Peaceful Warrior Yoga and Massage

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I got you boo 🤍✨
August still has some availability DM to book in ✨

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Girl dinner 🍽️.
Sriracha Cauliflower Bites with Almond Butter Dipping.

1 head of cauliflower
1/2c flour
1/2c water

Hot sauce.
1/2c sriracha
1/4c rice vinegar
1/tsp tamari

Almond butter sauce.
1/2c warm water
1/4c almond butter
2tbsp rice vinegar
2tbsp lime juice
2 tsp grated ginger
1tsp tamari
1tsp maple syrup.

Cut cauliflower into bite sized piece then whisk your flour and water together. Coat cauliflower bake at 450 for 15 minutes.
Mix together all hot sauce ingredients after 15 minutes dump cauliflower in the mixture and coat evenly. Add mixture back to baking sheet and bake another 5 minutes.
Now mix all ingredients together for dipping sauce.
Serve at room temperature and add 🥒 for dipping.

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To blessed to be stressed 🤍😉

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Glow ✨🤍
Radiance starts from the inside out

Recipe:
1 bunch of carrots 🥕
Half of a celery bundle
1 lemon 🍋
1 apple 🍏
1 inch of ginger
1 nectarine 🍑

Carrots packed with vitamin A, B, C.
The beta carotene In carrots can help protect the skin from sunburn and slow down skin aging by improving elasticity, hydration, texture, wrinkles, and age spots.

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Massage—- not just a luxury but a way to a happier life 🤍

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Beet Pesto Pizza with Caramelized Onions, Kale & Goats Cheese 🤍

1 pizza crust

-pesto-
2 cooked beets
1 cup toasted walnuts
1 cup nutritional yeast
1 lemon 🍋 juiced
3 cloves of garlic
EVOO eyeball 👁️
S&P
Blend in high speed blender until smooth consistency.

-Topping-
1 bunch of kale 🥬
Caramelized Red Onions
Goat Feta & Soft Goat Cheese

-Bake-
400 for 20 minutes

-Top-
Fresh Arugula & Balsamic drizzle.
👨‍🍳 😘

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Falling asleep, snoring, drooling 🤤 is the best feedback because it means YOU are relaxed due to MY work.
It’s a sign for me and a sign for you that you are overdue for some self care.
I consider it a huge win when I have to bring the mop in after a session cleaning up drool that’s made it’s way onto the floor.
Your snores are music fo my ears and brings joy to my heart. I am forever grateful to be gifted your safe space where you can let go.

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Crazy for Kale Caesar 🥬
Recipe :
1 bunch of kale 🥬
1 head of romaine
Toasted day old focaccia (torn into bite sized pieces)
Dressing:
2 cloves of garlic 🧄
1 lemon juiced 🍋
1tbsp capers
1tbsp Worcestershire sauce
2tbsp Dijon
1/4c mayo
Grated parm
Blend it and let it marinate on the greens for 1 hour 🥬🤍

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🤍cupping- this technique uses special cups to create suction on the skin. It helps to increase blood flow, reduce pain, and relieve muscle tension.

🤍hot stones- smooth heated stones used during massage. The heat helps to relax the muscles, improve blood flow and alleviate pain.

🤍essential oils- concentrated plant extracts used in aromatherapy. They promote relaxation, alleviate stress, and can enhance the massage experience with their soothing scents.

🤍scraping/ gua sha- A method involving a smooth-edged tool to scrape the skin.
It improves circulation, helps to improve the appearance of scar tissue, and reduces inflammation.

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Let yourself rest 🤍
Rest is more than napping on the sofa.
Rest is anything that makes your nervous system feel safe enough for your stress response to switch off.
Rest allows your body to recover and restore 🤍

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The wild wisdom of yarrow 🌼
Medicinal uses of this flower date back to the Trojan war in the early 1700s. Known for providing powerful protection, wound healing, antiseptic, and anti inflammatory properties. Used back then to heal wounds, bruises and to stop fever.

Use as a salve~
To stop bleeding, and to heal minor injuries. Yarrow rapidly heals cuts bruises, scrapes, burns, bug bites, pain and inflammation.

Used as a tincture~
Reduces inflammation & pain killing. You can use yarrow to wash & heal open wounds. Known to reduce fever (caution do not use yarrow if pregnant). Yarrow is the master of blood used to regulate menstrual cycles, stop hemorrhaging and builds anemic blood.

