A serious injury to his spine had kept Duncan Harte bedridden for ten days. He seriously questioned whether he would ever walk again. Unable to move, his budding career as a professional dancer looked in jeopardy. After earning a degree in Fine and Performing Arts; winning awards in dance; training in Japanese Butoh Dance and performing professionally; this was a traumatic realization.
Though lying in bed, Harte began to feel intense, mysterious waves washing over his body. Somehow he knew this phenomenon was spiritual energy. It felt healing and having tasted the mystical, he wanted more...

He set out on a spiritual quest through Asia. The journey led him to studying meditation in a Thai monastery and exploring Ayurveda and Yoga in an ashram in India. Ironically, Harte discovered what he was seeking when he returned home to Vancouver. He devoted seven years to intensive study in meditation, healing and spiritual reading.
When he asked himself humbly what he could give to the school's annual fundraiser; to his surprise, a guiding voice clearly answered, "Dance your spirit." A flood of divine inspiration poured forth, and after donating a spiritual dance class to the auction, it became a runaway success. Harte was asked to teach Dance Your Spirit! at Langara College's Centre for Holistic Studies.

In order to pursue teaching as a career, Harte journeyed to California to earn a Master's Degree in arts and spirituality through Naropa University. After feeling "called" to the Okanagan, and teaching in several institutions, he opened his own school in 2002. Praxis Spiritual Centre offers both beginners and advanced programs from meditation and healing, to expressive arts, including dance. See PraxisCentre.ca for more info.