Moon Medicine

“Physiologically, emotions are themselves: Electrical, Chemical, and Hormonal Discharges of the human nervous system.

Emotions influence — and are influenced by— the functioning of our major organs, the integrity of our immune defences, and the workings of the many circulating biological substances that help govern the body’s physical states.
When emotions are REPRESSED—this inhibition disarms the body’s defences against illness.

REPRESSION = dissociating emotions from awareness and relegating them to the UNCONSCIOUS realm; disorganizing and confusing our physiological defences, so that in some people these defences go awry… becoming the destroyers of health rather than its protectors.”

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This excerpt from Gabor Maté’s book radicalized how I approach health and healing. I’ve been passionately studying all things Mind-Body connection ever since!
This is wisdom that the Traditional Chinese Medicine system has always known and strongly incorporates in its treatment framework (for over 1000 years).

I started my healer’s journey with Reiki over a decade ago… but everything evolved when I integrated Mind-Body connections into my treatments. It created a blueprint of the specific areas within the body/energybody (meridians & acupoints) that hold these repressed emotions/energies.
With the combination of this medicine & Reiki (and other energy arts) we bring what’s unconscious— into the conscious awareness… 🌚🌒🌓🌔🌝

📷: .elyse

“I am a long time patient of Luna’s and when she announced her reiki mentorship training I knew I had to be a part of the magic.
I had previously taken a one day level one class that had introduced me to Reiki, but I wanted to learn more…

✨Luna’s slowed down and in-depth training, combined with in-session healings, was exactly what I was looking for!✨

Not only did I get the background of the chakra systems and so much more, but was led on a beautiful healing journey of knowing myself better and being better able to nurture and love me. I have great gratitude for my time working with Luna as my mentor.”

- L.C. Testimonial of 2023 Reiki Training

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2 spots left for The Alchemist Journey: A Reiki Training Retreat 🐉✨ We begin THIS SUNDAY!
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9 Sessions over 5 months, learning the medicine through your own healing journey with it 💫
Learn more & register at www.moonmedicine.ca/reikitraining (link in bio)

I found Reiki in 2012, I had randomly wandered into a metaphysical shop that opened up in my small town in Alberta, and my life was radically transformed.

I was a stranger to this medicine; but one treatment transformed my life so profoundly, that it illuminated a path towards my life’s purpose.

All I could do after the treatment was look FORWARD. I had a VISION. I keep thinking of where I wanted to go, what I wanted to learn, and what impact I wanted to make in the world.

Unusual-for-me at the time, I started making some courageous decisions, and began to finally steer the ship of my life —out of years of depression and addiction, and propelled me into excitement about what’s to come!

I knew I was meant to offer this transformation I had experienced —to others.
I trained as a Reiki Practitioner very soon after my treatment, I moved to BC, went to Chinese Medicine College, met my beloved spiritual teacher and my life has never been the same since.

But, when I do look BACKWARDS, I see that the factor that really started to shift things for me that day —was a RELEASE.
While my new vision for my life and what I was capable of came pouring IN, I was smiling and exhilarated, but I was also sobbing.

Sobbing for all the pain I was carrying. Sobbing for all the years of me existing with self-hatred and despair. I was finally feeling the pain of my life and allowing myself to pour it OUT…. Rather than believing its nasty story about who I am, and what I’m not capable of 🌀
I was suddenly non-attached to this story. I didn’t need to store this pain for later, I could feel it now and BE FREE TO FEEL SOMETHING ELSE.

I could let it go, I was allowing it to MOVE. As they say: E(motion), and I have found this to be notoriously true.
So no, Reiki doesn’t get rid of your pain and struggles, but it does help you to create an atmosphere that MOVES energy & emotion… and when we begin to move what’s stagnant.. we return to Flow & feel more empowered to initiate Change 🦋

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4 days left to join the Alchemist Journey: A Reiki Training Retreat ( learn more & register at www.moonmedicine.ca/reikitraining )

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Photo by .elyse

Enjoy magical 1-hour Moon Medicine Ceremonies every session in The Alchemist Journey: A Reiki Training Retreat 🐉

Be guided on a healing journey through your energy centers & elements to deepen your understanding of Reiki and its alchemical process.

