Journey to Harmony

✨Prenatal Massage✨ One of my absolute favourite offerings…massage for mothers!

If you didn’t know, I specialize in pre and post-natal massage! So if you are pregnant or know a mama who is, please know I have a lot of experience working with mamas and it brings me a lot of J O Y!

Pregnancy is a deeply transformative journey for a woman emotionally, spiritually, mentally and of course, physically.

Pre-natal massage is beneficial in all trimesters as the mama’s body shifts and transforms as she grows her baby. Each trimester has its unique beauty and challenges of which I consider deeply, and of course the unique experience of the mother’s health and needs at each stage.

Post-partum care is extremely important for mamas. And post-partum isn’t just the days and months following a birth, it is every single moment after the birth! So yes, all the years after a baby is born. I’ll share more on this soon!

Here I’ve mentioned the physical needs, but of course, there is the whole layer of emotional and psychological stressors that our mamas are *constantly* processing! Constantly! So, a massage is great and helpful at any stage of pregnancy or postpartum.

✨We need to continue to prioritize our mamas’ care! When mamas are thriving, our children and our communities thrive!✨

👐🏾If you know a mama or mama-to-be and would like to support her, I also offer gift certificates and packages.

Also, if you’ve recently had a baby, you are always welcome to bring your baby to your appointments and I can adjust the positioning so you can still receive the care you need during that special time, without having to part from your baby and still honour the baby’s needs.

Feel free to reach out if you have any questions. I’m located in the Montréal Plateau, around the corner from Sherbrooke Metro.

Blessings during this fertile season…when we celebrate our mothers and our Earth Mother - Blessed Gaia.

📷 .ina 🙏🏾

🌱Spring 2024 UPDATE: As the world is shifting rapidly…so are the costs associated with running a small business (which I’m sure many of you already feel and understand).

Given my distinct education and experience, compared to the minimal requirements to offer massage therapy in Quebec, I feel it’s necessary to raise my rates. My service fees reflect my 2200hrs education, 10+ years of experience & additional courses, operating costs & the rising costs of living.

As of May 1, 2024, these will be my rates:

45mins $88

60mins $111

90mins $155*

120mins $222

*I’ve needed to adjust my 90mins fee for some time now, so I understand it’s a jump, but feels more realistic.

If you book future appointments before May 1, 2024, I will honour my current rates – however, if you cancel or reschedule your appointment, the new rates will apply. I’ve made my schedule for now until June and will remain similar hours over the summer. If I need to reschedule an appointment, then I will still honour the rate.

However, to support your wellness journey, I’ve decided to offer packages! This way you can save a bit and gift yourself the consistency in wellness that is a necessary element for overall well-being.

To purchase a package, simply send an e-transfer with the amount. It will be documented. Your receipt of the package is your email from your bank of the “Sent E-transfer”

º An insurance receipt will be provided for each massage after you attend the session.

º Packages can only be used for you.

º Ideally used up by the end of this year.

I look forward to connecting and being a part of your path to harmony and wellness. ✨

😌Feeling inspired and rejuvenated as a bodyworker! ✨ It was a beautiful day learning aquatic bodywork in a saltwater pool and surrounded by my awesome colleagues from Community Healing Days!

💧This experience was deeply enriching to my own relationship with water and how my body responds to water…that’s not in a tub or lake or ocean or float tank…or streaming down from the shower.

💧To float in a safe container and surrender deeply and listen and allow the body to use its own wisdom to reveal and unwind the chronic patterns, the stuck energy…the stuff that we don’t see when we stand up or lie down for an assessment…

🌀It’s fun to play with the absence of gravity and see what is revealed.

💧✨Water holds such deep, ancient wisdom. Codes of high frequency for healing! Stay tuned for more updates as I explore this new path of bodywork! I am ecstatic to offer sound healing as part of my massage practice, but to eventually incorporate water therapy in some form, is what I truly envision.

✨Sound is light is frequency.
💧Water is light is vibration.
✨Same energy…different words based on which frequency is being expressed.

When we work with the body, both it’s physical and non-physical elements, we are actually facilitating its own healing through the movement of energy…through cellular wisdom and fluid patterns/the body’s natural rhythms.

