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Healing Human is a nurturing woman-owned and operated collective hub for yoga, homeopathy, and reiki.

Our core belief is that we are all Healing Humans, constantly evolving and growing along our own unique trajectories. Based in the traditional foundations and philosophy of Yoga, Paige Berling-MacKenzie aims to help you build a loving and intimate relationship with yourself through heartfelt, poetic, and explorative online yoga classes. In her classes you can expect a focus on bio-individuality, the invitation to explore, and ultimately to find the yoga that works for you and your unique body. She continuously weaves the spiritual and physical aspects of yoga together in order to guide students toward healing - physical, mental, and spiritual. Each week, she offers drop-in online yin yoga classes, and every Thursday new classes are added to the online library of pre-recorded classes.

02/25/2026

Growing a human was a privilege.
Giving birth was an extraordinary superhuman feat.
Meeting this little one has been indescribably profound and joyful.

Meet our little Ottilia Pearl. Her name, a homage to the powerful, strong, intelligent, and kind matriarchs of our families.

She was born at home on our bed in the early morning hours of February 11th. Her dad caught her as she flew out of me, after about 48 hours of labour.

We count our lucky stars every day for our sweet Tillie!

02/24/2026

And now we wait! (Week 39)
1. Finally found the marketplace score I’ve been waiting for: my dream rocking chair to put in my dream jungle room!
2. Somehow I’m still surprised when people comment that I’m pregnant in public. Like oh you can tell?! 🤣 Also, my life is just appointments and rest at this point. osteopathy was an absolute staple for me.
3. What being THIS pregnant actually looks like 😴😴
4. Drinking my NORA tea (nettle, red raspberry leaf, oat straw and alfalfa) on my way to my cervical ripening acupuncture appointment
5. My chiropractor .chiropractic told me I was so cute so I had to take a pic. Also such an important part of my birth preparation
6. My weekly dates with through this pregnancy have been profoundly important for me. She’s made me feel so capable and strong, even at my weakest and most uncomfortable. And in fact, in early labour I went for a massage with her with contractions that were 10 minutes apart. 🤣😅 Not many people I would welcome into the sacred space of labour, but Timea has been part of it all along with me 🥰
7. The very last pic with my big ol’ belly
8. The very last video of my wiggly baby inside 🥹😭
9. The last picture I took as MAIDEN. This was after about 36 hours after I lost my mucous plug, many hours of early labour and a night of growing intensity. I threw up, texted my sister it was time to go inward, took this picture, and off I went into the deep sacred space of bringing my baby earthside. ✨
10. My labour companions, and the sunny start of a really profound day. I blinked my eyes open only a couple of times this day, but what a gift to have this sun.

02/23/2026

The amount of emotions I’m experiencing 😵‍💫😍🥹🫠(Week 38)
1. I’m actually grieving this pregnancy SO hard. It’s been challenging, yes, but EXTRAORDINARILY beautiful. I’d do this 1000x over, all the vomiting included. What an absolute privilege this has been.
2. The motto of the last few weeks: “what pregnant girl wants, pregnant girl gets” 💁🏼‍♀️💅🏻
3. Trying to spend lots of time on the birth ball, but I actually hate it? Anyone else? 😅 thought I was supposed to love this
4. Made some Padsicles out with witch hazel and beautiful herbs from . Looks gnarly but I know I’ll be glad to have them 🤣
5. Found the best back support
6. More date nights! And actually our first time ever going to a movie together (only 8 years in!). Nick told me afterwards that I was breathing SO hard the whole time it was like I just ran a marathon 🤣🤰
7. Had a few really terrible nights and days with vertigo. I was feeling SO confident about giving birth until this hit me. I received so many encouraging messages when I posted about this and I’m SO grateful for the support 🙏🙏🙏🙏 Luckily, it passed!
8. Somehow bigger every day?!
9. That’s AM 🌅💁🏼‍♀️ the third trimester insomnia and the hunger are reaaaaaaal.
10. Collecting and setting up all the homebirth supplies 🥰🥹

02/22/2026

Things are getting really real lol (Weeks 36-37)
1. I’m gonna be a MOM!!!!!!
2. Watching these little limbs move 🤯
3. Not sure when this baby is going to come, or when I’m going to start feeling like I need to go inward closer to the portal, so getting in all the dates that we can!
4. I’m pretty sure this Westfalia Camper Van that I drive is the only vehicle that would accommodate this belly and all of my snacks.
5. Celebrated my 32nd birthday with the BEST people.
6. Realizing I should have taken my rings off weeks ago 😳 Shoutout to for telling me during our massage that morning “you need to take these off TODAY!”
7. Saved all my rings except three. Had to get Nick to cut off our wedding band and engagement ring 😭😭😭 actually so shocked I didn’t cry.
8. The love and support this baby already has is unbelievable 🥹
9. Goofiest angle 😂
10. Reminding my OG baby that he will always be my baby
11. Car seat installation 😳
12. More dates with myself! also saw me tons! The perfect place to finalize writing up my birth plan