Ceremonies include a synthesis of Reiki & Energy Alchemy, Sound, Intuitive Bodywork, Guided Meditation, and Occult/Spiritual Rituals to aid in your transformation & integration ✨☯️✨

We begin on May 19th! Join us in an alchemical journey of awakening the Healer within…

Register & Learn More at www.moonmedicine.ca/reikitraining (link in bio)

ALCHEMIST JOURNEY: A REIKI TRAINING RETREAT begins May 19th - 2x per month on Sundays 12:30-3:30pm around the new & full moon. This is a 27 hour in-depth training journey, over 5-months.

Journey with us through the alchemical process of awakening the Healer within 🐉

Our Journey:

✨ Reiki Curriculum & Attunements Level 1 & 2

✨ 9x In-Person Group Healing Ceremonies - integrate & alchemize each energy center with guidance, throughout this training journey.

✨ Understand Qi & Energetic Anatomy - learn the basics of energy: meridians, energy centers/chakras, and the energy body.

✨ Alchemy, Mind-Body Medicine, 5 Elements, Chinese Medicine - learn extra practices to enhance your healing practice for your clients —and your own holistic health.

✨ Practitioner Prep Kit - feel prepared to work with clients with client-care, self-care, energy hygiene, and more!

✨ Mentorship - 5-month support from Luna: Reiki Master & Teacher for 11 years, practicing Occultist/Spiritualist, & Registered Acupuncturist with a full-time clinical practice.

🐉 READ FULL DETAILS + REGISTER @ www.moonmedicine.ca/reikitraining (link in bio)

“My Reiki Mentorship with Luna has been such a gift, this journey together has had a profound impact on my life and opening my eyes to the importance of spiritual practice in my daily life.

✨I have found deep healing through our work together in my physical body by finding peace and love for my body that I didn’t know was possible!✨

Working through the energy centres with Luna’s guidance I was able to release past traumas and move forward with a set of tools that are now ingrained in my spiritual practice.

The safety and comfort that Luna provides in our sessions as a spiritual teacher has allowed for deep healing in my emotional, mental and physical life. The impact of our work together has spread far beyond what I thought was possible, I have gotten closer to the most authentic version of myself because of the space Luna allows for learning and healing in our mentorship.

Our conversations and reiki healing sessions work together to provide a deep understand of Reiki through the Mind-Body Connection lens.

✨Using this framework has helped me find a strong foundation in my understanding of our spiritual work and an excitement for how I will apply my knowledge moving forward.“✨

- T.C. Testimonial of the 2023 Reiki Training

ALCHEMIST JOURNEY: A REIKI TRAINING RETREAT begins May 19th - 2x per month on Sunday afternoons around the new & full moon. This is a 27 hour in-depth training journey, over 5-months.

Become a Level 2 Reiki Practitioner and explore healing approaches like: Mind-Body Medicine, Alchemy, 5 Element Psychology, Chinese Medicine practices, and more.

🐉 LEARN MORE & REGISTER AT www.moonmedicine/reikitraining

The Alchemist 🐉

There are universes within my chest
Begging to be born,

Birthed like an exploding star
Destroying parts of me in its wake,

I sift through my ashes
To recover what remains,

I would die for your design
But which death of mine, will be Divine?
(There is no cosmic map to direct my destruction)

📸: .elyse

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🌈 Medicine is anything that brings us into harmony with Spirit and life on Earth.

“You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair.”
(Old Chinese proverb)

Most healing work is not to fix and find solutions to all the ways you’d rather not be— but just to cultivate the capacity for all feelings along the way 🕊️🍃🪺

Practice bringing awareness to the SPACE between each thought. Intentionally breathe 🌬️life into these pauses.

You may realize this pause is where you really exist. The space between the next story your mind has created. Your power is alive in the present. Breathe breathe breathe into the here & now.

This is your annual reminder to use up your Acupuncture benefits before the end of the year. I have 10 spots left before 2024 ✨

Book online at www.moonmedicine.ca

Sometimes in our Healing Journey, the most profound medicine we can give ourselves is:

— I forgive myself —

“But I made a mistake”

— I forgive myself —

“But I’m ashamed”

— I forgive myself —

“But I wish I acted differently, I know that I could have”

— I forgive myself —

“But I regret what I said/did”

— I forgive myself —

“But if I did/didn’t do ____ that wouldn’t have happened”

✨I forgive myself for not knowing then — what I know now✨

It is time to end the pattern of holding yourself hostage of your own self-inflicted punishment. Don’t keep yourself a prisoner of the past.

