Flor da Lua Reiki

THINGS TO UNLEARN IN 2024:

~You’re responsible for how other people feel.
(You’re not.)
~You have to feel happy at all times.
(You don’t.)
~The need for external validation. (You are enough).
~Societal norms of what “beauty” looks like. (Outer beauty is meaningless, true beauty lies in the Soul).
~The belief that age is a limitation. (Age is a social construct shaped by cultural beliefs and expectations. Age does not define your capabilities and achievements, you do).
~Trying to change people and their behavior. (We don’t know the trauma someone endured that shaped them. It is not our job to “fix”them, all we can do is focus on healing ourselves. Shine your own Light and Love them where they are)!

What are you unlearning?

~Flor da Lua Reiki 🌺💕
•
•
•
•

I decided to make my first body scrub! A lavender coconut sugar body scrub! 🪻🥥💆🏻‍♀️💕 Made with organic lavender flowers for extra aroma and lavender essential oil from , it is vegan, all natural, and cruelty free! As a holistic practitioner, I skipped the food coloring and mixed açaí and butterfly pea flower to achieve a natural purple hue.

Benefits:
Relaxation: lavender, known for its relaxing effects, will calm your nervous system, leaving you feeling relaxed and Zen. Lavender also has antibacterial and antifungal benefits for the skin.

Exfoliation: The sugar will exfoliate dead skin cells promoting cell turnover, improving your skin texture, and brightening your complexion.

Antioxidents: Açaí, (the small, purple fruit native to Brazil), contains high levels of antioxidants and vitamins A, C, and E, which help protect the skin from damage caused by free radicals and environmental stressors.

The powerful antioxidants and chemical compounds found in butterfly pea flowers brighten skin, boost collagen production, and keep your skin hydrated and plump!

Moisturizing: The coconut oil helps to hydrate your skin and reinforces its natural defensive barrier to better retain moisture. It is also antimicrobial and anti inflammatory, as well as helping to increase the natural production of collagen, this helps to improve skin elasticity for firmer skin.

It leaves my skin feeling baby soft and so hydrated! How are you taking care of your skin this season? 🌞🌴🥥 🐠

~Flor da Lua Reiki 🌺💕
•
•
•
•
FlorDaLuaReiki

“Believe in the fairies who make dreams come true, believe in the wonder, the stars, and the moon, believe in the magic from fairies above, they dance on the flowers and sing songs of Love.” ~Unknown 🧚‍♀️🍄💕

Apparently leprechauns are more an American Saint Patrick’s Day tradition than an Irish one. On St. Patrick’s Day in Ireland, they celebrate supernatural creatures or heroes from Irish myths like Cú Chulainn, and little girls dressed up as fairies. The Da Silva-Bernier household is all about magical creatures and all things ethereal and enchanting, so to honor Irish culture and tradition, here are two Brazilian woodland fairies mixing pixie dust and magic! 🧚‍♀️💕

Happy St. Patrick’s everyone from our two Brazilian fairies! 🇧🇷💕🇮🇪☘️🌈💰

~Flor da Lua Reiki 🌺💕
•
•
•
•

Hello Spring! ☀️🌷🌿 “It’s Spring again. I can hear the birds sing again, see the flowers start to bud, see young people fall in Love!” ~Lou Rawls 💐

Is there anything that brings on more joy than the moment when the world begins to wake up from its cold slumber! After months of dormancy, trees come back to life in the Spring, flowers emerge from the ground, and animals wake up from hibernation. 🍃

The transition from Winter to Spring is the perfect time to cleanse, throw away, or give away anything unwanted in your living space. Spring is the perfect reset, for not only looking at spaces you may have neglected in your home, but also in your life.
What chapter do you keep re-telling, what thing or person do you need to send Love to and let go of?

Considered a time for new beginnings and a time to plant new seeds, now is the ideal time to think, “What energy do I need to purge from my life?” Use this shift of the seasons as a catalyst for getting rid of the old energy and ushering in the new. Perhaps it is time to take a deep breath and remember that you are bigger than the situation you are in, and that it is time to fully embrace what happened and the lesson it taught you. What are you purging and what are you breathing life into? 🌱🐝🪻☀️

~Flor da Lua Reiki 🌺💕
•
•
•
•

Taking a moment to show gratitude to my favorite reiki and massage client, my amazing husband of course! 😍 There were a hundred other things he could have been doing in the extra free time he had last week, but instead he helped me take photos for my Vagaro account (online booking and business management platform), and future website! 💆🏻‍♀️🎋💆🏻

