Laurita is a 2X cancer survivor. Her first journey with Breast Cancer began in 2014 when she discovered a lump in her left breast and was diagnosed with Stage 3 Breast Cancer. She went though chemotherapy, radiation, 2 surgeries, and hormone therapy. She was declared cancer free in 2015. And then in 2017 the cancer came back. This time she was diagnosed as Stage 4 Breast Cancer that  had metastasized to her lungs. At that time she did experimental hormone therapy and was recently declared cancer free in 2022.  Alongside conventional cancer treatment, Laurita applied many alternative healing modalities such as the Gerson Therapy, Phoenix Tears, Art Therapy, Ecstatic dance, sound healing, etc. 

Together with a group of friends Laurita  helps  to organize Elevate Festival. Elevate Festival is a yoga, dance and arts festival that takes place in the Okanagan every summer. It is a beautiful community focused event  that includes a variety of healing modalities, such as ecstatic dance, yoga, sound healing, breath work, meditation, etc. It also features many local DJs that play  electronic dance music - her favourite genre of music. 

Laurita completed her ecstatic dance facilitator training in Edmonton with Hope Corbin of Ekstasis Dance in 2016.  She regularly leads dance journeys  in her home, the LIGHThouse, at festivals, and at  community events. 

Laurita completed her 200hr YTT with the Trauma Informed Yoga Psychology school with Melissa Jay & faculty in 2019. Laurita teaches yin yoga  5 times a week. She offers free classes in her home, the LIGHThouse in Penticton and volunteers to teach yoga at the Seniors's drop in centre in town. To join  her virtual classes over zoom, send Laurita a message (see below) for the Zoom link.