👐🏾Dedicated to YOU!👐🏾

It’s been an honour to be of service to my Halifax, and now Montréal communities over these past ten years. I am so grateful for all of the people that have crossed my practice in these last 10 years. I feel deeply blessed to connect with clients of all streams of life and who are committed to their own journey of wellness and harmony. And I am thankful to my peers, colleagues and teachers who continue to nourish this path with inspiring me to grow and serve.

I am grateful to be here and now, because many of my life’s greatest epiphanies and inspirations have come through during many of my treatments - either as divine messages or huge downloads showing me the potentials of my path. Aside from the joy of working with clients and witnessing your healing, these bursts of inspiration are what have kept my devotion to grow as a human and therapist.

Thank you for trusting in me - to come to me for your wellness and care. Thanks for feeling safe enough to share your inner truths, your hard moments of grief, loss, or transition. Thanks for sharing my name amongst your circles and for coming back when you needed support.

✨As this calling to serve continues, I am humbled to step further into the realm of vibrational medicine (sound healing, sound balancing) and energy…after all…we are pure light.✨

In deep gratitude and honour to continue to serve you,

Valentina (Audrey)
~ Keeper of Frequency ~

🙏🏾🤗In celebration of this anniversary and gratitude to you, I’d like to offer $10 off all massage sessions and gift certificates until August 31, 2023.

👐🏾In addition, for every massage appointment, I will donate a portion to When the Village Meditates, a Montréal-based community organization that supports marginalized peoples in their inner journey towards wellness and healing.

Book Online ~ Link in bio or check out my website for more information

• Massage Practice Update •

✨Hello dear souls, thanks for your patience over the last few months as I made a transition from Nova Scotia to la belle province, Québec!

Although I am still settling and riding the waves of transition, seasonal change and life upgrades, I am blessed and grateful to Life for steering me in this direction.

✨I am excited to share that I am restarting my massage therapy practice here in Montréal!

After seeking out a space that feels like sanctuary, I am pleased to share announce that I will be offering my services from Centre Tranquillitas on rue Ontario est.

I appreciate your continued support to share within your circles that I am offering services here.

Link in Bio to book online!

My starting availability is:

Fridays 1300h - 1930h (flexible)
Sundays 1000h - 1630h (flexible)

I will continue to add more availability as I grow my practice here.

I *am* able to provide receipts for insurance purposes in here in QC.

Please check out my website for more information on my offerings and bio. I look forward to organizing sound baths and women’s circles.

In deep gratitude for your continued support as I walk this path of devotion to healing & serving my community.

Blessings,

Valentina (Audrey)

• Saturday Appointments • as I’ll be away for several days in September during my regular hours, I’ve opened up two Saturdays to serve you.

10am - 4pm (flexible)
I’m open to your schedule requests during this time frame.

*Please DM or email me at [email protected] to book as these two days are not available on my online schedule.*

As September is filling up and I am preparing to move to Montréal, I invite you to book in if you can. Please contact me if you have any scheduling request or issues booking and I’ll do my best to get you in!

I’ll likely be hopping between Halifax and Montréal until the end of the year, so if I do have any dates, it will be posted here or if you’re on my email list you’ll be notified. If you’re not on my Email list be would like to be, please DM or Email me :)

Thank you!
~ Valentina

Dedicated to YOU! ~ I am so grateful for all of the people that have crossed my practice in these last 9 years. I feel deeply blessed to connect with clients of all streams of life and who are committed to their own journey of wellness and harmony. And I am thankful to my peers, colleagues and teachers who continue to nourish this path with inspiring me to grow and serve. 

I am grateful to be here and now, because many of my life’s greatest epiphanies and inspirations have come through during many of my treatments - either as divine messages or huge downloads showing me the potentials of my path. It often comes like a huge bolt of energy that fires up my whole being and excites me to continue exploring this path of healing. I think it’s because when I’m “in the zone”…it really is like a meditation…and this is where the magic happens for a client receiving, and for me, in that state of calm to receive these messages too. Aside from the joy of working with clients and witnessing your healing, these bursts of inspiration are what have kept my drive to grow as a human and therapist. These are and were the moments that feed my soul to be of greater service to the collective.

