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Vitality Coach Cathy

About Me

Hi, I’m Cathy, founder of Vitality—a holistic health & wellness practice where I help women elevate their lives through integrative nutrition, purposeful movement, stress management, and most importantly, an empowered positive mindset.

As a certified Integrative Nutritional Health Coach, Personal Trainer and Thai Massage Therapist. My passion is guiding women back to a place of balance, strength, and confidence. I believe true wellness is about more than just eating well or exercising—it’s about creating a lifestyle that fuels your body, calms your mind, and supports your emotional well-being.

Whether you’re feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or simply ready for a change, I’m here to help you reconnect with your authentic self while build habits that create lasting energy, joy, and resilience.

My mission is to support women in not just living longer—but living better—by maximizing their health span, so they can thrive at every stage of life.

My certifications reflect my belief that wellness is multidimensional – encompassing movement, nutrition, stress management, and mindset is key to longevity and VITALITY.

Integrative Nutritional Health Coach certified thru the Institute for Integrative Nutrition
- Training in over 100 dietary theories and holistic wellness practices to help you discover the nutrition and lifestyle approach that works uniquely for your body, goals, and lifestyle. IIN’s comprehensive program goes beyond food and helps address sleep, stress, relationships and movement because true health is about mind, body and spirit.
Certified Personal Trainer – Canadian Fitness Professionals (Canfit Pro)
- Certified to design safe, effective fitness programs tailored to your current fitness level, goals and any physical limitations.
Thai Yoga Massage Practitioner
- Trained in this ancient healing art that combines acupressure, assisted yoga postures and energy work. Perfect for deep relaxation, improved flexibility and releasing tension held in the body.
Shamanic Healing Practitioner & Breathwork Facilitator

Yours in Health and Vitality,

Coach Cathy

Thai Yoga Massage Practitioner

As a Thai Yoga Massage practitioner, I am passionate about helping people reconnect with their bodies and restore a natural balance. My approach combines mindful movement, assisted stretching, and gentle pressure to release tension, improve circulation, and support deep relaxation. Each session is designed to meet you where you are — whether you need stress relief, greater mobility, or simply time to reset and recharge. Thai Yoga Massage is more than bodywork — it’s a moving meditation and passive yoga practice that nourishes both body and mind. My goal is to create a space where you can slow down, breathe deeply, and leave feeling lighter, grounded, and renewed.

Improve Posture

Enhance Circulation

Relieve Stiffness

Benefits of Thai Yoga Massage

Your body has its own wisdom — sometimes it just needs the right support to find balance again. If you’re ready to release tension, improve flexibility, and reconnect with your natural state of ease, I’d love to work with you. Each Thai Yoga Massage session is personalized to your needs and focused on helping you feel grounded, open, and deeply relaxed.

Increases flexibility & range of motion
Improves posture & joint mobility
Encourages mindfulness & body awareness

Enhances circulation & lymphatic flow
Promotes relaxation & stress relief
Balances the body’s natural energy systems

Relieves muscle tension & stiffness
Boosts energy & mental clarity
Supports overall wellbeing & inner harmony

Service Rates

Available Tuesdays & Thursdays from 10:00 am to 7:00 pm (start times)

Thai Yoga Massage @ 60 min

$75

Thai Yoga Massage @ 75 min

$95

Thai Yoga Massage @ 90 min

$115

Shamanic Breathwork @ 120 min

$150

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Shamanic Breathwork Practitioner

Shamanic breathwork is a powerful healing practice that uses conscious, connected breathing techniques to journey into expanded states of consciousness, release stored trauma, and reconnect with your soul’s wisdom. Through guided breathing patterns and shamanic techniques, you’ll access deeper realms of awareness where profound healing, ancestral connection, and spiritual insight naturally unfold. Whether you choose a personalized one-on-one session tailored to your unique healing journey or join a supportive group setting where the collective energy amplifies the shamanic experience, this sacred practice offers a transformative pathway to emotional release, energetic clearing, and spiritual awakening. Each session creates a safe container for you to explore the depths of your inner landscape, release what no longer serves you, and reclaim your power and wholeness

Benefits of Shamanic Breathwork

Emotional Release & Healing – Releases stored emotions, trauma, and pain held in the body, allowing for deep emotional catharsis and healing
Stress & Anxiety Reduction – Activates the parasympathetic nervous system, reducing stress, anxiety, and tension while promoting relaxation and calm
Expanded Consciousness – Opens access to non-ordinary states of awareness, facilitating spiritual experiences and deeper self-understanding
Trauma Processing – Helps process and integrate past traumas in a safe, embodied way without needing to verbalize or relive the experiences
Energetic Clearing – Clears stagnant energy, blockages, and patterns from the energetic body, restoring natural flow and vitality
Ancestral Healing – Creates opportunities to connect with and heal ancestral wounds, patterns, and lineage trauma
Increased Self-Awareness – Reveals unconscious patterns, beliefs, and behaviors, bringing them into conscious awareness for transformation