Thank you, for being my biggest cheerleader and for always believing in me. You have supported my hopes and dreams since the day we met, and I don’t always say it, but I am profoundly grateful. I thanked him with a Reiki hot stone massage before he had to go to work, (I think I may offer that as a service) ☺️ I think he was pretty happy with the tradeoff! 😄 So happy and grateful to be on this wild, beautiful journey with you meu amor! ❤️

You can now find me and book a reiki, massage, body scrub, or reflexology session with me by visiting https://www.vagaro.com! Clients who create an account by clicking that link and looking me up by Flor Da Lua Reiki instead of going to my direct link, will get $20 off their service! Thank you to all of my lovely clients who have supported me and my business over the years and for allowing me to do what I love! 💆🏻‍♀️🎋💆🏻

~Flor da Lua Reiki 🌺💕
•
•
•
•

I remember when I first came across the sacred, gorgeous, butterfly pea flower and blue lotus flower tea recipe, I had just ended a relationship with a narcissist and he wouldn’t take no for an answer.

Every day he would send me low vibrational energy from afar to hurt me. I would feel sharp pain, itchy, overheating, different aches and pains throughout the day for a long time afterwards, my nervous system was always under attack. My hair started thinning, I started gaining weight, I was stressed out all the time. Those were the darkest days of my life.

During that time, I kept hearing/seeing “butterfly pea flower” everywhere and I knew it was a sign. Sure enough, this flower is known as the “Blue Healer,” this flower is used in Ayurvedic medicine for disorders of the nervous system and brain.

Although that lesson was the worst pain of my life, I know it lead me to where I needed to be, it made me who I needed to be. It made me a strong woman who knew her worth and who wouldn’t put up with toxic love. I needed to shed that version of me, that sweet, innocent little girl who knew nothing of the darkness. I needed to be shown the darkness of the world and I needed to fight back so I could prove that I loved myself unconditionally and never again be a vibrational match to a narcissist.

Now, as a Mama of two little girls, this gorgeous flower has paid me a visit again, this time to remind me to remember to fill my cup before I fill others. A much needed reminder considering the conditioning we receive from the time we are little girls about what it means to be a “Good Wife” and a “Good Mother.”

When I first give birth to Zineia, whenever she would cry, I would pick her up, even when I should have been taking care of myself. I felt like a horrible mother if she was crying. Now I Love myself more. I love my girls fiercely, but I know they need a strong Mama, they need me to be the example of what a strong woman and mother truly is, loving and nurturing, but not at the expense of my own needs.

Has this tea ever helped you heal? Let me know in the comments! ☕️🦋✨


~Flor da Lua Reiki 🌺💕
•
•
•
•

What better way to harness the powerful healing energy of plants than by handcrafting my own elderberry syrup! 🍯🫚🍊✨

The Ancient Magic of the Elder Tree 🌳🧚‍♀️

Steeped in ancient beliefs and cultural traditions, Elder has a powerful place in folklore. Throughout history, elder has been considered sacred in many European cultures, giving rise to various legends and tales.

According to legend, Elder is bound to the Celtic faerie lands. In English and Scandinavian folklore, within the branches of the Elder Tree dwell an ancient magic, and a dryad (tree nymph/spirit), who watches over it. If treated well, would bless and protect those who cared for it, and cursed those who did not.

In ancient times, Elder’s branches were used to make woodwind instruments, for hair dye, the berries have a rich tradition of use in wines, and both the berries and flowers are both commonly used to make syrups, jams, jellies, chutneys, and pies! 🥧

Aside from being one of the most powerful natural remedies for the common cold and flu, it is also known for being anti-inflammatory, anti-carcinogenic, soothing for burns, it supports healthy skin, strengthens bones, maintains blood sugar, and purifies and protects the liver, to name a few!

You can use the classic recipe or substitute additional herbs for added Vitamin C! Luc and I take 1 tablespoon daily, and we give our girls 1 teaspoon daily! Be sure to store it in the refrigerator! Drink it from the bottle (guilty), 😜 make elderberry popsicles, pour it over pancakes, make elderberry gummies, or mix it into your favorite smoothie, be creative! 🫙🍯🫚😋

* My recipe is in the comments!* 😋

How are you protecting your kiddos and loved ones this cold and flu season! Let me know in the comments! 🌿🍄🍯✨

~Flor da Lua Reiki 🌺💕
•
•
•
•

This Capricorn New Moon, being the first New Moon of 2024, makes this an even more powerful time for setting intentions and manifesting new beginnings for the year ahead. As we all know, the new moon is a time of budding hope, of possibility, and a powerful time to make the necessary changes we need so we can live a full, beautiful life. The blissful life we were intended to live.