The various conditions and scenarios that I’ve encountered have given me the opportunity to be creative with my knowledge and skills, to address your issues in the most effective way possible. I know every therapist is different and we each have our own styles, but I thank you for coming and choosing me. I love and enjoy my approach….it feels like a dance. A dance of skill and awareness, a dance of movement and presence, and a dance with the tissues. 

Thank you for trusting in me - to come to me for your wellness and care. Thanks for feeling safe enough to share your inner truths, your hard moments of grief, loss, or transition. Thanks for sharing my name amongst your circles and for coming back when you need support. 

As this calling to serve continues, I am humbled to step further into the realm of vibrational medicine (sound healing, sound balancing) and energy…after all…we are pure light.

In deep gratitude and honour to continue to serve you,

Valentina (Audrey)
~ Keeper of Frequency ~

🎉As of August 8, 2022, I am able to offer receipts for Registered Massage Therapy, however, I am not direct billing to insurance. If you require a receipt, please book your session as Registered Massage Therapy accordingly.

To account for the rising costs of living, I have had to adjust my service fees. If you do not require a receipt, you may choose the uninsured option for a reduced rate. I believe massage and wellness services should be accessible to everyone. Your well-being is important to me and I hope to serve you with this reduced rate that still honours my services.

✨Also new: 45min massage sessions

✨Important Reminder: Currently, I am only accepting cash/EMT and able to provide a receipt for insurance but not direct billing.

I look forward to connecting and being a part of your path to harmony and wellness.😌

Please contact me directly if you have any questions.

Book online: link in bio or at
journeytoharmony.blog

Thanks for your continued support!
Valentina (Audrey)😌

This July I’ll be celebrating my 9th Anniversary of being a massage therapist and in celebration of my nine years, I’d like to offer a special promotion. Just for July!

$60 / 60min massage*
for the following specific time slots:

Thursday mornings: 9:00am, 10:15am or 11:30am
Fridays: 3:00pm
Sunday mornings: 9:00am, 10:15am, 11:30am

*Please note, some requirements apply:
✨This promotion is for these appointment times only and applies to the 60min massage only.
✨One appointment per person per day.
✨Because of the 60min time frame, the tune-up add-on is not possible.
✨Please send an e-transfer to [email protected] at the time of booking to hold your appointment. Reminder, I do not offer receipts for insurance.
✨If you are unable to make your appointment time, I ask that your reschedule within July. No shows or cancellations are non-refundable.

I appreciate your understanding.
BOOK ONLINE: Link in Bio

In deep gratitude for all your support over the years,
Valentina (Audrey)

It feels like we are already in summer mode with a Solstice just around the corner.🌞

I invite you to schedule yourself some pauses as we enter an exciting and spontaneous part of the year.

As fun as summertime adventures and events can be, our self-care and wellness can be easily overlooked as we are “in it” and living it up through the summer.

If you’d like to book a massage, please see my profile for a direct link. I hope to support you on your journey of harmony and wellness.

Blessings,
Valentina

On this Mother’s Day, I thought I’d share with you all why I was called to massage therapy, and holistic healthcare.

My mother is the reason I chose the path of massage, but more specifically, preventative, holistic care & living intentionally.

My mother was a nurse in Karachi, Pakistan, where I was born. When we immigrated to Canada, she was unable to work due to the entrance requirements for nursing, and the costs involved. As most moms did until more recently, she was a stay-at-home mom who raised three children.

My mom was the one who inspired my interest in biology, helped me with my science project on the human heart and it’s pumping system, she was the one who encouraged me through my academic studies. She inspired me to be a volunteer, to become involved in my community, and to be of service to others.

When I was about 10, she became very ill, with pulmonary hypertension and then her quality of life declined severely. I lost her when I was fifteen and yes, death really changes your perception of life. Since then, I’ve dedicated myself even more to serve others and promote self-care, holistic wellness, and most of all, preventative care. My experience with my Mom taught me to always ask questions, and plan ahead, and above all, to see the impact of my personal decisions, on my family, friends and community. I am ever grateful for the love, inspiration and lessons of my Mother.

