Khatija Westbrook Claimed

Khatija has spent hours outside for as long as she can remember, investigating the farmers’ fields around her childhood home, riding numerous cities’ bicycle paths and playing and working with outdoor activities and sports. Khatija is an Associate Professor at Mount Royal University teaching athletic therapy and physical literacy. Her love of moving outside translated into Bachelor degrees in Physical and Health Education and Physiotherapy and a MSc and PhD in sport epidemiology. Alongside this formal education, Khatija trained in a wide variety of complementary medicines including acupuncture, craniosacral therapy, visceral manipulation, cupping, Reiki and shamanism. She enjoys investigating knowledge systems and how they can complement each other towards better health. As a certified forest therapy guide, Khatija is struck at how engaging in a natural space can affect recovery from illness, injury or disease in all the ways these manifest themselves.