Our Values, Passion, & Purpose
ZenActive Therapy values people and relationships above all else. We strive to build an inclusive community where all individuals can work together to support one another in their own interests. Our passion for combining both Eastern and Western medicine practices allows us to personalize treatments for each client.
Our Team
Maki Kogure, Intuitive Healer
Maki started off her practice as a shiatsu practitioner when she first moved to Vancouver back in 2000. She learned her techniques from her home country, Japan. Coming to Vancouver, she realized that there weren’t a lot of forms of alternative therapy being offered at the time. She continued to work on her own for almost a decade until she decided to pursue the world of energy medicine. Through her readings, she recognized that her strength was in the form of reiki and psychic healing.
She found herself continuously helping her patients with deep rooting conditions that they may not have known – recognizing healing in conditions such as severe clinical depression, physical conditions such as bone breaks, skin burns, and ligamentous/muscular tears. She has had a tremendous effect within the community, slowly offering workshops to help us find the healing power within ourselves. She plans on expanding her healing in areas such as psychic healing, increasing the strength in her own healing and meditation. She also plans on pursuing her workshops to a greater scale with larger audiences. In her spare time, you can find her on the soccer field or softball diamonds playing hard and having a great time amongst her friends. She has a strong connection with the spiritual world and finds herself in nature or continuing her own practices with other like-minded practitioners. Also, finds she is a total animal lover! You will always see her around all the puppies.
Aliyah Muniff, BHK & RMT
Aliyah completed her bachelors in Human Kinetics at the University of British Columbia – Okanagan in 2013 and decided to explore the realm of bodywork soon after that. She started by learning shiatsu massage and by enrolling herself in other eastern medicine practices such as acupressure, qigong and reiki healing. She then worked as a shiatsu practitioner, working at various events in Vancouver including volleyball BC, ICORD, and various sports tournaments. She then pursued registered massage therapy, completing her certification late 2016. Aliyah has a keen interest in helping others. Her passion for physical activity and health drives her interest in massage therapy and self care. Her experience with various conditions including spinal cord injury, psycho-somatic conditions and sports related injuries pushes her to keep learning.
She plans on continuing her education in areas such as myofascial stretching, craniosacral therapy, osteopathy and energy healing. Her mission with her work is to educate and spread awareness on how to become better for YOU. What factors help and what factors deter our progress? She offers guides and routines to help with your self care. In her spare time, you can find her on the soccer field or basketball court, playing outdoors with her friends. She enjoys being outdoors, learning about anything pertaining to health and staying active for her own self care.
Derek Speers, RMT
In 2008, Derek’s path towards massage therapy began when he encountered a skilled practitioner who helped him recover from multiple soccer injuries. He was captivated by the effectiveness of his techniques and began to pursue an apprenticeship under his guidance. Over the years, Derek honed his skills and applied them to his own treatments. Eventually, he enrolled in the Registered Massage Therapy program at VCMT and graduated in 2022, eager to help others on their journey towards healing.
Iris Liu, R.Ac & Herbalist
Iris’s background is the bachelor’s degree from China Pharmaceutical University. She has been fascinated by the Art of Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) since her childhood. She had seen how acupuncture relieved her mom’s pain of shingles, and how acupuncture treated conditions without touching the surface of the condition with ease and comfort. She decided to turn to this field of TCM and completed the Traditional Chinese Medicine Practitioner Program (including Acupuncture, Herbal Medicine) in three years.
During her internship in school and her current practice, she saw and experienced many significant progresses in the treatment and prevention of a wide range of common/chronic diseases with Acupuncture and Chinese Herbal medicine. Moreover Iris is an avid practitioner of Yoga for over 15 years, and she believes that, for some people who are suffering from body pain/soreness or unbalanced body structure, choosing the right yoga poses as a daily exercise could benefit her practice as an acupuncturist. She also loves meditation, taiji and qi-gong. This type of energy work can be combined with Acupuncture to heal one’s energy from the heart since in theory of TCM, the core reason of disease comes from the heart. Outside of her practice, Iris likes to communicate with others and is a good team worker, she had been a Richmond School district translator during 2015-2017 and right now, she is a member of We Dance Association of Canada.
Yuuki Tateno,
Herbalist & Tenryo-Jutsu Practitioner
Yuuki started her holistic journey about 14 years ago. When she thought about longevity and a good life, she realized that it’s important to know about ourselves and a holistic approach is the key. Since then, she has been learning astrology, herbalism, growing herbs and vegetables, and making herbal medicines. She started practicing as an herbalist 4 years ago and during her practice, she found that there are energy and emotions involved in each symptom. She began to pursue energy healing and learned the Tenryo-Jutsu Japanese healing technique. This energy healing helps with physical, emotional and soul concerns. She is also obsessed with learning how to live her best life by knowing and experiencing what the soul desires. There is a pattern behind it and she’d love to share it with you. Knowing the pattern also helps with healing from the concerns you have now and moving forward to the future that you’d like to.
In her session, she searches the root cause from various directions including the physical body, energy body, emotions, environment and relationships. She specializes in aligning and releasing blockages and attachments from the energy body so that your energy moves smoothly and will be able to fully use your energy to be healed. In her free time, she loves to go into the forest to connect with nature, forest bathing to recharge herself, and grow herbs and vegetables in her garden.