02/21/2026

Things are getting real!!!! (Weeks 33-35)
1. Dad mode: activated!
2. Nesting mode: going hard with the cloth diaper preparation
3. Burned my belly toooooo many times and needed to come up with a solution that wasn’t putting clothes on
4. Brand new big ol’ bed for cosleeping! And a hand made bed frame from dad 👨🏻
5. So round
6. Getting so good at asking for help! But honestly all these years of yoga have kept his body in such good shape for mobility and bending!
7. Taking myself on little dates while in can do so easily. .bakery saw me so many times 🤣
8. I honestly still can’t believe I’m pregnant
9. But I’m so very happy that I am!!
10. My sweet husband making me breakfast with dates for cervical ripening 🙃

02/18/2026

A moment of normalcy (weeks 30-33):
1. My clothes fit and look entirely different after being on the beach!!
2. Taught my last corporate yoga class
3. The kitties having to find new cuddle orientations to accommodate the babe!
4. 3 trips to in 2 days 🤤
5. Continuously falling more and more in love with this husband of mine. So excited to be dreaming up the life we are creating together with this little one.
6. This bell is so entertaining 🤣
7. Bigger and bigger!
8. My 5am “snack” (I did NOT have cookies for breakfast)
9. Losing sight 👀👣
10. Little trip to Calgary and feeling so wrapped up in love by our community there.
11. Celebrated Nestmas! Aka a ton of nesting and baby pre over the holidays. Such a special time together.
12. Officially reached table status

02/17/2026

The BEST babymoon (weeks 28-29):
1. Never felt more beautiful in my life.
2. It felt SO good to have my belly out. In fact, we went to the only n**e beach in Mexico for our babymoon and 10/10 recommend this for anyone pregnant. To not worry about fitting into clothes?!? 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻
3. My husband was taken on a little surf trip, and I was dropped off at a private beach. Just me and my babe, until they came back to drop off a big hunk of watermelon for me 🍉
4. This BODY 😍😍😍😍😍
5. This BODY 😂😂😂😂😂
6. Somehow found myself immersed in this beautiful community of midwives and mothers. I had the opportunity to see a traditional Mexican midwife and receive a Robozo treatment from her. Glorious!
7. Just so happy and excited to show this baby the world one day soon!!
8. The amount of mothers that came up to me on the beach to tell me how beautiful I was, and how beautiful motherhood is, was just 🥹🥹🥹 HOW SPECIAL
9. Jealous of the surf 🌊 But once again so happy to sit on the beach and take it all in
10. The breakfast I ate each morning… until baby decided it was no longer acceptable. In fact, absolutely UNACCEPTABLE and I threw up 8 times this day. Of course this was our one day we did a road trip. Honestly hearing my husbands perspective of my public pukes this day are now hilarious 🤣
11. My wiggly baby
12. The poolside pups fav place to nap
13. Can’t take enough of these pics to cherish
14. These pre-Hispanic figures that I picked up from a local artist. One of them has cracked, and it’s my favourite of the three. I firmly believe that in order to transition from Maiden to Mother, you must shatter.

02/16/2026

A new type of slow 🐌 (weeks 25-27):
1. Watching this belly get bigger and bigger, taking more pictures of it to document the rapid growth.
2. Slow, waddling walks with friends () and many days with 💕the BEST pup for a slow pregnant gal.
3. Cuddles with all the furry friends - luckily not because I’m too nauseous, but because I’m tired and plump!
4. Trying to maintain the slow presence gained from the meditation retreat.
5. Finding a little bit of energy to work, and starting to use the birth ball for loosey goosey hips

02/13/2026

Big milestones in the second trimester (Weeks 20-25)
1. So obviously pregnant 🤰
2. Still throwing up at 21 weeks 😭
3. Lots of sister time ❤️❤️❤️
4. The cafe where I totally inappropriately and primally intercepted a donut being put into my husbands mouth because it was my half he was about to eat 😳 I was shocked at my behavior but so grateful I got my bite 🙃
5. Continuing to be in absolute awe and adoration with this body.
6. Finding my first (and maybe only?) stretch mark - a gorgeous silvery crescent moon. 🌙
7. Headed off to a 10 day silent meditation retreat, just me and my babe. Felt the baby hiccup for the first time in utero, and had the most vivid and wild dreams and visions in meditation.
8. After the 11 days of not seeing me, the first thing my husband says to me is “You’re officially more deep than you are wide!” 🤣🙃
9. After a terrible ultrasound experience a number of weeks back, we finally got to see our baby and learn where the placenta was (the only thing I wanted to know). Our first glimpse of baby was seeing their foot directly in front of their face, out little yoga babe!
10. Cute. Little. Baby!