Loving & healing yourself means allowing room for making mistakes (this is how we learn & grow!) and offering ourselves forgiveness and grace for who we’ve been in the past.

Try a forgiveness affirmation and feel the emotional charge of these inner narratives begin to transform.. ✨

www.moonmedicine.ca

📸: .elyse

🌼self acceptance > self improvement🌼

(be gentle with yourself)
you are a child of the universe
no less than the trees & the stars
—You have a right to be here—

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📸: .elyse

🕯️🍂Autumnal Equinox 🍂🕯️

Here we are at the “Fall” from the height of life (summer) back into the void and barrenness of winter. Although on an internal level— this is a potent and rich inner portal: “Returning to our origin in a more evolved state” (focusing inward)

In Daoist mythology, this return is depicted as the Sage who gains immortality and ascends to heaven, or in Pagan mythology, the Mother transcends into the Crone.

🍂 Autumn (metal season) is the dynamic between appreciating the beauty of life and simultaneously mourning its loss.
As the leaves on the trees turn beautiful colours in their process of dying— they display the beauty that lies within.

Tis’ the season of the lungs 🫁 (our connection to “heaven”) and large intestine (our connection to earth).
This circuit of what we take in (breath) and what we release (bowel movements) determines where we place value in our lives. (What we embrace & refine — and what we let go of & grieve)

✦ What “deaths” are you grieving this season? (internal & external)

✦ What no longer gives value to your life and is in need of alchemical transformation?

✦ What is of great value to you, and needs more appreciation and refinement?

“Luna encompasses what it means to be a Holistic Care Provider.

Her trauma-informed, neuro-affirmative, person-centred care approach makes it so all your individual needs are considered and discussed to ensure you feel safe and supported during your treatments.

As someone with complex health and long-term chronic pain, I wish I had come across Luna years ago! Historically my experience with health care has been that of "just another patient" and never finding long-term success with treatments. Working with Luna has truly been transformative for symptom management and supporting my physical, neurological, mental, emotional, and spiritual healing.

To receive meaningful treatment from someone who listens and meets you where you're at is incredibly refreshing. She never makes me feel like I am a problem patient and is also happy to do the research and further her understanding if she doesn't have an immediate answer.

If you are looking for someone who is incredibly knowledgeable, considerate, kind, and professional, I couldn't think of anyone else I would recommend more!”

- Patient Testimonial of THE ALIGNMENT HEALING JOURNEY 2023

The Alignment Healing Journey is 12x (1 hour 50 min) Integrated Treatments with a Holistic Health Program, and Spiritual Mentorship.
For full program information: visit www.moonmedicine.ca

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📸: .elyse

When we understand Chinese mythology (shenhua = “Spirit talk”) the spirits of the acupuncture points come alive and talk to us ✨

Meridian pathways connect to all our organs, branch out & flow like internal rivers within us. Acupuncture points exist along these rivers, in deep sinkholes of qi. Each point holds potential for harmonizing a specific aspect of Being.

The acupuncture points reflect the way the Chinese saw the macrocosm of the universe, as it is mapped onto the microcosm of the body. This map guides you in the ways to create & maintain balance in body, mind and Spirit ☯️

Musings by the great Lonny S. Jarrett.
📸: .elyse

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“The self work that you do in silence, will echo throughout every part of your life”

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After a peak-yang & fiery🔥summer, we are now: post-blue full moon, entering into Virgo and Late Summer ~Earth Season~

Ancient Daoists realized how important this transitional time was before the descent into Autumnal (metal season) energies… late summer is the time for Integration ☯️

Earth season calls us back to our Center. Back to our physical & emotional digestion. Into integration station: taking inventory of all the highs & lows of summer— and begin integrating those lessons into who we are now…
What has changed? How does this change feel in my body? How am I seeing things differently?

Balance this mental-emotional digestive process with feeding your foundational earth-energy & enjoying the abundance of harvest season! 🥘 🫚 🍚 🥕🍠🫛🧅

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photographer: .elyse

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