place to be internal and creative and/or share spontaneous meetings with others.
-Leeza
Powerful journey
Thanks for a moving set and invitation last week…it was a powerful journey for me.
-Tiffany
Building community
What a lovely way to build community. I’m grateful for your set, map, and invitation last night.
-Paul
Speaking the language of dance
Tonight at the dance, the feeling I had was like speaking a language I’ve always known, for the first time. It was like dialect: I’ve spoken dialects in different spaces but not this dialect.
-Marie Mayford
Danceable
Thank you. Your set was gorgeously danceable, your presence was so deep and solid, and your invitation for us was poignant and profound. I’m so grateful you contribute YOU to The Move.
-Nicola Holmes
Joyful, connected, dancing experience
Wow, Valerie, that was one of the most moving, deep, joyful, connected, dancing experiences I’ve ever had. Great invitation! Great set! Thank you 🙂
-Alia Maiter
Magician with music
You are a magician with music! God bless you!
-Pam
Insightful facilitation
Valerie’s facilitation is insightful, transformative, and intuitive. She’s a weaver of story, song, and dance.
-Nan Keyser
Creates a safe container
I have really enjoyed dancing to Valerie’s sets over the years. She plays music that creates a safe container for self-expression and free movement. I feel held when I dance to her sets, knowing that she will take me on a journey from slower to faster movements, with smooth transitions and funky exciting music to dance to. I can still remember some of the songs she has played which brought out my full self-expression. I also always love Valerie’s facilitation at closing circle, where she brings her sound-healing skills to bear. She encourages us to either offer or receive sounding/OMs in a way that closes the dance in a calming, healing, and beautiful way. I would gladly dance to Valerie’s sets anytime she is playing because I know that with her many years of experience in DJ-ing, she will offer great music and a fun, safe atmosphere for self-expression.
-Elisa Hollenberg