Bernadette Khalil
From Lebanon to Quebec, A Journey of the Soul
✨My Path: From Dance to Healing
I was born in Lebanon, a land of contrasts and beauty. There, Oriental dance was more than just an art form — it was a way to celebrate life, honor the present moment, and give voice to the unseen. By the age of 10, I was already teaching dance to my friends. It flowed through me like a sacred breath.
Then, war broke out. A painful silence settled within me. My soul needed a new space to express itself. At 16, my family emigrated to Quebec. It was on this land of peace and welcome that my heart began to beat again to the rhythm of dance. I resumed teaching, joined a Lebanese folklore troupe led by Mme Rosie Nourcy, and even performed a solo in front of 5,000 people — an unforgettable moment.
At 18, I founded my own Oriental dance troupe: Phénicia.
Our performances supported a cause dear to my heart: helping Lebanese families affected by war. Even then, it was an act of commitment — an offering of love through art.
Teaching: A Deep Source of Nourishment
Around the age of 20, I began teaching Oriental dance in community centers across Quebec: Loisirs de Charlesbourg, Loisirs de Sainte-Foy, Collège Jésus-Marie, the Psycho-Corporal Center, cultural events, the Festival d’été de Québec, and even in the United States.
But at 29, a new inner calling emerged.
I stepped away from the stage to dedicate myself fully to teaching. Because teaching dance means nourishing the soul, awakening the body, and freeing the deep emotions held in the memory of movement.
That’s when my method was born:
✨ IKAA – Moving Meditation and Gentle Brain Gym
IKAA is like a very slow dance done with gentle breathing.
It’s practiced seated, by moving the hands, the eyes, the abdomen… sometimes all at once, but each part in a different way.
It’s a bit like a coordination game, with each side of the body moving alternately.
The result? Activation of both hemispheres of the brain, improved coordination, and the creation of new neural connections.
Gentle finger tapping helps circulate energy and release emotions.
IKAA helps the brain relax, think more clearly, focus better, and most importantly… find peace.
As if we were telling our heart and mind: “Everything’s okay. You can breathe. You are safe.”
It’s a gentle moving meditation — an inner workout that feels good at any age, helping you feel lighter, calmer, and happier.
🌟 My Journey in Therapeutic Healing (1989–2014)
Au fil des années, j’ai approfondi une approche de guérison globale, en intégrant des outils thérapeutiques énergétiques à mon travail corporel et spirituel.
Voici les approches que j’ai intégrées à ma pratique :
- Reiki (trained by Tamara, Denise Limoges, and Master Owen Coleman – Levels 1 to 3, Pure Reiki Healing Master)
- SimplyHealed (Carolyn Cooper University)
- Therapeutic Touch (Chelason)
- Energetic Meditation (with Japanese Master Kenji Kumara)
- Access Bars, Foundation & Body Processes (Gary Douglas & Dr. Dain Heer)
- Release Technique (inspired by Lester Levenson’s work) EFT – Emotional Freedom Technique (3 levels with Anita Casalina & Nick Ortner / The Tapping Solution)
All these practices have enriched my path and helped me honor a fundamental truth: Each person carries within them the keys to their own healing.
My role is to create a sacred, gentle, and safe space for that healing to emerge.
💫 The Birth of My Own Method
BEKAA – Light Therapy. A Touch of Pure Grace.
In a moment of grace, I had a divine encounter with light.
An inner teaching emerged. This gave birth to the BEKAA method — inspired by my name and the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon, a symbol of abundance and fertility.
The BEKAA Touch is a gentle, deep, and intuitive energy treatment — a kind reset for the physical, mental, and emotional body.
It is a sacred bridge between the conscious and the subconscious, the past and the present, the mind and the nervous system.
It acts as an accelerator of release, allowing unresolved emotions, limiting beliefs, and outdated mental patterns to dissolve in softness and light.
This treatment involves 45 specific touch sequences performed with paired hands on the head, face, and specific body areas.
Each gesture sends a current of calm and comfort between two energetic points to:
- Harmonize emotions
- Release stress and anxiety
- Soothe the nervous system
- Bring the body back to a state of safety and vitality
It’s as if the treatment whispers to the brain: “Relax… all is well… you are safe. Reconnect to your inner light.”
💫 What I Offer Today
- Spiritual retreats in person and online (via Zoom) – in Quebec and abroad
- Sacred Baladi dance classes and training
- IKAA classes
- BEKAABOXE classes
- Personalized therapeutic support and energy healing
- BEKAA energy treatment
- Spiritual ceremonies and celebrations (weddings, blessings, rites of passage)
🙏🏻 My Gratitude
I am deeply grateful to the people of Quebec who welcomed me with open arms — with so much respect, curiosity, and openness toward my culture.
My teaching is my way of giving back that generosity.
I also give thanks to all the souls who cross my path — those who dance, who pray, who heal, who awaken.
I dance pain into healing.
And I invite you — in light and love — to return to your inner home.
Choukrane. Thank you. May God’s peace and grace be with you. 🕊️
