ABOUT DELIA
Delia is a transformational coach, artist, mentor and teacher
whose work blends decades of mastery with intuition, creativity, and relational intelligence. Her journey began as a teenage actor and evolved into a 30-year career as a dancer and choreographer, including 25 years with EDAM Dance and 17 years co-directing the interdisciplinary company MACHiNENOiSY, where she brought boundary-pushing, inclusive performances to audiences across Canada, the US, and Europe.
A 23-year yoga teacher, Delia is the owner of Green Room Yoga and the founder of Art Full Well Coaching and East Van Wisdom School, creating co-creative spaces where personal and collective transformation can flourish. Through somatics, improvisation, and deep attunement, she helps people dissolve stuck patterns, reclaim their power, and reconnect with the intelligence of their own bodies.
Delia guides others to transform life’s challenges into gateways for insight, creativity, and growth—turning the everyday into art and helping each person step fully into the living, breathing masterpiece they were born to be.
Contact Improvisation—a dance of attention, physics, and shared presence—remains at the heart of her teaching, a touchstone for awakening and embodied connection.
MY STORY OF TRANSFORMATION
If there is anything an artist needs more than her craft, it’s hope.
In 2019, I had one of the most challenging, creative, stressful, and life-changing years of my life. That year, I created three original productions with my creative partner of MACHiNENOiSY. Each of them, feats of imagination and dedication that were years in the making, and each production an irrefutable testament to our courage and commitment to reach higher.
And even though there were many other exquisite things that I experienced that year, including an incredible month-long trip to Greece, by New Year's Eve of 2019, I had reached an all-time low - or an all-time peak, you could say – of existential crisis. And with all ambition drained from my body, shivering by a wood stove, in a cabin on Gabriola, I sat reeling inside of questions like, “How did I get here?”, “How did it all go so wrong?”, “How could I have given so much and feel so undervalued?”, and the one worst of all, “How could I be such a masterful artist and feel so incapable of ever creating anything again?”...
WHERE I'VE BEEN & WHERE I'M HEADED
In the 35 years of being a working human, I've experienced many things. I've studied many different modalities, trained with many brilliant teachers, and received many certifications. I've collaborated with hundreds of artists, led hundreds of projects, and worked with hundreds of teams. I’ve rolled, stomped, sang, howled, and whirled around countless stages for hundreds of thousands of people. I’ve lifted, hugged, squeezed, leaned on, caught, encouraged and guided humans of nearly every age, gender identity, ethnicity, and background. My life has been full – very full.
And just like you, I’ve worn many hats. Mine have been called: Actor, Dancer, Improvisor, Choreographer, Director, Producer, Speaker, Writer, Teacher, Mentor, Leader and Women-Centred Transformational Coach.
But with all the change and uncertainty in our world, I’ve been feeling the call to integrate. So, I’m placing all my hats into one big hat, hoping I never have to take it off and calling it 'Creator'.
Because the truth is, regardless of the changes in our world – playing in between the lines, discovering connection, beauty and flow has always been my MO. So, whether I'm facilitating your movement in a yoga or contact class, collaborating with you in production, or creating space for your insights in coaching conversation, the ‘hat’ I'm really wearing is the calling of my heart and soul to be the weave, container, champion and instigator of your creative evolution.