This new moon calls forth the energy of Capricorn~ ambitious, hard working, and disciplined. It asks us to remember our power and to take action in committing to our goals, big and small. Use this window of opportunity to channel this structured, disciplined energy into getting clear about what you truly want, cutting away the unnecessary in your life, and taking action. Do whatever you need to do to finally let go of what no longer serves you so you can invite something new and beautiful into your life instead!

Make sure to check in on how much progress you’ve made on the seeds you’re planting now, with the Capricorn Full Moon on June 21st! Ask yourself, what you would like to be known for? What lights a fire in your Soul? 🦋✨

What are you doing to harness the power of this new moon? What seeds are you planting? 🌱 Let me know in the comments!

Crystals for the New Moon: 🌙💎

~Citrine: creating opportunity and self-belief
~Clear quartz: getting clear on your vision and intentions
~ Black onyx: Releases stress and negative energy
~Red jasper: An excellent “worry stone”, calms the emotions
~Moonstone: new beginnings
~ Aquamarine: helps bring clarity to new things coming
~Amethyst: helps align you to your higher purpose, enhances your intuition and expands your imagination, allowing you to consider greater possibilities for yourself.

~Flor da Lua Reiki 🌺💕
•
•
•
•

What I’ve been busy doing the first week of this new year! My little apothecary and soon to be herb garden! 🌿🌻✨ In an attempt to connect more deeply with my oldest daughter, Spirit and my ancestors, I have decided to spend more time gardening. Since becoming a Mama (two girls), I haven’t had as much time to garden. I know all you Mamas and single parents can relate! 😍 Now that they are a little bit older, I feel an obligation to pass this ancient wisdom down to them, knowing it will help them become more mindful as they grow and learn to regulate their emotions.

Gardening connects us to the Earth and nature, it nurtures us spiritually. Connecting with Mother Nature harmonizes our internal rhythms, it helps us to get in touch with our true selves. Coming back to the land, the trees, connecting with the water, the sun and stars, attune to Mother Nature’s heartbeat and she holds you.

Connecting with Mother Nature has helped me heal in many ways. The medicine is within us and all around us. The most important lesson she has taught me is how to appreciate what blooms while surrendering to that which doesn’t survive. Last year was a season of letting go for me. Giving myself grace, while I held space in my heart for forgiveness required both patience and humility.

The energy of this new year for me is about inviting more stillness into my life, not just accepting, but embracing what is, and remaining centered in the middle of whatever is happening.

Herbs I planted:
~Lavender: Love, sleep, peace
~Sage: Cleansing, grounding, protection
~Thyme: Healing, courage, promotes psychic development
~Basil: Protection, love and bonding, wealth

“Mother Nature is our teacher, reconnecting us with Spirit, waking us up and liberating our hearts.” ~Sylvia Dolson. What lessons has she thought you lately? 🪴🐝🍄🦋🌻✨

~Flor da Lua Reiki 🌺💕
•
•
•
•

The best gifts I’ve ever received, this year and every year. ❤️ From our heart to yours, feliz Natal, merry Christmas, joyous Kwanza, and happy holidays from the Da Silva-Berniers!🎄🎅💕

Jingle bells, jingle bells, crystals all the way! 💎✨ Counting down this holiday with a crystal advent calendar! 😍 Definitely a late start, but I can’t say I’m complaining about adding 19 more crystals to my collection in one day! 😁💕

The crystals I have received so far are:

~Snowflake obsidian
~ Ruby zoisite
~Orange calcite
~Apatite
~Pink opal
~Yellow aventurine
~Green aventurine
~Red jasper
~Tiger’s eye
~Lapis lazuli
~White moonstone
~Rose quartz
~ Amethyst
~Red onyx
~Amazonite
~Milky quartz
~Black obsidian
~Himalayan salt

And the crystal I opened today (the last pic), is opalite!

How are you counting down to Christmas? 🎄✨

Happy holidays everyone! 🎁❤️

~Flor da Lua Reiki 🌺💕
•
•
•
•

Meme Monday! Which one is your favorite, 1-9?

~Flor da Lua Reiki 🌺💕
•
•
•
•

Visited by this beauty while I was enjoying the sunshine! Much like butterflies, dragonflies symbolize transformation, or shedding an old version of ourselves to make room for the new. Being born in the water as eggs, transforming into larvae before turning into flying insects, relates to our journey of personal growth and self-realization as human beings.