Happy Mother’s Day to all the mothers here and gone, biological and community mothers. You have provided us with all the nourishment of life to follow our paths and live our dreams - to see the vibrant colours of the world and to grow big hearts.

Everyday is your day, because without you, we wouldn’t be here.

In Kundalini Yoga, we end each practice with the Long Time Sun song:

May the long time sun shine upon you,
All love surround you,
And the pure light within you,
Guide you way on.

🤗
🌺

If you'd like to learn more of my journey of healing since my Mother's death, please see my blog.

Gratitude & Blessings
~ Valentina

✨Giving a gift of vitality, of taking a pause, of gratitude and love.✨

A thoughtful gift for
• Mamas
• Caregivers
• Single parents
• Teachers
• Baristas and all Your "Team"
• Students
• Grieving friend, family
• If you know someone doesn’t have health insurance
• someone who has made an impact in your life
• someone who could use a massage that might not go themselves

Gift Certificates are digital but if you'd like a physical offering please let me know to arrange pick up.

Heartfull gratitude,
~ Valentina

🌺With Mother's Day approaching, I am offering extended hours on Sunday May 8th. It's an honour to serve our mothers🌺

Available times:
8:45am 60mins
12:45pm 60mins
4:00pm 60/90mins
5:30/6:00pm

🌺Please DM or email to book these ⬆️ appointments.

Also, I have Friday May 6 available to book online:

5:00pm 60/90mins
6:15pm 60/90mins

🙏🏾🌺

Often we seek out a massage when it’s perhaps “too late” - we’re experiencing pain or discomfort or our stress has affected us in an unmanageable way...

I like to suggest to my clients that if you know you have a big event coming up, whether it be a trip (car or plane), life event (a move, career shift), hosting visitors, a big project at work, an extra long day (servers, office, meetings), an athletic competition (marathon or trip), PLAN AHEAD and book a massage either before and/or after these events (change in relationship, death, loss, trauma).

Pre-event massage can allow you to prepare your body and mind for what’s to come. Massage increases circulation, which brings fresh blood, oxygen and nutrients to our brain and body cells, and flushes out the stagnant old stuff, detoxifying the body - which is in this case, can allow us to “seize the day” and handle these situations with more clarity, presence and energy -and perhaps feeling less stressed out by these situations. This can also reduce the amount of energy your body needs to engage in the recovery after the event.

Post-event massage can help with recovery and restore the body to a harmonious state. It can help flush out the toxins that have built up from imbalance during that stressful event by simply bringing new circulation to help release tension and reduce further build up of tension. With trauma, massage can soothe the nervous system and allow the body to engage in its healing process.

Of course keeping hydrated and eating/sleeping well are extremely important when we are handling stressful or exciting events. Our brain needs water and energy to function otherwise we enter a stressed state.

My goal is to encourage you to have short-term and long-term intentions about your wellness and maintenance, just as you would about family, work, finances and other personal goals.

When you have a clear vision, coupled with planning ahead, you will really feel the benefits of a proactive, intentional approach to living easefully.

If you'd like to connect, book online in bio.

Heartfull blessings 😌
~ Valentina ~

° S o u n d B a l a n c i n g °

I now have a space in the North End of Halifax, in a beautiful studio that is great for working with sound! I continue to offer massage and now incorporate a mini “Tune-Up” as a complimentary service to any massage, if you like.

You can still book a massage without tuning, but it’s just an additional 15 minutes - a great way to arrive into your massage, g r o u n d and r e l a x ~ o p e n and a c t i v a t e your energy pathways to receive the sound balancing to wherever you need it in that moment. It's a gentle way to explore an introduction to sound medicine. It can bring more coherence and harmony to your body and life force.

So far anyone that has had the Tune-Up prior to a massage, has felt more relaxed to receive their massage.

Book online in profile

✨Welcome home dear One. 🙏🏾🤗

Some of you may know me through my massage work. Over the years, my journey through the path of bodywork and the healing arts has become less tangible yet, having a more profound impact.

"Sound is the medicine of the future." Edgar Cayce.

All paths to be of greater service, have led to sound, vibration and energy...after all, we are pure energy.

I look forward to sharing more of my sound medicine offerings.

~ Valentina Vera ~
Keeper of Frequency