Flowe essence ~ (can be made into a room spray)
Known best for strengthening the body against 5G & radiation. Especially good at helping with boundaries.
Yarrow speaks purity is protective and shielding. It can help support sensitive people in overstimulating environments.

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Hydrate the skin from within blend ✨🤍
~ Chamomile
~ Rosehips
~Horsetail
~ Dandelion Leaf
~ Calendula
~ Rose petals
~Nettle
These fortifying herbs will work to balance you from the inside out. Sip to nourish, balance and hydrate the skin from within.
Try this blend as a tea, a facial steam or infuse as an oil or toner 🌹 💗

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Welcome March 🌷 ❄️
The start to this month has been a perfect representation of the transition within our inner worlds.
Its a time where the days are slowly becoming brighter and life beginning to return. Followed by snow storms, rain and unpredictable weather.
It’s truly the time of balancing the yin and the yang.
January and February are the most notable months for compassion fatigue (which is the stage before burn out).
Signs of compassion fatigue may look like;
- A decreased ability to empathize
- Irritability and impatience
- Decreased productivity
- Feeling hopeless/ depressed
- Trouble sleeping
- An urge to isolate from others.
Compassion fatigue effects a vast majority of people but is especially felt in those working as caregivers, space holders, empaths, parents, counsellors.
Those who are in the position professionally/ personally for holding the light for others while they move through the inner darksness of winter.
As we move into March May we all be met with the return of the light, not just with solstice around the corner but also in our hearts 💕.
Be kind to your physical and emotional needs. Carve out time for yourself, nourish your body, and have honest conversations about your journey.
🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷

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Just a reminder, you can still be a kind soul AND walk away from environments that are good for your mental health.
Say no, take up space, stand up for yourself, have boundaries, live a life that makes sense to you and allows you to bloom, flourish, feel happiness & choose what’s best for you 🤍🤍🤍

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Happy full moon 🌕
The first full moon of 2024 lands in firey leo 🔥 🦁.
Full moons offer a time of introspection and the energy of this full moon brings our attention back to our heart.
It’s a time to reevaluate our relationships, connections and soul contracts. There is a big push to move forward passionately pursuing our dreams and our deepest hearts longing, it’s important to surround ourselves with those that fill us with joy, love, and that fuel our fire. It also might mean taking space or letting go of people, places, careers and things that do not spark such joy & have chronically left us in a state of depletion. Leo invites playful, fun passionate energy into our lives and have an aura of confidence and loyalty that can’t be matched.
May this moon offer you the space to reflect on what fills your cup and makes you feel alive, and the courage to let go of the things that drain your energy!
Enjoy the ride moon 🌝 beams!
Xx
Elyse

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Love bombs are back for Christmas 🎄
I have poured so much of my heart into each bath bomb to make your soak a luxury experience💗
All flowers I have personally grown or foraged.
To bind I have foraged and infused Vancouver island plants in organic oils and scented with the highest quality of essential oils. 💗🤍
You can purchase the bombs from me or located at
Single $8.00 set of 3 $25.00
The bombs 💣
Sunshine 🌞:
Formulated to lift your mood and beat the winter blues, as you soak in the calming petals of calendula these bombs have been infused with Vancouver island grown st.johns wart which is known for its mood uplifting/ depression fighting properties. Scented in a heavenly orange 🍊 essential oil this bomb will most certainly brighten your day .

Lavender dreams:
Calm the mind with these Lavender bombs 💜
the perfect bomb to wind down with, locally grown lavender known for its calming and sedative properties. These bombs are infused with a cooling lilac infusion known to calm the skin, scented with locally island grown lavender essential oil.

The Goddess 🌹 👸🏼
Every goddess deserves to soak in a bath of rose petals. rose carries highest frequency of any living thing on this planet. Locally grown rose petals with a Vancouver island native nootka rose infusion. Scented with the highest quality organic rose essential oil. Both the essential oil and flower essence can balance our ability to give and receive love and are known as a tonic for the heart.♥️

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Today just trust.
Trust who you are, trust where you are,
And where you are going.
Trust that the universe is bringing and removing people in your life in order to bring you where you need to be.
Trust in your ability’s and trust that every
Obstacle is an opportunity—-to grow, and to become the best version of you!
Today just trust.
Trust that whatever is written in the stars for you, is far better than anything you could have wrote 💫🤍.

