Jayme Collier-Moniz is an Herbal Medicine Practitioner, Tea Artisan and Wellness Counselor.  Aside many other wellness and holistic services offered and products crafted, Jayme guides meditation and mantra chanting sessions (one on one and in group) and volunteers to teach yoga to kids 3 and up so that they may learn to have peace in their hearts before this busy world gets to them!
In her own words…..

“Growing up as a little girl on a country estate with no neighbours or other children to play with, I found my companionship in animals.  I was always trying to “rescue” an injured bird or “feed” fuzzy caterpillars.  Coming from a German background, herbal remedies and daily vitamins were just a common thing.  As most do, I don’t remember much about T.V characters or video games that I liked as a child, what I remember is hours of walking through the ravine, Climbing trees & exploring different plants.  To this day, every time I smell it I recall walking barefoot in the rock garden, picking and enjoying the smell of the wild chamomile.  I have always had tenacious reciprocity to nature.  When I work with herbs, I have a constant credence that I am part of something ponderous.  The vital and spiritual energy that I absorb and release back to the earth’s substances, keeps me grounded and feeling connected.

My uncle is a doctor and I have always looked up to him and admired him.  When I only knew him as a doctor, I believed that all Drs. were great, loving, caring people who only wanted to aid and heal but the truth is, that is rare.  Growing up, my favorite books were medical journals/encyclopaedias and I remember wanting to follow uncle’s footsteps.  Not long after I embarked on that educational journey although I was excelling, I felt that the policies and procedures of prescribing would interfere too much with my need to “heal with my heart”.  It was then that I was enlightened to the fact that I needed to create my own path instead of following anyone else’s.
After being affected most my life personally and through my family and friends from countless amounts of physical and emotional illnesses, I grew tired of being disappointed with doctors and medications that are supposed to help you.  At age 17, I started researching and practising Herbology, yoga, meditation and Buddhism. There are no words to describe what this has done for me and for those who have been part of the journey so far. Passing this on to all others who suffer, for me, is just what I feel I am supposed to do. It makes me happy and fulfilled.

I am greatly inspired by White Tara (“the mother of all Buddha’s”), the most revered Bodhisattva of all times and most definitely one of the earliest feminists!  She healed on the principle of motherly love and when the monks told her that they would pray for her to be reborn as a man so that she may achieve enlightenment, she told them that her work could much better be completed as a woman because a mothers love is stronger than any force conceivable.

I came to understand that in 2006 when my daughter was born.  ♥ She has shown me that there IS a light amongst the darkness of this bitter world. She is the center of everything in my world and makes me smile every day!  In 1996, when tattoo studios were scarce and piercing was still incredibly unusual, I got my first piercing through a mutual friend who had just returned from the UK.  I have always been a pretty eccentric person relishing unusual and invoking substance.  And at that time, piercings were definitely unusual so I soon after took an apprenticeship and in that, found great money to pay for my education.  It turns out that although this career choice was not one of permanence, it was detrimental in the outcome of my fate.  It was while piercing in a tattoo studio that I met my best friend, who turned into my husband and is now also my business partner, Mo (Chris Moniz) and I am positively his biggest fan!  With the driving force of inspiration from my entrepreneur father, I always knew I wanted to own my own business someday.  Fortunately, Mo had the same dream and together, we built our temple.

Aside from my family and our business, I also volunteer on the board of directors for the Cornell Rate Payers Association (www.mycornell.ca) as the business memberships director.  I am proud to say that I am doing my part to make our community a better place to live and work!

You know that point in your life where you think, “Here.  This is it.  This is what I am meant to do, this is where I belong”?  Life is truly poetic and if you can accept and observe the hardships, you can further appreciate those moments that are just pure bliss.  For me, there’s nowhere else I’d rather be, I am home and I reside here whole heartedly.

Namaste!

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