At the age of six, while resting on a wooden staircase at Mesh Hall in Northern Vancouver Island, Kiem Schutter experienced a moment that would shape the path ahead. With his hands on the worn back of the person in front of him, he sensed, for the first time, an intuitive ability to perceive the body and feel the movement of energy and tension.
Whether this awareness was an inborn gift or simply a different way of connecting with the world, it became an early sign of the work to come. From childhood onward, there was a clear pull toward integrating alternative approaches and exploring what lies beyond conventional frameworks.
Kiem also identifies with dyslexia, which offers a powerful reflection of his broader perspective. Rather than separating ideas, he is drawn to non-duality: the blending of people, practices, and possibilities. This way of seeing supports a career rooted in connection, emotional intelligence, and the understanding that healing is often found in what traditional systems overlook.
As a natural healer with a deep sensitivity to energy, Kiem brings attention to the importance of protection for healers, helpers, and the modalities themselves. His work creates space for both safety and possibility, opening the door to options outside the traditional.
Kiem’s approach is shaped by questions about what existed before pain, injury, or trauma, and whether people can return to a state of wholeness that feels older than suffering itself. This perspective informs both his personal journey and his work in health, love, and business.
He is guided by the belief that there may be a deeper memory connected to nature, love, and our original sense of belonging. In this view, health is not only the absence of illness, injury, or trauma, but a state of joy, vitality, vibrancy, and connection.
His life has been marked by resilience in the face of significant personal and professional challenges, and that experience shapes the foundation of his message: obstacles are not endings, but lessons. He encourages others to keep moving toward wellbeing with courage, perseverance, and openness to new modalities.
As he has shared:
"One thing I never lost was a deeper sense that love was always present."
And further:
"I hope to inspire others to continually pursue a state of good health, with greater love and through new levels of consciousness – not merely in the absence of illness, injury, or trauma, but, instead, because of it. The radical acceptance of our traumas and challenges, paired with a deeper knowing that we can overcome them if we are willing to persevere and integrate new modalities, is the key to real success and true wellbeing. As a child who witnessed too early in life the devastating effects of mental health deterioration on marriages, children, families and entire communities, it is my wish that this Center can act as a safe place for clients to move beyond their suffering and, in some way, find a return to themselves, to nature and their interconnectedness with all things. If we can move past the barriers in our psyche, and the barriers seen somatically, we may have access to the joy of 'conscious' living."
For Kiem, what we seek is what we are. And who we are, we seek.
– Poet and Writer