Spirit Path
About Us
It has been our experience that the traditional approaches to healthy living are often not enough to create sustainable change. Many people experience heightened awareness and moments of clarity during counseling, workshops, and retreats, only to lose this deep connection and commitment when they return to their daily life. We have an extensive background and experience in the integration of mind, body and spirit. The 'process of integration' is at the forefront of our work. The results are changing well-being from the inside out.



Joan McDonald
BA, RSW

Joan McDonald is an engaging presenter and consultant who speaks and lives passionately and energetically. Joan creates powerful workshops designed to inspire others to live wholeheartedly - to live a life of love, certainty, presence and gratitude.

Joan has many diverse roles. For 25 years, she was an educator in the community college system. She is a registered social worker in private practice, and through her business, Inverlie Consulting, is a team development consultant with the public service and private sector businesses.

Joan is eclectic. She is highly skilled in presenting, group facilitation and one-on-one consultation. She has a unique ability to design and deliver interactive and explorative programs that create profound healing and sustained personal change in individuals and organizations.

Joan combines her varied experiences under the auspices of a larger path and inner knowledge of natural laws. By applying these to conventional topics of personal growth, organizational change, stress management, leadership and team dysfunction, unconventional results are created for individuals, organizations and communities.

Joan is a leader and change agent with humanitarian organizations. She challenges and inspires the evolution of human services by integrating her 25 years of experience in managing, teaching, counseling and consulting.

In all that Joan does, she brings love to her work and those whom she serves.

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  Judith Merrill
RMT, Certified Yoga Instructor

Judith is a spiritual teacher and a healer. Her greatest passion is to help others gain self-mastery so they can truly live joyously, productively and compassionately. Judith has been practicing yoga and studying metaphysical teachings for over 35 years. She has dedicated her life to seeing and experiencing the oneness that is at the very essence of all life. This is the core of her work and her teaching.

Judith is a certified yoga instructor and has been teaching for 14 years. She has received teachers training in Anusara Yoga, Ashtanga Yoga, and Kundalini and Ten Body Yoga.

Judith has a traditional background in nursing as well as 30 years experience in preventative medicine.

She has been working as a Registered Massage Therapist for the past 14 years. She has studied many forms of energy work and has a Masters course in Myofascial Release. She allows the innate wisdom of the body to guide her to release blocks that create chronic tension and ill health.

Judith is a consultant and offers transformational workshops in self-mastery, using the laws of nature, the power of breath, sound and meditation.

As a consultant she provides one-on-one consultations, offering her clients a new and profound way of seeing things; this is the key to health and well-being.

The following life inspiration was gleaned from Judith's Spirit Walk in Nepal and is the cornerstone of her service in the world:
  • Pack lightly (live simply).
  • Step lightly (live with presence and certainty).
  • Think lightly (live with gratitude for all of life as it is).
  • Be light (live with love).
  • All is One (go within and experience the oneness).
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