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“Spirit surgeons” bringing new energy to Jasper’s downtown
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By Bob Covey
Saturday, June 30, 2018
“Spirit surgeons” bringing new energy to Jasper’s downtown

Margo Bereska and Ian Sheldon want to let the light in.

The Jasper couple have opened the doors to their new studio, Heartspace, where Bereska, a clairvoyant medium and energy therapist, and Sheldon, an acclaimed artist and shamanic healer, want to help service their clients’ spiritual needs.

“We go to the eye doctor to get our eyes checked, the dentist to clean our teeth, this is like tuning up your body’s emotional spirit,” Bereska said.

While Heartspace is the couple’s first joint business venture, the two have been each other’s spiritual mentors for years. Bereska helped push Sheldon to embrace his intuitions and take a deep dive into the psychic world—not a small leap for a man with science degrees from Cambridge and the University of Alberta. Meanwhile, Sheldon’s own healing skills and spiritual knowledge have helped Bereska reconnect to her inner light and come back to the place where she grew up.

“Jasper is potent,” she said. “It has this magnetic pull. That’s something you can feel.”

You can see it too, if you climb the stairs at 610 Connaught Drive, where Heartspace will had its first open house on June 19. The space was originally designed as a photography studio and as such features large skylights—perfect for not only showcasing Sheldon’s striking watercolours but giving him plenty of natural light to paint under.

However, as gratifying as that is for the career artist, it’s the light that’s inside his clients, rather than overhead, that Sheldon is most interested in. His speciality is colour meditation—fitting, perhaps, with all his years working as a professional artist. In a typical session, Sheldon guides his clients through their seven major chakras. By embarking on a meditative cleanse, Sheldon is given insight into his clients’ injuries, energy blocks and healing needs.   

“I’m kind of the garbage collector of the soul,” Sheldon laughed. “I collect it and clean it through sharing.”

If Sheldon is the collector, Bereska is the distributor. Like a crystal refracting light, she is seemingly able to bend cosmic energy so that her clients feel connected to a deeper psychic realm. Dozens of testimonials on her website assert Bereska’s spiritual guidance helps people make major life changes.

“When you are balanced and standing in your own power, you are activated into your highest soul potential,” she says.

Of course for some folks, the idea of awakening one’s spirit or going for an energy “tune-up” is a big reach. But that’s one more reason why Bereska and Sheldon are excited to let the light in.

“We’re here, we’re ready go connect,” Bereska says.

Let the healing begin.

Bob Covey // bob@thejasperlocal.com

Picking up what we’re putting down? Read our 2014 story on Margo Bereska here

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