Sacred Vessel

Willow portals 🌀 💚 🌀

I’ve been feeling a slow/new deepening in the work and service I am here to offer. Feeling the accumulation of time spent with elders, teachers, plant beings, and lands - how they inform the space I’m able to create. This is an ode to some of the teachers I’ve been privileged to study with and the lineages that inform my offerings.
Rosita Arvigo ~in studying Maya abdominal massage I felt such gratitude for the hands and wisdom brought to Rosita from Don Elijio Panti and Mrs.Hortence. There’s very little bodywork trainings that I know of that honor the womb in the same way. That’s main focus is bringing the uterus back into alignment as it is the center of a woman’s world. That the alignment of that center can shift one’s entire life and experience. To be on Ixchel farm in Belize with the plant spirits and goddesses that inform the work was nothing short of incredible and lives in my heart each time I am able to offer this service.
Homprang in the country side of Chang Mai, an incredible healer and herbalist with an entire program dedicated again to bringing the uterus back into alignment. The slow methodical practice of lifting the womb back home and anchoring it in with the warmth and healing properties of plants.
Sage at the Gaia school of Healing. I’d say making the choice to study plant spirit / folk herbalism absolutely changed my life. I had done my first plant spirit meditation with a new friend while newly living in VT and I felt it! Felt in a way that I immediately wanted to know more, meet more plant spirits and begin building that relationship (thanks tulsi). I looked up the program, it started in a week and I was in. For the next two years and then continued years after tending the plants on the land.
At the end of this month again I will be deepening studies in another form of bodywork and feeling the utter excitement to add it into this lineage of work. Dedicating myself the body’s healing, women’s health has absolutely shaped my life over the past 15 years in the most magical of ways. It’s an honor to share these lineages through my hands with each body that comes to my table. 💗🙌💗

Availability this Thursday 💗 come tend your body with therapeutic massage, manual lymph drainage, abdominal therapy, and more.

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This next chapter is slowly seeping into my cells. The weight I’ve been carrying is dissolving back to the earth and I feel a pulse of regeneration activating through my being.
Just over a week ago I released a big karmic, beautiful, hard, exhausting chapter. On the lunar new year I let go of one version of me and a dream once dreamt. This was a huge decision to make on my own and after making the decision to let it go the universe didn’t just so kindly sweep it away, no I sat in the void for 4 months of contracts, unknowns, and a frigid winter. I knew the last thing I wanted to do was live off grid at that home through winter and with the way contracts did and didn’t play out - that’s just what was in store for me. To be with the last thing I wanted to do. To be stretched and strengthened, to death doula every facet of that chapter. To risk aloneness and what comes with that, to ask for help beyond my comfort zone of asking. To be devoted to the fire and still sit in discomfort as the winter temps drop below zero. It was an initiation in my capacity to tend something so fully, to my emotional bandwidth and sacrifice to responsibility.
What that land ended up holding and catapulting in my life was beyond what I had imagined when deciding to purchase it. Instead it held the unraveling of a relationship and path I once gripped tightly to. It held the actualization of what my heart desires, how I want to co create, the comforts I wish to have. All through the path of trial and error which I seem to choose in this life. In that choosing I have found over and over an embodied knowing in which that sometimes exhausting path makes to all worth it.
I write this today from my next chapter, still a cabin witch, tucked on the edge of the forest, warmed by the fire. So much looks the same and yet absolutely everything is different. I feel my energy returning and the stream of creativity that was once tangled in hardship detangle. There’s so much more I could and may say but for now this is where I land, matched with the cycle of seasons, coming back to life after a good season of death.
📷 first home - closing of chapter - new home 🙃

The sun is out and processing plants in the porch is in full effect. I’m loving the sound of the Balsam Fir needles falling into the still 🌲Processing Balsam from our land to make balsam fir and myrrh hydrosol. A rich, resinous, grounding hydrosol that has amazing skin benefits.

💧anti inflammatory
💧wound healing
💧regeneration of skin cells
💧hydration
💧living plant waters that smell divine!

I’ll be bottling this one solo and it’s also the hydrosol in Tree & Tallow a hydrating body buttah!