02/12/2026

Second trimester, where I came back to life! (Weeks 17-20)
1. Introduced baby to the ocean. Miraculously squeezed into my wetsuit and caught one glorious and gentle wave without laying on my belly 🏄🏼‍♀️
2. Spent the week jealously watching all my friends surf, but also totally content and happy to be cozy on the beach connecting with this baby I just started to feel moving.
3. Walked and up down the beach talking out loud to this sweet babe, telling them how beautiful this world is and how I can’t wait to show the the magic of this life ✨
4. Happy happy happy!
5. So tired and needed to lay down and rest during a gentle board walk. So happy to do so. Feeling those little flutters in my belly while looking up at the sky.
6. Mastered the art of cooking on the beach and made perogies far too many times (jk it wasn’t nearly enough).
7. Started to resume teaching again and learning this new body in movement.
8. Growing, growing, growing.
9. Loving, loving, loving.
10. My husband snapping a picture of me teaching online. Belly fully out because I was at a critical point in the pregnancy where nothing fit me 🤭🤰
11. Laughed so hard I started crying for real. Early on in the pregnancy I would have these laughing fits and I googled if it was a symptom of pregnancy. I came across a subreddit that said it was, and someone wrote “in order to have a baby, you must first BECOME the baby” and that became my motto for a very long time 👶🏼🤣

02/11/2026

The second trimester began!🤰 (Weeks 13- 16)
1. Went through my entire closet and boxed away anything that didn’t fit, and wouldn’t for the foreseeable future.
2. In absolute awe of my expanding body.
3. Starting to really be able to eat again!
4. Learning how to take pictures of this pregnant belly (still not sure we’ve figured it out 🤣)
5. Lots of bed and couch time still, but with lots of popcorn (or the craving of the moment) 🍿
6. Starting to really show!
7. Realizing that it’s a fallacy that “morning sickness” stops in the second trimester. Lucky I made it back to the van and was able to discretely throw up while crouching down on the floor… way better than the middle of the side walk 🫠
8. Moved into our new apartment!!!!!!! Perfect for baby
9. A new mirror to capture the documentation of this growing belly.
10. Finding new rolls 😍
11. The first midwife appointment! Honestly I was so terrified going into it but .rm has been an absolute dream to work with and we are SO excited she and are our birth team 😍🙏🏻💕❤️
12. Saying goodbye to the home we lived in for the last 5 years, and so so so happy and at peace with this Charon chapter.

02/08/2026

The fun started to creep back in, in between all the throwing up 🙃 (weeks 10-12)
1. Still spending most of my time horizontal, nauseous as all heck, and cuddling my kittens. At least I was outside ???
2. A picture taken at and wedding with and - for some reason my husband decided to pull up my dress and show my growing belly that we were still hiding?!??
3. Out for dinner with my parents. I threw up in the back of the truck on the way there and then ate a full meal 🙃
4. Told our friends and family on this trip back home, and this was hands down the most hilarious response. Thank you for this and 🙏🏻🤣🤣🤣
5. My sweet mother-in-law putting this lime on our bedside table because baby grew to the size of a lime 🥹
6. The grandparents to be, joining us at folk fest, wrapping us all up in so much love!
7. I thought I was so clever with telling our friends by giving them fortune cookies and saying “this is the size our baby right now!!” 🥠🤭
8. The bump started showing!
9. The naps were uncontrollable. Thank you for your lap, sweet husband, at the folk fest!
10. and coming in hot again, with sending a big ol’ care package of electrolytes, pickles, salt and vinegar chips, and other spot-on goodies.

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Paige is a 200-hour multi-style freelance yoga teacher. She lives in a world of love, surrounded by prairies and mountains in Calgary. Although this is her home, she is known to be a roamer, an explorer, and a free-spirit. In this life, she is a student; a student of academia, a student of yoga, a student of Mother Nature. She is a daughter, a sister, a best friend, a girlfriend. She is a lover of all things living and a friend to all beings sentient. Trying to find her True North on her spiritual path, she allows her open heart and vulnerability to be her compass. Her intent with yoga is to help others to open their hearts a little bit wider, love a little bit deeper, and dream a little bit bigger. Ultimately, she hopes to inspire others to embrace every piece of themselves, everything they're going through, everything they feel in order turn it into something positive, something to love. She wants to help others to discover their strength through the physical and mental cathartic process of yoga.