Physical Detoxification – Oxygenates the body at a cellular level, supporting natural detoxification and improved circulation
Spiritual Connection – Deepens connection to your higher self, spirit guides, and the divine, strengthening spiritual awareness and intuition
Enhanced Creativity & Insight – Unlocks creative potential and brings forward profound insights, visions, and clarity about life direction
Nervous System Regulation – Helps regulate the nervous system, creating greater resilience and capacity to handle life’s challenges
Empowerment & Reclamation – Supports reclaiming personal power, wholeness, and authentic expression that may have been lost or suppressed
Grief Processing – Provides a safe space to move through grief, loss, and heartache in a supported, embodied way
Mind-Body Integration – Strengthens the connection between mind, body, and spirit, promoting holistic well-being and integration

Woman’s Health & Wellness Retreats

Make time to reflect, relax and connect.

True strength is the integration of body, mind, and spirit—empowering you to navigate life’s challenges with grace, set healthy boundaries, and show up authentically in every area of your life. Through intentional practices and transformative experiences, we guide women in cultivating courage, integrity, resilience, and self-discipline as practical, learnable skills.

Our retreats offer the rare gift of time and space to reconnect with yourself on a deeper level. Through nature walks, gratitude practices, breathwork, supportive circle conversations, and moments of solitude. By the time you leave, you won’t just feel rested – you’ll have experienced recalibration of body, mind, and spirit, equipped with practices to continue nurturing yourself long after the retreat ends.

Enlightenment is choosing presence over distraction, wisdom over reactivity, and love over fear. It’s the ongoing practice of releasing who you think you should be and embodying who you truly are. Through our work together, you’ll learn to embody the qualities of an awakened life—non-attachment that frees you to love deeply without clinging, compassion that extends to yourself as much as to others, and radical acceptance of what is while still honoring your power to create change.

Retreat Information

More information on upcoming & past retreat events:

Vitality Wellness Retreat – May 29th-31st 2026

My Bio As the founder of VITALITY Health and Wellness, I guide women back to their authentic selves through nourishment, movement & sacred healing practices. I specialize in Living with VITALITY during the second half of your life. I believe your 40’s, 50’s and beyond are meant to be your most vibrant years. Through self-discovery,…
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Living with Vitality – Oct 19, 2025

Location 1526 12th Line, Lakefield, Ontario, Canada Costs $150 Agenda Enjoy a day of reflection, relaxation and community Keynote Speaker: Tara Garrison Founder of Higher – Becoming your Ideal self Breakout Sessions: Rest and Restore Hot Stone Massage OR Thai Yoga Massage Education Session: Living with Vitality your best decade yet Closing Circle: Creating your personal…
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Retreat Testimonials

It was a lovely day at Cathy’s wellness event. Her warmth, positivity, and knowledge is just contagious and wonderful to be around. The day was very well organized, healthy delicious food was provided, and Cathy’s space is beautiful, warm and inviting, leaving you feeling very comfortable and connected.

I continue to learn more about health and wellness from Cathy as well as the other incredible speakers and instructors who led the various sessions. There was a lot of great information that was provided and some laughs were shared with a lovely group of ladies.

I am looking forward to the next wellness event and I would highly recommend to anyone looking to improve their well-being and connect with like-minded individuals, to attend on of Cathy’s wellness events.

Hope –

I had the fortunate opportunity to participate in a wellness retreat hosted by Cathy Shirtiff Vitality (Holistic Health Coach PT & Thai Yoga Massage) as well, accompanying practitioners Julie Fallis (Yoga & Hot Stone Massage) and Tania Rightmyer.

This day retreat started with a well prepared mix and mingle enjoying a wholesome breakfast. We had the opportunity to not only listen but participate in a presentation with Tara Garrison, Health and Life Coach.

This set the stage for a day of relaxation experience Thai Yoga Massage, Hot Stone Massage and closing with a brief experience of hypnosis by Tania.

I was moved by not only the presentations well prepared by Cathy on our bodies and being mindful what we put into our bodies but the open communication and opening up of ourselves with others in a trusting safe environment.

Anne D. –

How a Health and Wellness Retreated helped me in my life.

The wellness retreat was a wonderful experience for me, and a chance to learn how to uplift people with word and also to life myself up. It taught me how to talk to my own body and realize the importance of staying healthy for myself and my family by learning techniques for managing stress and setting goals for myself. I learned to slow down and take the time to reset, by having a wonderful hot stone massage as well as Thai massage yoga. At the retreat it made me realize the importance of how to take care of my mind, body and soul. As I am getting older it is important to take care of my body to live a long and healthy life. We live in a world that is very busy and filled with stress and by going to this retreat the overall experience not only rejuvenated my body but also helps me maintain balance and clarity in my life.