09/12/2025
When I was little, I used to tell anyone who would listen:
“I’m here to do something big.”
And when they asked me what that was, I would always say:
“I’m not sure yet.”
Last weekend, at the Kanika Retreat… it finally landed.
Not as an idea.
Not as a dream.
But as something alive in my bones.
Over the last few years,
Kanika has moved through every part of my life.
I started as a training practitioner, with a nervous system that had been stuck in freeze and fawn for most of my life. My breath was shallow, my body was a place that didn’t always feel safe, and survival was the only language I knew.
But slowly, quietly, beautifully… things started to shift.
My nervous system found pockets of calm.
My bones began to unravel stories that were never mine.
My breath deepened.
And for the first time, I learned what safety in my body actually felt like.
I learned how to hold myself when I was triggered instead of collapsing or disappearing.
And then I began using Kanika with my own clients
and witnessed the most grounded, gentle, real change in the people
I worked with.
The kind that gives breath back rather than takes it away.
The second year, as part of the Teachers cohort, took me even deeper.
I opened portals I had shut down out of fear.
I began to innerstand why I did what I did from survival.
I reclaimed myselfwith words, boundaries, choices, truth.
And this year…
This year I’ve had the absolute honour of being part of
co-facilitating Kanika events
and retreats.
Nothing could have prepared me for that.
But this weekend?
This one was different.
It felt like everything came full circle.
Like the little girl who used to whisper, “I’m here to do something big,” finally heard her answer.
This is the work I was born to do.
And I’m finally ready to own it.
Thank you so much Corrie Taylor, for bringing this phenomenal life giving modality through, for seeing and believing in me when I couldn’t, for pulling me up on my bs in the most loving way and trusting me to walk beside you. Larnie Crompton for being my partner in travels, adventures and support and all of my Kanika family
Love you all deeply
Ctto: Karen Briggs - KANIKA Practitioner
