Yiana BelkalopolosYiana is a registered, private practice clinical counselor in British Columbia, Canada. She took her master's degree in Transpersonal Clinical Psychology in Palo Alto, California in 2015. She has worked as a certified public-school teacher in Torontoand in the B.C. Gulf Islands, and as a Waldorf school teacher in the Canadian Rockies.

As a dancer, singer, theatre artist, and playwright, Yiana led and co-led community arts and healing arts initiatives in Canada, Mexico, and India. She is on the Dean's Honor List at the University of Toronto and won the CBC Regional Director's Award for Best Radio Documentary on palliative care in 1988.

Her on-going volunteer support for children and their families has included seventy-six children in an orphan home in India, war refugees, people coming through the foster-care system, and Coast Salish First Nations families. She has spent twenty years as a student of the silent Ashtanga Yoga spiritual teacher, Baba Hari Dass, and has been a student of Rudolf Steiner's Anthroposophy since 2003. She is a member of the BC College of Teachers, the British Columbia Association of Clinical Counsellors, and the Anthroposophical Society of Canada. Read More Read Less