Hi, I'm Vaness Henry.

I help people understand their bodies better.

When I was little…

Two things happened that frightened me and shaped me into who I am today.

 
My dad died of cancer.

And then at 16, I was diagnosed with cancer, too.

And even though I thought it was a weird coincidence… our cancers were unrelated. My direction has been impacted ever since. I started following the question, “What makes us sick?” and found myself on a path to discover what we need to know about our highly evolved bodies. I grew into a parent, author, and shamanic practitioner.

 
My perspective

As a shamanic practitioner, I’m always interested in the most practical route to healing.

Some of the best ways to curb illness and remedy disease is to set yourself up in a healing environment so illness has no space to exist in the first place. So — how do you do that?

I practice a braid of the shamanic arts, Feng Shui, and Human Design

Latest from my Blog

Braiding Feng Shui and Human Design principles together

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How to set up your cooking space for a Valleys Human Design Environment
How to set up your cooking space for a Mountains Human Design Environment
How to set up your cooking space for a Kitchens Human Design Environment
How to set up your cooking space for a Markets Human Design Environment
How to set up your cooking space for a Caves Human Design Environment
Set up your Bathroom for your Human Design Environment

Cultivate your Environment by setting up your space to hold you

TRY MY CALCULATOR

What Human Design Environment Variable do you resonate with?

This bodygraph calculator will translate whether your Environment Variable is Caves, Markets, Kitchens, Mountains, Valleys or Shores. This is one of four Variables that depict how to take care of yourself.

Human Design Variable TRAINING

Learn the Art of self-healing within your Human Design Variable

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a wellness club for Human Design lovers

Practice the Art of Self-Healing

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Background

Art Director
Food & Travel
Fanfare Magazine Group

Art Director
Fashion, Culture, Lifestyle
Sandbox Magazine

Motivational Speaker
Canadian Cancer Society
Hodgkins Lymphoma Survivor

Shamanic Practitioner
Dream & Plant Medicine, Sound Healing
Light of the Prairie

Writer, Blogger
Crystal & Botanical Translations
Rogue Wood, Shamanic Arts

Author
Poetry, Fiction, Non-fiction
At Bay Press, Willow Press

Columnist
Our Body Book
Cameron Diaz’s online community

University Instructor
Digital & Social Media Marketing
PACE, University of Winnipeg


College Instructor
Web Design
Creative Communications
Red River College

Columnist
Young Money
Winnipeg Free Press

Producer
Creative Sound Projects
Six-Two Studio

creative writing

Published fiction, non-fiction & poetry

“The Elms will bring Roses”
by Lana Reimer (as told to author)
Domestic, 2017
Willow Press, non-fiction

“Conversations with Shauna”
Domestic, 2017
Willow Press, non-fiction

“Larkin & Luella”

Luella comes from a line of twin sorcerers, but with a fractured family it’s only her and her evil twin brother left. In a desperate attempt to escape his cruelty, Luella flees town with the help of six strange expats escaping together to a hidden land. She’s safe, so long as she gets along with the others, doesn’t use her magic, and if her own demons don’t get the best of her.

Secrets & Lies, Published 2017
At Bay Press, fiction

“Sent with Love”
Published Poem, 2015
At Bay Press, poetry

“The Woman I can’t see”

A small child crouches in the corner of a hospital room as she watches her father’s spirit leave its body. In spirit form, various entities enter the room, filling the space between the grieving people who weep and whisper their goodbyes. Characters like Death, Embarrassment and Love, are woven into a story about loss and healing.

Dreams & Nightmares, 2015
At Bay Press, fiction

“Aurora”
Published Poem, 2015
At Bay Press

*Inducted as Rare Heritage Poem at Manitoba Legislative Library

“Silver Ruby”

Humans are harvesting Silvers for their pristine organs as Humanity rapidly declines from disease. Ruby is a Silver, a conscious cyborg originally programmed for the Chlorophyll Recovery Program, fighting for her life as she meets her maker. Knocked offline behind a seafood restaurant, Ruby comes online to being slowly dismembered by her Creator.

Woman: an Anthology, 2014
At Bay Press, fiction

*Proceeds to Breast Cancer Research, additional authors incl/ Anais Nin, Alice Munro, Stephen King, Lynn Coady, MC Joudrey, Peter S. Beagle, Charles de Lint, Emma LaRocque, Peter O’Donnell & Robert E. Howard

“Trew & Copper”

Dana Copper is traveling in deep space aboard the Q19. Even though she’s surrounded by a crew of humans, she feels totally alone. She’s the only unconscious human left aboard the entire ship. Everyone else has been abducted by the consciousness of an alien host. The days bleed together as she awaits her merging with the ship’s Commander, Trew.

Jilted Love Anthology, Published 2013
At Bay Press, fiction

“Dragon Tears”
At Bay Press, Fiction, 2012