The blue dragonfly has sacred meanings for many, the color blue represents spiritual awareness, higher consciousness, and wisdom. Their ability to effortlessly travel between two realms, air, and water, make this insect a powerful messenger in many cultures.

As a survivor of narcissistic abuse, it took me many years to accept, process, and make peace with everything that had happened. How the dynamics had changed without any notice, the insidious nature of the abuse, a wrecking ball I never saw coming. I had always been a cheerful, positive, person, always smiling, and even after I had left the relationship, I found myself feeling negative and angry. I wasn’t myself. I blocked out the pain for a long time, I was stuck in shock and disbelief.

Since then I’ve focused on healing the pain caused by that relationship and forgiveness by embracing the past with even more Love in my heart. I am so grateful to my loving husband for all of his amazing Unconditional Love and support, for understanding my triggers and holding space for me when I need it the most.

Over the years I have seen countless blue dragonflies, and they are a constant reminder to trust in my inner strength, to remember who I am, and to embrace life’s transitions with grace. Dragonflies have always symbolized our ability to overcome times of hardship and they will always be a reminder to take time to reconnect with our own strength, courage, and happiness! What new beginning do you need to embrace?

~Flor da Lua Reiki 🌺💕
•
•
•
•

Happy Full Moon in Gemini everyone! 🌕♊️✨

Gemini is a sign of communication, it is ruled by Mercury, which is the planet of communication. The Sun in Sagittarius, is a sign that seeks knowledge and truth. This cosmic trio is a perfect opportunity to look at your shadow side and to take responsibility for your life, from the inside out, instead of playing the victim and in turn giving your power away. In what ways are you contributing to your suffering consciously and unconsciously? As they say, it takes 2 to tango.

This Full Moon asks you, what is your story? How does the lens you see the world through, hold you captive to a storyline that does not serve you? This Full Moon, it is time to change the narrative of the story you tell yourself so it can no longer hold you back, keeping you a victim. It is time to rewrite your story!

This Full Moon we have the assistance of helpful Neptune, which is squaring Mercury, giving us the opportunity to get a Birds Eye view of where you are, where you’ve been, and where you’re going. The Sun, Mars, and Mercury all being in Sagittarius, helps us to take a less personal view of what life is showing us lately, so instead of staying a victim in the pain we experienced, we can move in the direction of what that Wisdom is trying to teach us. This way we can experience life from a place of empowerment!

Where do you play victim in your life? You have the power to reinvent yourself in every moment! You have the power to make your story a great one! 2024 is just around the corner! How will you rewrite your story?🧚‍♀️✨

Happy Full Moon in Gemini everyone! 🌕♊️✨

📸 Photo credit: Credit for the first photo goes to , the others were taken by me.

Crystals displayed include: Red jasper, agate, citrine, chakra crystal pendulum.

~Flor da Lua Reiki 🌺💕
•
•
•
•

Just a few of our boho Christmas ornaments! 🎄💕 Too soon? 😂😁😍

"To stay in your magic you must stay in gratitude, why, because gratitude is what fills your heart and soul up so completely, that even when in the darkest moments of life you will feel lifted up. In fact, it's especially important to find gratitude in your darkest moments. When you can't be the light, let your blessings shine. Uncover the beautiful, happy, funny things/moments/people in your life. Let them lift you up. Seek out the wild and magical places that fill your heart with gratitude. At the end of each day, recount what you loved about the day. Write them down, share them, keep them swirling around in your mind. Let them guide your dreams." ~Cassandra Key 💜

This year, the thing I am most grateful for, besides my sweet little family is my resilience and inner strength. Through all my struggles, through all the abuse relationships I left, through all the suffering I’ve endured, molding me into who I am destined to become, I have always been able to pick up the pieces and move forward with gratitude and so much Love in my heart still.

To be able to truly let go and remember to see the beauty in the lesson and to remember we are all part of a tapestry, something greater than ourselves, to connect to compassion, that we are all on the same journey, that we are all suffering in different ways, to be able to do this when life can be so cold and so cruel is the real blessing and what I am most grateful for.

What small or big joys are you grateful for, or have taken for granted lately? 🙏🌸🦋🐝🌞🐉✨

Happy Day of Thanks everyone! 🍁💕

~Flor da Lua Reiki 🌺💕
•
•
•
•

Happy New Moon in Scorpio everyone! 🦂🌙✨

Today's new moon brings with it truth, magic, and an element of disruption. During this New Moon, the Moon and Sun are in close conjunction with Mars, Scorpio's ruler, intensifying Scorpio’s energy. These three celestial bodies stand in opposition to Uranus, the planet of unexpected change and dramatic breakthroughs.

