About Lila
A Traditional Chinese Medicine practitioner and Acupuncturist in BC, as well as a Celtic Shamanic Practitioner, Evolutionary Astrologer, and yoga teacher for over 24 years, Lila is dedicated to the well-being of her clients on every level.
She loves weaving together the esoteric with the modern to facilitate experiences of alchemy that create conscious embodied living. One of her great joys is to guide people into a space of true transformation, encouraging them to discover, honor, and gracefully reveal their most authentic nature through the practices of Celtic Shamanism, Evolutionary Astrology, yoga & meditation, and Chinese Medicine, so they feel empowered to live from this inspired place in the world.
Celtic Shamanic Practitioner • Evolutionary Astrologer • Acupuncturist
A student of life and a weaver of ancient traditions, Lila has committed herself to creating a tapestry of practices that facilitate potent transformation, deep healing, and profound integration. For those called to walk through the doorway of alchemical change, her work beautifully blends the esoteric with the modern to facilitate inspired and empowered living. Lila pays homage to all the teachers who have illuminated her path and is deeply grateful to carry on this lineage in total authenticity to her soul’s calling.
The Celtic Lineage & Shamanic Journeying
Lila had the blessing of meeting her Celtic Shamanic teacher, Jane Burns, in the Spring of 2023, during her own Uranian opposition. Seeking the wisdom of an elder who carried the gifts of the ancestors and knew how to work skillfully beyond the veil, Lila embarked on her path as a Celtic Shamanic practitioner, completing her advanced training in the Late Summer of 2026. Through this lineage, a multitude of profound insights were revealed to anchor her medicine. She feels deeply humbled to carry this ancient, sovereign fire forward into the present.
Subconscious Realignment: ThetaHealing®
Introduced to ThetaHealing through her guide, Heather Brigley, in 2019, Lila began a deep journey into the mechanics of the subconscious mind. She has worked closely with her teacher, Maria Gould, since 2023. Lila is profoundly grateful for the cell-level healing and belief-shifting that takes place within this cosmic frequency, and she gratefully weaves its wisdom into her transformative soul sessions.
Classical Chinese Medicine & Integrative Health
Lila attended the Kootenay Columbia College of Integrative Health Sciences (formerly the Academy of Classical Oriental Sciences) in Nelson, BC, from 2017 to 2022. Graduating in April 2022 after five years of rigorous study, she integrates the profound energetic pathways of Chinese Medicine into her healing arts. This training provides her with a grounded, clinical blueprint to help people live in deeply conscious, balanced, and harmonious ways.
Evolutionary Astrology & Soul-Aligned Yoga
A dedicated student of Evolutionary Astrology since 2007, Lila has studied directly under master astrologer Steven Forrest since 2010. Her natal chart readings are thorough, alchemical, and designed to remind people of the inherent well of wisdom they already hold deep within.
Lila seamlessly interweaves this astrological wisdom into her yoga teaching. Her classes incorporate precise therapeutic alignment and physical action with yogic myths, philosophy, and direct somatic experience—creating a rich, profound, and soulful journey both on the yoga mat and in the world we share.
The Lens of the Storyteller
With a degree in Cultural Anthropology from UNC-Chapel Hill, Lila has always been fascinated by the myths, archetypes, and stories that have shaped human reality across civilizations. This enthusiasm serves as the fodder for everything she creates. Whether she is facilitating Chinese Medicine treatments, reading an astrological nodal axis, or guiding a shamanic journey, Lila loves unpacking the rich, interconnected patterns of human consciousness to spark continual inspiration.
Lila's writing journey spans from childhood awards to stepping into authorship in January 2022, reflecting a genetic affinity for the written word as a descendant of 17th-century London publisher George Thomasson. This inspiration blossomed into the portal fantasy book Marjorie & the Kairoscope, currently in its final editing stages. She also shares her insights and writing through her Substack, Whispers of Wonder: Musings on Magic, Myth, and the Mystical (https://lilapiercebrown.substack.com/).
Lila currently offers yoga classes, workshops, teacher trainings, and retreats internationally. She feels grateful and humbled to have studied and sat with her primary teachers Adyashanti and Mukti, as well as her evolutionary astrology teacher Steven Forrest, and mentor Nancy Fantozzi. Her love of practicing evolutionary astrology has been a perfect complement to the yoga practice, and she feels honored to create a space of magic and healing where her clients feel supported to transform in the most radical of ways. She’s deeply grateful for the teachers whose powerful and inspiring voices of non-dualism have brought insight and freedom, such as Bill Mahony, Douglas Brooks, Paul Müller, and Sally Kempton. From 2006 to 2011, Lila owned and directed Gateway Yoga in Raleigh, NC, a yoga studio dedicated to the life-affirming principles of Anusara Yoga.
Over the years, Lila has had the honor of teaching yoga at the American Dance Festival from 2008-2012 in Durham, NC; at EnvisionFest in Bahía Ballena, Costa Rica; Lightning in a Bottle in Temecula, CA; Basscoast in Merritt, BC; Blessed Coast in Squamish, BC; international retreats in Mexico, Costa Rica, Nicaragua; in Carlingford and Galway, Ireland, and in many parts of Canada and the US.
Lila played the role as Creative Director at the Vancouver School of Yoga from the Spring of 2016 through the Spring of 2017 before moving to the Kootenays, a magical and beautiful part of Canada. Through her yoga school, she has co-created and offered programs of excellence in the yoga community, empowering teachers to authentically step into the seat of the teacher with confidence and grace. Her over twenty-four years of facilitating yoga immersions and teacher training programs has given her the ability to continually refine her craft, as has owning and managing her own yoga studio for five years, and offering her heart through these elegant practices.