Tickets now available!
Join us October 26 from 6-8 pm
at Aura Arcana
Click the link to register 🙂
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What do you love?
We speak most often of our dread, our worry, our judgements. We are fed fear through the media then we open our mouths only to regurgitate that same fear. Caught circling, passing, handing the baton of turmoil. I see how little we speak of what’s joyous to us, simply because we have forgotten to feed ourselves with love.
To sit in the raw present moment with the heart inside of us. To remember we are each held together by a love that knows no bound. We are here to grow & to know love. Let’s not speak about what hurts but what heals and sustains us through this hurt.
So friends, what do you love?
I love the morning minutes before the day opens when the sky is deep blue and sun is but a hallow. I love quite walks through the forest listening to the birds, the drift sound of water running near by, the smells of the trees. I love cold rivers with sandy bottoms, I love a long lingering embrace hugging heart to heart. I love laughing so hard it hurts that tears stream down my face. I’m curious friends, what do you love?

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Your vision will become clear only when you can look inside your own heart.
Who looks outside, dreams;
Who looks inside, awakens ✨
-carl jung.

Photo- Pinterest

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A seed grows with no sound, yet a tree falls with a huge noise.
Destruction has noise but creation is quite. This is the power of silence.
Trust the seeds you are planting 🌱
📸: pinterest

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Since the dawn of time our ancestors have trusted this simple ritual. By cleansing a space with burning herbs we replace negative energy with good intentions 🌿

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This yoga nidra practice supports you on a journey towards greater clarity of the heart 💜.
Let this gentle guidance shift your awareness inward to strengthen the connection to your deepest longings of your heart 💗💗💗.
Location
When: February 12 2023, 6-730pm
Exchange: $25 pre register through [email protected]
Offering: opening intention ceremony, energy healing around the biofield of the heart, guided 60 minute nidra, infared heat.

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Today marks the third January of 2023 and considered the saddest day of the year 😢💙 Daylight is at a premium, nights are long and cold, holiday bills are arriving, and most of us are the furthest away we can be from the next thing to look forward to. Those warm and fuzzy memories of the holidays – gone. The New Year's resolutions made with such earnest determination – broken.
We are receiving less than 9 hours of daylight at this time so it might be a good opportunity to invest in a vitamin D supplement, red light therapy or to take mid day breaks outside.
Winter is considered yin Chinese elemental theory as we no longer have things to reach for outside or ourselves we have the opportunity to turn our gaze inward and reflect. It’s a time to feel big feelings, to take a mental inventory of our life, what is working and what isn’t. To invite spiritual practices the extra darkness is a wonderful opportunity to connect to one’s intuition and guides. It’s a time to plant mental seeds of the direction we want this year to go and to nourish our bodies with gentle movement and nourishing soups and stews. To nourish your mental health partaking in counselling, energy healing, meditating or maybe even cold water dipping could help nourish the mind as we transition inward.
Be gentle on yourself today I hope you take time to nourish your mind, body and spirit 💙💙💙💙💙

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Where there is rain 🌧️.
There is also cleansing.
Remember this when,
Your trying to protect.
Your soul in the middle.
Of a storm ⛈️

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Thank you for shopping small this holiday season 🎄 🕊️.
Im offering 50% off your next treatment with every gift card purchased. Following the laws of karma what you give you shall receive. A token of my appreciation for all your love and support over the years 💝
Happy Holidays!

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Change is good!
I’m excited to announce I’m moving my office to Lantzville 🌊. I’ve enjoyed the time spent downtown and the connections and community support in the downtown core. I’m over the moon excited to start this next adventure in Lantzville. I will be booking October in this new space and am looking forward to bringing more zen and good energy your way. Thank you for your continued support through all life’s transitions.
~meet me where the sky touched the sea ~

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One difference of working with animals is that they don’t have such a strong ego mind. Meaning they are able to let go of the past and heal much quicker. Animals are much more natural in their bodies so when blockages and emotions are released the results are seen much quicker than humans.
The practice of animal reiki unifies the divine spirit and human spirit.
By realizing that us humans are not separate from the animal kingdom we are equal and apart of the natural world.
We are not in nature, we are nature.