MEET Nicola
Born in South Africa, Nicola Mosley carries a global tapestry of stories through both her life and professional practice. Her original teacher is the land, and she honours this through ceremony, stewardship, and shared experience. She is known for her compassion, professionalism, adventurous spirit, and capacity for listening. For the last 20 years, she has brought her strength-based and person-centered approach to diverse demographics immersed in unique settings.
Nicola is passionate about integrating body, mind, and spirit. She is a registered social worker who employs an anti-oppressive and trauma-informed lens; she is also a therapeutic wilderness facilitator and movement practitioner. Nicola blends all of these skill-sets in her classes, trainings, and retreats. Integrating the evidence-based modality of Trauma Center-Trauma Sensitive Yoga, Somatic Experiencing®, Somatic Yoga, and land-based experiences, Nicola specializes in a collaborative approach to healing from social, systemic, and ecological trauma. Working with the body alongside the mind, Nicola engages people in a gentle and intentional process of self-discovery to support access to empowerment and the development of agency.
She has been influenced by a variety of experiences that inform her approach to walking alongside clients and participants, from studying with Stephen Jenkinson at Orphan Wisdom School to working for Outward Bound. After completing her 200-hr yoga teacher training with the Yandara Yoga Institute, she continued to develop the foundations of her yoga practice through studies with Michael Stone and Sri Tiwarji. While completing her Masters in Social Work, she became curious about how yoga contributes to social change, and began studying Trauma Center-Trauma Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY) with David Emerson; this resulted in becoming a Faculty Member with the Center for Trauma and Embodiment offering international trainings in TCTSY and mentoring for the 300hr Certification. In support of her own healing journey from lyme disease and as a somatic practitioner, Nicola pursued studies in Somatic Experiencing, the work of Peter Levine through the Trauma Institute. With curiosity to fuse her passions for somatic work, her love for the land, and the human soul, Nicola is engaged with programs and trainings through Animas Valley Institute, studying with the founder and author, Bill Plotkin on the topics of nature, the human soul, and culture.
Nicola currently lives on Treaty 7 land, the traditional territory of Stoney Nakoda, Blackfoot and Sarcee Nations, in Canmore, Alberta. She facilitates TCTSY workshops and trauma-informed retreats across Canada and Southern Africa, offers classes, private practice, and works in collaboration with agencies. In the past she has worked as a Program Therapist at a wilderness therapy-based addiction treatment facility for young men, and Youth and Family Worker with Take a Hike in an alternative high school setting supporting experiential and adventure-based education. .