Uranus is urging us to embrace change and confront our deepest fears so we can step into the next chapter of our lives. This new moon asks us to find our courage deep within and confront our deepest fears so we can connect with our deepest truths.

Have you been feeling a pull to finally explore that passion that excites but scares you at the same time? To finally do what you came here to do? Whoo, it’s intense, but that’s what Scorpio is all about! Trust yourself and trust your power! You have what it takes to do what makes your Soul come alive, you always have. As 2023 comes to an end, it is time to release the old and step into your power in order to be ready for whatever 2024 has in store for you!

What are you being called to do? 🖤🗝️

Happy New Moon in Scorpio everyone! 🦂🌙✨

~Flor da Lua Reiki 🌺💕
•
•
•
•

So excited to use my new mortar and pestle to make some delicious tea with this gorgeous flower, the Dianthus plant! I love the variations of this plant and all its healing properties, not to mention its beauty!

The fringed pink, for example, called Qu Mai in Chinese herbalism, has been used in Chinese herbal medicine for over 2,000 years. The whole plant is a bitter tonic herb that stimulates the digestive system, ophthalmic (treats different eye disorders), it lowers blood pressure, reduces fever and controls bacterial infections, some variations are said to promote hair growth.

Other variations are used in European herbal medicine to treat coronary and nervous problems. Externally, it is applied to skin inflammations and swelling, the flowers are astringent, diuretic, haemostatic (prevents or stops bleeding), and vulnerary (used to heal wounds)! How versatile is this gorgeous flower?! 🌸💕

What are some of your favorite healing plants? 🪴🌸✨

~Flor da Lua Reiki 🌺💕
•
•
•
•

Can anyone relate? 🤣💎😍

~Flor da Lua Reiki 🌺💕
•
•
•
•

Happy Samhain everyone! 🎃🍁🌾 Samhain (pronounced Sow-wen), is the third harvest, and means Summer's End in Gaelic. It falls on Halloween night and is considered the end of the Celtic year.
On this day, the great God of the Sun dies, and leaves his widow, the Goddess Crone, to mourn him until Yule (Winter Solstice, 12/21) when he will be reborn, and light will return. with the Sun God gone, nights grow longer, plants and trees die back, and all around us freezes and hardens in the chill.

On Samhain night, we stand at the space between the seasons, and in the heightened magic that connects the realms of the living and the dead. ~Unknown 🧡

Samhain Prayer
The veil grows thin at the time of the dead, as we honour our lang -gone ancestors, in whose footsteps we tread. Life retreats into the bulbs and roots, the time has past for the flowers and fruits. As leaves fall thick and carpet the ground, the Dark Mother waits in silence profound. Now is the time for the apple feasts, time stands still for humans and beasts. Seek the wisdom of days gone by, to deal with the past and let it lie. Face your shadow and except your faults, look now to the future to seek your results. ~Anonymous 🧡

If you could speak to your Ancestors, what would you say? Happy Samhain everyone! 🎃🍁🌾

~Flor da Lua Reiki 🌺💕
•
•
•
•

Healing also means taking responsibility for the role you play in your own suffering. We reincarnate back to this physical plane, knowing we will forget that we came here to heal, that our lives are not a random series of events unfolding in an infinite cosmos. We came here knowing we would forget that the purpose of our lives is so much more than success, money, s*x, status and that we would waste a lot of time being distracted by these things, losing sight of the bigger picture.

We came here knowing that if we didn’t like the events unfolding in front of us that we would take it personally and have a very difficult time accepting and letting go of these events. As we become wiser to what life has been trying to tell us all along, we realize that the events we experience here is part of our Karma! Yes, unfortunately we can only make so much progress in each lifetime so we will always pick up where we left off in the last lifetime, hopefully moving forward with grace for ourselves and others, for we are all on the same path.

We will meet the same people and be in the same situations, making the same mistakes we made 100, 500, 1,000 years ago, until we master the lessons we came here to learn. We therefore must surrender and accept what unfolds before us gracefully instead of blaming others or trying to change things, otherwise we invite more bad Karma for ourselves in this lifetime and the next.

It is easy to blame the toxic people in our lives instead of acknowledge the role we play in our own suffering. You are not responsible for the actions of others but you are 100% responsible for attracting that energy.

The painful experience was never about the other person,it is really about your relationship with you. These people are only reflecting back a part of yourself that needs healing, therefore there is no need for forgiveness. We are all here to evolve and heal each other! What part of you needs healing? 🙏✨

~Flor da Lua Reiki 🌺💕
•
•
•
•